- #1 NABERON
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NABERON Studio
Windows
Explore an unknown galaxy, colonize planets, and build an interstellar empire. In NABERON, a real-time space strategy game, you lead fleets and ground armies to war in space and on planet surfaces — alone or with your friends. Inspired by a legendary '90s Hungarian classic.
Why similar: 4X 22.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.8%, Colony Sim 14.4%, RTS 13%, Base Building 7.4%
- #2 Star Trek: Infinite
96% 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 21.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4%, Space Sim 11.6%, RTS 10.6%, Science 10%
- #3 Galactum Meridian
96% 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 26.5% ★, Space Sim 17.5%, Science 11.6%, Grand Strategy 11%, Space 8.6%
- #4 Structura
95% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Binary Station Studio
Windows · Linux
Structura is a rather unique sci-fi real-time strategy set in space. Its a hybrid of rts and fps, with emphasis on combat and survival. Build your economy for war, modify the unit by adding components, explore, expand, and survive the savage waves of enemy attacks.
Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Space Sim 17.7%, Grand Strategy 17%, RTS 14.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #5 NULLSPACE
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaigan Games
Windows
Experience epic space battles in NULLSPACE, a story driven real-time strategy set in a retrofuturistic universe. Command massive fleets across the battlefield or jump in and take direct control of individual squadrons. Lead your forces to victory in visceral space combat.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 15.5%, 4X 14.8% ★, Space Sim 12.2%, Science 11.8%, RTS 11.7%
- #6 Star Zeal 4x
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Akuu Digital Entertainment
Windows
Star Zeal 4x is an open world space based strategy and rpg hybrid with elements from the 4x genre and survival mechanics sprinkled on top of it. Highly emergent gameplay within an open world persistent galaxy is the core purpose and idea of the game.
Why similar: 4X 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.7%, Grand Strategy 15.9%, Space Sim 14.7%, RTS 11.9%
- #7 VoidCraft
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hanamori Labs, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A real-time space strategy MMO where your colony keeps working, your fleets keep moving, and the galaxy remembers every choice. Travel in real time, watch every battle resolve, raid and ally across one living galaxy that resets every 6 months. Free to play. No pay-to-win, ever.
Why similar: 4X 18.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Space Sim 16.1%, RTS 13.1%, Economy 5.9%
- #8 IMPACT
92% matchMixed56% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: Hochschule Darmstadt
Windows
IMPACT is an immersive sci-fi game set on the Moon. Build and manage a lunar base, generating valuable scientific data along the way. This data is used by the European Space Agency to train a real AI that will eventually land on the Moon.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Space Sim 19.1%, Science 14.6%, Isometric 9.1%, Base Building 8%
- #9 Reshaping Mars
91% matchVery Positive84% of 834 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, Grand Strategy 14.5%, RTS 14.2%, Base Building 10.6%
- #10 Stellar Reach
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Stelleas
Windows
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 15%, RTS 10.3%, Science 9.6%, Space 8.3%
- #11 Astral 4X
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Encelade Interactive
Windows
A deep-space 4X simulation. Explore a procedurally generated universe, colonize worlds, build a realistic economy, and lead your civilization toward galactic domination. Brave ecological and economic crises, face famines, wars, and disasters, and ensure your survival!
Why similar: 4X 22.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, RTS 13.5%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Space 8.1%
- #12 Solar Wave
89% 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 24.7% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, RTS 13.7%, Space 9.1%, Economy 7.7%
- #13 Hollow Stars
89% 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 28.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, RTS 15%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.5%
- #14 Stationbreak
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken SpaceshipPub: Slug Disco
Windows · Linux
You are on the run. Build stations in hostile systems, gather what resources you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Your ships are slowly failing, but the Swarm is relentless, hungry, and on your heels. Can you survive long enough to secure a future for humanity?
Why similar: Space Sim 21.9%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 14.2%, RTS 9.5%, Space 8.8%
- #15 Wayfallen
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wayfarer
Windows
A galaxy with its own economy, its own wars, and no reason to wait for you. Trade, mine, fight, and salvage a living - alone on the rim, or at the head of an empire the great powers can't ignore. A single-player space sandbox that never stops moving.
Why similar: 4X 20.4% ★, Space Sim 19.1%, RTS 12.2%, Space 9.3%, Economy 7.6%
- #16 Beyond Astra
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Colony Sim 10.2%, RTS 9.9%, Base Building 8.5%
- #17 Empires Edge
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Mega Lo Mania. Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, 4X 15.6% ★, RTS 14.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Isometric 9.6%
- #18 Near Sol
85% 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 28% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6%, RTS 16%, Space 8%, Management 6.8%
- #19 Final Vanguard
84% 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 22.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Space Sim 16%, RTS 12.5%, Economy 7.8%
- #20 Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
84% matchVery Positive93% of 16,354 reviews2012
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 19.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.5%, Space Sim 15.3%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #21 Old Stars
83% 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 30% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5%, Space Sim 11.7%, Space 9%, Strategy 7.6%
- #22 Ascendance
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Torchdrive
Windows
Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7%, RTS 14.1%, Space 7.6%, Economy 7.3%
- #23 X4: Foundations
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 30,300 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 95.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Why similar: 4X 20.6% ★, Space Sim 16.7%, Grand Strategy 13.9%, Economy 8.4%, Space 8.1%
- #24 New Space Age
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NT7 Studio
Windows
A turn-based grand strategy about the exploration of the Solar System. Use technologies — from existing prototypes to near-future engineering concepts. Build a space industry and become the leader of a new era.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, 4X 12.6% ★, Science 12.5%, Space Sim 11.8%, Grand Strategy 9.2%
- #25 Possible One: Lunar Industries
80% matchMixed67% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Space Sim 20.1%, Science 12.9%, Economy 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%
- #26 Pirate Plight
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, RTS 15.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 9%
- #27 Powerplay
78% matchPositive86% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Isometric 7.3%
- #28 Stellar Sovereigns
79% matchMixed65% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Imagined Reality
Windows
Indie 4X space strategy game with TB empire management and RTS combat set in a 3D star cluster. Build an interstellar empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, develop your colonies establish trade routes and construct fleets from a range of retrofittable capital & escort class vessels.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Space Sim 19.1%, Grand Strategy 18.6%, RTS 11.6%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #29 Luna Meridian
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Field Noise Co.
Windows · Mac
Luna Meridian is a near-future narrative lunar colony game. A card-based drafted crew runs a 5-phase mission on the Moon's surface. Build mission critical infrastructure, manage resources, respond to hazards, follow and shape their stories and make decisions that determine if the colony survives.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Space Sim 22.4%, Science 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Isometric 9.5%
- #30 Kron Wars
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alien Bulb
Windows
A persistent space MMO that runs in your browser. No download. No installation. Open a tab and you are in the Frontier. Trade, mine and fight across 2 universes and 12,000 sectors, in an economy that players build. And one mechanic that no other MMO has: war rewrites the map.
Why similar: 4X 20.6% ★, Space Sim 18%, Grand Strategy 15.2%, Economy 9.2%, Space 8%
- #31 Antropico: Colonies
77% 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 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Economy 7.6%
- #32 Starfall Protocol
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Space Sim 23.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Open World 7.6%
- #33 Splinter Colony
76% 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 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 25.7%, Grand Strategy 23.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Exploration 5.1%
- #34 Spaceman's Luck
76% 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 25% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9%, Space 15.7%, Strategy 7%, Space Sim 6.3%
- #35 Morancairn: The Silent Wake
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aether Codex
Windows
Single-player space strategy about the last ship of a vanished civilization: built to copy itself, no longer able to. Turn dead systems into mines, refineries, and shipyards. Design fleets, command the fights, lose ships, never the factory. Find out what silenced the galaxy.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.3%, RTS 21%, Space 12.6%, Exploration 8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #36 Distant Worlds 2
74% 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 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8%, Space 10.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #37 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!
Why similar: 4X 19% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%
- #38 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
73% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.8%, Space Sim 20.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.5%
- #39 Space Empires II
75% matchMixed58% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 8.9%
- #40 Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Auroch Digital
Windows
Lead your space agency in The Search for Life in this authentic strategy simulation game. Investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Manage base building, rocket designing, launches, and mission planning to Mars and beyond, leading the way in the future of space exploration.
Why similar: 4X 20.6% ★, Science 15.9%, Space Sim 15.5%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Space 8.1%
- #41 TON Wars
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Basalt Interactive OÜ
Windows
Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, RTS 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 9.8%, Grand Strategy 8.9%
- #42 Norland
71% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Grand Strategy 16.7%, RTS 11.1%, Base Building 9.6%
- #43 Oreship Stellar Frontier
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tischkanten_Flavor
Windows · Linux
Start with a small mining ship and build an interplanetary space enterprise. Mine resources, refine goods, automate trade routes, expand your fleet, and take direct control of your freighter as you explore the Solar System.
Why similar: 4X 22.3% ★, Space Sim 18.8%, Economy 12.1%, Space 10.8%, Management 9.8%
- #44 Signals
73% matchMixed61% of 33 reviews2021
Dev: MKDB Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Signals is a casual planet hopper strategy game. Explore systems, harvest resources and repair alien devices. You’ll need to strategically work with the market to maximize your income while covering the cost of your operation in order to follow strange signals and discover what waits at the source.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, RTS 16.4%, Economy 13.5%, Isometric 11.5%, Space 9.5%
- #45 Order: The New Dawn
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Space Sim 23.2%, 4X 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Management 6.4%
- #46 Manor Lords
69% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.3%, Grand Strategy 16.2%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 9.2%
- #47 VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NeuroCore Game Design
Windows
VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH is a sci-fi colony-building strategy game. Lead 50 survivors on Elyra, build a thriving colony, develop its economy and research, return to the stars, and search for the lost path back to Earth.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 9.6%, Space 7.4%
- #48 Spaceflight Factory
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Space Sim 15.4%, 4X 12.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 8.5%
- #49 Station Commander
71% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Ben Marks Game Studios
Windows
Station Commander is an economy strategy game that has you take control of a futuristic space station. Your goal is to build ships, gather resources, and trade with neighboring planets to upgrade your station and ships. Upgrading your station gives you access to better ships and ship abilities.
Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, Space Sim 17.4%, RTS 10.7%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%
- #50 Existence: The Outer Reach
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cozy Orchards
Windows
Existence is a strategy game on a massive scale. Lead your expanding empire, explore the galaxy, and master simultaneous space and planetary battles. Engage in solo play or team up with friends for intense PvP and co-op action.
Why similar: 4X 20.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.5%, Space Sim 13.8%, RTS 11.8%, Management 8.6%
- #51 Galactic Conflict
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Sinpros Software & GamingPub: Sinpros
Windows
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 30.9% ★, Space Sim 21.4%, RTS 17.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.4%
- #52 Starithm
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Orithm
Windows
Become the dominant star-fairing-civilization throughout the procedurally generated star systems. The player must establish/pursue: (1) Ideology; (2) Population; (3) Military assets; (4) 4x dominance (5) Technologies; (6) Artificial Evolution; (7) Cyber attacks; (8) Peace or war.
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7%, RTS 16.2%, Isometric 10.4%, Strategy 5.6%
- #53 Periphery Online
68% matchMixed71% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Aleksandr Nagaev
Windows
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.
Why similar: RTS 19.8%, 4X 19.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, Space 10.6%, Colony Sim 9.5%
- #54 Moonport
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HiHowYaDurin
Windows · Mac
Moonport is a side-scrolling, real time strategy, space colony simulation with roguelike elements. You play as a brave space explorer who aspires to colonize the moons of Saturn. How many moons can you conquer?
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Space Sim 15.6%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 11.6%
- #55 Riftborne
66% matchVery Positive91% of 117 reviews2026
Dev: Pitio Productions
Windows · Linux
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9%, Space Sim 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Economy 7.8%
- #56 New Stars
67% 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 25.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Space Sim 16.1%, Space 8.3%, Procedural Generation 7.6%
- #57 Starship Colony
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Space Sim 18.7%, Base Building 14%, Management 8%, Space 6.8%
- #58 Hexroads
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ivan Konorkin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a small kingdom by day and survive the night. Hexroads is a fantasy city-builder RTS where you capture towns, grow your economy, command defenders, cast spells, and choose new rewards each dawn.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.4%, 4X 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 11%, RTS 10.9%
- #59 Exo Exploits
67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Flying Hound Studio
Windows
Build, manage, and exploit your way to intergalactic dominance in this retro-futuristic factory sim. Extract resources, construct factories, build spaceships, and establish trade routes in a neon-drenched galaxy where profit is king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, RTS 16.4%, Science 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8.7%
- #60 Against the Storm
65% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, Grand Strategy 16.5%, RTS 11.5%, Base Building 9.5%