- #1 Tales From Outer Space
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: William MurphyPub: Ludi Absurdi
Windows · Mac · Linux
The hardest part about interstellar expansion isn't the technical cost, its the people. Exploit ecosystems, manipulate the masses, and conquer the intergalactic market. Growth is mandatory -- ethics are not.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.1%, Diplomacy 21.9% ★, 4X 18% ★, Political Sim 10.8% ★, Strategy 8.2%
- #2 World Order: Global Power
96% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Global Strategy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead any nation in a deep, turn-based grand strategy and political sim. Master the economy, military, diplomacy and society against rival AI you can actually read. Build a democracy or a dictatorship; the game names what you become, and your reign becomes a shareable saga.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9%, 4X 27.4% ★, Political Sim 19.5% ★, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, Strategy 7.6%
- #3 Freewake
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Oakshore Studios
Windows
A team-based strategy and space simulation game where allies build an empire together while competing to control it. Explore, trade, colonize, scheme, and fight tactical battles shaped by stealth, sensors, and deception.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.2%, 4X 25.8% ★, Political Sim 20.6% ★, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Strategy 6.6%
- #4 Mandate 1600: The East
95% 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: Grand Strategy 29.2%, 4X 23.3% ★, Political Sim 18.8% ★, Diplomacy 15.5% ★, Strategy 6.6%
- #5 Dawn Of Imperialism
94% 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 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5%, Political Sim 21.1% ★, Strategy 11.1%, Economy 5.2%
- #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 25.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9%, Diplomacy 20.9% ★, Political Sim 9.8% ★, Economy 7.8%
- #7 Global Protocol: New World Order
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2026
Dev: Dorlion Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command any of 261 real-world countries in this 2026 grand strategy game. Build your economy, lead armies, and navigate deep diplomacy. Features built-in modding support and 12 supported languages. Shape the global order through espionage, nuclear deterrence, and AI-driven geopolitics.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Political Sim 16.3% ★, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Strategy 9.4%
- #8 Empolicy
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StrategyMagic
Windows
Online strategy in a fantasy world with single-player options. Explore the world, expand the borders of your polis, build settlements and produce goods. Immerse yourself in the role of a powerful tycoon of the city-republic, choose your path - magic, diplomacy, espionage or war.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, Diplomacy 26.3% ★, Political Sim 14.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13.4%, Economy 7.3%
- #9 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
91% matchVery Positive86% of 770 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Why similar: 4X 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1%, Diplomacy 20.2% ★, Political Sim 17.4% ★, Strategy 6.3%
- #10 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
91% 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 34.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.8%, Political Sim 16.2% ★, Strategy 12%, Economy 8.5%
- #11 Antropico: Colonies
90% 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: Grand Strategy 32%, 4X 30.3% ★, Political Sim 12.8% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Economy 6%
- #12 Twisted Three Kingdoms
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seasonbean Team
Windows
Amidst this chaotic era, shape your own destiny—whether as a loyal minister, a ruthless warlord, or an independent ruler. Every choice and battle writes your legend. Are you ready to rise from a commoner to claim the realm?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.4%, 4X 20.5% ★, Political Sim 17.4% ★, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Strategy 9.3%
- #13 Three Kingdoms : Alias
88% matchVery Positive80% of 373 reviews2026
Dev: Plotrick
Windows
A world where officers hide their names and abilities. Can you spot Zhuge Liang? A hardcore turn-based strategy simulation for true Three Kingdoms devotees.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1%, 4X 22.1% ★, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Political Sim 18.5% ★, Economy 5.9%
- #14 Uncharted Sectors
89% matchNo user reviews2029
Dev: Luc ToupensePub: N42C
Windows · Linux
A grand strategy game built on a deep economic simulation and orchestrated by an intelligent AI storyteller. Ensure the survival of your domain at the edge of the galaxy: colonize worlds, manage populations, navigate politics, design custom goods, and master dynamic markets.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.3%, Diplomacy 21.9% ★, 4X 18.9% ★, Political Sim 17.1% ★, Economy 8.6%
- #15 MA 2 – President Simulator
86% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Oxiwyle Inc.
Windows
Build nuclear weapon, wage wars, strategize and become the strongest leader
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Diplomacy 21.5% ★, Political Sim 17.9% ★, Economy 6.7%
- #16 World Warfare & Economics
87% matchMixed59% of 688 reviews2023
Dev: Okron Studio
Windows · Mac
Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24%, 4X 23.9% ★, Diplomacy 19.3% ★, Political Sim 19.2% ★, Economy 6.6%
- #17 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 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 29.4%, Diplomacy 25.2% ★, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #18 Geopolaris: Conquer & Dominate
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fenek Games
Windows
Navigate through interactions with competing powers to lead your nation to global domination in this 4X open sandbox geopolitical sim set in post-WW2 alt-history world. You have 251 years at your disposal to conquer and unify the planet or take your nation into space. Can you make it?
Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Diplomacy 22.3% ★, Political Sim 12.3% ★, Strategy 6.9%
- #19 Theo
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Theo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The player is the architect of the world, plays for one of the world forces and achieves its dominance in the world with the help of tools and through indirect influence on countries and key figures. The story-driven game takes place through key historical events that have impacted the modern world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.7%, Political Sim 25.1% ★, Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Strategy 12.3%, Economy 4.8%
- #20 Samhan: Where Korea Began
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CODEMAPO
Windows · Mac
Silla's thousand-year reign is crumbling, and Gyeon Hwon, Gung Ye and Wang Geon rise to claim the peninsula. Command 500+ historical figures across a 3D Korea in this turn-based grand strategy of statecraft, diplomacy and war—and reunite the Three Han.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.2%, Political Sim 19.3% ★, Diplomacy 17% ★, 4X 16.9% ★, Strategy 7.6%
- #21 TREUD
83% 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 35.5%, 4X 17.3% ★, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Economy 10.5%, Strategy 9.7%
- #22 Conqueror's Stage
82% 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: Grand Strategy 32.1%, 4X 31.4% ★, Diplomacy 19.8% ★, Economy 4.8%, Procedural Generation 4.7%
- #23 Money Wars : Modern Ages
82% 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 34.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26.9%, Political Sim 17.2% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Economy 5.3%
- #24 Final Vanguard
81% 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 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Diplomacy 17.5% ★, Political Sim 14.9% ★, Economy 6.9%
- #25 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
80% 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 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 29.9%, Diplomacy 22.3% ★, Strategy 8%, Resource Management 4.5%
- #26 4th Generation Warfare
81% matchMixed56% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: Eversim
Windows
As the leader of a nation, dispatch and control your team of characters all around the world to destabilize your enemies and establish your supremacy. All methods are fair game: hacking, sabotage, political interference, military strikes, corruption, treachery, assassinations, data theft…
Why similar: 4X 26.2% ★, Diplomacy 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.6%, Political Sim 16.2% ★, Strategy 4.9%
- #27 Spirit of Europe - Enlightenment
79% 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 30.7% ★, Political Sim 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 4.4%
- #28 Nova Historia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: 4X 41.8% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Procedural Generation 6.3%, Economy 5%
- #29 Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
78% matchMostly Negative37% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: JujubeePub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.7%, Diplomacy 21.9% ★, 4X 14.2% ★, Political Sim 10.9% ★, Economy 9.1%
- #30 Kill Capture Destroy
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lite Nite Game Studios
Windows
Kill Capture Destroy (KCD) is a real-time strategy and combat game that combines the intensity of military vehicle gameplay with the depth of strategy and simulation. It gives you control not just over the battlefield, but over the politics and government decisions driving the wars.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Diplomacy 19.4% ★, Political Sim 17.8% ★, Strategy 6.1%
- #31 NWO - Anarchy Collapsed
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KNK DEVELOP
Windows · Mac
A grand strategy game of world domination. Conquer and unite 195 countries before an unknown enemy arrives. Build your economy, military, and influence. Choose war or diplomacy, control resources, and shape the future—only one ruler will rise to the top. Will it be you?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.8%, 4X 29.3% ★, Diplomacy 24.4% ★, Economy 7.6%, Strategy 6.7%
- #32 Afterworld
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a tribe of survivors, rediscover ancient technology, manage wasteland settlements and wage wars of conquest and political struggle in Afterworld, an original post-apocalyptic survival grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio, the creators of Crusader Kings III and Hearts of Iron IV.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 34.5%, Political Sim 14.8% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Procedural Generation 2.6%
- #33 SYNCANITE FOUNDATION
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SYNCANITE GmbHPub: TBD
Windows
Take on the role of a unique oligarch and plan your coup from the shadows to take over the world. Eliminate your rivals by using military force, resource management, and political pressure. Unlock new game mechanics and open a path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Diplomacy 19.3% ★, Political Sim 7.2% ★, Strategy 7.1%
- #34 NationWar:Annals
76% matchMixed68% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Yiming
Windows
This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.
Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Diplomacy 25.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23%, Political Sim 17.9% ★, Strategy 6.2%
- #35 Rogue State Revolution
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 543 reviews2021
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.Pub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24%, Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Political Sim 14.5% ★, Economy 6.5%
- #36 Astronomics Rise of a New Empire
75% matchMixed50% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: JayFiArts
Windows
Astronomics Rise of a New Empire is an easy-to-learn real-time global strategy(4X) game. Control your faction in an intergalactic conflict. Manage your economy, conduct diplomatic negotiations and build a fleet to rule the galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6%, Diplomacy 22.2% ★, Political Sim 16.5% ★, Procedural Generation 4.8%
- #37 Crown Of Hispania
73% matchPositive100% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: Regalis StudioPub: indie.io
Windows
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Diplomacy 20.5% ★, Political Sim 16% ★, Economy 6.1%
- #38 Imperium: Titans of Commerce
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bosphorus Interactive
Windows
Titans of Commerce by Magna Sententia lets you to: design, produce, sell guns, ships and trains! Profit from global tension at the wake of WW1. Exploit governments and bribe officials to get hefty tax cuts. Involve in mafia, manage workers' strikes and maintain profit at all costs!
Why similar: Diplomacy 21.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6%, 4X 21.5% ★, Political Sim 17.1% ★, Economy 7.1%
- #39 Trade Conquest
74% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: GrandPaw Games
Windows
Turn wealth into political power in this modern Grand Strategy game. Build a global economic empire, manipulate governments, and challenge the world's superpowers through Economic supremacy or military Conquest.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25%, Diplomacy 20.9% ★, Political Sim 19.8% ★, 4X 19.2% ★, Economy 7.6%
- #40 Gate Builders
73% 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 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29%, Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Strategy 6.7%, Economy 6.7%
- #41 Imperium of the Stars
73% 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 43.2% ★, Grand Strategy 35.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 4.4%, Economy 4%
- #42 Sid Meier's Civilization VII
72% matchMixed47% of 62,332 reviews2025
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 50.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.1%, 4X 25.1% ★, Diplomacy 22.9% ★, Political Sim 14% ★, Economy 6.8%
- #43 HUMANKIND™ 2
72% 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 36.1% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6%, Diplomacy 18.5% ★, Strategy 12%, Economy 4%
- #44 Machiavelli the Prince
71% 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 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 27.1%, Political Sim 24.1% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Economy 6.6%
- #45 Monstrous Realms
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lockbow Games
Windows · Linux
Monstrous Realms is a Grand Strategy-Tactical RPG Hybrid in a medieval fantasy world. Govern a kingdom, directing heroes and monsters to conquer the continent. Victory is grasped through warfare, research, city development, diplomacy, trade, dungeon delving, crafting, and unit customization.
Why similar: 4X 31.6% ★, Grand Strategy 30.4%, Diplomacy 18.4% ★, Strategy 6.7%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
- #46 Gilded Destiny
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aquila InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9%, Diplomacy 21.5% ★, 4X 19.3% ★, Political Sim 18.3% ★, Economy 7.4%
- #47 Zenith Frontier
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Triton Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zenith Frontier is a simulation-strategy game about the exploration and colonisation of space. Experience visionary strategic gameplay set in an evolving procedural galaxy populated by billions of autonomous citizens and private companies.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.6%, Political Sim 22.3% ★, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 5.9%
- #48 Concert of Power
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Piedmont Games
Windows
Rule a shattered North America where every claim can become a crisis, and every crisis tests the balance of power. Build industry, command trade, forge treaties, isolate rivals, and decide whether to preserve the fragile order or become the power that breaks it.
Why similar: Diplomacy 29.8% ★, Political Sim 27% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Economy 8.8%, Strategy 7.2%
- #49 Global Supremacy
70% 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 32.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.7%, Political Sim 20.3% ★, Strategy 7.4%, Economy 7.3%
- #50 Rimefall
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Vlachia
Windows
Your colony ship has landed on an alien planet — but the environment kills electronics. Salvage the ark, survive the early years, and build a nation as your society regresses to medieval with remnants of modern knowledge. Grand strategy with simulated population and turn-based combat.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.1%, 4X 33.4% ★, Political Sim 19.3% ★, Strategy 6.7%, Economy 5.2%
- #51 Revival: Recolonization
68% matchMixed69% of 428 reviews2024
Dev: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
Why similar: 4X 28.3% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7%, Diplomacy 23.6% ★, Economy 7.7%, Strategy 6%
- #52 Ascendant Dawn
67% 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 31.6% ★, Grand Strategy 31.6%, Political Sim 21.7% ★, Economy 7.8%, Strategy 7.1%
- #53 Ode to War
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Joran Batty
Windows
A civilization MMO: from a single town to a galactic empire. The server ticks once an hour and keeps running while you sleep. You administer towns, not a nation, so each one holds its own stores and anything you need from a neighbor has to be traded for.
Why similar: Diplomacy 32.5% ★, 4X 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 3.8%
- #54 Distant Worlds 2
68% 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 44.3% ★, Grand Strategy 35.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Procedural Generation 4.7%, 3D 1.2%
- #55 Dominium Mundi
69% 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 53.5% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Procedural Generation 6.5%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #56 Dummynation
67% matchVery Positive88% of 3,277 reviews2022
Dev: Alejandro Hernández Ferrero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.8%, Diplomacy 27.3% ★, Political Sim 12.1% ★, Economy 8.7%, Strategy 6.9%
- #57 Realpolitiks
69% matchMixed62% of 1,247 reviews2017
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Become the leader of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination!
Why similar: Diplomacy 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 26.9%, Political Sim 24.5% ★, Strategy 13.9%, Indie 0.2%
- #58 Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
66% 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: Grand Strategy 35%, 4X 34.3% ★, Diplomacy 19.4% ★, Economy 5.7%, Strategy 5.7%
- #59 Power & Revolution 2020 Edition
67% matchMixed62% of 856 reviews2020
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
The new version of Geopolitical Simulator 4, the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and restart the economy, participate in the US elections or engage in lightning wars with new 2020 scenarios.
Why similar: Diplomacy 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 29.3%, Political Sim 23.7% ★, Strategy 8%, Economy 7.7%
- #60 To Victory
67% match1 user reviews50% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Old_Gamer
Windows
This is a single player strategy management game.Base on a randomly generated map.It includes construction, trading, strategy, and management elements . Players need to make decisions to achieve the final victory.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Political Sim 19.5% ★, Diplomacy 15.7% ★, Strategy 7.1%