- #1 Near Sol
97% 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 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2%, RTS 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 9.9%, Space 9%
- #2 Old Stars
96% 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 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Space 10.4%, RTS 7.4%, Strategy 7.4%
- #3 Star Ruler
96% 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 39.9% ★, Space 15.5%, RTS 15.2%, Grand Strategy 12.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #4 Solar Imperium
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Node One Digital
Windows
Crash-land on an unknown world and build your settlement hex by hex across its entire globe. Then take it to the stars: a real-time grand strategy game where you zoom from one colony's roads out to a galaxy held by ancient powers that play by the same rules you do.
Why similar: 4X 22.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.8%, Colony Sim 14.4%, RTS 13%, Base Building 7.4%
- #5 Reshaping Mars
94% matchVery Positive84% of 834 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 22.3% ★, RTS 15.6%, Grand Strategy 14.8%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 9.7%
- #6 Tachyon Wars
94% 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 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Space 12.8%, Real Time Tactics 9.3%, Strategy 8.1%
- #7 HEXPANSE
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Seedforge Studio
Windows
Hexpanse is a real-time space strategy game. Build your ships and stations block by block, mine asteroids, program the doctrine of your autonomous fleets, and conquer a procedurally generated galaxy. Play solo or in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, RTS 18.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Space 7.7%
- #8 TON Wars
92% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Basalt Interactive OÜ
Windows
Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, RTS 12.3%, Space 11.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Grand Strategy 8%
- #9 Structura
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Binary Station Studio
Windows · Linux
Structura is a rather unique sci-fi real-time strategy set in space. Its a hybrid of rts and fps, with emphasis on combat and survival. Build your economy for war, modify the unit by adding components, explore, expand, and survive the savage waves of enemy attacks.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3%, RTS 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%
- #10 Hollow Stars
91% 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 34.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6%, RTS 16.5%, Space 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #11 Gunship Battle Total Warfare
90% matchMixed70% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: JOYCITY
Windows
In a post-apocalyptic world submerged by the sea, the wake of the enemy is apparent at every turn. From turning the tides of naval warfare to dominating the skies in break-neck aerial combat, every decision you make will change the outcome of the battle.
Why similar: 4X 26.2% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Tanks 11.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 9.5%, RTS 7%
- #12 Solar Wave
89% 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 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21%, RTS 15.4%, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #13 Astral 4X
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Encelade Interactive
Windows
A deep-space 4X simulation. Explore a procedurally generated universe, colonize worlds, build a realistic economy, and lead your civilization toward galactic domination. Brave ecological and economic crises, face famines, wars, and disasters, and ensure your survival!
Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, RTS 15.2%, Space 10.6%, Colony Sim 9.3%
- #14 Commanders Fury
88% 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 30.8% ★, RTS 17.9%, Grand Strategy 14.7%, Space 12%, Real Time Tactics 7%
- #15 Sovereign Stars
86% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: KYDEN
Windows
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, Space 6.2%, Economy 5.5%
- #16 Star Ruler 2
87% 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 43.5% ★, RTS 20.7%, Space 16.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #17 Dune: Spice Wars
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,585 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.7%, RTS 13.5%, Real Time Tactics 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #18 StarFringe: Adversus
86% matchMixed64% of 237 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 24.2% ★, RTS 18.9%, Grand Strategy 13.6%, Space 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%
- #19 Stellar Reach
84% 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 34.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2%, RTS 12%, Space 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.8%
- #20 PlanetX
82% matchMixed67% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.1%, Colony Sim 19.5%, RTS 17%, Space 7.2%, Economy 6.5%
- #21 Galactic Inheritors
84% 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 44.6% ★, Space 20.6%, Grand Strategy 17.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #22 Distant Worlds: Universe
83% 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 46% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5%, Space 15.3%, RTS 7.9%, Strategy 7.1%
- #23 Cosmist
81% 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 39.9% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Space 11.1%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #24 Trumpets of War
81% 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 34.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, RTS 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 9.2%, Strategy 8%
- #25 StarDrive
82% matchMixed45% of 1,489 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 49.7% ★, RTS 16.3%, Space 16.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #26 Star Zeal 4x
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Akuu Digital Entertainment
Windows
Star Zeal 4x is an open world space based strategy and rpg hybrid with elements from the 4x genre and survival mechanics sprinkled on top of it. Highly emergent gameplay within an open world persistent galaxy is the core purpose and idea of the game.
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Colony Sim 16.5%, RTS 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%
- #27 Fire and Dark Stars
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 没工作工作室
Windows
"Fire and Dark Stars" is a real-time 4X strategy game. You can grow your base, build your fleet, search for enemies, and destroy them. You need to carefully manage your resources, set up and protect your supply lines, so that your fleet does not run out of ammo and fuel.
Why similar: 4X 34.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Space 11.6%, RTS 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #28 Imperium of the Stars
79% 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 41.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Space 11.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #29 Moons That Belong
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: v4.games
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey of strategy and domination in Moons That Belong, a 2D space strategy game that challenges your tactical prowess. Command your fleet, conquer planets, and outsmart your opponents in this visually captivating and intellectually engaging adventure.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, RTS 19.6%, Space 13.1%, Real Time Tactics 7.6%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #30 Beyond Astra
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 28.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, RTS 11.4%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Base Building 8.1%
- #31 Splinter Colony
76% 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 40.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Exploration 3.5%
- #32 Small Kingdoms Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Rule a small fantasy kingdom and conquer your rival as you build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and real-time strategy game, the Small Kingdoms Prologue is a free introductory campaign
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4%, RTS 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 11.1%, Economy 6.4%
- #33 Ascendance
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Torchdrive
Windows
Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7%, RTS 16%, Space 10%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #34 Dynasty Protocol
74% matchMixed66% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Ellipses Studios
Windows
Command your space fleet, mine asteroids, and conquer colonies in this immersive real-time strategy game. Build powerful space stations, upgrade your ships through combat experience, and manage vital resources as you expand your dynasty across a star system.
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Space 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Sci-fi 7%
- #35 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
75% matchMixed58% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 34% ★, Grand Strategy 17%, Colony Sim 13.4%, RTS 12.5%, Real Time Tactics 8%
- #36 Periphery Online
73% matchMixed71% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Aleksandr Nagaev
Windows
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.
Why similar: 4X 22.2% ★, RTS 20.9%, Grand Strategy 16.9%, Space 13%, Colony Sim 8.2%
- #37 Kingdom Wars 4
75% matchMixed66% of 241 reviews2021
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: 4X 21.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5%, RTS 14.2%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Real Time Tactics 9%
- #38 Elemental Empire
74% 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 39.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, Space 11.9%, PvE 7.9%, Strategy 5.7%
- #39 Distant Worlds 2
72% 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 42.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.3%, Space 12.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #40 Antropico: Colonies
72% 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 33.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Space 8.6%, Colony Sim 8.2%
- #41 Sins of a Solar Empire II
70% matchVery Positive84% of 8,792 reviews2024
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 32.8 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 34.1% ★, RTS 19.4%, Space 17%, Sci-fi 7%, Strategy 6.4%
- #42 Stellar Monarch 2
71% 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 45.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.7%, Space 10.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #43 AI War 2
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,563 reviews2019
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, RTS 12.7%, Real Time Tactics 8.5%, Space 7.4%
- #44 StarWay
71% 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 35.6% ★, RTS 21.1%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%, PvP 6.7%, Space 6.5%
- #45 New Stars
70% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · 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 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Space 10.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%, War 7.4%
- #46 Heathen Engineering's Terran
73% 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 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Space 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Strategy 10%
- #47 Gewevo : Interstellar
73% 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 40.1% ★, RTS 20.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Space 9.7%, Base Building 6.2%
- #48 VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NeuroCore Game Design
Windows
VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH is a sci-fi colony-building strategy game. Lead 50 survivors on Elyra, build a thriving colony, develop its economy and research, return to the stars, and search for the lost path back to Earth.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Space 9.3%, Real Time Tactics 8.1%
- #49 Arinoa: Conquest
69% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Alternate
Windows
Arinoa: Conquest is a real time grand strategy game with a focus on hero units, and combines elements of strategy, resource management, and light RPG mechanics. Gather resources, build your army, and conquer your enemies within the harsh world of Arinoa.
Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, RTS 16.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Base Building 7.5%
- #50 Powerplay
68% matchPositive86% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 30.9% ★, RTS 19.6%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #51 Relentless Expanse
68% matchVery Positive90% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Cowmera Games
Windows
Capture and upgrade planets, outsmart your enemies, and conquer the galaxy! Simple yet addicting, you can play alone or outsmart your friends in this 2D top-down space RTS. Completely free, no monetization, just fun!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.6%, RTS 20.7%, Space 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #52 Jellystar Empires: When Space Bunnies Attack!!
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rat Wrath Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
An area-control real-time strategy game, filled with auto-battling bunnies bent on destroying the human race! Explore space and uncover hand-painted planets. Research unique upgrades! Kill your friends! -er use diplomacy in multiplayer!
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5%, RTS 14%, Real Time Tactics 9.9%, Space 9.6%
- #53 Kingdom Ascension
68% matchVery Positive84% of 229 reviews2025
Dev: RainRingStudio
Windows
Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, RTS 16%, Grand Strategy 15.2%, Base Building 11%, War 8.6%
- #54 Nexaris: Starweb Dominion
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vivid State
Windows
Lead a living star network in this real-time 3D sci-fi strategy game. Expand from one stellar core, link orbital nodes, secure resources, and launch coordinated assaults as every connection reshapes your economy, defenses, and territorial control.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21%, RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%, Strategy 5.5%
- #55 The Exalted Descendant
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Idania
Windows · Linux
Rebuild a fallen species in this dark sci-fi 4X strategy game. Extract and refine real elements, command drone swarms, and make tough choices as you guide The Exalted Descendant toward resurgence—or extinction—in a procedurally generated galaxy. No diplomacy. No mercy.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Space 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #56 Small Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6%, RTS 17.2%, Colony Sim 10.4%, War 6.7%
- #57 Antimatter
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a 4X strategy game set in a vast, living, and fully simulated galaxy of immense scale and depth. Become anything from a humble spaceship captain to a galactic emperor, and everything in between.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Base Building 7.8%
- #58 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!
Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Colony Sim 16.7%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #59 Fertile Crescent
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gold_iron_and_salt
Windows · Linux
A real-time grand strategy game set in the Bronze Age. Lead one of 29 ancient civilizations from a single settler to an empire. Found cities, work the land, research new technologies, advance your culture, and wage war. Will your civilization outlive the age that made it?
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5%, RTS 17.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Base Building 4.8%