- #1 StarWay
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: jiahuiJIA
Windows
Technology, Magic, and Immortals collide in a universe torn apart by endless aggression. War is total; even the laws of existence are erased. Lead your fleets to invade worlds across the stars. Your goal is simple: Expand. Conquer. Destroy. Supports LAN & Online Multiplayer (PvP & Co-op).
Why similar: 4X 33.6% ★, RTS 21.1%, Real Time Tactics 8.2%, Space 7%, PvP 6.6%
- #2 Galactic Conflict
96% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Shadowfoundry GamesPub: Sinpros Entertainment and Multimedia
Windows
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 35.7% ★, RTS 19.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%, Space 7.8%
- #3 Star Ruler 2
96% matchVery Positive82% of 721 reviews2015
Dev: Blind Mind Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.
Why similar: 4X 46.5% ★, RTS 23.5%, Space 20.8%, Strategy 9.2%
- #4 StarDrive
95% matchMixed45% of 1,484 reviews2013
Dev: Zero Sum Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Why similar: 4X 52.3% ★, Space 19.6%, RTS 18.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #5 SPACECOM
94% matchMixed68% of 530 reviews2014
Dev: Flow CombinePub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, RTS 29.8%, Space 12.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Minimalist 6.6%
- #6 Planeticus
94% match8 user reviews13% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Keshbel Games
Windows
Planeticus offers to conquer new planets in the company of friends or strangers. The essence of the game is to capture planets, manage resources, create as many of your own super planets as possible and generate space invaders.
Why similar: 4X 39.3% ★, RTS 19.7%, Space 14.8%, Strategy 6.8%, PvP 6.6%
- #7 Star Ruler
93% matchVery Positive83% of 340 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 47.6% ★, Space 21.2%, RTS 19.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #8 Desert Kingdoms
92% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Markus Fink
Windows
Desert Kingdoms is a minimal real time strategy game. Protect your king and conquer the desert.
Why similar: RTS 29.3%, Minimalist 16.4%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Top-Down 9.9%
- #9 Sins of a Solar Empire II
91% matchVery Positive84% of 8,352 reviews2024
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, RTS 21.7%, Space 20.3%, Strategy 6.6%, PvE 5.3%
- #10 TerraMartis4x
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LeBroGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
For gamers who love Master of Orion and Homeworld but want something new and different. For gamers with a small time budget. A lightweight fresh take on the space 4x game genre about the war between Terra and Mars.
Why similar: 4X 38.8% ★, RTS 22.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, Space 10.2%, Top-Down 6.9%
- #11 Stardust Exile
90% matchMixed70% of 46 reviews2024
Dev: Apseren
Windows · Linux
Stardust Exile is an RTS set in the Milky Way galaxy, containing currently known stars and exoplanets with their real characteristics. The remaining star systems are procedurally generated. It has both online mode and single-player skirmish mode. The online server is persistent and single-shard.
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, RTS 18%, Space 12.2%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Real Time Tactics 7.8%
- #12 Stellar Dynasty
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joshua R.D. Wilson
Windows
A sci-fi, 4X, real-time strategy game. Build, fight, and explore to survive against an unstoppable alien threat. Carry the fight from one galaxy to the next as you battle back from the brink of extinction, and unlock the secrets of the past to restore your people to the path of galactic super power.
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Space 17.4%, RTS 16.7%, Real Time Tactics 8.4%, Strategy 6.6%
- #13 Uncharted Space - project 3062
89% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Kong Linghui
Windows
In this game, you are a leader, leading a force of army to fight other forces in the deep spaces. You will plunder their resources, build your homelands, explore and expand, managing your army both strategically and tactically. This will be a saga written with blood and fire.
Why similar: 4X 38.1% ★, RTS 25.9%, Real Time Tactics 11.5%, Strategy 10%, Space 8.5%
- #14 Imperium Galactica II
88% matchVery Positive88% of 640 reviews2017
Dev: Digital RealityPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Reintroducing a classic from the golden era of gaming, the original empire building space RTS, Imperium Galactica 2 is back and looking better than ever with new high-res textures and vivid colors.
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Space 22.9%, RTS 22.1%, Strategy 17.6%
- #15 Near Sol
87% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: LTide
Windows · Mac · Linux
Space 4X game with the ability to build factories, extract resources, with characters, internal and external markets ... Take part in the discussion of the game, share your vision)
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, RTS 22.1%, Space 14%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Strategy 6.1%
- #16 Age of Space
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PodPal Games
Windows
Evolve from being a nobody to being the center of power! Age of space combines real time resource management with tactical combat. Work as a mercenary for clients in our solar system as you gradually get dragged into a liberation war between the Martians and the UEA. Who will you side with?
Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, RTS 27.3%, Space 25.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Co-op 1.9%
- #17 Pixel Armada
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dinya Gergely
Windows
Create your own pixel-grid ships, assemble a fleet, and fight tactical 2D space battles across procedural Arcade runs and strategic Campaign conquest, with dynamic damage that destroys vessels tile by tile.
Why similar: RTS 31.8%, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Space 12.5%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #18 Spaceman's Luck
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gideon Kennedy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you have a Spaceman's Luck? A space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 65.4% ★, Space 21.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #19 Gewevo : Interstellar
86% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Victor Filipiak
Windows
Gewevo : Interstallar is a space strategy game derived from the tabletop RPG universe Gewevo. It offers an approach a little closer to a wargame with regard to the empire management aspect. Made with passion by a one-man team;)
Why similar: 4X 46.5% ★, RTS 25.6%, Space 12.9%, Strategy 11.3%, 3D 3.5%
- #20 Desert Kingdoms 2
84% matchPositive87% of 31 reviews2024
Dev: Markus Fink
Windows
Conquer the desert in this minimal real-time strategy game. Manage settlements with resources, develop villages, protect the king and take control of the desert!
Why similar: RTS 23.9%, Minimalist 19.9%, Resource Management 17.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%
- #21 Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
82% matchVery Positive91% of 581 reviews2024
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack includes the original Alpha Centauri and the expansion, Alien Crossfire.
Why similar: 4X 68% ★, Space 19.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Multiplayer 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #22 Mini Gal4Xy
83% matchPositive84% of 38 reviews2019
Dev: Jérôme BodinPub: Le Studio des Ténèbres
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mini Gal4Xy is a light strategy game set in space.
Why similar: 4X 50.1% ★, Procedural Generation 17.7%, Resource Management 14%, Space 13.8%, Strategy 4.1%
- #23 Distant Worlds: Universe
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,848 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.4 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 57.9% ★, Space 22.3%, RTS 10.6%, Strategy 9%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #24 Aeons of Rebirth
81% matchMixed67% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: Short Scale
Windows
Aeons of Rebirth is a short, strategic incremental journey about exploring planets and building the greatest space empires ever!
Why similar: 4X 51.3% ★, Space 19.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Minimalist 13.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #25 Stellar Reach
80% 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 44.7% ★, Space 16.6%, RTS 16.3%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Strategy 7.1%
- #26 The Qin Empire
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: MAX GAME PTE. LTD.
Windows
真·春秋戦国戦略SLG―中国史上最もドラマチックな時代が舞台! 名もなき小国の人物から成長し、春秋時代の戦国武将を集め、領土を広げ、他のプレイヤーや味方と同盟を結んで共に戦い、戦略と知恵を駆使して始皇帝の如く天下を制覇しよう! いざ出陣だ!これは、始皇帝へとつながる戦乱!
Why similar: 4X 48.6% ★, RTS 26.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Multiplayer 0.8%
- #27 Commanders Fury
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RoboFox Games LLC
Windows
Take command of the war machine of an empire in this 4x RTS hybrid. Fight battles with your flagship fleet in fully 3D real-time space combat. Recruit, train and dispatch commanders. Give them orders, directives and equip their fleets. Manage your empire’s supply logistics and fleet operations.
Why similar: 4X 40.2% ★, RTS 24.9%, Space 18.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Real Time Tactics 7.7%
- #28 Star Conqueror 舰队指挥官
78% matchMixed58% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: MirrorAlice Studio
Windows
Engage in real-time battles with customizable space warships. Explore the galaxy, forge alliances, develop powerful ships, and defeat alien invaders.
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Space 16.8%, RTS 13.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, PvP 7.3%
- #29 Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
79% matchMixed44% of 958 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 64% ★, Space 21.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Multiplayer 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #30 Master of Orion
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,131 reviews2016
Dev: NGD StudiosPub: Wargaming Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 101.8 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 65% ★, Space 18.7%, Strategy 13.7%, RTS 1.4%, Multiplayer 0.6%
- #31 Cosmist
76% matchNo user reviews2026
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 51.6% ★, Space 15.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 7.2%, PvE 3.7%
- #32 A Kingdom Together
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rolebound Games
Windows
A persistent multiplayer RTS where players shape kingdoms through building, politics, and warfare. Join a kingdom, claim territory, elect leaders and defend your realm in fast-paced 1–2 week campaigns with dynamic events and player-driven strategy.
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, RTS 22.7%, Real Time Tactics 11.4%, Strategy 6.7%, PvP 6.1%
- #33 Master of Orion 3
77% matchMixed54% of 186 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 71.9% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Space 13%
- #34 Age of Goblins
74% matchVery Positive88% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Bruno Valla
Windows
AoG is a real-time strategy game (RTS) with simplified mechanics and cute visuals, but VERY challenging at times. Lead your goblin tribe into what they do best: expand, conquer, and exterminate each other. Any resemblance to humans is purely coincidental.
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, RTS 24.6%, Resource Management 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Strategy 5.7%
- #35 Elemental Empire
75% 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 49.5% ★, Space 16.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, PvE 11.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #36 Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Youshen Interactive
Windows · Mac
A real-time strategy+team competition game, in 189, the Han Dynasty launched a mutual attack and expansion of territories, operating their own forces, and seizing generals and resources until the world was unified.
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, RTS 19.6%, Team-Based 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Real Time Tactics 8.8%
- #37 Lords of the Black Sun
77% matchVery Negative20% of 396 reviews2014
Dev: Arkavi StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 61% ★, Space 24.9%, Strategy 14.1%
- #38 Tachyon Wars
75% 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 46.4% ★, Space 20.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #39 CannonCraft
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: mihuangame
Windows
Real-time strategy game. Players move freely to find a suitable place to settle down and develop. They build various buildings to explore, attack, and defend themselves, so as to resist AI attacks. They also find and defeat other targets on the map to become the only surviving human player.
Why similar: 4X 45.1% ★, RTS 25.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Minimalist 8.4%, Strategy 7.6%
- #40 Uciana
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Birdshel, LLC
Windows
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 57.8% ★, Space 15.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #41 Galactic Inheritors
74% matchMixed44% of 86 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 58.2% ★, Space 30.9%, Strategy 10.9%
- #42 Dominium Mundi
73% 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 63.9% ★, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 8.6%, PvP 3.5%
- #43 Clash of Stars
72% matchMixed52% of 29 reviews2023
Dev: Star Magic
Windows
MMO Real-time strategy star game.
Why similar: 4X 37.8% ★, RTS 22.1%, Space 11.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%, PvP 7%
- #44 Varren's Expanse
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wonder Forge, Inc.
Windows
Varren's Expanse is a roguelite strategy game. Explore the wilderness using mice and badger legionnaires, rabbit scouts, and squirrel skirmishers. Every round builds your strength, every round brings new challenges.
Why similar: 4X 46.1% ★, RTS 29.2%, Strategy 11.8%, 3D 3.1%, Exploration 3%
- #45 StarFringe: Adversus
71% matchMixed64% of 233 reviews2023
Dev: CasualogicPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
This is the story about the beginning of the conquest of outer space by earthlings. It began as a global idea of saving mankind from hunger and lack of resources, and ended as a brutal and merciless war in space far from Earth.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, RTS 26.7%, Space 17.5%, Real Time Tactics 8.2%, Strategy 7%
- #46 Solar Wave
71% matchNo user 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 40.2% ★, RTS 21.8%, Space 18.1%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #47 Empires Edge
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a 4X-lite strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Tyrants: Fight Through Time (Mega Lo Mania). Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: 4X 49.4% ★, RTS 27.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #48 Galaxy Commanders
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MagmaByte
Windows
ASSEMBLE AND COMMAND YOUR SPACE FLEET TO VICTORY
Why similar: RTS 27.6%, Space 22.3%, Real Time Tactics 19.6%, PvP 10.6%, Strategy 9.8%
- #49 Grid War Online
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NasjakiPub: Nasjaki_Games
Windows
This game combines real-time and turn-based strategy. Each turn is divided into two phases of variable duration. This concept is especially interesting when playing with multiple players. That's why it's so easy to create and join online lobbies.
Why similar: RTS 31%, Real Time Tactics 18.9%, PvE 10.2%, PvP 9.7%, Minimalist 9.5%
- #50 Stellar Sovereigns
69% matchMixed65% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Imagined Reality
Windows
Indie 4X space strategy game with TB empire management and RTS combat set in a 3D star cluster. Build an interstellar empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, develop your colonies establish trade routes and construct fleets from a range of retrofittable capital & escort class vessels.
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, RTS 17.4%, Space 13%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 7.9%
- #51 山海:传承
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 薮羽制作组
Windows
在这款幻想题材的4X类型游戏中,您将扮演真龙天子,上承天命,下安黎民。打造一个四方来朝的盛世王朝。您将在此过程中体验朝代的更迭与传承,体验或真实或奇妙的事件,经受住时代的考验。每一次风云变幻都将让您感受到独特的民族魅力与文化。谨记,帝国只有一位真龙。
Why similar: 4X 44.8% ★, RTS 25.4%, Resource Management 9.5%, Real Time Tactics 9%, Strategy 7%
- #52 Shallow Space
70% matchMostly Negative25% of 231 reviews2015
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Construct your Taskforce and lead your forces to domination in the ultimate Fleet Warfare RTS!
Why similar: RTS 31.6%, Space 31.1%, 4X 23.1% ★, Strategy 14.1%
- #53 Distant Worlds 2
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,504 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 42.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 54.4% ★, Space 18.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, 3D 2.9%
- #54 ShardSpace
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SmartMita
Windows
Shard Space is a minimalist strategy game. In the distant future, you awaken from a long slumber. Guided by a loyal lieutenant, you must rebuild your drone fleet and embark on a journey to uncover the ultimate truth of the universe.
Why similar: RTS 32.3%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Space 13.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Minimalist 11.7%
- #55 Chieftain
69% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Splout Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chieftain is a fantasy game of world conquest - containing elements of a procedurally generated 4X world, and real-time skirmishes including hundreds of soldiers on screen battling for your dominion and reign to be supreme!
Why similar: 4X 47.9% ★, RTS 31%, Strategy 21.2%
- #56 Space Empires IV Deluxe
68% matchVery Positive86% of 286 reviews2006
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 10.7 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 68.8% ★, Space 16.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #57 Edge Of Extinction
67% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Azulon StudiosPub: Nelson R Lunshof
Windows
Edge of Extinction is a real-time strategy game focused on tactical unit control, faction identity, and large-scale conflict. Command armies across unstable voxel-based terrain, deploy formations, manage resources, and fight for survival as five rival factions are forced into war. Wishlist now!
Why similar: RTS 32.8%, Real Time Tactics 17.4%, Space 10.3%, PvP 8.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #58 CIVIREVIVAL
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DIMENSION CREATIONS LIMITED
Windows
In this 4X + RPG strategy game, lead humanity’s last ark and rebuild a new home among the mysterious ruins of the stars. Starting from nothing, you will develop technology, build powerful fleets, resist external threats, and shape the rebirth of human civilization.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, RTS 22.2%, Space 20.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #59 Realm of Mystery
65% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Puzala Games Limited
Windows
Set forth on an epic journey of conquest!
Why similar: 4X 46.4% ★, RTS 25.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.1%, Strategy 10.8%, PvP 3.3%
- #60 New Stars
64% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Linux
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Space 15.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 11%