- #1 Napoleon 1813
74% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Empire Interactive EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
In an enormous strategic area stretching from Paris to Breslau, from Hamburg to Vienna, control everything from major strategic territorial decisions to tactical battle manoeuvres.
Why similar: 4X 33.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%
- #2 Dominium Mundi
71% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Dusan Petrovic
Windows · Linux
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Why similar: 4X 46.9% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Historical 5.8%
- #3 Great Powers
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Flame-Dragons
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Hex Grid 8.3% ★
- #4 HUMANKIND™
69% matchMixed69% of 28,222 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9% ★, Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Historical 8.5%
- #5 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,625 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%, Management 8%, Hex Grid 7.7% ★
- #6 Space Empires I
69% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Why similar: 4X 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Management 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%
- #7 BOC: Birth of Cultures
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: 4X 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Management 9.2%, Hex Grid 8.6% ★, Strategy 7.7%
- #8 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
69% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Aserisoft
Windows · Mac
Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms is a turn-based 4X grand strategy game, played on a procedurally generated world. Battles are real-time and tactical. Every world-map and battlefield is entirely unique, so this game will always have something to throw at you.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Medieval 7.8%
- #9 Nova Historia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: 4X 40.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Historical 7.2%, Economy 4.5%
- #10 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 221 Games
Windows
《水浒豪》是一款回合制战略游戏,是《三国志》、《文明》、《欧陆风云》的粉丝们不容错过的作品。您扮演山寨之主,运筹帷幄,纵横捭阖。原著中528位好汉、116处据点、49个势力在游戏中登场。被奸臣谋害,魂断蓼儿洼?呸!洒家要清君侧!慢着……洒家要当皇帝!兀那赵老官!给洒家从宝座上爬下来!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, 4X 25.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Historical 11.1%
- #11 Terrol
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Krupp
Windows
Terrol is a grand strategy game focused on capturing and holding strategic resources. The objective is simple: control all resources and destroy rival empires.
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, War 6.8%
- #12 Ever War
66% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Utium Games
Windows
Ever War is a turn-based strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. This game combines empire-building, resource management and large-scale tactical turn-based battles.
Why similar: 4X 35.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Hex Grid 9% ★, Strategy 8.8%
- #13 Stellar Monarch 2
67% matchVery Positive88% of 123 reviews2022
Dev: Silver Lemur Games
Windows
Stellar Monarch 2 is a feudal space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. Great noble houses, usurpers to the throne, rebels, assassins, court intrigues, disloyal admirals, incompetent governors and ever-present alien threat.
Why similar: 4X 44.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%
- #14 Hex Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Sunset GamesPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Hex Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy game set in medevial times with fantasy themes. Expand your kingdom, set up your defenses, train soldiers and monsters to become the only ruler of the land.
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Hex Grid 8.6% ★
- #15 Lands of Rumour
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Strategy 9%, Management 9%
- #16 Imperial Ambitions
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: aoiti
Windows · Mac
Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Grand Strategy 20% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Historical 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%
- #17 Cosmist
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gulbrandr Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Conquer the galaxy in this arcade-like strategy game. Pick and send your generals to deploy the fleet in the far-off star sectors, mine resources, and upgrade your ships forgeries. Deities might interfere with your plans.
Why similar: 4X 41.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #18 Space Empires III
65% matchPositive80% of 41 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.
Why similar: 4X 34.6% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Grand Strategy 15.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Management 8.2%
- #19 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
64% matchMixed70% of 2,199 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
Why similar: 4X 36% ★, Grand Strategy 24% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Historical 8.7%, Management 8.1%
- #20 Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
64% matchVery Positive86% of 370,999 reviews2016
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 98.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Strategy 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Historical 10.1%
- #21 Space Empires II
65% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Management 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%
- #22 Sengoku: Shadow Strikers
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ikemoto Systems
Windows · Mac · Linux
Turn your clan into a Sengoku legend in this tactical RPG. Recruit and train warriors, shape alliances, conquer castles, and alter history through brutal turn-based battles. Influence the outcome of feudal Japan in Sengoku: Shadow Strikers.
Why similar: 4X 34.9% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.1%
- #23 EOL: End Of Line
64% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: MLS Games, LLC
Windows
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Hex Grid 6.2% ★
- #24 Demise of Nations
64% matchVery Positive81% of 542 reviews2017
Dev: Noble Master LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Hex Grid 9.9% ★, Strategy 9.8%
- #25 Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
62% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,171 reviews2024
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Historical 8.2%
- #26 Millennia
62% matchMixed67% of 3,745 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Strategy 8%, Historical 7.7%
- #27 Politon: Prologue
62% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Pinq Games
Windows · Mac
"Politon: Prologue" is the free prologue version of "Politon". This prologue includes a tutorial, game mechanics, and the prologue of the main story inside. Only Single-player modes are available.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 6.4%
- #28 Rise and Fall: Bronze Age
62% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Ludwig LoreKhan
Windows
Rise & Fall: Bronze Age is a Grand Strategy game set in the Bronze Age between 3400BC and 1150BC. Expand your power by diplomacy and war and manage your troublesome elites. Feed your people, build temples for your gods and tombs for your rulers. How high can you rise before your empire falls ?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Management 14.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Historical 11.5%
- #29 Samurai Conqueror
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Miura Production
Windows
Conquer Japanese History! A “Historical Timeline Strategy” fought on the grand timeline of Japan
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, Historical 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%
- #30 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
《万民长歌:三国》是一款单机 · 历史 · 战争策略游戏。在无缝连续、真实还原的3D沙盘地图上,玩家可以自选视角、以自己的意志重演三国。来体验真实的三国策略——真实的沙盘,真实的二十四节气,真实的百姓,真实的战争!
Why similar: 4X 35.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Historical 9.5%
- #31 扩张吧王国 Expand the Kingdom
61% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: 奥特斯盗
Windows
"Expand the Kingdom" is a strategy game based on construction and expansion. In the game, you need to expand and plan land, acquire resources to maintain the internal balance of the kingdom, and survive and defeat all opponents in the competition between kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Hex Grid 18.7% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Medieval 8%
- #32 Machiavelli the Prince
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Holistic Design, Inc.Pub: Holistic Design, inc.
Windows
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Historical 7.4%
- #33 Orbit Economica
61% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Phoenix SmithPub: Parallel Games
Windows
Trade, Build, Spy, Negotiate, and Battle for total control of the galaxy's riches. Become the backbone of galactic commerce in a grand strategy universe ripe with opportunity for exploitation and conquest.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Management 9.8%, Economy 8.8%
- #34 Gate Builders
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pyralis Studio
Windows · Linux
Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1% ★, Management 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Strategy 8.3%
- #35 Neverdark
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Simteract
Windows
Neverdark is a pausable RTS game which throws you into a post-apocalyptic world. Following a global blackout, society has collapsed, and it will be your goal to rebuild it.
Why similar: Strategy 25.2%, 4X 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Management 8.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%
- #36 Diehexegy
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aebersoft
Windows · Linux
Diehexegy is a hex grid turn-based 4x game with a unique twist: your armies are composed of dice. It has multiple victory conditions and straightforward gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 46.9% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Hex Grid 8.5% ★, Medieval 7.3%
- #37 Revival: Recolonization
60% matchMixed69% of 424 reviews2024
Dev: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
Why similar: 4X 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20% ★, Hex Grid 9.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Economy 7.4%
- #38 Dominions - Priests, Prophets & Pretenders
60% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Illwinter Game Design
Windows · Linux
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. It all takes place in a fantasy world with monsters, magic items and world altering spells. Dominions is a 4x turn based strategy game with a large variety of spells and units.
Why similar: 4X 55.4% ★, Strategy 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, 2D 3.3%
- #39 Monarchs at Play
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGamesPub: Looking for Publisher
Windows
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 36% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Hex Grid 8.3% ★
- #40 Sid Meier's Civilization® IV
61% matchVery Positive92% of 3,557 reviews2006
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new...
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Grand Strategy 10.9% ★, Historical 9.4%
- #41 Kingdom's Life
61% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Historical 7.4%, Economy 6.5%
- #42 Hexarchy
59% matchVery Positive82% of 1,527 reviews2023
Dev: Main Tank SoftwarePub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hexarchy is an innovative, fast-paced, historical 4x strategy game where you use cards and deckbuilding to make your decisions. Single-player and online multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Hex Grid 8.9% ★, Management 8.7%
- #43 Restitutor: Empire Restored
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Linux
Restitutor is a historical incremental grand strategy game focused on statecraft, diplomacy, and calculated warfare. Strengthen your economy, research new technologies, form alliances, and outmaneuver rivals through high-level strategic decisions without micromanagement.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.2% ★, 4X 27.4% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Historical 10.9%, Hex Grid 7.8% ★
- #44 Yield! Fall of Rome
59% matchMostly Positive72% of 257 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Management 8.4%, Hex Grid 8.2% ★
- #45 Clay Soldiers
60% matchMixed55% of 44 reviews2023
Dev: ArchDawn
Windows · Mac · Linux
The war rages on, choose to side with the Mercenaries, the Undead, the Angels, and more! Play through the single-player campaign, unifying the factions. Fight against other players and AI in the battleground's mode! Or strive for a conquest that takes you through the ages in war mode.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Strategy 9.1%, Economy 7.3%
- #46 Commander: Modern War
60% matchPositive84% of 37 reviews2023
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience the thrill of a modern conflict between two factions, as you outsmart your opponents in an epic game of strategy and cunning. Take command of your ground, air, and naval units and lead them to victory in the most immersive turn-based battle simulation. The battlefield awaits.
Why similar: 4X 41.9% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Management 9.3%, Hex Grid 7.1% ★
- #47 Crusader Kings III
59% matchVery Positive91% of 137,375 reviews2020
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 28.9 hrsMean: 143.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26% ★, 4X 19.9% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Management 10.8%, Historical 10.2%
- #48 Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boqi Island
Windows
Return to the Three Kingdoms period. On the grand strategic tactical battlefield, use terrain for defense setup and resource allocation to shift the battle situation. Control the war via hexagonal grid movement and tactical ability activation, and unify the realm.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Hex Grid 11.3% ★, Historical 9.7%, Strategy 8.6%
- #49 Dwarf Guild Mania
59% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: QuarkbluePub: Kennedy Publishing House
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a campaign of glory as you mine, trade, spy, & sabotage your way to victory. Your guild of dwarves must vanquish its rivals and conquer the realm in this turn-based economic strategy game. Lead your capitalist dwarves across new lands in search of gems and gold. For the Guild!
Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Hex Grid 8.1% ★, Strategy 7.5%
- #50 Elemental Empire
59% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: WizardingGames
Windows · Mac
An economic 4x strategy in a space filled with magic and procedurally generated planets. Build your own empire and become the sole ruler of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 45.1% ★, Grand Strategy 32.9% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 6.8%, 2D 2.9%
- #51 The Ancients
59% matchMixed58% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: GorillaSoftWorksPub: Camlann Games
Windows
The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.
Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Historical 9.7%, Management 9.7%
- #52 ENDLESS™ Legend 2
57% matchVery Positive84% of 2,331 reviews2025
Dev: AMPLITUDE StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Management 9.3%, Historical 8.5%
- #53 Rogue Hex
57% matchVery Positive89% of 252 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Hex Grid 8.9% ★, Strategy 8.6%
- #54 Antropico: Colonies
59% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows · Linux
Un gioco di strategia spaziale su larga scala che mira a costruire e mantenere il potere in una galassia simulata. Costruisci, sviluppa e sopravvivi in una galassia plasmata dalla storia e conseguenze.
Why similar: 4X 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Economy 6.8%, Management 6.4%
- #55 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
58% matchVery Positive87% of 739 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Management 7.8%
- #56 Vivat Rex
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Nyakkoev
Windows
Global strategy game focused on conquering the medieval world, featuring real-time tactical battles.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Medieval 7.6%, Strategy 6.2%
- #57 From Village to Empire
60% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: 4X 33.3% ★, Strategy 18.2%, Hex Grid 11.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Management 9.9%
- #58 Critias Empire
59% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Historical 8.7%, Economy 7.5%
- #59 Feudums
59% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kalamona Studios
Windows
Lead multiple branches of your noble house in a living, persistent online 4X grand strategy. Expand fiefdoms, command vassals, master warfare, and outwit rivals through diplomacy, espionage, and schemes. With NO pay-to-win, only strategy will determine the legacy you carve in history.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Management 8.6%, Hex Grid 8.6% ★