- #1 Clash of Cultures
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zach
Windows · Mac
Clash of Cultures is an addictive turn based stratergy game that is simple to learn yet has a lot of depth. Research technologies, shape your government, progress through the ages, and conquer the world.
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.5%, Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Casual 7.1%
- #2 Imperium of the Stars
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hyrcronix
Windows
Rebuild a scattered empire in a Gothic galaxy of distant beacons and lost colonies. A real-time 4X with four distinct playable factions, empire-wide command, and Living Sagas shaped by how you govern and conquer up to 10,000 star systems.
Why similar: 4X 44.7% ★, Grand Strategy 29.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Choices Matter 4.5%, Sci-fi 4%
- #3 Stellar Monarch 2
96% matchVery Positive89% of 133 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 48.2% ★, Grand Strategy 32.3%, Strategy 14.6%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #4 Napoleon 1813
95% match9 user reviews67% of 9 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 41.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, 2D 1.9%
- #5 Distant Worlds 2
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,566 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 45.8% ★, Grand Strategy 30%, Strategy 16%, Sci-fi 5.6%, Combat 2.1%
- #6 Cosmist
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gulbrandr Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Expand your empire one sector at a time in a fast-paced turn-based 4X strategy game. Capture planets, harvest resources, command powerful fleets, and adapt your strategy with unique Emperors and unpredictable divine interventions. Play solo, or challenge rivals in tactical PvP.
Why similar: 4X 45.2% ★, Grand Strategy 29.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.7%, Sci-fi 4%
- #7 Splinter Colony
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cast and Wrought Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 45.9% ★, Grand Strategy 29.2%, Strategy 19%, Choices Matter 3.3%, 2D 2.1%
- #8 万象战略
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeleePsycho
Windows
Myriad Strategies: a turn-based strategy game. Rule a nation amid wars, famine, plague, and refugees. Manage cities, talent, economy. The world shifts. Win by holding cities, stabilizing lives, solving refugee crises, building food systems & spy networks, or surviving the chaos.
Why similar: 4X 44.1% ★, Grand Strategy 30.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, 2D 1.2%
- #9 Miniciv
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yyyz26
Windows
Miniciv is an accessible hex‑grid 4X turn‑based strategy. Start with one city and settler, explore and build your budding civilization into a mighty empire. Procedural maps and flexible playtime bring unique runs, pairing easy entry with deep political, trade, faith and industrial mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 49% ★, Grand Strategy 29.1%, Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.4%, Casual 2.6%
- #10 Galactic Inheritors
91% matchMixed43% of 88 reviews2015
Dev: Crispon GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.
Why similar: 4X 53.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7%, Strategy 17.1%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #11 Distant Worlds: Universe
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,856 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Why similar: 4X 56.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Strategy 14.8%, Sci-fi 5.3%, 2D 0.7%
- #12 EOL: End Of Line
89% 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 45.6% ★, Grand Strategy 31.7%, Strategy 18.4%, Sci-fi 4%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #13 Space Empires I
89% matchMixed56% of 16 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 40.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1%, Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Sci-fi 4.3%
- #14 Shattered Spheres
87% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Data Vikings
Windows
Shattered Spheres is a turn-based 2D space 4X strategy game inspired by the classics of the genre. Explore a living galaxy, build your empire, and crush your rivals through military conquest or diplomatic cunning — without the micromanagement bloat of modern 4X games.
Why similar: 4X 46.5% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Strategy 9.7%, Sci-fi 3.6%
- #15 Feudalism
88% matchMostly Negative33% of 46 reviews2016
Dev: ImagimotionPub: IV Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Conquer Europe, become an Emperor. Build your family’s dynasty through seven centuries, from 800 A.D. to 1492 A.D., up until the inevitable collapse of the feudal system.
Why similar: 4X 64.8% ★, Strategy 35.2%
- #16 Elemental Empire
86% match5 user reviews60% of 5 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 47.5% ★, Grand Strategy 37.2%, Strategy 11.6%, 2D 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #17 Dominium Mundi
86% 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 61.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2%, Strategy 13.9%, 2D 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #18 Old Stars
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
Why similar: 4X 45.3% ★, Grand Strategy 31.8%, Strategy 17.4%, Sci-fi 3.5%, Atmospheric 1.4%
- #19 Star Ruler
85% matchVery Positive83% of 342 reviews2010
Dev: Blind Mind Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
Why similar: 4X 53.5% ★, Strategy 22.6%, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Sci-fi 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #20 Tachyon Wars
84% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: Fair Games
Windows
Tachyon Wars is a sci-fi real-time space strategy game. It introduces seriously deep gameplay with an emphasis on fleet control. Open space to explore, large-scale battles, crafty AI. All of it is well seasoned with novel real-time game mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 45% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4%, Strategy 18.3%, Sci-fi 6.1%, 2D 2%
- #21 Oil Sheik: Dominion
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reliq
Windows
Dominate five rival regions in a turn-based 4X. Save the world from Nihlex's evil alien forces in a race to conquer Mars' oil reserves. Research, boost your economy with stock trades, build units, fight tactical battles on a hex tile map. Are you strong enough to lead a united humanity to victory?
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, Grand Strategy 31.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%, Combat 2.4%
- #22 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
83% 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 46.3% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, Strategy 17.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.1%, Combat 1.4%
- #23 Space Empires III
82% matchPositive80% of 46 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 41.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Sci-fi 3.8%
- #24 Space Opera
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bradley Labs
Windows · Linux
Found colonies, create spaceships from modules, colonize planets, form alliances and destroy your opponents in a turn-based game.
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16%, Strategy 10.1%, Sci-fi 3.4%
- #25 SALUS
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Video Game Studios
Windows
A fast-paced turn-based 4X strategy game where four radically different factions compete through diplomacy, politics, exploration, and war.
Why similar: 4X 54.9% ★, Strategy 22.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.9%, Atmospheric 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #26 Master of Orion
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,196 reviews2016
Dev: NGD StudiosPub: Wargaming Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 101.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.
Why similar: 4X 63.7% ★, Strategy 22.8%, Grand Strategy 8.4%, Sci-fi 4.3%, Atmospheric 0.6%
- #27 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WoN
Windows
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
Why similar: 4X 45.4% ★, Grand Strategy 31.3%, Strategy 18.3%, Choices Matter 3.3%, 2D 1.4%
- #28 Dynastic Era
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: LOONW
Windows
Simple map coloring game, And about history of ancient civilized, Mini ancient strategy game with a large world map to explore, in which you can simulate different ancient civilizations, the game will have different chapters showing ancient historical events.
Why similar: 4X 42.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28%, Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, 2D 1.9%
- #29 Hollow Stars
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AppGX
Windows
A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op
Why similar: 4X 45.1% ★, Grand Strategy 31.5%, Strategy 17.3%, Sci-fi 3.6%, 2D 2.3%
- #30 Uciana
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Birdshel, LLC
Windows
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 56.5% ★, Strategy 23.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Sci-fi 6.4%, 2D 3.7%
- #31 Nova Historia
76% 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 52.5% ★, Grand Strategy 30.2%, Strategy 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #32 Master of Orion 3
78% matchMixed53% of 191 reviews2016
Dev: Quicksilver SoftwarePub: Wargaming Labs
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Experience first-hand the challenges of leading one of 16 different races into unequalled galactic supremacy and face a universe of decisions. Set policies, explore, build, declare war, negotiate - put all these elements into motion to guarantee your place in the annals of space and time.
Why similar: 4X 71.1% ★, Strategy 25.6%, Sci-fi 3.3%
- #33 战国宏图
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 夜渔工作室
Windows
Warring States: Grand Ambitions is a grand strategy game set in ancient China. Rule as a feudal lord during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras. Shape your empire's fate with branching focus trees, city building, tech trees, and historical choices.
Why similar: 4X 48.9% ★, Grand Strategy 33.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #34 Antropico: Colonies
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows · Linux
A large-scale space strategy game focused on building and maintaining power within a simulated galaxy. Build, develop, and survive in a galaxy shaped by history and consequences.
Why similar: 4X 41% ★, Grand Strategy 35.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Sci-fi 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #35 The Veiled Atlas: A Cycle of Falls
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flat Gradient
Windows · Linux
A turn-based 4X of rival governments contesting the dim Atlas through economy, war and an Influence-weighted Council. At the edge of sensor range, the Shadow does not lose - it only rises.
Why similar: 4X 59.1% ★, Strategy 24.7%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Dark 5.4%, 2D 3.6%
- #36 Afterworld
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a tribe of survivors, rediscover ancient technology, manage wasteland settlements and wage wars of conquest and political struggle in Afterworld, an original post-apocalyptic survival grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio, the creators of Crusader Kings III and Hearts of Iron IV.
Why similar: 4X 43.9% ★, Grand Strategy 35.7%, Strategy 13.8%, Choices Matter 4.2%, Dark 2.2%
- #37 Inflection Point
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Giannakopoulos
Windows
A multiplayer 4X strategy game of globe-spanning 19th-century battle. Break through enemy lines, encircle their armies, and cut off their supply. Colonize resource-rich islands and blockade those of your opponents. Games are quick and packed with dramatic, high-stakes combat.
Why similar: 4X 43.9% ★, Grand Strategy 30.9%, Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.9%, 2D 2.6%
- #38 Apollo4x
75% matchMixed49% of 87 reviews2015
Dev: Digital EntertainmentPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Apollo4x is a casual-to-difficult space trading tycoon game, where success is measured in earnings from how efficient your trade routes are in transporting supplies to demands on your planets. Combat is card based, and uses a unique system never before seen.
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 33.3%, Strategy 23.4%, Casual 9.3%
- #39 Mercatoria
71% match4 user reviews40% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: DKS
Windows
Turn-based grand strategy in the Age of Discovery. Develop a transport network, industrialise your economy, colonise the New World, and compete with five rival powers. Inspired by Imperialism 2. Early Access — built by one developer in his spare time.
Why similar: 4X 41.5% ★, Grand Strategy 29.8%, Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.7%, Choices Matter 2.9%
- #40 Dawn Of Imperialism
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nitrid Game
Windows
Guide your state through a fictional industrial world where economic power becomes global influence. Use merchants, companies, politics, intelligence, and trade networks to control the flow of resources and decisions. Conquest is an option; true power lies in controlling the economy.
Why similar: 4X 43.2% ★, Grand Strategy 34.6%, Strategy 18.2%, 2D 2.1%, Choices Matter 1.8%
- #41 Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,769 reviews2024
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 45.3% ★, Grand Strategy 33.1%, Strategy 18.1%, Atmospheric 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #42 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
71% matchMixed69% of 2,301 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 44.3% ★, Grand Strategy 31.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #43 Space Empires IV Deluxe
73% matchVery Positive86% of 291 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 37%
The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
Why similar: 4X 68.6% ★, Strategy 24.5%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #44 Horizon
73% matchMixed59% of 477 reviews2014
Dev: L3O Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Why similar: 4X 39.9% ★, Grand Strategy 32.1%, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #45 Space Empires II
72% matchMixed58% of 19 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 38.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Strategy 20.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Sci-fi 4.5%
- #46 Solaris
71% matchVery Positive80% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: SpacialCircumstances
Windows · Mac · Linux
Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge. Build alliances, make enemies and fight your way to victory and galactic domination. Will you conquer the galaxy?
Why similar: 4X 55% ★, Strategy 22.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Sci-fi 5.9%, 2D 3.4%
- #47 Sengoku: Shadow Strikers
70% 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 43.9% ★, Grand Strategy 31.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #48 Trumpets of War
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xblur
Windows
Trumpets of War is a grand-scale historical strategy game where armies clash and empires rise. Command vast forces across dynamic battlefields, orchestrate campaigns with precision, and experience the drama of war through an innovative system that blends tactical combat with strategic mastery.
Why similar: 4X 46.8% ★, Grand Strategy 32.8%, Strategy 18.3%, Combat 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #49 Kingdom's Life
70% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 41.1% ★, Grand Strategy 30.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Combat 2.3%
- #50 Neural Dominion
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GamesBond StudiosPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A brutal cyberpunk 4X turn-based strategy game. Take control of one of 5 gangs in Technograd — a dark, crime ridden city where getting to the top is the only thing that matters.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Dark 5.6%
- #51 Solar Wave
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: SavGus Studio
Windows
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.
Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Grand Strategy 32.8%, Strategy 12%, Sci-fi 6%, Dark 4.2%
- #52 Hollow Orbits 4x
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Harimaru Studio
Windows
Hollow Orbits 4X combines 4X strategy with the mechanics of a board game. Collect and use tactic cards, and roll dice for your fleet’s weapons. Play solo, against AI, or with friends for dominance in a galaxy filled with ancient dangers and hidden treasures.
Why similar: 4X 55.2% ★, Strategy 21.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.9%, Sci-fi 3.7%, Combat 1.9%
- #53 Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: Estuego Games
Windows
A turn-based strategy game based off the Napoleonic Wars! Lead, attack, buy, and communicate. Learn how to play difficult 4x grand strategy games by starting with simple strategy. *Disclaimer, this game is made by a teenager for a school project*
Why similar: 4X 40.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Strategy 10.5%, 2D 2.6%
- #54 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
67% 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 41%, 4X 34.7% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Multiple Endings 3.5%, 2D 1.9%
- #55 Heathen Engineering's Terran
69% matchMostly Negative33% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Heathen Engineering
Windows · Mac · Linux
Galactic Strategy | Tactics | Action! Found an empire and expand across the stars, command massive fleets in interstellar conflicts and pilot powerful warships as you battle for victory in Heathen Engineering’s Terran.
Why similar: 4X 43.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.9%, Strategy 22%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #56 Stellar Reach
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Stelleas
Windows
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 48.3% ★, Grand Strategy 25%, Strategy 13.1%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Atmospheric 3.7%
- #57 Wartra
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Build a civilization from its first settlements into a mighty world power in this turn-based strategy game. Explore uncharted lands, expand your empire, forge lucrative trade relationships, and develop your economy and technology.
Why similar: 4X 43.9% ★, Grand Strategy 38.7%, Strategy 16%, Combat 1.4%
- #58 One Planet
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Qardinal Games
Windows · Linux
Disasters rage. Political factions splinter and grasp at power. As the climate crisis threatens stability, will you unite the planet with diplomacy or take aggressive action? Deploy force or build consensus toward net zero emissions in this grand strategy game where stakes get higher by the minute.
Why similar: 4X 45.4% ★, Grand Strategy 38.5%, Strategy 15.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #59 Ever War
66% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Autware
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 47.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.8%, Strategy 11.5%