- #1 Old Stars
97% 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 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4%, Space 9.3%, War 8.5%, Space Sim 8.3%
- #2 Tachyon Wars
96% 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 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7%, Space 11.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #3 Conqueror's Stage
96% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: LeftLane InteractivePub: Lunexa Solutions
Windows
The grand strategy you can actually finish. A full 4X empire to build, expand, and conquer, with all the depth and none of the grind, in a campaign you complete in a single evening. Fight across five ages on a fresh world every time, or design your own, all the way to total conquest.
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Wargame 10%, War 7%
- #4 Sovereign Stars
95% 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 25.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Wargame 10.5%, War 5.7%
- #5 Stellar Reach
94% 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 28.2% ★, Grand Strategy 15.5%, Space 9.7%, War 6.7%, Military 6.1%
- #6 Stellar Sovereigns
94% 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 23% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5%, Space Sim 14%, Real Time Tactics 7.6%, Space 7.4%
- #7 Red Pearl Pirates
93% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Eoin Tolster
Windows · Linux
Command vast fleets in epic space battles, master a turn-based galactic campaign, and unite a pirate rebellion to find the legendary Red Pearl and stand against the tyrannical Z-Army. They can't take the stars from us!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23%, 4X 21.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Military 9%, Wargame 8.3%
- #8 Near Sol
92% 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 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Space 9.1%, Strategy 4.8%
- #9 CIVIREVIVAL
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 筋斗云
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 20.2% ★, Wargame 15.4%, Grand Strategy 14.8%, Space Sim 12.7%, Space 11.7%
- #10 Orbit Economica
91% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Phoenix SmithPub: Parallel Games
Windows
Trade, Build, Spy, Negotiate, and Battle for total control of the galaxy's riches. Become the backbone of galactic commerce in a grand strategy universe ripe with opportunity for exploitation and conquest.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1%, Trading 12.4%, Procedural Generation 7%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #11 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 26.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Space 11%, Wargame 10%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #12 Spaceman's Luck
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gideon Kennedy
Windows
A space 4X game. Colonize planets and annihilate enemy races in an intergalactic war for living space. Designed to be fun, fast, and easy to play.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22%, Space 17.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Procedural Generation 5.8%
- #13 Lord of Rigel
89% matchMixed69% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: Rhombus Studios
Windows
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?
Why similar: 4X 20.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4%, Space Sim 10.8%, War 8.3%, Military 8.3%
- #14 Pixel Imperium
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tuki Byte
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play a grand strategy game in any world you want, on land or in space. Import real maps, play a procedurely generated world, or hand-draw your own fictional universe. Then lead your faction to domination by managing its economy, diplomacy, and military.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Space Sim 10%, Wargame 9.2%, War 6.7%
- #15 Final Vanguard
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Heavy Pepper Inc.
Windows
Rule a living interstellar empire in this real-time 4X grand strategy. Make decisions that shape civilian lives, manage fragile supply lines, lead military conquests, and decide whether your civilization thrives or collapses under its own expansion.
Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Space Sim 13.2%, Wargame 8.7%, Space 8%
- #16 Gate Builders
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pyralis Studio
Windows · Linux
Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Space 9.4%, Trading 7.9%, Sci-fi 6.2%
- #17 Star Conqueror 舰队指挥官
86% 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 19.7% ★, Space Sim 14.1%, Wargame 12.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Trading 11.1%
- #18 Global Supremacy
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glory MediaPub: SJ co.
Windows
A vast, real-time geopolitical simulation where 196 nations live and breathe at once. Economy, finance, monetary policy, trade, energy, military, diplomacy, nuclear strategy, politics, society — every lever that moves a nation is in your hands. The clock never stops — until you stop it.
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, Wargame 10.3%, War 7.7%, Military 7.5%
- #19 Trumpets of War
84% 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 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%, Wargame 8.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #20 Imperium of the Stars
84% 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 36% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4%, Space 10.8%, Strategy 7.2%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #21 Wartra
83% 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 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6%, War 10.3%, Wargame 8.9%, Military 7.1%
- #22 Nexus Legacy
81% matchMixed66% of 365 reviews2026
Dev: Nexus Legacy Team
Windows
Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Wargame 10%, War 9.7%, Space 8.8%
- #23 Mandate of Galactic Empires
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oddbit
Windows · Linux
A logistics-focused turn-based space 4X. Govern through Administrative Nodes, connect systems with wormhole infrastructure, assign population to production and research, and expand only as far as your empire can support.
Why similar: 4X 35.8% ★, Space Sim 16.8%, Grand Strategy 13.1%, Space 9.7%, War 8.5%
- #24 Galactic Ruler
82% matchMixed49% of 121 reviews2022
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4%, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Space Sim 12.9%, Space 8.9%
- #25 Solar Nations 2
81% matchVery Positive85% of 634 reviews2025
Dev: Flomgus Games
Windows
In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!
Why similar: 4X 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4%, Space 9.9%, Wargame 9.5%, War 8.6%
- #26 Commanders Fury
80% 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 28.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.1%, Space 11.9%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #27 Galactum Meridian
79% matchNegative14% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Hedra Games
Windows
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 33% ★, Space Sim 16.9%, Grand Strategy 13.6%, Space 12%, Strategy 8.2%
- #28 Distant Worlds 2
79% 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 37.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8%, Space 11.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Sci-fi 7%
- #29 Descending Empires
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parcyval
Windows
A multiplayer space RTS blending in depth mechanics with fast paced skirmish matches. control and manage an empire together with your team in large-scale physic-based online battles, and expand your army mit modded factions
Why similar: 4X 22.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7%, Space Sim 14.1%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%, Wargame 9.2%
- #30 Stellaris
77% matchVery Positive86% of 197,307 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 145.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Space 14.7%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Strategy 5.2%
- #31 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 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Wargame 11.2%, War 8.5%
- #32 Rivers of Chaos
78% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Bugarug GamesPub: Burgarug Games
Windows
Conquer the galaxy in this cinematic, battle-simulator. Each playthrough offering a completely unique galaxy, over 100 total specialized ships to command, and distinct commanders to lead your people. Pick your favorite faction and lead your forces into a dynamically generated battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4%, Space 13.3%, Wargame 11.4%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #33 VoidCraft
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hanamori Labs, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A real-time space strategy MMO where your colony keeps working, your fleets keep moving, and the galaxy remembers every choice. Travel in real time, watch every battle resolve, raid and ally across one living galaxy that resets every 6 months. Free to play. No pay-to-win, ever.
Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1%, Space Sim 15.3%, Trading 11.9%, Space 6%
- #34 Deep Dark Forest
75% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: pixiangames
Windows
You will have to lead the civilization, develop the economy, enhance the technology, stabilize the people and colonize new galaxies; when encountering unknown civilizations, will you hide yourself or communicate with them in a friendly way? In this "dark forest", every decision will be crucial.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.2%, Space Sim 16.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Wargame 11.4%, Military 8.4%
- #35 Riftborne
74% matchVery Positive91% of 117 reviews2026
Dev: Pitio Productions
Windows · Linux
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 22.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6%, Space Sim 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.1%, Wargame 8.9%
- #36 Interstellar Space: Genesis
76% matchVery Positive84% of 850 reviews2019
Dev: Praxis Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6%, Space 11%, War 7.9%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #37 Cosmist
75% 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 37.8% ★, Grand Strategy 26.5%, Space 11.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #38 Alliance of the Sacred Suns
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KatHawk Studios
Windows · Mac
Alliance of the Sacred Suns is a sci-fi grand-strategy RPG that begins with your coronation as the head of an interstellar Empire, and ends with your demise. Manage feuding noble houses and the schemes of would-be usurpers as you try to revive the glory of an Empire on the brink of collapse.
Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3%, War 10%, Space 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8%
- #39 Antropico: Colonies
73% 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 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4%, Strategy 9%, Space 8.3%, Futuristic 7.2%
- #40 Jellystar Empires: When Space Bunnies Attack!!
73% 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 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4%, Space Sim 13.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, Wargame 10.1%
- #41 Structura
73% 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 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Space Sim 17.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Space 5.4%
- #42 Dynasty Protocol
70% 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 27% ★, Grand Strategy 21%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Space 11.4%, War 9.4%
- #43 AI War 2
72% 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 29.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%, War 8.7%, Military 7.3%
- #44 Clay Soldiers
72% matchMixed57% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: ArchDawn
Windows · Mac · Linux
The war rages on, choose to side with the Mercenaries, the Undead, the Angels, and more! Play through the single-player campaign, unifying the factions. Fight against other players and AI in the battleground's mode! Or strive for a conquest that takes you through the ages in war mode.
Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Wargame 11%, War 10.8%, Military 9%
- #45 NABERON
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NABERON Studio
Windows
Explore an unknown galaxy, colonize planets, and build an interstellar empire. In NABERON, a real-time space strategy game, you lead fleets and ground armies to war in space and on planet surfaces — alone or with your friends. Inspired by a legendary '90s Hungarian classic.
Why similar: 4X 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Space 10.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%, War 7.4%
- #46 X4: Foundations
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 30,300 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 95.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16%, Space Sim 14.9%, Trading 11.5%, Space 10.5%
- #47 MA 2 – President Simulator
69% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Oxiwyle Inc.
Windows
Build nuclear weapon, wage wars, strategize and become the strongest leader
Why similar: 4X 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, Trading 9.6%, Wargame 9.6%, War 8.6%
- #48 Nova: Space Armada
70% matchMixed52% of 273 reviews2024
Dev: STONE3 PTE. LTD.
Windows
An exceptional sci-fi strategy game based on space adventure as its core.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Space Sim 16.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, Wargame 9%, Space 7.5%
- #49 HARD VOID
69% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: jejoxdev
Windows · Linux
HARD VOID is a 4X turn-based space strategy game in a lovecraftian universe. Lead your species across galaxies and multiple dimensions to build an Empire. Design your spaceships, assemble your fleets and fight for supremacy. But beware, unthinkable Eldritch horrors lurk in the vast darkness.
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Space 10.5%, War 9.9%, Military 9.3%
- #50 Antimatter
69% 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 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Trading 10.7%, Space Sim 7.6%
- #51 Galactic Inheritors
71% 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 42.9% ★, Space 21.1%, Grand Strategy 20.1%, Strategy 9%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #52 Carthage: Bellum Punicum
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MindebytePub: Aquila Interactive
Windows
Lead Hannibal's epic campaign to crush the Roman Republic. Command individually rendered legions, manage complex supply lines, master realistic real-time tactics, and outplay challenging enemies in the Second Punic War to claim your place in history.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Wargame 12.1%, War 9.3%
- #53 Small Kingdoms
68% 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 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9%, Wargame 11.5%, War 10.6%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #54 Kron Wars
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alien Bulb
Windows
A persistent space MMO that runs in your browser. No download. No installation. Open a tab and you are in the Frontier. Trade, mine and fight across 2 universes and 12,000 sectors, in an economy that players build. And one mechanic that no other MMO has: war rewrites the map.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17%, Space Sim 15.7%, Trading 13.7%, Space 10.1%
- #55 Solar War
70% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2015
Dev: Snipefish Entertainment
Windows · Linux
A turn-based grand strategy game in space, set in the near future: Defend Earth against an alien invasion from the edge of the Solar System and expand your campaign to push them back to their base.
Why similar: 4X 23.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Space Sim 13.7%, Wargame 10.6%, Space 10.3%
- #56 Imperial Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BaroxxTech
Windows · Linux
Lead a medieval realm in this 4X grand strategy game with pausable real-time. Establish vital infrastructure to supply your capital and sustain your armies. Design custom military templates, manage production estates, and conquer rival kingdoms via strategic sieges and raids.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Wargame 11.7%, Military 7.8%
- #57 Power & Revolution 2021 Edition
67% matchMixed56% of 836 reviews2021
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
A new expansion of the ultra-realistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! New Features for 2021: administration of the EU, Covid vaccinations, Biden's Challenge, political coalitions, diplomatic negotiations, worldwide tax and free-trade agreements.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Wargame 11.4%, Military 7.1%
- #58 Agecraft
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SnakyDevelop
Windows · Mac
Agecraft is a city-builder strategy where you guide a settlement through thousands of years of human history. Manage individual citizens, grow your economy, trade or wage war with other states, and advance from the Stone Age to the Space Age.
Why similar: 4X 26.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Trading 10.2%, War 9.3%, Wargame 7.3%
- #59 Falling Frontier
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stutter Fox StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Conquer a vast procedurally generated star system in Falling Frontier, a sci-fi RTS where intel and logistics are decisive factors. Design ships and raid enemy supply lines, lay minefields and construct recon stations, and ambush enemy forces within asteroid fields and nebulae.
Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Space 11.1%, Military 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #60 Stellar Dynasty
66% 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 32% ★, Space 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Futuristic 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.3%