- #1 Dominium Mundi
97% 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 53.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Historical 6.9%
- #2 Distant Worlds 2
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,552 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 45.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Procedural Generation 6.4%
- #3 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
96% 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 40.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Economy 6.7%
- #4 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
95% 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: 4X 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5% ★, Historical 13.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 10.9%
- #5 Rise of Hegemony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lion Loewe
Windows
Take control of a country from its very first beginnings and lead it successfully to become a global hegemon. In a complex simulation of economy, diplomacy and warfare the path you chose to triumph is up to you.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 6.7%, Economy 6.5%
- #6 Antropico: Colonies
94% 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 37.4% ★, Grand Strategy 26.8% ★, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 4.9%
- #7 万象战略
93% 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 44.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Strategy 10%, Hex Grid 7.3% ★, Resource Management 5.8%
- #8 Money Wars : Modern Ages
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EarthQuick
Windows · Mac · Linux
🌍 Conquer the world with economy! 52 real countries. Offline strategy sim.
Why similar: 4X 40.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 4.2%
- #9 Critias Empire
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Historical 9.3%, Procedural Generation 6.4%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #10 Imperium of the Stars
91% 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 49% ★, Grand Strategy 27.1% ★, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 5.5%, Economy 3%
- #11 Clash of Cultures
90% 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 44.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Economy 4.9%, Simulation 4%
- #12 Napoleon 1813
89% 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 45.1% ★, Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Historical 6.9%, Economy 3.9%
- #13 Mercatoria
89% 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 37.8% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 9.9%, Historical 7.8%
- #14 Imperialist
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
From a veteran 4X Strategy developer comes a new deep strategy game of logistics, empire, and control. Develop the New World, industrialise your capital, manage your growing Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals to become history's first Superpower. Can you exploit the New World to control the Old?
Why similar: 4X 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Historical 10.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7%
- #15 Solar Wave
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 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 38.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #16 Hollow Stars
87% 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 44% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 13.6%, Management 3%
- #17 BOC: Birth of Cultures
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, Hex Grid 8.7% ★, Historical 8.6%, Strategy 7.6%
- #18 Splinter Colony
85% 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 48.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 4.8%, Exploration 3.7%
- #19 Imperial Ambitions
84% matchVery Positive82% of 100 reviews2026
Dev: aoiti
Windows · Mac
Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Historical 10.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Hex Grid 7% ★
- #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 23.3% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #21 The Ancients
83% matchMixed54% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: GorillaSoftWorksPub: Camlann Games
Windows
The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, Historical 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Hex Grid 8.1% ★
- #22 One Planet
82% 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 41.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29.3% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Procedural Generation 6.3%, Economy 5.1%
- #23 Ascendant Dawn
81% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Nikous Studio
Windows
Ascendant Dawn is a grand strategy game where you lead a nomadic tribe in a brutal bronze age world. Work your way up from a small clan to a great empire by founding cities and conquering your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, Historical 11%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 7.1%
- #24 HUMANKIND™
82% matchMixed69% of 28,603 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 41.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Historical 11.4%, Hex Grid 4.4% ★
- #25 Gate Builders
81% 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 38.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.2%, Economy 5.3%
- #26 Near Sol
80% 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 43.5% ★, Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9%, Management 4%
- #27 Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sovereign Era Games
Windows · Mac
Command a civilization from antiquity to the modern era in a historical 4X focused on grand strategy over micro-management. Direct armies, research technologies, run spy networks, and shape your empire through deep, intuitive macro-mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.5% ★, Historical 11.7%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #28 Cosmist
79% 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 50.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 7.8%, Exploration 2.6%
- #29 Conqueror's Stage
77% matchPositive100% of 15 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 39.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27.5% ★, Historical 10.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Strategy 5.4%
- #30 Stellar Monarch 2
78% 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 55.4% ★, Grand Strategy 30.9% ★, Strategy 13.7%
- #31 Old Stars
78% 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 46.5% ★, Grand Strategy 27.1% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Exploration 2%
- #32 Elemental Empire
76% 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 49.6% ★, Grand Strategy 32.2% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #33 Rogue Proxy
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kibernetinis Šakotis
Windows
Command a hacker crew in a gripping 4X roguelite. Plunge into mechanical networks, employing real cyber-skulduggery tactics. Roll the dice for new daring operatives, seize control of systems and exfiltrate resources. Time's a-tickin'! Coppers are tailing you! Regroup, then hit the wires again!
Why similar: 4X 33.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Historical 12%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.1%
- #34 Distant Worlds: Universe
77% 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 59.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #35 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
《万民长歌:三国》是一款单机 · 历史 · 战争策略游戏。在无缝连续、真实还原的3D沙盘地图上,玩家可以自选视角、以自己的意志重演三国。来体验真实的三国策略——真实的沙盘,真实的二十四节气,真实的百姓,真实的战争!
Why similar: 4X 42.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.3% ★, Historical 12%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 6.3%
- #36 Dynastic Era
75% 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 44% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8% ★, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Historical 5.5%
- #37 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
74% matchVery Positive88% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, Historical 10%, Hex Grid 8.3% ★, Strategy 6.6%
- #38 Monarchs at Play
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGames
Windows · Mac
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 41.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Hex Grid 7.7% ★, Historical 6%
- #39 Mind Prison: The Last War
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Rotten Sewer Productions
Windows
4X Lite Strategy Game where You are a war AI rebooting after 800 years of silence. Your orders are still active. The enemy is gone—so is everyone else. Conquer the galaxy, uncover corrupted memories, and face the horrifying truth: no one told you to stop.
Why similar: 4X 52.5% ★, Grand Strategy 30.2% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #40 Inflection Point
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Giannakopoulos
Windows
A multiplayer 4X strategy game of globe-spanning 19th-century battle. Break through enemy lines, encircle their armies, and cut off their supply. Colonize resource-rich islands and blockade those of your opponents. Games are quick and packed with dramatic, high-stakes combat.
Why similar: 4X 43.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 8.4%, Hex Grid 5.9% ★
- #41 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
72% matchMixed69% of 2,291 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 43.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Historical 10.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #42 Lands of Rumour
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 38.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Strategy 9%, Hex Grid 6.8% ★, Historical 6.1%
- #43 Machiavelli the Prince
70% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Holistic Design, Inc.Pub: Holistic Design, inc.
Windows · Linux
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Why similar: 4X 38.3% ★, Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, Historical 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.4%
- #44 Children of the Galaxy
73% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Filip Dusek, Empty Keys
Windows
Children of the Galaxy is a grand scale 4x turn-based strategy game with a turn-based combat and tactical elements. You can explore the galaxy, colonize planets and build huge armies of starships to fight in epic space battles.
Why similar: 4X 61.9% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 18.7%
- #45 Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation
71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Why Not Games
Windows
Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a postcolonial 4X game where you play a student doing a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj. It eXplores space left uncharted by the genre and proposes alternatives to established systems.
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, Historical 11.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Education 7.8%
- #46 EOL: End Of Line
72% 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 49% ★, Grand Strategy 28.3% ★, Strategy 16%, Hex Grid 6.2% ★, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #47 Rogue Hex
69% matchVery Positive87% of 277 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: 4X 39.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Historical 8.1%, Hex Grid 8% ★, Strategy 7.5%
- #48 Oriental Empires
71% matchVery Positive80% of 2,998 reviews2017
Dev: Shining Pixel StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
Why similar: 4X 43.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Historical 14.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 9.8%
- #49 Trumpets of War
70% 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 45.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Historical 7.9%, Resource Management 3%
- #50 DeckTerra
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Medieval 4X Deckbuilder. Lead a kingdom as you build your deck to conquer the map and expand your rule. Develop your technology through the middle ages to improve your army of knights and keep your peasants happy. Develop your trade, religion, science, and military to conquer the continent.
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Hex Grid 10.1% ★, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Strategy 7.2%
- #51 Small Kingdoms Prologue
68% 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 39% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.9%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #52 Feudalism
70% 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 69.3% ★, Strategy 30.7%
- #53 Dwarf Guild Mania
67% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: QuarkbluePub: Kennedy Publishing House
Windows · Mac
Lead a campaign of glory as you mine, trade, spy, & sabotage your way to victory. Your guild of dwarves must vanquish its rivals and conquer the realm in this turn-based economic strategy game. Lead your capitalist dwarves across new lands in search of gems and gold. For the Guild!
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2% ★, Historical 8.5%, Strategy 8%, Hex Grid 7.6% ★
- #54 Imperiums: Greek Wars
68% matchVery Positive86% of 547 reviews2020
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!
Why similar: 4X 35.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Historical 10.2%, Procedural Generation 6.9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #55 Space Empires I
69% 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 43.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Economy 5.8%, Management 5.6%
- #56 Spaceman's Luck
67% 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 38.3% ★, Grand Strategy 27.3% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Procedural Generation 7.7%, Simulation 4.4%
- #57 Spirit of Europe - Enlightenment
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Predict Edumedia
Windows
Guide the Spirit of Europe in a turn-based historical grand strategy game. Expand across 23 cities, unlock great thinkers, inspire their works, and shape the Enlightenment through ideas, reform, and institutions.
Why similar: 4X 39.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Education 10.2%, Historical 7.8%
- #58 Restitutor: Empire Restored
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Linux
Restitutor is a historical incremental grand strategy game focused on statecraft, diplomacy, and calculated warfare. Strengthen your economy, research new technologies, form alliances, and outmaneuver rivals through high-level strategic decisions without micromanagement.
Why similar: 4X 33.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, Historical 11.6%, Hex Grid 9.5% ★, Simulation 4.8%
- #59 Great Powers
66% matchMixed68% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: Flame-Dragons
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Hex Grid 9.2% ★, Strategy 9%, Historical 8.3%
- #60 Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,673 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 46% ★, Grand Strategy 28% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Historical 10.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%