- #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 53.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Historical 6.9%
- #2 Distant Worlds 2
96% 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 45.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 10.4%, 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 40.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Economy 6.6%
- #4 战国宏图
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 夜渔工作室
Windows
Warring States: Grand Ambitions is a grand strategy game set in ancient China. Rule as a feudal lord during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras. Shape your empire's fate with branching focus trees, city building, tech trees, and historical choices.
Why similar: 4X 43.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Historical 10.2%, Simulation 9.1%
- #5 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
94% 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 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 28.6%, Historical 13.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 10.8%
- #6 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 32.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.7%, Historical 6.4%
- #7 Antropico: Colonies
93% 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 37.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 11%, Economy 4.8%
- #8 万象战略
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeleePsycho
Windows
Myriad Strategies: a turn-based strategy game. Rule a nation amid wars, famine, plague, and refugees. Manage cities, talent, economy. The world shifts. Win by holding cities, stabilizing lives, solving refugee crises, building food systems & spy networks, or surviving the chaos.
Why similar: 4X 44.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Hex Grid 7.3% ★, Resource Management 5.6%
- #9 Money Wars : Modern Ages
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EarthQuick
Windows · Mac · Linux
A country simulator built on strategy: 160 real nations, deep production chains, a live world market, diplomacy, intelligence and war. Win the world with economy, not armies.
Why similar: 4X 40.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 4.1%
- #10 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 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Historical 9.3%, Procedural Generation 6.4%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #11 Imperium of the Stars
90% 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 49.2% ★, Grand Strategy 27.2%, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 5.3%, Economy 3%
- #12 HUMANKIND™ 2
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows
Build a civilization that spans the ages in this historical turn-based strategy game. Combine evolving cultures, raise cities, command armies and expand your empire as a changing climate reshapes the world and your path through history.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Historical 11%, Resource Management 3.5%
- #13 Clash of Cultures
89% 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 44.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Strategy 14%, Economy 4.8%, Simulation 4%
- #14 Napoleon 1813
88% 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 45.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26%, Strategy 14.3%, Historical 6.8%, Economy 3.8%
- #15 Mercatoria
87% match4 user reviews40% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: DKS
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 37.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Historical 7.9%
- #16 Imperialist
86% 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 36% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Historical 11%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7%
- #17 Hollow Stars
86% 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 44.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 2.9%
- #18 Solar Wave
84% 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 38.5% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 6.9%, Procedural Generation 6.8%
- #19 Kinjea
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tenikkan Games
Windows · Linux
Lead your people through all of human history on a spherical planet. Wage war and forge alliances as you guide your nation in this 4X grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Historical 6.5%
- #20 BOC: Birth of Cultures
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
The 4X where you shape 50,000 years of human history across planet-scale worlds.
Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Hex Grid 8.7% ★, Historical 8.6%, Strategy 7.6%
- #21 Splinter Colony
83% 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 16.3%, Simulation 4.7%, Exploration 3.7%
- #22 Imperial Ambitions
82% matchVery Positive81% of 108 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 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7%, Historical 10.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Hex Grid 7% ★
- #23 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
82% 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 46.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Resource Management 3.6%
- #24 The Ancients
81% 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 19.7%, Historical 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Hex Grid 8.1% ★
- #25 HUMANKIND™
81% matchMixed69% of 28,852 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 11.5%, Hex Grid 4.4% ★
- #26 Ascendant Dawn
79% 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 36.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.7%, Historical 11%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 7.1%
- #27 One Planet
80% 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 41.8% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Procedural Generation 6.3%, Economy 5%
- #28 Gate Builders
79% 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 38.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 6.1%, Economy 5.2%
- #29 Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
78% 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 39.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.5%, Historical 11.7%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #30 Near Sol
78% 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 43.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.9%, Management 4%
- #31 Stellar Monarch 2
77% 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 55.5% ★, Grand Strategy 30.9%, Strategy 13.6%
- #32 Cosmist
77% 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 51% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 7.6%, Exploration 2.6%
- #33 Conqueror's Stage
75% 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 39.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.6%, Historical 10.2%, Procedural Generation 8%, Strategy 5.4%
- #34 Old Stars
76% 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 46.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Exploration 2%
- #35 Dawn Of Imperialism
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nitrid Game
Windows
Guide your state through a fictional industrial world where economic power becomes global influence. Use merchants, companies, politics, intelligence, and trade networks to control the flow of resources and decisions. Conquest is an option; true power lies in controlling the economy.
Why similar: 4X 41.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Historical 6.4%, Economy 4.7%
- #36 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 49.7% ★, Grand Strategy 32.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #37 Dynastic Era
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 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 44.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Historical 5.6%
- #38 Rogue Proxy
74% 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 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Historical 12.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8%
- #39 Distant Worlds: Universe
74% 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 59.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #40 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
73% 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 42.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4%, Historical 12%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 6.3%
- #41 Monarchs at Play
73% 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 41.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Hex Grid 7.7% ★, Historical 6%
- #42 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
72% matchVery Positive88% of 1,681 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 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 32.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4%, Historical 10.1%, Hex Grid 8.3% ★, Strategy 6.5%
- #43 Inflection Point
72% 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 43.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Historical 8.4%, Hex Grid 5.9% ★
- #44 Mind Prison: The Last War
71% 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 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #45 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
70% matchMixed69% of 2,301 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 26%, Historical 11%, Strategy 9.4%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #46 Mandate 1600: The East
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RM GAME
Windows
At a turning point in history, decide the future of a nation. Mandate 1600: The East is a global historical grand strategy game. Govern lands and dynasty, secure your bloodline, grow through trade, and prevail in war. Rewrite history.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.6%, Historical 12%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 7.7%
- #47 Miniciv
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yyyz26
Windows
Miniciv is an accessible hex‑grid 4X turn‑based strategy. Start with one city and settler, explore and build your budding civilization into a mighty empire. Procedural maps and flexible playtime bring unique runs, pairing easy entry with deep political, trade, faith and industrial mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 53.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 5.1%, Minimalist 1.2%
- #48 Children of the Galaxy
71% 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 62.1% ★, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 18.5%
- #49 Lands of Rumour
69% 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 38.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Strategy 9%, Hex Grid 6.8% ★, Historical 6.1%
- #50 Machiavelli the Prince
68% 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 38.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, Historical 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #51 Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation
69% 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 17.8%, Historical 11.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Education 7.8%
- #52 Rogue Hex
67% matchVery Positive87% of 284 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 39.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8%, Historical 8.1%, Hex Grid 8% ★, Strategy 7.5%
- #53 EOL: End Of Line
70% 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 28.4%, Strategy 15.9%, Hex Grid 6.2% ★, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #54 Oriental Empires
69% matchVery Positive81% of 3,010 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 44.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4%, Historical 14%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 9.6%
- #55 Zaman
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Naleka Studio
Windows
Zaman is a fast, card-driven 4X strategy game where every card shapes your empire. Found cities, research technologies, command your leader on the battlefield and unleash game-changing abilities in short, high-stakes matches.
Why similar: 4X 42% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1%, Hex Grid 9.1% ★, Historical 9.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #56 Trumpets of War
67% 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 45.8% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7%, Strategy 14.4%, Historical 7.9%, Resource Management 2.9%
- #57 TREUD
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nikolai Karulin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your society through 12,000 years – from the Stone Age to the present day – in a grand strategy game with a living simulation where real historical processes are recreated, but nothing is predetermined. Build, conquer, exploit. Crisis is part of history: keep power or side with the revolution
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.7%, 4X 22.9% ★, Historical 13.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Economy 9%
- #58 Restitutor: Empire Restored
65% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · 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 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24.7%, Historical 11.7%, Hex Grid 9.5% ★, Simulation 4.8%
- #59 Small Kingdoms Prologue
66% 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 39.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #60 Imperiums: Greek Wars
66% matchVery Positive85% of 548 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 35.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Historical 10.2%, Procedural Generation 6.8%, Strategy 6.5%