- #1 Pollute & Conquer
97% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: GOSHA GAMES
Windows
An economic war over territories and resources is raging on the planet. Will you destroy the planet and all life on it in the chaos of pollution... or prevent the end of the world by developing new technologies? Play with friends using "Steam Remote" or play against smart AI!
Why similar: Hex Grid 23.6% ★, 4X 17.5% ★, Board Game 10.7%, Education 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%
- #2 Beat the Heat
96% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2022
Dev: Blazing Soft
Windows
Manage a living ecosystem built from hex‑based tiles. Explore, collect, prevent, and adapt each turn as your decisions ripple across different interconnected biomes. Keeping the whole system in balance is the key to survival.
Why similar: Hex Grid 33.4% ★, Nature 10%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%
- #3 Folk Emerging
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Curious Dynamics
Windows
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Hex Grid 16.7% ★, Board Game 10.3%, Nature 9.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #4 Beard of Stone
95% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Dwarfaparte Games
Windows
4x turn based strategy mixed with real time (turn stealing) bidding mechanics. Complete single player or competitive online matches with up to 4 players in a single sitting, while telling the history of a fantasy world from the creation of its continents to the twilight of its gods.
Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Hex Grid 25.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Board Game 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #5 Monarchs at Play
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGames
Windows
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Hex Grid 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Board Game 10.1%, Strategy 6.2%
- #6 Pandora: First Contact
93% matchMixed63% of 642 reviews2014
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 48.5% ★, Hex Grid 19.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Multiplayer 4%
- #7 Nova Historia
93% 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 41.1% ★, Hex Grid 11.9% ★, Education 9.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #8 Underfoot Queens
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ElVillano
Windows · Linux
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 30.4% ★, Hex Grid 21% ★, Nature 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #9 Ultakia
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Simon Alber
Windows
Ultakia is a turn-based space 4X strategy game with distinctive resource management. Explore exotic systems and acquire powerful technologies. Exploit your planets, trade with other races and destroy those who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, Hex Grid 31.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Management 7.2%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #10 Fire Isle
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SneezeDev
Windows
Set the world ablaze in Fire Isle! Choose your fire —Happy, Sad, Angry, or Grumpy— and vs. your friends online to see who can scorch the most of a tropical paradise. Keep your flames alive as rising costs, rainstorms, and other fires try to snuff you out. Can you conquer the Isle?
Why similar: Hex Grid 37.3% ★, 4X 15.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Multiplayer 8%
- #11 扩张吧王国 Expand the Kingdom
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: 奥特斯盗
Windows
"Expand the Kingdom" is a strategy game based on construction and expansion. In the game, you need to expand and plan land, acquire resources to maintain the internal balance of the kingdom, and survive and defeat all opponents in the competition between kingdoms.
Why similar: Hex Grid 51.1% ★, 4X 22.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Strategy 7.8%, Management 6%
- #12 Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
89% 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 24.3% ★, Science 19.1%, Hex Grid 17.6% ★, Education 12.4%, Management 7.5%
- #13 Burned Land
88% matchMixed56% of 102 reviews2021
Dev: Koya Game
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Hex Grid 21.7% ★, Board Game 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Management 4.7%
- #14 Seasons of Solitude
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ninjarithm
Windows
You are exiled. Seasons of Solitude is a turn-based strategy and resource management game where every move shapes a fragile landscape. Seasons shift, the land reacts to your choices, and balance is your way home in a hand-painted world inspired by Estonian myth.
Why similar: Hex Grid 35.4% ★, Board Game 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Nature 9.1%
- #15 Tree Kingdoms
87% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Biscuit Factory Games
Windows
Tiny Kingdoms, big strategy! Lead your Treelings, fend off rivals, and outwit the winter chill in this turn- based 4x adventure!
Why similar: Hex Grid 28.4% ★, Board Game 20.2%, 4X 16.7% ★, Nature 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%
- #16 The Ancients
86% matchMixed56% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: GorillaSoftWorksPub: Camlann Games
Windows
The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.
Why similar: 4X 27.3% ★, Hex Grid 25.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Nature 8.4%, Management 8%
- #17 From Village to Empire
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: Hex Grid 31% ★, 4X 30.9% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Management 8.3%
- #18 EOL: End Of Line
85% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: MLS Games, LLC
Windows
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Hex Grid 18.7% ★, Science 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Strategy 10.7%
- #19 Diehexegy
84% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Aebersoft
Windows · Linux
Diehexegy is a hex grid turn-based 4x game with a unique twist: your armies are composed of dice. It has multiple victory conditions and straightforward gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 45.2% ★, Hex Grid 24.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 12.2%, Multiplayer 4.4%
- #20 Frostward
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KoPoint Games
Windows
Build your civilization in a world consumed by eternal winter. Explore procedurally generated hex-grid maps, expand under the pressure of cold, survival, and war, and command armies with unique abilities in deep turn-based battles.
Why similar: 4X 41% ★, Hex Grid 34.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Strategy 6.7%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #21 Source of the Nile Digital Edition
83% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Friday Night Software
Windows
Source of the Nile Digital Edition is the officially licensed, single-player digital adaptation of the classic 1978 exploration board game created by Ross Maker and David Wesely. A challenging game of discovery on a hex-grid map of Africa, where the player competes against nature to survive.
Why similar: Hex Grid 41% ★, Board Game 26.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Strategy 6.2%
- #22 Flora Domina
82% matchMixed58% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Dave Van VerdegemPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
In this unique take on turn-based 4X strategy, play as a nature goddess that defends her island by playing cards to use nature as your ally.
Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, Hex Grid 26.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Nature 8.6%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
- #23 Thrive
82% matchVery Positive92% of 1,645 reviews2021
Dev: Revolutionary Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.
Why similar: Science 29.3%, Education 19%, Nature 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Hex Grid 8.5% ★
- #24 Havenreach: Last Refuge
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Leonix Games Studio
Windows
Fight for your people’s survival in this turn-based strategy game as you compete against other refugees for land. Expand tile by tile, defend your borders, and sustain your people through gathering or force. A streamlined 4X experience designed to finish in one sitting.
Why similar: 4X 33.2% ★, Hex Grid 26.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 6.3%, Strategy 5.7%
- #25 Isle of the Crown
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Devious Oatmeal
Windows
From a simple home to a mighty kingdom; explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate your opponent in this strategic pixel-art chess-like hex game using cards as your pieces and their abilities as your tools. As many games before it, and as the saying goes; easy to learn, hard to master.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Board Game 20%, Hex Grid 18.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Management 7.4%
- #26 Mech and Tech 1
79% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: colmer_it UG
Windows · Mac
Conquer. Build. Survive. A tactical strategy game on procedural hex grids - intense, deep. Plan every move: establish your base, secure supply lines, and unleash suppression fire against all who stand in your way. Research new technologies - improve your units. Play solo, co-op, or PvP.
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Hex Grid 25.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #27 The Mystic
80% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: PipeDream
Windows
The Mystic is a dark fantasy, turn-based strategy game. Become a follower of the first gods, gain their favour, overthrow the High King by innovative combat and magic systems and establish harmony. The game offers an exciting campaign full of twists, battles and difficult decisions and multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 41.6% ★, Hex Grid 23.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Procedural Generation 6.1%
- #28 Thule
78% match4 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Xeaker
Windows · Linux
A quick turn-based 4X strategy game with RPG elements. Explore and conquer randomly generated worlds, complete diverse missions and forge a powerful empire.
Why similar: 4X 38.9% ★, Hex Grid 31.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #29 ENDLESS™ Legend
79% matchVery Positive83% of 18,996 reviews2014
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
Why similar: 4X 44.7% ★, Hex Grid 23.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 12%, Multiplayer 4.6%
- #30 FireStarter 2
77% matchPositive92% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: Arthur Giraud
Windows
FireStarter 2 is a simplified forest fire simulation game that offers a first approach to fire science for all.
Why similar: Science 30.5%, Hex Grid 27.2% ★, Nature 15.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #31 HexaScape: Cyber Defense
77% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Origins
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your perfect defenses with hexagons! Use hex tiles to explore cyberspace, upgrade your defense towers, and complete quests in this unique turn-based strategy game. With a campaign, a procedurally generated endless mode, and a powerful editor, HexaScape offers endless challenges.
Why similar: Hex Grid 42.7% ★, Board Game 23.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 6.2%
- #32 Astro Protocol
76% matchPositive96% of 46 reviews2026
Dev: Null Vector Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
Why similar: 4X 33% ★, Hex Grid 22.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Board Game 9.9%, Procedural Generation 7.8%
- #33 Wizard Warfare
78% matchVery Positive97% of 61 reviews2019
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.
Why similar: 4X 47.4% ★, Hex Grid 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #34 Dominium Mundi
76% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Dusan Petrovic
Windows · Linux
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Why similar: 4X 55.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Strategy 8.4%, Board Game 6.2%
- #35 Realm Divided
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Devil Kitty Games, LLC
Windows
Dive into the world of deep strategy, where resources are your lifeline, fortifications your stronghold, and forces your arsenal. 🏰⚔️ Unleash your strategic prowess in thrilling turn-based battles! 💥 Gather faith, wield game-changing abilities, and rewrite the battlefield's destiny.
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Hex Grid 25.1% ★, Board Game 18%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Management 8%
- #36 Globe Go
75% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Hexagon Place, Inc.
Windows
The Globe Go Game in 3D is an innovative re-imagining of the classic board game Go, transposed onto a three-dimensional spherical playing field. This brings new depth and complexity to the ancient game of strategy, challenging players to think beyond the traditional flat board.
Why similar: Hex Grid 48.2% ★, Board Game 33%, Strategy 16.8%, Singleplayer 2%
- #37 BOC: Birth of Cultures
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Hex Grid 29.6% ★, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 8%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.5%
- #38 Worshippers
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: Brainwashing Games
Windows
It's hard to be a god! Worshipper is a fast-paced strategy combined with collectible card game. Explore and conquer the land, face dreadful creatures, lead your people to glory! With every victory you will unlock new units, spells and buildings, use them to develop your own unique strategies!
Why similar: 4X 44.4% ★, Board Game 27.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Strategy 12.5%
- #39 Hex Kingdoms
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Sunset GamesPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Hex Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy game set in medevial times with fantasy themes. Expand your kingdom, set up your defenses, train soldiers and monsters to become the only ruler of the land.
Why similar: 4X 33.3% ★, Hex Grid 29.2% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Management 8.3%
- #40 To Be Connected
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RevealingMermaid
Windows
To Be Connected is a relaxing, minimalist puzzle/strategy game where you shape the land, connect your towns, and maintain a balanced, harmonious landscape. Build a world that expands forever, or craft real-country layouts by shaping land and connecting important locations.
Why similar: Hex Grid 25.5% ★, Board Game 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Nature 9.4%
- #41 Island Dwellers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: 4X 26.2% ★, Hex Grid 17.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Management 9.1%
- #42 Shardorium
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turtle Speed Development
Windows · Mac · Linux
Indie turn-based strategy game. Capture the whole shard by defeating their guards, build your own stronghold, level up your heroes and equip most powerful items!
Why similar: Hex Grid 48.9% ★, 4X 26.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #43 Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
72% matchVery Positive82% of 17,446 reviews2018
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 42.1% ★, Hex Grid 28.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 9.5%, Multiplayer 6%
- #44 Hex Colony: 2284
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KaZoTaPub: Market Garden Works
Windows · Linux
Hex Colony: 2284 is a fast-paced, hexagonal, turn-based, multiplayer strategy game set in a dystopian future. Build and expand your colony on a newly discovered planet by exploiting resources, striking trade deals and asserting dominance over the competition. Hexagons are the Bestagons!
Why similar: Hex Grid 39.2% ★, Board Game 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Management 8.1%
- #45 Imperial Kingdoms
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BaroxxTech
Windows · Linux
Lead a medieval kingdom through expansion, warfare and economic growth. Manage resources, supply your capital and research new technologies to strengthen your realm. Customize your armies and conquer rival kingdoms across dynamic hex maps.
Why similar: 4X 43.6% ★, Hex Grid 15.5% ★, Management 12.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%
- #46 Hexa's Gone
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: DevloCore
Windows · Linux
The Secret Hexa has vanished. Ask the right questions, stay strategic in your answers. Your goal will be to gather the clues from each player. By combining them, you will likely be the first to find the Hexa.
Why similar: Hex Grid 32.8% ★, Board Game 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #47 It Takes a Tribe
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Cog
Windows · Linux
ITAT is a single-player strategy set in a harsh and mythical world before cities and civilization. Lead a tribe of hunter-gatherers to fulfil their destiny. Survive, explore, craft, perform rituals, design art and forge a cultural identity. What stories will your tribe tell?
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Hex Grid 22.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Management 8.1%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #48 Empires of the Void II
71% matchMixed58% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Magnus Muscle
Windows
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game. A faithful digital rendition of the beloved board game, Empires of the Void II.
Why similar: 4X 39.1% ★, Board Game 28.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #49 Empis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyle Meadows
Windows
Empis is a turn-based strategy game that focuses on short and sweet multiplayer matches. Choose from individual factions each with their own unique units and upgrades, unlock technology, and build sprawling cities with buildings and fortifications.
Why similar: Hex Grid 35.1% ★, 4X 30.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Strategy 6.7%
- #50 Niche - a genetics survival game
70% matchVery Positive86% of 5,188 reviews2017
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Education 16.4%, Board Game 16%, Nature 11.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #51 Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars
68% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2025
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars is the sequel to Wizard Warfare, a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer. Now includes fully simulated naval battles.
Why similar: 4X 40.9% ★, Hex Grid 30.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 7%, Management 5%
- #52 Nexus 5X
67% matchVery Positive91% of 925 reviews2024
Dev: Whatboy GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced 60-minute competitive sessions. Play Solo or Multiplayer for 2-8 players.
Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Board Game 19.9%, Science 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Management 7.4%
- #53 Knights of Legends
69% matchMostly Negative41% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: KOL StudioPub: KOL Games
Windows
CLASSIC TURN-BASED STRATEGY GAME 1.DIFFERENT RACES DIFFERENT HEROES 2.BUILD YOUR OWN KINGDOM 3.RECRUIT POWERFUL UNITS 4.EXPLORE AND CONQUER 5.CLASSIC SIMULATION RPG
Why similar: Hex Grid 43.9% ★, 4X 39.2% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Stylized 5.4%
- #54 Fairysite
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wooltyranny
Windows
In this game you manage a colony of fairies. You and the humans have complicated relationship. As a parasite, you are dependent on their resources. However, they can expand fast and overrun you. You must maintain the balance between restricting the humans and letting them grow unchecked.
Why similar: Hex Grid 39.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 10.8%, Board Game 10.4%
- #55 HUMANKIND™
67% matchMixed69% of 28,395 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Hex Grid 15.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #56 Last Days of Old Earth
69% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Auroch DigitalPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Last Days of Old Earth is a rich strategy game set in our far, far future where the sun is dying. Can you command the last noble tribes of humanity as they attempt to survive among the machines and marauding clans?
Why similar: Hex Grid 39.5% ★, 4X 25.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #57 Qdice
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Benjamin Grosse
Windows · Linux
A turn-based multiplayer strategy boardgame inspired by Risk and Dicewars. Conquer the map, align your borders, calculate the risks, and cut through!
Why similar: Hex Grid 43.1% ★, Board Game 25.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #58 军团战棋Legion War
67% matchVery Positive90% of 821 reviews2021
Dev: Bear & Cat Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 43.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
"Legion War" is a 4X strategy game in a fantasy setting. You can build and expand your territory, explore unknown lands, and search for mysterious treasure, cultivate your own heroes and troops while exterminating your opponent's, and challenge the god who rules the world behind the scenes.
Why similar: Hex Grid 39% ★, 4X 39% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #59 Hanoi Puzzles: Magnetrix
67% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Hanoi Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Assemble magnetic towers by stacking pieces from opposite poles, to enlighten a electrifying hexagonal board.
Why similar: Hex Grid 39% ★, Science 23.6%, Board Game 21.4%, Education 9.3%, Puzzle 4.8%
- #60 Infinite Einstein Tiles
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Mukai Systems
Windows · Mac
Infinite Einstein Tiles is a casual puzzle game themed around an aperiodic monotile discovered by David Smith in 2022. Once you've solved all the puzzles, you might understand how aperiodic tiling with a single tile is achieved.
Why similar: Hex Grid 46.6% ★, Science 24.4%, Education 21.9%, Puzzle 5.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%