- #1 Near Sol
97% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: LTide
Windows · Mac · Linux
Space 4X game with the ability to build factories, extract resources, with characters, internal and external markets ... Take part in the discussion of the game, share your vision)
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, RTS 16.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 5.3%
- #2 Old Stars
96% 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 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22% ★, Space Sim 11.4%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%, Strategy 8.4%
- #3 Star Zeal 4x
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Akuu Digital Entertainment
Windows
Star Zeal is a space based 4x strategy and rpg hybrid. A mixture between a procedural, open ended RPG and a space civilization builder. Go on an adventure with your character and their faction whilst making friends, enemies and exploring a vast galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Space Sim 16.6%, RTS 14%, Real Time Tactics 9.6%
- #4 Stellar Sovereigns
95% 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 26% ★, Space Sim 19.1%, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, RTS 12.1%, Real Time Tactics 8.2%
- #5 Galactic Conflict
94% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Shadowfoundry GamesPub: Sinpros Entertainment and Multimedia
Windows
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Space Sim 20.9%, RTS 18%, Real Time Tactics 11.5%, Strategy 9.2%
- #6 Galaxor
94% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: MyVLife
Windows
Galaxor is an online sci-fi strategy game where you build planets, research technologies, command fleets and expand your empire across the galaxy. Manage resources, join clans, take part in events and face alien threats in long-term space warfare.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.4% ★, Space Sim 22.6%, RTS 19.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.7%, Futuristic 7.1%
- #7 StarFringe: Adversus
93% matchMixed64% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: CasualogicPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
This is the story about the beginning of the conquest of outer space by earthlings. It began as a global idea of saving mankind from hunger and lack of resources, and ended as a brutal and merciless war in space far from Earth.
Why similar: 4X 23.5% ★, RTS 19.7%, Grand Strategy 14.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Real Time Tactics 9%
- #8 NULLSPACE
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaigan Games
Windows
Experience epic space battles in NULLSPACE, a story driven real-time strategy set in a retrofuturistic universe. Command massive fleets across the battlefield or jump in and take direct control of individual squadrons. Lead your forces to victory in visceral space combat.
Why similar: 4X 18.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, Space Sim 14.7%, RTS 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 12%
- #9 Galactum Meridian
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hedra Games
Windows
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, Space Sim 21.8%, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, Strategy 9.3%, Space 6.4%
- #10 Hollow Stars
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AppGX
Windows
A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op
Why similar: 4X 35% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, RTS 18.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 5.9%
- #11 Commanders Fury
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RoboFox Games LLC
Windows
Take command of the war machine of an empire in this 4x RTS hybrid. Fight battles with your flagship fleet in fully 3D real-time space combat. Recruit, train and dispatch commanders. Give them orders, directives and equip their fleets. Manage your empire’s supply logistics and fleet operations.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, RTS 19.4%, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 8.9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #12 Trumpets of War
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xblur
Windows
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 34.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24% ★, RTS 17.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Strategy 9.3%
- #13 CIVIREVIVAL
89% 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 23.7% ★, Space Sim 18.1%, RTS 16.5%, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Space 6.9%
- #14 Final Vanguard
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Heavy Pepper Inc.
Windows
Rule a living interstellar empire in this real-time 4X grand strategy. Make decisions that shape civilian lives, manage fragile supply lines, lead military conquests, and decide whether your civilization thrives or collapses under its own expansion.
Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Space Sim 18.2%, RTS 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 5.8%
- #15 Galactic Ruler
87% matchMixed49% of 121 reviews2022
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 24% ★, Space Sim 17.5%, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, RTS 11.6%
- #16 Small Kingdoms Prologue
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
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 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, RTS 18%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 5.8%
- #17 Star Ruler
86% matchVery Positive82% of 341 reviews2010
Dev: Blind Mind Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
Why similar: 4X 43% ★, RTS 17.5%, Grand Strategy 15.4% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Space 8.9%
- #18 Nexaris: Starweb Dominion
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vivid State
Windows
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 30% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, RTS 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Strategy 6.1%
- #19 Beyond Astra
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, RTS 18.5%, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Space Sim 12.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #20 Solar Wave
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: SavGus Studio
Windows
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.
Why similar: 4X 31.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, RTS 17.1%, Space 6.6%, Strategy 6.2%
- #21 Descending Empires
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parcyval
Windows
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 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, Space Sim 18.8%, RTS 15.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%
- #22 Arinoa: Conquest
82% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Alternate
Windows
Arinoa: Conquest is a real time grand strategy game with a focus on hero units, and combines elements of strategy, resource management, and light RPG mechanics. Gather resources, build your army, and conquer your enemies within the harsh world of Arinoa.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23% ★, RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Base Building 8.6%
- #23 Tachyon Wars
82% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: Fair Games
Windows
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 36.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Space 7.4%
- #24 New Stars
81% 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 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, Space Sim 17.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Space 5.4%
- #25 Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
81% matchVery Positive93% of 16,336 reviews2012
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3% ★, Space Sim 18.1%, RTS 14.6%, Base Building 9.9%
- #26 Jellystar Empires: When Space Bunnies Attack!!
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rat Wrath Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
An area-control real-time strategy game, filled with auto-battling bunnies bent on destroying the human race! Explore space and uncover hand-painted planets. Research unique upgrades! Kill your friends! -er use diplomacy in multiplayer!
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Space Sim 17.9%, RTS 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%
- #27 Starithm
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Orithm
Windows
Become the dominant star-fairing-civilization throughout the procedurally generated star systems. The player must establish/pursue: (1) Ideology; (2) Population; (3) Military assets; (4) 4x dominance (5) Technologies; (6) Artificial Evolution; (7) Cyber attacks; (8) Peace or war.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25% ★, RTS 18.6%, Strategy 7%, Futuristic 6.1%
- #28 Wayfallen
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wayfarer
Windows
A galaxy with its own economy, its own wars, and no reason to wait for you. Trade, mine, fight, and salvage a living - alone on the rim, or at the head of an empire the great powers can't ignore. A single-player space sandbox that never stops moving.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Space Sim 23.5%, RTS 15.6%, Space 6.9%, Base Building 6.8%
- #29 Ascendance
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Torchdrive
Windows
Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 22.2% ★, RTS 17.4%, Futuristic 6.4%, Strategy 5.5%
- #30 Dust Fleet
77% 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 32.1% ★, Space Sim 21.4%, Real Time Tactics 16%, RTS 6.8%, Space 6.5%
- #31 Reshaping Mars
77% matchVery Positive84% of 832 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, RTS 18.9%, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Futuristic 6.6%
- #32 Gemini Wars
79% matchMostly Negative32% of 165 reviews2012
Dev: Camel 101
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Space Sim 16.9%, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 9.7%
- #33 Stellar Reach
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Stelleas
Windows
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 37.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, RTS 13.9%, Futuristic 8.6%, Strategy 7.1%
- #34 After the Crash : Colony
75% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Penche Software
Windows
Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.
Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Space Sim 29.4%, Real Time Tactics 14%, Strategy 6.4%, Space 5.9%
- #35 Star Trek: Infinite
76% matchMixed43% of 3,512 reviews2023
Dev: Nimble Giant EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Space Sim 15.7%, RTS 14.9%, Space 5.7%
- #36 Three Kingdoms: Innovatory
75% matchMixed59% of 981 reviews2024
Dev: 瞬息万变工作室Pub: Moment HK
Windows
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 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22% ★, RTS 19.7%, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 5.5%
- #37 Novastride
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stradvian Games
Windows · Mac
Control your aerial and ground units using Real-Time-Strategy, OR switch during battle and join your comrades yourself in high-action dogfights and ground battles in Novastride. Dominate enemy civilizations throughout the galaxy and be the great strategist to lead your nation to victory.
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Space Sim 15.1%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #38 Distant Worlds 2
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,552 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 44.3% ★, Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Space 7.1%, Simulation 5.6%
- #39 Distant Worlds: Universe
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,855 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 49.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, RTS 9.1%, Strategy 9%, Space 8.8%
- #40 Deep Dark Forest
72% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: pixiangames
Windows
You will have to lead the civilization, develop the economy, enhance the technology, stabilize the people and colonize new galaxies; when encountering unknown civilizations, will you hide yourself or communicate with them in a friendly way? In this "dark forest", every decision will be crucial.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Space Sim 22.8%, RTS 18.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.3%, Base Building 6.9%
- #41 Kron Wars
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alien Bulb
Windows
A persistent space MMO that runs in your browser. No download. No installation. Open a tab and you are in the Frontier. Trade, mine and fight across 5,000 sectors, in an economy that players build. And one mechanic that no other MMO has: war rewrites the map.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Space Sim 21.3%, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Mining 9.3% ★, Base Building 9%
- #42 Void Destroyer 2
73% matchVery Positive80% of 674 reviews2020
Dev: Iteration 11
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Space Sim 22.7%, RTS 13.7%, Mining 11.6% ★, Open World 5.2%
- #43 Periphery Online
70% matchMixed72% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Aleksandr Nagaev
Windows
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.
Why similar: RTS 23.7%, 4X 23.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, Futuristic 10.4%, Space 7.4%
- #44 Gewevo : Interstellar
74% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Victor Filipiak
Windows
Gewevo : Interstallar is a space strategy game derived from the tabletop RPG universe Gewevo. It offers an approach a little closer to a wargame with regard to the empire management aspect. Made with passion by a one-man team;)
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, RTS 22.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Base Building 7.6%, Futuristic 6.9%
- #45 Antropico: Colonies
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows · Linux
A large-scale space strategy game focused on building and maintaining power within a simulated galaxy. Build, develop, and survive in a galaxy shaped by history and consequences.
Why similar: 4X 34.4% ★, Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Strategy 11%, Futuristic 8.9%, Simulation 5.5%
- #46 Sovereign Stars
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: KYDEN
Windows
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 6.9%, Stylized 5%
- #47 War For Galaxy: New Era
71% 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 32.3% ★, RTS 18.6%, Space Sim 18.2%, Grand Strategy 17.8% ★, Space 5.9%
- #48 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
69% matchMixed59% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 36.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, RTS 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%
- #49 Mandate of Galactic Empires
70% 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 43.7% ★, Space Sim 24.9%, Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, Strategy 6.3%, Space 5.9%
- #50 SunWars
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Bode
Windows
Over 500,000 players on mobile! SunWars is a minimalist real-time strategy game about energy, expansion and timing. Grow your suns, conquer enemy systems and adapt to black holes and cosmic hazards across 80+ handcrafted levels. Easy to learn, challenging to master.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.3%, Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.4%, RTS 16.2%, Base Building 12.4%
- #51 Red Pearl Pirates
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Eoin Tolster
Windows · Linux
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: 4X 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 16.4%, Strategy 6.4%, Futuristic 5.2%
- #52 Dune: Spice Wars
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,540 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.9% ★, RTS 16.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Base Building 9.9%
- #53 Power & Revolution 2022 Edition
68% matchMixed59% of 966 reviews2022
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5% ★, RTS 17.6%, Real Time Tactics 13%, Strategy 6.5%
- #54 Heathen Engineering's Terran
69% matchMostly Negative33% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Heathen Engineering
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 36.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 16.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Space 8.4%
- #55 Taikunda
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dreamtime Game Studios
Windows
Command a flying colony ship through an alien void in this real-time steampunk strategy game. Build a floating city, explore a dangerous galaxy, wage broadside naval battles, and invade planets — all while outrunning the Voidwall consuming the galaxy behind you.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, RTS 21.1%, Real Time Tactics 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Futuristic 7.7%
- #56 NWO - Anarchy Collapsed
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KNK DEVELOP
Windows · Mac
A grand strategy game of world domination. Conquer and unite 195 countries before an unknown enemy arrives. Build your economy, military, and influence. Choose war or diplomacy, control resources, and shape the future—only one ruler will rise to the top. Will it be you?
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7% ★, RTS 19.5%, Strategy 5.9%, Economy 4.9%
- #57 Riftborne
65% matchVery Positive90% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: Pitio Productions
Windows · Linux
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, Space Sim 17.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Base Building 8.7%
- #58 Uncharted Space - project 3062
67% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Kong Linghui
Windows
In this game, you are a leader, leading a force of army to fight other forces in the deep spaces. You will plunder their resources, build your homelands, explore and expand, managing your army both strategically and tactically. This will be a saga written with blood and fire.
Why similar: 4X 36.8% ★, RTS 25.2%, Real Time Tactics 16.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Futuristic 5%
- #59 Space Castle
68% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: PR games
Windows
Space Strategy. A mix of tower hold games and role-playing action.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.8%, Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, RTS 23.2%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 6.6%
- #60 StarDrive
69% matchMixed45% of 1,489 reviews2013
Dev: Zero Sum Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Why similar: 4X 55.8% ★, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Space 9.7%, Indie 2.1%