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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, 4X.

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Take command in this 4X-lite strategy game with fast-paced tactical combat and missile warfare. Build your economy, deploy land, sea, and air units, expand borders, advance technology, and navigate deceitful diplomacy. In a world of collapsing nuclear powers, can you lead your nation to victory?

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2026
Developer: Active Endeavour Games
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2023
    Dev: GoldenGod Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Take planets and assemble your fleet. The conquest of space is now, navigate through asteroid fields and hide in nebulas to outsmart your opponents. Experience the challenge of ion storms disrupting your ship's sensors and become the ultimate space fleet commander.

    Why similar: 4X 25.2%, Wargame 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Military 6.8%

  2. #2 Tracktopia
    96% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: GalaDev
    Windows

    Tracktopia is a strategy game with city-building elements, where your city moves on tracks and serves as a super powerful unit. Expand it to boost production, advance technologies, and create smaller units to ultimately defeat the enemy nation!

    Why similar: 4X 26%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%, Economy 9.1%, War 8%

  3. #3 Ascendant Realms
    96% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
    Dev: Soaring Pals
    Windows · Linux

    In Ascendant Realms you lead a nation in a struggle for glory. Cozy setting meets tactical thinking from classic turn based strategies, but twists it with compact gameplay. Develop your city, research new technologies, fight other leaders - or just create your own story in the sandbox.

    Why similar: 4X 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Economy 10.3%, Wargame 9.6%

  4. #4 Timeline
    95% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2022
    Dev: Taueon
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Timeline is a turn-based strategy game where you can play through the human history from stone age to modern times. In the game you command wide range of units, make them collect resources and build buildings, towns and cities, explore the map and meet other players controlled by AI.

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    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Zeuta Caffe
    Windows

    Take on the campaign and lead one of 5 factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the enemies.

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  6. #6 Uncivilized
    94% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Jamorian 5
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    A short-form empire building strategy game. Explore the planet and grow your colony, while attempting to negotiate with the many characterful rival factions. Make friends, break allegiances, or just drop nukes on them.

    Why similar: 4X 30.5%, Diplomacy 21.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%, Turn-Based Combat 7.1%

  7. #7 Commander: World War II
    93% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2023
    Dev: GoldenGod Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Commander: World War II is a turn-based tactical game where you lead either the Allies or the Axis to victory. Deploy infantry, tanks, planes, and naval units, capture locations, use the terrain, and counter specialized units in intense battles. Design your own maps and dominate the battlefield.

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    92% matchPositive80% of 41 reviews2020
    Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
    Windows

    The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.

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    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Quasar Games FactoryPub: BackGRID Responsive Technologies S.L.
    Windows

    Master a world of massive turn-based strategy. As an Alchemist, hatch powerful dragons, discover devastating spells, and manage your empire in a persistent world shared by hundreds of players. Will you bring peace through science or rule over the ashes? The throne awaits.

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  10. #10 Clay Soldiers
    91% matchMixed55% of 44 reviews2023
    Dev: ArchDawn
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The war rages on, choose to side with the Mercenaries, the Undead, the Angels, and more! Play through the single-player campaign, unifying the factions. Fight against other players and AI in the battleground's mode! Or strive for a conquest that takes you through the ages in war mode.

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  11. #11 Napoleon 1813
    89% match3 user reviews67% of 3 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.

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  12. #12 Base Wars
    90% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2021
    Dev: Everlasting Games
    Windows · Linux

    Base Wars takes the tactical nuance and big picture strategy of Real Time Strategy games and brings it to a Turn Based format. Research new technologies, build an army, expand your territory, and crush the opponent in this simple yet expansive strategy environment!

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  13. #13 Angola '86
    89% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 reviews2024
    Dev: Every Single Soldier
    Windows

    The first strategy game to capture the essence of the entire South African Border war, from Omugulugwombashe to UNTAG (Aug'66 - Mar'90)

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    88% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2025
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    Windows

    Historically accurate strategy game where you act as a government contractor researching, developing, and manufacturing weapons and technology for your clients. You choose the parts for each product, but be aware that cheap or wrong political choices may affect your success rate!

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  15. #15 Banality Wars Carridin
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Andrew Zuo
    Windows

    Discover the secrets of Project Carridin in this deep tactical turn based strategy game inspired by Advanced Wars Days Of Ruin.

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    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: aevew
    Windows

    "Humankind in a Nutshell" is a compelling 4X strategy game with slot mechanics. Starting in the Ancient era, players manage their tribe's needs, fend off barbarians, and advance through tech to build a thriving nation. Construct diverse facilities for strategic superiority and aim for victory.

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    86% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: Obsidiagon
    Windows

    A medieval themed turn-based strategy/tactical game where you will build a kingdom, lead armies to the war, fight tactical battles and conquer enemy cities. Choose your main leader character from the 7 different available factions and start building your kingdom.

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    Windows

    CM Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today.

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    84% matchNo user reviews2032
    Dev: RedPain
    Windows

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    84% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2020
    Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
    Windows

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  21. #21 Terrol
    83% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    Dev: KS Studio
    Windows

    The Little World is a strategy-based tactical game featuring random campaigns, story maps, custom game maps, and custom character creation, with support for multiplayer battles and cooperation.

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    81% matchMixed67% of 3,746 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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    Windows

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    Why similar: 4X 28.2%, Wargame 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Military 6.7%

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    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.

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    79% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2025
    Dev: Mediawork
    Windows

    Various upgrades such as ship reinforcement, retention effects, and module installation, which are growth elements of the spacecraft. Adds more fun to the game with easy and simple strategies that anyone can enjoy Star Titans: War of the Galaxy is a light 4X march sci-fi strategy , tactics game.

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    80% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Windows · Mac

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    78% matchMixed69% of 35 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    77% matchNo user reviews
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    76% matchNo user reviews
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    77% matchVery Positive88% of 255 reviews2014
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  38. #38 Fantasy General II
    74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,900 reviews2019
    Dev: Owned by GravityPub: Slitherine Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    The fantasy wargaming classic is back! Lead powerful heroes and mighty armies into battle in this critically acclaimed turn-based strategy milestone. Level up and train your units and guide them through a gripping story campaign to decide the fate of a world on the brink of destruction.

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    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Plotrick
    Windows

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    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NetEase Games
    Windows

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    72% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
    Dev: Hcenter GamePub: 30 Game Studio
    Windows

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    71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,346 reviews2025
    Dev: AMPLITUDE StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    72% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
    Dev: 丁近恒
    Windows

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    73% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    71% matchVery Positive82% of 6,135 reviews2022
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    69% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
    Dev: Utium Games
    Windows

    Ever War is a turn-based strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. This game combines empire-building, resource management and large-scale tactical turn-based battles.

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  47. #47 Desert Armor
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: LizardScript
    Windows

    Desert Armor is a turn-based strategy wargame. Move your armored vehicles across the arid landscape of the Gulf War and engage enemy vehicles over thousands of meters in battles against a friend, artificial intelligence, or yourself.

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    70% matchVery Positive94% of 5,740 reviews2020
    Dev: Midjiwan AB
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    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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  49. #49 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
    71% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
    Dev: Aserisoft
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    70% matchNo user reviews2026
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    69% matchNo user reviews
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    67% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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  60. #60 Terra Invicta
    64% matchVery Positive81% of 9,023 reviews2026
    Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 51.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

    Why similar: 4X 24.1%, Diplomacy 16.7%, Economy 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, War 8.8%

Based on tag similarity + player behavior
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