- #1 Interstellar Conquest
97% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take planets and assemble your fleet. The conquest of space is now, navigate through asteroid fields and hide in nebulas to outsmart your opponents. Experience the challenge of ion storms disrupting your ship's sensors and become the ultimate space fleet commander.
Why similar: 4X 27% ★, Wargame 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Military 9.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%
- #2 The Little World
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: KS Studio
Windows
The Little World is a strategy-based tactical game featuring random campaigns, story maps, custom game maps, and custom character creation, with support for multiplayer battles and cooperation.
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Wargame 14.9%, Military 12.1%, War 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%
- #3 Mandate of Galactic Empires
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oddbit
Windows · Linux
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 38.7% ★, Space Sim 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Space 8.5%, War 7.4%
- #4 Kingdom Chronicle
95% matchMixed52% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: スタジオ白猫斎 / Studio HakubyousaiPub: くそげ工房 / Atelier KUSOGE
Windows
It looks deep, but plays simple. A turn-based strategy game where you can unify the continent in 1-2 hours per run. Become the ruler of a nation in a war-torn land, master domestic affairs, diplomacy and intrigue, and recruit, headhunt, and capture from 168 officers to carve out your own conquest.
Why similar: 4X 24.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Wargame 12.3%, Strategy 10%
- #5 SanGuos3
94% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: 陈文龙
Windows
SanGuos3 is a Three Kingdoms themed chess game with simple graphics and easy operation. Players can control multiple forces to compete with each other, capture cities and territories. Players can also freely modify the characters, maps and terrain in the scripts
Why similar: Wargame 19.4%, Military 14.9%, War 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%
- #6 March of Reveille
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: xbig
Windows
Turn-based strategy where every Order is a trade-off. Capture cities, command combined forces, and take up to three Orders into a match — each granting one unique strength and one real weakness. Missions, online play, CPU skirmishes, King of the Hill, Domination, and a map editor.
Why similar: 4X 36.2% ★, Wargame 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Military 9.6%, Strategy 9.2%
- #7 Dynastic Era
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LOONW
Windows
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 33.5% ★, Wargame 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%
- #8 Mercatoria
92% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Dinkel Games
Windows
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 30.8% ★, Wargame 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Building 7.1%
- #9 Rules of War
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Endeavour Games
Windows
Take command in this 4X-lite strategy game with fast-paced tactical combat and missile warfare. Build your economy, deploy land, sea, and air units, expand borders, advance technology, and navigate deceitful diplomacy. In a world of collapsing nuclear powers, can you lead your nation to victory?
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Wargame 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%, Military 8.2%
- #10 GALAXY WARS Ⅱ
91% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: JIT Inc
Windows
A new-style space war game that blends strategy simulation and shooting action. Command your fleet on the map and pilot your own fighter in battle. Combine 25 types of warships and 49 types of fighters freely, and build your ultimate fleet using production, capture, and formations.
Why similar: Space Sim 16.3%, Wargame 15.1%, Military 12.1%, War 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%
- #11 Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Estuego Games
Windows
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 29.8% ★, Wargame 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%, Military 8.8%
- #12 三国画卷
89% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: 三国画卷制作组
Windows
"Three Kingdoms Scroll" is a game that respects authentic historical elements, with careful research into historical details as the foundation of its design. We have strived to make this title a Three Kingdoms-themed strategy game that emphasizes local culture, traditions, and human connections.
Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, Wargame 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%
- #13 三国.群英录
89% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGONJOY Studios
Windows · Mac
点燃你的战魂,投身乱世掀起惊天风暴!化身铁血诸侯,号令三国名将,统领无敌雄师,在真实还原的三国版图上纵横沙场,血战四方!
Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Wargame 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Military 10.5%, War 9.5%
- #14 Kingdom Wars
88% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Obsidiagon
Windows
A medieval themed turn-based strategy/tactical game where you will build a kingdom, lead armies to the war, fight tactical battles and conquer enemy cities. Choose your main leader character from the 7 different available factions and start building your kingdom.
Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, Wargame 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Military 8.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%
- #15 Space Imperia 4X
86% matchVery Positive93% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: Breich Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A faithful digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game Space Empires 4X by GMT Games, beloved by wargamers for almost two decades. Command the rise of your civilization and the fall of others, all in one to two hours.
Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Wargame 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.1%, Military 6.7%
- #16 CIVIREVIVAL
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 筋斗云
Windows
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 24.5% ★, Wargame 22.7%, Space Sim 18.6%, Space 11.5%, Strategy 6.3%
- #17 Lords of Kingdoms
87% matchMixed43% of 89 reviews2018
Dev: ThankGame.com
Windows
Lords of Kingdoms is a multiplayer online war game. Turn your small castle into a mighty fortress and become ruler of the greatest realm.
Why similar: 4X 47.1% ★, Wargame 26.1%, Building 15.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 1.5%
- #18 Dust Fleet
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Orbiting DiscoPub: indie.io
Windows
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Space Sim 20.8%, Space 10.2%, Tactical 8.7%, Wargame 7.7%
- #19 The Sons of Earth
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Michael Calloway
Windows
An asymmetric hex wargame about occupation and insurgency. Command the alien Verkhan Empire pacifying a human world — or the fractured Sons of Earth fighting to reclaim it.
Why similar: Wargame 22.2%, War 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.9%, Space 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%
- #20 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
84% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Aserisoft
Windows · Mac
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 38% ★, Wargame 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Strategy 9.6%, War 6.7%
- #21 Commander: World War II
83% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Commander: World War II is a turn-based tactical game where you lead either the Allies or the Axis to victory. Deploy infantry, tanks, planes, and naval units, capture locations, use the terrain, and counter specialized units in intense battles. Design your own maps and dominate the battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Wargame 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%
- #22 Combat Mission Black Sea
82% matchVery Positive83% of 572 reviews2021
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 35.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
Why similar: Wargame 21.3%, Military 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, War 9.6%
- #23 Master of Cladia
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Quasar Games FactoryPub: BackGRID Responsive Technologies S.L.
Windows
Master a world of massive turn-based strategy. As an Alchemist, hatch powerful dragons, discover devastating spells, and manage your empire in a persistent world shared by hundreds of players. Will you bring peace through science or rule over the ashes? The throne awaits.
Why similar: 4X 34.8% ★, Wargame 22.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #24 Beyond
81% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Quixotic Universe
Windows
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 29.3% ★, Wargame 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Space 8.5%, Military 7.7%
- #25 Terrol
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Max Krupp
Windows
Capture Resources. Upgrade your Empire. Destroy all Rivals.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, War 13.1%, Wargame 9.3%, Strategy 8.8%
- #26 Steel Wolverines: Modern Armored Combat
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WolverinDev
Windows
A turn-based tactical wargame inspired by the classics of the 1990s. Build your own battlegroup and fight on a modern battlefield where detecting the enemy, choosing the right weapon, and landing the first accurate shot decide the outcome.
Why similar: Wargame 24%, Military 18.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Tactical 11%
- #27 Solar War
81% matchPositive85% of 34 reviews2015
Dev: Snipefish Entertainment
Windows · Linux
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.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Space Sim 17.9%, Wargame 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Space 9.1%
- #28 Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
79% matchVery Positive82% of 18,612 reviews2018
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 20.6 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 37.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Wargame 11.1%, Strategy 8.6%, War 7.2%
- #29 World War: Rome - Free Strategy Game
78% matchMixed67% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Joynow Games
Windows
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 31.5% ★, Wargame 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, 2D Platformer 6.2%
- #30 Tracktopia
77% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: GalaDev
Windows
Tracktopia is a strategy game with city-building elements, where your city moves on tracks and serves as a super powerful unit. Expand it to boost production, advance technologies, and create smaller units to ultimately defeat the enemy nation!
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Military 10.4%, War 10%, Wargame 9.3%
- #31 WarBoard: Arena Empire
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Velron Games
Windows
WarBoard: Arena Empire is a turn-based tactical strategy game on a hex arena. Command Rome, the Turks, Vikings, Egypt, Japan or Persia. Play solo against AI, or battle up to 4 Steam friends in private matches. Every move counts.
Why similar: 4X 34.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Wargame 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.6%, Military 10.2%
- #32 Grand War: Rome
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Joynow Studio
Windows
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 28.5% ★, Wargame 15.1%, Military 11.5%, War 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%
- #33 Defense X
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Hcenter GamePub: 30 Game Studio
Windows
Build a defense strategy to protect the peace.
Why similar: 4X 40.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%
- #34 Clash of Stars
76% matchMixed52% of 29 reviews2023
Dev: Star Magic
Windows
MMO Real-time strategy star game.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Wargame 17.5%, Space Sim 14%, Military 10.6%, War 7.9%
- #35 Korean War
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: 丁近恒
Windows
3D full-terrain strategy game. Based on historical records of the Korean War, authentically restore war scenes, campaign units, equipment systems, and AI strategies. Players will command the Chinese military and engage in over 60 battles from October 24, 1950, to August 13, 1953.
Why similar: Wargame 21.2%, Military 20.5%, War 16%, Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%
- #36 Sidereal Wanderer ST
74% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: SPICE PRESSPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
To master space warfare, the evolution of ‘Side Real Wanderer’ continues. On a battlefield formed from an 8x8 grid, annihilate hostile forces.
Why similar: Wargame 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%
- #37 Search for Sol
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cryptomnesic
Windows · Mac
The children of long-extinct humanity desperately search for the legendary artifact system of Sol. Search for Sol is a sci-fi 4X in the tradition of Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion, and Star Traders. Control Sol for 50 years to ascend to flesh once again.
Why similar: 4X 36.9% ★, Wargame 18%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #38 OpenFront
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Openfront IncPub: OpenFront Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
OpenFront is an intense PvP battle-royale where hundreds clash on a vast map, forging alliances, amassing wealth, and unleashing nuclear strikes to dominate the world.
Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, Wargame 18.4%, Military 11.5%, Building 9.3%, War 8.7%
- #39 英雄竞起:三国
73% matchMixed62% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: 自在工作室
Windows
The world is in chaos, heroes are rising, and the public is a high-ranking official. We must take the collection of heroes as our heart, and we can help the Han dynasty and save the people.
Why similar: Wargame 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Military 12.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%
- #40 三國.爭霸
72% match8 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: 龙吟天下工作室
Windows · Mac
在这款沉浸式三国策略卡牌游戏中,你将化身一方主公,招揽名将、打造无敌军团,体验从乱世枭雄到一统天下的霸业征程!
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, Wargame 16%, Military 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, War 10.7%
- #41 Banality Wars Carridin
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andrew Zuo
Windows
Discover the secrets of Project Carridin in this deep tactical turn based strategy game inspired by Advanced Wars Days Of Ruin.
Why similar: Wargame 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Military 12.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%
- #42 War For Galaxy: New Era
73% matchMixed41% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: UAB Kinelija
Windows · Mac
Become the ruler of the entire Galaxy: colonize planets, extract resources, build defenses and fight in planetary battles!
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Space Sim 17.6%, Wargame 15.1%, War 10.1%, Space 9.2%
- #43 Combat Mission Cold War
72% matchMixed67% of 237 reviews2021
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
CM Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today.
Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Military 13.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, War 9.4%
- #44 Rogue Conflict
70% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Frans Wikman
Windows
Rogue Conflict is a turn-based strategy roguelike. Combining wargame rules and mechanics, with procedurally generated roguelike features.
Why similar: Wargame 24.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Military 13.2%, Strategy 12%, War 11.9%
- #45 Ascendant Realms
70% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Soaring Pals
Windows · Linux
In Ascendant Realms you lead a nation in a struggle for glory. Cozy setting meets tactical thinking from classic turn based strategies, but twists it with compact gameplay. Develop your city, research new technologies, fight other leaders - or just create your own story in the sandbox.
Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Wargame 12%, Military 10.2%, War 9.3%
- #46 Ballistic M.A.D.ness
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: GlurthPub: <EyE>game
Windows
Casually nuke targets on the surface of a planet with a long-range cannon, by adjusting the cannon's loaded ammo, heading, azimuth, and power.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.5%, Wargame 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Military 13.3%, War 8.9%
- #47 Deformity
71% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Andrey Larionenko
Windows
Deformity is a turn-based fantasy strategy about a world dominated by sins.
Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Wargame 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Military 10.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%
- #48 Stars in Shadow
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 838 reviews2017
Dev: Ashdar GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
Why similar: 4X 52.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Space 10.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Turn-Based Combat 8.1%
- #49 Command Doctrine
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ByteFlow
Windows
Describe a battle and AI builds it. Describe a war and get a whole campaign. Command Doctrine is a turn-based wargame with endless generated scenarios. Command armies across seven eras and outthink your enemy with supply, morale and terrain. Will your doctrine hold?
Why similar: Wargame 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Military 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%, War 8.8%
- #50 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
67% 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 29.7% ★, Space Sim 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9%
- #51 Three Kingdoms The Last Warlord
69% matchMixed69% of 3,953 reviews2021
Dev: LongYou Game StudioPub: LongYou Tech Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Last Warlord is a Turn-based strategy game. The game is based on the famous Chinese historical novel. The Three Kingdoms (A.D. 190 – 280) was the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.
Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, Wargame 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Military 11.3%, War 9.6%
- #52 Imperium
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Petroff Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Imperium is a single-player 4X space strategy game. Colonize alien worlds, design your own spaceships, research exotic technologies, and outmaneuver rival empires through diplomacy or open war. Build a galactic empire and rule it your way.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Wargame 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Building 7.9%, 2.5D 7.7%
- #53 Plane Starship2:Galactic Contender
68% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: 爱芙尔
Windows
This is a 4x turn-base strategy game. You can develop your planet, expand your territory by colonizing and building space stations, research technology to unlock more ships, and ultimately discover and eliminate your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Space 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, War 9.5%
- #54 Old Stars
68% 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 39.7% ★, Space Sim 14.5%, Space 10.9%, Strategy 10.1%, War 10%
- #55 Stellar Sovereigns
68% 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 31.2% ★, Space Sim 22.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Wargame 8.7%, Space 8.1%
- #56 Airship Dragoon
70% matchMixed52% of 64 reviews2014
Dev: YorkshireRifles
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Uber-Hardcore, Turn-Based, Steampunk, Squad Tactics. Battle 6 other factions for control of Pangea in emergent, tactical gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Wargame 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, War 8.7%, Military 8.3%
- #57 Samurai Conqueror
66% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Miura Production
Windows
Unify Japanese History! A Timeline Strategy Game Where History Itself Becomes the Battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Wargame 14.1%, War 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.2%
- #58 Grand Strategy: The Three Kingdoms
66% matchPositive88% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Yiming
Windows
Based on the classic history of the Three countries, the 2D grand strategy game integrates deep strategy, resource management, diplomatic game and sand table, presenting a magnificent stage for players in the turbulent world.
Why similar: 4X 42.2% ★, Wargame 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Strategy 11.3%, War 7.3%
- #59 New Stars
66% 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 31% ★, Space Sim 18.5%, Wargame 12.3%, War 10.8%, Military 9.6%
- #60 荒野国度 LEGENDS OF THE WILD
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 圆桌工作室Pub: 瓦弄游戏
Windows
Recruit animal heroes, understand their attributes and create your own team Conquer land with your allies, make rational use of all resources on the continent, and defeat enemies from other faction Step by step, move towards the center of the continent, and finally seize the heart of the world.
Why similar: 4X 46.4% ★, Wargame 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Strategy 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.7%