- #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 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Space Sim 7.4%, War 5.8%
- #2 War For Galaxy: New Era
96% matchMixed41% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: UAB Kinelija
Windows · Mac
Become the ruler of the entire Galaxy: colonize planets, extract resources, build defenses and fight in planetary battles!
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Wargame 11.3%, Space Sim 9.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #3 Elemental Empire
96% 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 36.7% ★, Grand Strategy 34.5%, PvE 7.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #4 New Stars
95% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Space Sim 10%, Wargame 9.2%, War 6.7%
- #5 Ascendant Dawn
94% 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 28.8% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, Wargame 11.6%, Alternate History 9.5%, Strategy 5.7%
- #6 战国宏图
94% 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 37.8% ★, Grand Strategy 31.2%, Wargame 20.4%, Strategy 10%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #7 Imperium of the Stars
93% 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 40.7% ★, Grand Strategy 32.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Space 6%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #8 Tachyon Wars
92% 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 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Space 7.2%, Wargame 6.4%
- #9 Cosmist
91% 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 40.6% ★, Grand Strategy 32.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Resource Management 6.5%, Space 5.9%
- #10 Wartra
91% 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: Grand Strategy 35.1%, 4X 33.2% ★, Wargame 10.6%, Strategy 9.2%, War 6.7%
- #11 Fire and Dark Stars
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 没工作工作室
Windows
"Fire and Dark Stars" is a real-time 4X strategy game. You can grow your base, build your fleet, search for enemies, and destroy them. You need to carefully manage your resources, set up and protect your supply lines, so that your fleet does not run out of ammo and fuel.
Why similar: 4X 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4%, Wargame 8.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Space 6.3%
- #12 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
90% 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 38.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, Wargame 12%, Strategy 11.3%, War 4.7%
- #13 CIVIREVIVAL
89% 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 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Wargame 19.4%, Space Sim 11.5%, Strategy 7.5%
- #14 Rivers of Chaos
88% 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: Grand Strategy 32.5%, 4X 32% ★, Wargame 13.1%, Space 7.4%, Strategy 6.7%
- #15 Kingdom's Life
87% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, Wargame 12.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 6.5%
- #16 Afterworld
86% 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 35.1% ★, Grand Strategy 34.3%, Wargame 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #17 Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: Estuego Games
Windows
A turn-based strategy game based off the Napoleonic Wars! Lead, attack, buy, and communicate. Learn how to play difficult 4x grand strategy games by starting with simple strategy. *Disclaimer, this game is made by a teenager for a school project*
Why similar: 4X 31.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27.5%, Wargame 15.6%, Alternate History 11%, Strategy 6.2%
- #18 Stellar Monarch 2
84% 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 46.4% ★, Grand Strategy 37.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Space 5.7%
- #19 Distant Worlds 2
84% 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 43.9% ★, Grand Strategy 34.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Space 6.9%, Combat 2.5%
- #20 Horizon
85% matchMixed59% of 477 reviews2014
Dev: L3O Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Grand Strategy 30.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Wargame 9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #21 Trumpets of War
82% 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 37.4% ★, Grand Strategy 31.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Wargame 11.1%, War 4.2%
- #22 Power & Revolution 2021 Edition
83% 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 29.8% ★, Grand Strategy 26.4%, Wargame 12.8%, Sandbox 10%, Alternate History 7.1%
- #23 Mercatoria
81% 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 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 29%, Wargame 12.6%, Strategy 8.5%, War 5%
- #24 Sovereign Stars
82% 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 34.8% ★, Grand Strategy 30.4%, Wargame 14.5%, Strategy 7.4%, War 4.3%
- #25 Napoleon 1813
81% 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 40.8% ★, Grand Strategy 33.4%, Strategy 12%, War 5.9%, Top-Down 3.1%
- #26 Mandate of Galactic Empires
80% 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 43.3% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Space Sim 14.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Space 5.7%
- #27 Dynastic Era
79% 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 36.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.9%, Wargame 12%, Strategy 10.5%, Alternate History 4.2%
- #28 Global Supremacy
79% 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 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, Wargame 13%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #29 Terrol
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Max Krupp
Windows
Strategically place outposts & settlements to capture resources. Upgrade you empire and destroy all rivals!
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29.6%, Wargame 9.1%, War 8.9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #30 Global Protocol: New World Order
77% 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 34.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5%, Wargame 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 9.7%
- #31 Politon: Prologue
78% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: Pinq Games
Windows · Mac
"Politon: Prologue" is the free prologue version of "Politon". This prologue includes a tutorial, game mechanics, and the prologue of the main story inside. Only Single-player modes are available.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 27.6%, Wargame 13.3%, Alternate History 10%, Strategy 6.4%
- #32 Power & Revolution 2022 Edition
77% matchMixed59% of 969 reviews2022
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
New edition of the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Major developments: the war in the Ukraine and all of its consequences, conspiracy theories, fake news, interference by secret services, animal welfare and climate objectives.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5%, Wargame 13.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #33 万象战略
76% 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 40.8% ★, Grand Strategy 33.6%, Strategy 8.6%, Alternate History 5.7%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #34 文明征程
75% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: 广州小鑫互娱科技有限公司
Windows
《文明征程》是一款以历史文明为背景的策略游戏,让玩家扮演一位伟大的文明开拓者,带领自己的国家蓬勃发展。在游戏中,你将面临各种挑战和决策,需要智慧和策略来发展经济、建设城市、训练军队,同时也要与其他玩家进行外交交流和战争对抗。
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1%, Wargame 16.6%, War 7%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #35 Spaceman's Luck
75% 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: Grand Strategy 32.6%, 4X 31.7% ★, Space 11%, Strategy 10.2%, Space Sim 4.5%
- #36 Star Trek: Infinite
74% matchMixed42% of 3,529 reviews2023
Dev: Nimble Giant EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 31.9% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5%, Space Sim 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Space 5.9%
- #37 Samurai Conqueror
72% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Miura Production
Windows
Unify Japanese History! A Timeline Strategy Game Where History Itself Becomes the Battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 30.4%, Wargame 11.7%, Alternate History 9.2%, War 7.8%
- #38 Kinjea
73% 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 34.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29.1%, Alternate History 10.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Wargame 8.2%
- #39 Solar Wave
72% 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 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 31.7%, Wargame 13.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Space 7%
- #40 Lords of Kingdoms
76% matchMixed43% of 89 reviews2018
Dev: ThankGame.com
Windows
Lords of Kingdoms is a multiplayer online war game. Turn your small castle into a mighty fortress and become ruler of the greatest realm.
Why similar: 4X 50.7% ★, Wargame 23.5%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Grand Strategy 5.1%
- #41 Stellaris
74% 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 34.2% ★, Grand Strategy 33.4%, Sandbox 11%, Space 8.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #42 Module Warship
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XiuM
Windows
In 方块战舰:Module Warship, you command the fleet and design the ships.This 2D space sandbox rejects pre-set hulls, offering extreme DIY freedom instead. Assemble dozens of functional modules to craft your ultimate warship from scratch, then lead your custom fleet to conquer the unknown depths of space.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.5%, Space Sim 15.2%, Wargame 12.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Sandbox 10%
- #43 三国.群英录
71% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGONJOY Studios
Windows · Mac
点燃你的战魂,投身乱世掀起惊天风暴!化身铁血诸侯,号令三国名将,统领无敌雄师,在真实还原的三国版图上纵横沙场,血战四方!
Why similar: 4X 29.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.7%, Wargame 12.1%, Alternate History 10.1%, War 7.2%
- #44 Mind Prison: The Last War
70% 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 44.7% ★, Grand Strategy 37.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Combat 2.6%, 2D 1.7%
- #45 Nova Historia
71% 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 45.2% ★, Grand Strategy 31.2%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 4.8%, Exploration 3.9%
- #46 Galactic Inheritors
73% 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 49.6% ★, Grand Strategy 26.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Space 12%
- #47 Fertile Crescent
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gold_iron_and_salt
Windows · Linux
A real-time grand strategy game set in the Bronze Age. Lead one of 29 ancient civilizations from a single settler to an empire. Found cities, work the land, research new technologies, advance your culture, and wage war. Will your civilization outlive the age that made it?
Why similar: 4X 36% ★, Grand Strategy 30.6%, Wargame 12.2%, Strategy 10.2%, Exploration 4.7%
- #48 Clash of Cultures
69% 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 41% ★, Grand Strategy 34.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 4.8%, War 4.5%
- #49 King
71% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: ZhangGuanRu
Windows
This is a game that combines strategy, tactics and role-playing. You travel to a magical world and become a king. You will manage your own country and conquer the world through diplomacy and war.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 44.3%, Wargame 20.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Alternate History 10.7%, War 9.8%
- #50 Inflection Point
69% 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 37.4% ★, Grand Strategy 31.6%, Wargame 15.3%, Strategy 10.9%, Top-Down 3.1%
- #51 Final Vanguard
68% 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 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 26.4%, Space Sim 12.3%, Wargame 11.4%, Strategy 5.5%
- #52 Small Kingdoms Prologue
69% 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 33% ★, Grand Strategy 31.2%, Wargame 13.7%, Strategy 7.2%, War 5.8%
- #53 Distant Worlds: Universe
70% 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 51.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Space 9%, Sandbox 3.1%
- #54 Galactum Meridian
66% 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 41% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Space Sim 15.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Space 7.3%
- #55 Gate Builders
67% 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 34.2% ★, Grand Strategy 30.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Space 6%
- #56 Conqueror's Stage
66% 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 34.9%, 4X 34.9% ★, Wargame 14.3%, War 5.5%, Strategy 4.5%
- #57 Splinter Colony
67% 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 44.5% ★, Grand Strategy 33.9%, Strategy 14%, Exploration 5.4%, 2D 1.6%
- #58 Hollow Stars
67% 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 40.5% ★, Grand Strategy 33.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Space 4.9%, PvE 3.5%
- #59 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
66% 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 37.4% ★, Grand Strategy 32.3%, Alternate History 14.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #60 World Order: Global Power
65% 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: 4X 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 35%, Wargame 11.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Sandbox 5.8%