
A turn-based grand strategy game in space, set in the near future: Defend Earth against an alien invasion from the edge of the Solar System and expand your campaign to push them back to their base.
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A turn-based grand strategy game in space, set in the near future: Defend Earth against an alien invasion from the edge of the Solar System and expand your campaign to push them back to their base.

Lord of Rigel
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?

Heathen Engineering's Terran
Galactic Strategy | Tactics | Action! Found an empire and expand across the stars, command massive fleets in interstellar conflicts and pilot powerful warships as you battle for victory in Heathen Engineering’s Terran.
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?
Why similar: 4X 19% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Real-Time with Pause 17.9% ★, Space Sim 11.6%, Space 8.8%
Galactic Strategy | Tactics | Action! Found an empire and expand across the stars, command massive fleets in interstellar conflicts and pilot powerful warships as you battle for victory in Heathen Engineering’s Terran.
Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.1%, Space 17.7%, Strategy 13.1%, Indie 5.1%
Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, Real-Time with Pause 26.3% ★, Space 15.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Sci-fi 4.1%
Unify Japanese History! A Timeline Strategy Game Where History Itself Becomes the Battlefield.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4%, 4X 21.1% ★, Real-Time with Pause 18.3% ★, Wargame 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%
A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Space 11.7%, Strategy 6.8%
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 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1%, Space 11.3%, Space Sim 10%, Strategy 8.7%
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 31.7% ★, Space Sim 17.2%, Grand Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Space 9.9%
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 34.7% ★, Grand Strategy 29%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Space 10%, Strategy 8.3%
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 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%, Strategy 9.2%
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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Space 11.1%, Strategy 6.3%
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: Grand Strategy 24.3%, 4X 24.3% ★, Space 11.3%, Wargame 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%
Return to the Three Kingdoms period. On the grand strategic tactical battlefield, use terrain for defense setup and resource allocation to shift the battle situation. Control the war via hexagonal grid movement and tactical ability activation, and unify the realm.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.5%, Real-Time with Pause 22.4% ★, 4X 20.7% ★, Wargame 9.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.5%
Shattered Spheres is a turn-based 2D space 4X strategy game inspired by the classics of the genre. Explore a living galaxy, build your empire, and crush your rivals through military conquest or diplomatic cunning — without the micromanagement bloat of modern 4X games.
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Space 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%
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 24.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3%, Wargame 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%
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 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, Space Sim 14.4%, Real-Time with Pause 12.2% ★, Wargame 11.2%
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, Space 16.8%, Grand Strategy 15.9%, Real-Time with Pause 13.1% ★, Strategy 10.4%
Age of Undead is a multi-genre game (turn-based, RTS, FPS) that allows you to face the frightful Zombie Apocalypse with 3 unique factions: the Army, the Infected, and the Survivors. Make strategic choices in the Campaign, then go into battle and fight to survive!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.3% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, War 9.1%, Wargame 9%
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 39.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Space 16.2%, Real-Time with Pause 10.9% ★, Strategy 8.2%
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.
Why similar: 4X 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%
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 31% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Wargame 12.7%, Strategy 9.4%
Command modular fleets in a top-down tactics game where every shot is aimed by hand. Build warships socket by socket, flick projectiles across drifting battlefields, and carry damage, veterans, and hard choices through a 60-mission campaign.
Why similar: Spaceships 30.9% ★, Wargame 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Space 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%
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 24.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Space Sim 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Space 8.9%
Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7%, Space Sim 14.4%, Wargame 14.1%, Space 10.1%
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 20.5% ★, Real-Time with Pause 19.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3%, Space Sim 14.2%, Space 9.8%
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 28.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4%, Wargame 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%
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: Wargame 20.9%, 4X 20.3% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6%, Space Sim 14.8%, Space 13.7%
A turn-based strategy war chess game. You will play a commander in the Roman period, and command the generals and troops to complete the specified mission objectives and occupy important strongholds in the level. Rome, Samnite, Epirus, Carthage. Different choices will open different histories!
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22%, Wargame 17%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%
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 23.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Space Sim 13.7%, Wargame 10.6%, Space 10.3%
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 26.2%, 4X 24.5% ★, Space 20.1%, Real-Time with Pause 9.3% ★, Strategy 8.2%
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 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%
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 26.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Wargame 13.6%, Space 12.9%, Economy 6.5%
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.
Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 10.5%
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Spaceships 19.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Space 7.9%
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.
Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Wargame 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 35% ★, Grand Strategy 28.6%, Space 13%, Strategy 9.7%, Real-Time with Pause 8.5% ★
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 30.3%, 4X 27.7% ★, Wargame 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Strategy 8%
Rebuild the remnants of humanity and conquer the Milky Way in this grand strategy game. Colonize systems and corner markets, or lead your fleets to victory in real-time battles. Reclaim Earth, or terraform new worlds.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.1%, Wargame 20.2%, Spaceships 16.7% ★, Space 13.1%, War 7.6%
A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.
Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4%, Wargame 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%
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 31% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Space 14.5%, Strategy 10%, Wargame 7.2%
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 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24%, Wargame 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Strategy 7%
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 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.4%, Strategy 7%
Command grand fleets and wage strategic wars on an interstellar scale in this new take on galactic Grand Strategy. Transform nature to suit the needs of Empire and surge forward! Will you guide aspiring interstellar nations to glory, or rekindle the flames of a long lost Empire?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.1%, 4X 13.4% ★, Space 11.3%, War 7.3%
Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19%, Space 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%
In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.2%, 4X 21.8% ★, Real-Time with Pause 16.8% ★, Wargame 12.3%, Space 11%
Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. No micromanagement, grand scale, fast paced, audiences, assassins, imperial court, disloyal admirals.
Why similar: 4X 31.6% ★, Grand Strategy 31%, Space 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Strategy 5.9%
"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 25% ★, Grand Strategy 23%, Wargame 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%
Beyond is a sci-fi turn-based strategy game set in a generated solar system that orbits a distant star every round. Play as one of five alien species as you race to collect resources, build your military, develop new tech, expand the area you control, and drive opposing factions from the system.
Why similar: 4X 24.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Wargame 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Space 10.2%
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 39.1% ★, Space 22.3%, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Sci-fi 4.4%
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 47.9% ★, Space 21%, Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Indie 3.6%
Play a grand strategy game in any world you want, on land or in space. Import real maps, play a procedurely generated world, or hand-draw your own fictional universe. Then lead your faction to domination by managing its economy, diplomacy, and military.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29%, 4X 28.1% ★, Wargame 12.6%, Space Sim 11.6%, Strategy 6.7%
Dominate five rival regions in a turn-based 4X. Save the world from Nihlex's evil alien forces in a race to conquer Mars' oil reserves. Research, boost your economy with stock trades, build units, fight tactical battles on a hex tile map. Are you strong enough to lead a united humanity to victory?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.5%, 4X 26.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, Strategy 7.7%
Fight the ‘Stalingrad on the Yangze’, as was sometimes called the Battle for Shanghai in 1937. Play as the Chinese willing to reclaim the whole city or as the Imperial Japanese forces in their counter-attack.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.2%, Wargame 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%
Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Real-Time with Pause 18.1% ★, Space Sim 14.9%, Space 14.8%, Strategy 12.1%
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Real-Time with Pause 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Space 12.6%, Strategy 7.2%
Strategically place outposts & settlements to capture resources. Upgrade you empire and destroy all rivals!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.3%, 4X 25.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10%, Wargame 9.9%
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Grand Strategy 13.9%, Wargame 10.6%, Strategy 8.9%
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 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1%, Wargame 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%, Economy 6%
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 36.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Strategy 8.8%, War 4.2%
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Why similar: Spaceships 22.8% ★, 4X 21.1% ★, Space Sim 16.4%, Grand Strategy 15.8%, Space 13.1%
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 26.5%, Wargame 16.1%, Space 7.1%, Economy 6.5%