- #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 39.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27.5% ★, Strategy 15.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Casual 7.1%
- #2 Imperium of the Stars
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hyrcronix
Windows
A real-time 4X where each faction plays like a different game. Rule a Gothic empire that runs on faith, unmake the galaxy world by world, or forge a warhost from salvage. Up to 10,000 procedurally generated star systems. No diplomacy. Only war.
Why similar: 4X 44.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Choices Matter 4.5%, Sci-fi 3.9%
- #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 48.1% ★, Grand Strategy 32.2% ★, Strategy 14.7%, 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 41.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.7% ★, Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, 2D 2%
- #5 Distant Worlds 2
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,550 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 45.8% ★, Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Strategy 16.1%, 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 45.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29.8% ★, Strategy 11.2%, 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 45.8% ★, Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Strategy 19.2%, 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% ★, Grand Strategy 30.2% ★, Strategy 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, 2D 1.2%
- #9 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 53.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, Strategy 17.3%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #10 Distant Worlds: Universe
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,855 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.3 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 56.3% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Sci-fi 5.3%, 2D 0.7%
- #11 EOL: End Of Line
90% 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 45.5% ★, Grand Strategy 31.7% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Sci-fi 4%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #12 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 40.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Sci-fi 4.3%
- #13 Shattered Spheres
88% 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 46.4% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Strategy 9.8%, Sci-fi 3.6%
- #14 Feudalism
89% 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 64.5% ★, Strategy 35.5%
- #15 Elemental Empire
87% 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 37.1% ★, Strategy 11.7%, 2D 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #16 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% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1% ★, Strategy 14.1%, 2D 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #17 Old Stars
85% 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 45.2% ★, Grand Strategy 31.7% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Sci-fi 3.5%, Atmospheric 1.4%
- #18 Star Ruler
86% matchVery Positive82% of 341 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 53.4% ★, Strategy 22.8%, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, Sci-fi 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #19 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 44.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Sci-fi 6.1%, 2D 2%
- #20 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
84% 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 46.2% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1% ★, Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.1%, Combat 1.4%
- #21 Space Empires III
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 44 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 41.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Sci-fi 3.7%
- #22 Master of Orion
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,173 reviews2016
Dev: NGD StudiosPub: Wargaming Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 101.4 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 63.5% ★, Strategy 23%, Grand Strategy 8.4% ★, Sci-fi 4.3%, Atmospheric 0.6%
- #23 SALUS
82% 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 54.7% ★, Strategy 22.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 18%, Atmospheric 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #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 27.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 3.4%
- #25 Hollow Stars
81% 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% ★, Grand Strategy 31.4% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Sci-fi 3.6%, 2D 2.4%
- #26 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
80% 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 45.3% ★, Grand Strategy 31.2% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Choices Matter 3.3%, 2D 1.4%
- #27 Dynastic Era
79% matchNo user 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 42.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%, 2D 1.9%
- #28 Uciana
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Birdshel, LLC
Windows
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 56.3% ★, Strategy 23.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Sci-fi 6.4%, 2D 3.8%
- #29 Master of Orion 3
79% matchMixed54% of 190 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 70.9% ★, Strategy 25.8%, Sci-fi 3.3%
- #30 Nova Historia
77% 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 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #31 Antropico: Colonies
76% 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 35.3% ★, Strategy 18.9%, Sci-fi 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #32 The Veiled Atlas: A Cycle of Falls
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flat Gradient
Windows
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 58.9% ★, Strategy 24.9%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Dark 5.4%, 2D 3.6%
- #33 Apollo4x
77% matchMixed50% of 86 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 33.2% ★, Strategy 23.6%, Casual 9.3%
- #34 Inflection Point
75% 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 43.8% ★, Grand Strategy 30.8% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.9%, 2D 2.6%
- #35 Mercatoria
73% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Dinkel Games
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 41.4% ★, Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.7%, Choices Matter 2.9%
- #36 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
73% matchMixed69% of 2,287 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 44.4% ★, Grand Strategy 31.7% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #37 Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,631 reviews2024
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 15.4 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 45.2% ★, Grand Strategy 33.1% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Atmospheric 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #38 Space Empires IV Deluxe
75% matchVery Positive86% of 291 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.2 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 68.4% ★, Strategy 24.7%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #39 Solaris
73% 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 54.8% ★, Strategy 22.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Sci-fi 5.9%, 2D 3.4%
- #40 Space Empires II
74% matchMixed56% of 18 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 38.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Strategy 21%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Sci-fi 4.5%
- #41 Horizon
74% matchMixed59% of 477 reviews2014
Dev: L3O Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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% ★, Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #42 Sengoku: Shadow Strikers
72% 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 31.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Strategy 10%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #43 Trumpets of War
71% 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 46.7% ★, Grand Strategy 32.7% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Combat 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #44 Kingdom's Life
71% 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% ★, Grand Strategy 30.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Strategy 11%, Combat 2.4%
- #45 Terrol
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Max Krupp
Windows
Capture Resources. Upgrade your Empire. Destroy all rivals.
Why similar: 4X 39.3% ★, Grand Strategy 31.3% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #46 Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 76 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 40.5% ★, Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Strategy 10.5%, 2D 2.6%
- #47 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 37.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Dark 5.6%
- #48 Heathen Engineering's Terran
71% 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 43.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.8% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #49 Solar Wave
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 27 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 12.1%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Dark 4.2%
- #50 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
69% 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 40.9% ★, 4X 34.7% ★, Strategy 18.6%, Multiple Endings 3.5%, 2D 1.9%
- #51 Stellar Reach
68% 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 24.9% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Atmospheric 3.7%
- #52 One Planet
69% 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 45.3% ★, Grand Strategy 38.4% ★, Strategy 15.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #53 Astro Protocol
67% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Null Vector Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
Why similar: 4X 41.8% ★, Grand Strategy 28.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #54 Rimefall
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Vlachia
Windows
Your colony ship has landed on an alien planet — but the environment kills electronics. Salvage the ark, survive the early years, and build a nation as your society regresses to medieval with remnants of modern knowledge. Grand strategy with simulated population and turn-based combat.
Why similar: 4X 42.1% ★, Grand Strategy 36.2% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Dark 4.2%, Atmospheric 2.8%
- #55 World War: Rome - Free Strategy Game
68% matchMixed67% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Joynow Games
Windows
A turn-based strategy war chess game. You will play a commander in the Roman period, and command the generals and troops to complete the specified mission objectives and occupy important strongholds in the level. Rome, Samnite, Epirus, Carthage. Different choices will open different histories!
Why similar: 4X 41.3% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, Strategy 10.8%, 2D 2.4%
- #56 Global Protocol: New World Order
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Dorlion Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command any of 261 real-world countries in this 2026 grand strategy game. Build your economy, lead armies, and navigate deep diplomacy. Features built-in modding support and 12 supported languages. Shape the global order through espionage, nuclear deterrence, and AI-driven geopolitics.
Why similar: 4X 43% ★, Grand Strategy 31% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.6%, 2D 1.9%
- #57 Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
70% matchMixed44% of 959 reviews2012
Dev: Kerberos ProductionsPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
Why similar: 4X 68.3% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #58 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 17.9%, Strategy 11.6%
- #59 MA 3 – President Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oxiwyle Inc.
Windows
Be the President! Lead a modern nation, make tough choices, and shape history.
Why similar: 4X 44.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, Atmospheric 1.7%