
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
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Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.

Tachyon Wars
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.

Near Sol
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)
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 31.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Space 7.3%
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 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Strategy 5.7%, Space 5.6%
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: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.1%, Wargame 14.1%, Economy 4.8%
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 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 10.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Wargame 6.9%
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 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Wargame 11.1%, Capitalism 7.3%
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 25.6% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Wargame 10.5%, War 5.7%
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 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23% ★, Wargame 13.5%, Economy 7.1%, Space 6.7%
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: 4X 28.3% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, Wargame 14.3%, Space 7.5%, Management 5.6%
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 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23% ★, Wargame 14.2%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Economy 7.7%
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 33.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Wargame 12.1%, Strategy 9.3%
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 30% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, Wargame 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Capitalism 8.2%
Command vast fleets in epic space battles, master a turn-based galactic campaign, and unite a pirate rebellion to find the legendary Red Pearl and stand against the tyrannical Z-Army. They can't take the stars from us!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.1% ★, 4X 26.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Wargame 12.4%, Strategy 5.7%
Lead a living star network in this real-time 3D sci-fi strategy game. Expand from one stellar core, link orbital nodes, secure resources, and launch coordinated assaults as every connection reshapes your economy, defenses, and territorial control.
Why similar: 4X 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Wargame 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 6.1%
Base of War is a next generation 4x RTS game.
Why similar: 4X 28.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, Wargame 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Strategy 5.6%
This is a classic historical simulation + real-time strategy game, where you will go back to the era of the Three Kingdoms and play as various renowned sovereigns.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Wargame 18.6%, Real Time Tactics 17%, Strategy 5.3%
"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 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Wargame 10.7%, Space 7%, Strategy 6.1%
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 28% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Wargame 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 13%, Strategy 5.6%
A real-time 4X where each faction plays like a different game. Rule a Gothic empire that runs on faith, unmake the galaxy world by world, or forge a warhost from salvage. Up to 10,000 procedurally generated star systems. No diplomacy. Only war.
Why similar: 4X 41.9% ★, Grand Strategy 29.3% ★, Strategy 9.1%, Space 7.1%, Economy 4.4%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 42.1% ★, Grand Strategy 29% ★, Strategy 10.5%, Space 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.7%
In a post-apocalyptic world submerged by the sea, the wake of the enemy is apparent at every turn. From turning the tides of naval warfare to dominating the skies in break-neck aerial combat, every decision you make will change the outcome of the battle.
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Wargame 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.1%, War 5.4%
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 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, Wargame 14.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Economy 7.4%
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 24.9% ★, Wargame 23.8%, Grand Strategy 18.2% ★, Space 8.1%, Strategy 7%
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 34.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, Wargame 17.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Real Time Tactics 5.6%
Trade, Build, Spy, Negotiate, and Battle for total control of the galaxy's riches. Become the backbone of galactic commerce in a grand strategy universe ripe with opportunity for exploitation and conquest.
Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Economy 9.9%, Capitalism 9.1%, Management 5.9%
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: 4X 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Wargame 13.6%, Economy 5.6%, Strategy 5.3%
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!
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Wargame 13.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Capitalism 10.2%
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 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24% ★, Wargame 15.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 6.2%
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 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Space 8.8%
Lead a medieval realm in this 4X grand strategy game with pausable real-time. Establish vital infrastructure to supply your capital and sustain your armies. Design custom military templates, manage production estates, and conquer rival kingdoms via strategic sieges and raids.
Why similar: 4X 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Wargame 12.4%, Capitalism 9.2%, Economy 7.9%
Lead Hannibal's epic campaign to crush the Roman Republic. Command individually rendered legions, manage complex supply lines, master realistic real-time tactics, and outplay challenging enemies in the Second Punic War to claim your place in history.
Why similar: 4X 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, Wargame 16.4%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Strategy 5.3%
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 45.9% ★, Grand Strategy 32.4% ★, Strategy 10%, Space 6.4%, Sci-fi 5.3%
Technology, Magic, and Immortals collide in a universe torn apart by endless aggression. War is total; even the laws of existence are erased. Lead your fleets to invade worlds across the stars. Your goal is simple: Expand. Conquer. Destroy. Supports LAN & Online Multiplayer (PvP & Co-op).
Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, Wargame 24.2%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Top-Down 4.6%
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 38.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Economy 7.3%, Casual 6.5%
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 38% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Strategy 7.4%, Space 7.4%, Sci-fi 5.9%
Shape your civilization’s destiny in this epic turn-based strategy game. Manage resources, advance technology, and conquer through the ages. Every choice transforms history—will your empire rise to greatness or fall to obscurity?
Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1% ★, Wargame 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Capitalism 10.7%
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 39.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, Wargame 15%, Strategy 10.8%, War 4.4%
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 35.8% ★, Grand Strategy 27.1% ★, Wargame 17.5%, Strategy 7.4%, War 4.7%
Build your own criminal empire and dominate the city’s underworld. Command your soldiers, capture territories, expand your businesses, and make choices that will shape your future.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 21.9%, Wargame 21.4%, Strategy 9%, War 6.3%
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 38.8% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Top-Down 5.4%, Space 5.4%
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 47.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Space 13.3%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 5.6%
The new 5th edition of the hyperrealistic global simulator game where you play as the Head of State or as the opposition or the president of a large multinational company, with a completely redesigned interface, a new ultra-detailed map, complete control of companies and new scenarios for 2024.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, Wargame 17.6%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Capitalism 12%, Strategy 6.6%
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: 4X 34.8% ★, Grand Strategy 30.4% ★, Wargame 14.5%, Strategy 7.5%, War 4.3%
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 34.2% ★, Grand Strategy 31.1% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Economy 7.6%, Space 5.3%
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 24.8% ★, Wargame 16%, Economy 8.2%, Strategy 6.1%
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 43.6% ★, Grand Strategy 30.4% ★, Strategy 7.7%, Space 7.3%, Sci-fi 4.3%
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 40.7% ★, Grand Strategy 30% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Economy 6%, War 5.3%
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: 4X 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, Wargame 14.5%, Space 6.8%, Strategy 5.7%
For gamers who love Master of Orion and Homeworld but want something new and different. For gamers with a small time budget. A lightweight fresh take on the space 4x game genre about the war between Terra and Mars.
Why similar: 4X 38.1% ★, Wargame 18.9%, Real Time Tactics 18.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Top-Down 6.2%
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 32% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Wargame 15.9%, Economy 8.8%, Strategy 5.9%
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Economy 7.4%, War 5.1%
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 28.9% ★, 4X 15.1% ★, Capitalism 11.2%, Economy 10.8%, Wargame 8.1%
Command your space fleet, mine asteroids, and conquer colonies in this immersive real-time strategy game. Build powerful space stations, upgrade your ships through combat experience, and manage vital resources as you expand your dynasty across a star system.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Space 7.4%, Strategy 6.5%
Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5% ★, Wargame 15.3%, Capitalism 11%, Economy 9.9%
A multiplayer space RTS blending in depth mechanics with fast paced skirmish matches. control and manage an empire together with your team in large-scale physic-based online battles, and expand your army mit modded factions
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Wargame 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Strategy 5.7%
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 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, Wargame 13.8%, Economy 8.4%, Real Time Tactics 7.2%
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 45% ★, Grand Strategy 32.8% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Casual 5.4%, Sci-fi 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 31.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24% ★, Real Time Tactics 11.1%, Wargame 9.2%, Space 5.7%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.1%, Economy 8.6%, Management 8.5%