- #1 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
《万民长歌:三国》是一款单机 · 历史 · 战争策略游戏。在无缝连续、真实还原的3D沙盘地图上,玩家可以自选视角、以自己的意志重演三国。来体验真实的三国策略——真实的沙盘,真实的二十四节气,真实的百姓,真实的战争!
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, War 9.2%, City Builder 7.7%
- #2 TOHOTOPIA
96% matchVery Positive97% of 414 reviews2026
Dev: Remilia Command
Windows
A 4X strategy craze sweeps Gensokyo! As the "Esports Tournament" begins, the girls join the fray. Warlords rise: will you be "Pharaoh" Remilia, "Emperor" Kaguya, "Great" Kanako, or "Philosopher King" Miko? Launch the game now, lead your empire, and dominate Gensokyo!
Why similar: 4X 25.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Strategy RPG 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%
- #3 SATUS
96% matchPositive86% of 44 reviews2023
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
SATUS - global fantasy strategy, in which you can lead one of the 4 fractions: magicians, dwarfs, dark side, hell virus. Every fraction is unique. Capture all the enemies, arrange the end of the world, build a great empire!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, War 14.8%, 4X 14.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Tactical 8%
- #4 Master of Magic
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,191 reviews2022
Dev: MuHa GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?
Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.1% ★, Strategy RPG 11.8%, City Builder 11.8%, Economy 10.1%
- #5 Mercatoria
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Groundwork Studio
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 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Economy 9.5%, War 6.8%
- #6 Napoleon 1813
94% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Empire Interactive EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
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 33.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Strategy 7.9%, War 7.8%
- #7 Empire’s Supreme Command
93% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: iGindisGames
Windows · Mac
Turn-based strategy. Build, trade, fight, and lead your empire to victory.
Why similar: 4X 24.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%
- #8 Age of Wonders 4
92% matchVery Positive81% of 22,264 reviews2023
Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 22.2 hrsMean: 60.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!
Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, Strategy RPG 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, War 9.8%
- #9 Palm Kingdoms 3
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hack The Publisher
Windows · Mac
Palm Kingdoms 3 is a turn-based strategy game with deep mechanics. Explore maps, build your kingdom, and lead armies in rich, tactical combat. Here, power lies not in a single character, but in the unique Commanders you cultivate within your ranks.
Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8% ★, War 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Tactical 10.5%
- #10 Pixel Domain
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Minmaxdog
Windows
Play cards to capture territories. Improve territories to get better cards and make the island your domain.
Why similar: 4X 24.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Strategy RPG 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Old School 7.3%
- #11 Lands of Rumour
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, War 10%
- #12 HUMANKIND™
89% 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 31.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Strategy 8.3%
- #13 Elemental: Reforged
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 438 reviews2026
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
A 4X strategy game in a fantasy RPG world. Create your own sovereign hero, build a dynasty, design custom units, and wage turn-based war across a world that's different every time you play. Every unit is an individual with their own name, gear, and story.
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Tactical 7.9%
- #14 Crow's Foot
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Thelix
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based hex strategy you can finish over lunch. Outsmart AI rivals, each with their own grudges, ambitions, and breaking points. Conquer provinces, command knights, scouts, assassins, and more. Unlock rule-bending scrolls. Go bankrupt and your own army defects.
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Economy 10.2%, Strategy 8.1%, War 5.6%
- #15 Space Empires I
89% matchMixed53% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Economy 10.4%, Strategy 8.7%
- #16 Ever War
86% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Autware
Windows
Ever War is a turn-based strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. This game combines empire-building, resource management and large-scale tactical turn-based battles.
Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Economy 11.4%, Tactical 8.3%
- #17 Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
84% matchVery Positive89% of 16,795 reviews2026
Dev: UnfrozenPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3% ★, War 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Tactical 9.5%
- #18 Terrol
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Krupp
Windows
Terrol is a grand strategy game focused on capturing and holding strategic resources. The objective is simple: control all resources and destroy rival empires.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, War 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Tactical 9.1%
- #19 Space Empires III
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 43 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Retro 10.3%, Strategy 8.9%
- #20 Dwarf Guild Mania
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: QuarkbluePub: Kennedy Publishing House
Windows · Mac
Lead a campaign of glory as you mine, trade, spy, & sabotage your way to victory. Your guild of dwarves must vanquish its rivals and conquer the realm in this turn-based economic strategy game. Lead your capitalist dwarves across new lands in search of gems and gold. For the Guild!
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Economy 10.2%, City Builder 10.2%
- #21 Imperial Kingdoms
83% 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 36.3% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy 8.6%
- #22 Machiavelli the Prince
82% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Holistic Design, Inc.Pub: Holistic Design, inc.
Windows · Linux
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Economy 9.5%, Old School 8.4%
- #23 Politon: Prologue
82% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Pinq Games
Windows · Mac
"Politon: Prologue" is the free prologue version of "Politon". This prologue includes a tutorial, game mechanics, and the prologue of the main story inside. Only Single-player modes are available.
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Grand Strategy 22% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Economy 10%, War 7.9%
- #24 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
81% matchVery Positive88% of 1,638 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%
- #25 WHO THE HELL OPENED THE PORTAL?!
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uberbax Gaming
Windows
A funny pixel art roguelite strategy. You manage a fantasy island kingdom connected by magical portals. By day — build, gather resources, hire heroes, and dive through portals to expand into new lands. By night — defend! The same portals unleash hordes of demons straight from Hell.
Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Roguelike 8.8%, Strategy 6%
- #26 Clash of Cultures
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zach
Windows · Mac
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 36% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Economy 9.9%, Strategy 8.5%
- #27 Shattered Spheres
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Data Vikings
Windows
Shattered Spheres is a turn-based 2D space 4X strategy game inspired by the classics of the genre. Explore a living galaxy, build your empire, and crush your rivals through military conquest or diplomatic cunning — without the micromanagement bloat of modern 4X games.
Why similar: 4X 37.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Old School 7.9%, Tactical 6.8%
- #28 Master of Luna
78% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Aleksandr Tiupin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Master of Luna is a turn-based strategy game where you take the role of a half-forgotten deity seeking to regain their former power. It features powerful magic, tactical battles, city building, sweet pixel art and a calm melancholic atmosphere.
Why similar: 4X 39% ★, Strategy RPG 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Fantasy 6.7%, Strategy 6.2%
- #29 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
79% 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 36.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy 8.4%, War 7.4%
- #30 EOL: End Of Line
78% 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 37% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Tactical 7%
- #31 Cosmist
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gulbrandr Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Conquer the galaxy in this arcade-like strategy game. Pick and send your generals to deploy the fleet in the far-off star sectors, mine resources, and upgrade your ships forgeries. Deities might interfere with your plans.
Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Tactical 5.6%
- #32 三国.群英录
75% 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% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, War 10.8%
- #33 Hex Kingdoms
76% 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 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 23% ★, War 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Tactical 10.6%
- #34 Hero Generations: ReGen
77% matchMixed60% of 93 reviews2016
Dev: Heart Shaped Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
An innovative Roguelike / 4X Strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. Explore, find a mate, and raise a child before you die to build a great legacy. ReGen is an amazing complete remake, redesigned, re-imagined, and packed with 100s of new features.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4% ★, Strategy RPG 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, Roguelike 8.7%
- #35 Heroes of Science and Fiction
73% matchVery Positive91% of 854 reviews2026
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3% ★, War 11.1%, Economy 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%
- #36 Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
74% matchVery Positive86% of 373,909 reviews2016
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 99.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Strategy 10%
- #37 Mayhem Intergalactic
77% matchMixed50% of 28 reviews2009
Dev: Inventive Dingo
Windows
Wage war on your friends and enemies in this simple and engaging strategy game. Easy to learn and quick to play, Mayhem Intergalactic is surprisingly strategic. Play against the computer, or duke it out with friends over the internet. The universe shall be yours!
Why similar: 4X 33.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, War 10.7%, Tactical 9.2%, Old School 8.3%
- #38 Stellar Monarch 2
74% matchVery Positive88% of 128 reviews2022
Dev: Silver Lemur Games
Windows
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 44.1% ★, Grand Strategy 31.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Strategy 8%
- #39 Tracktopia
73% 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 30.8% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, War 11.1%, Economy 10%
- #40 Commander: World War II
73% matchPositive86% of 29 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 37.7% ★, Strategy RPG 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 8.9%, War 7.6%
- #41 Trailblader
72% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: 迟到的南雨亭
Windows
Trailblader is a turn-based strategy game that features loop-based combat, integrating 4X strategy and hero development. The game tells the story of a hero who, having lost their homeland, leads the people to migrate to the wilderness to rebuild their home.
Why similar: 4X 36.9% ★, Economy 11.2%, Roguelike 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Strategy 9.7%
- #42 A New World: Kingdoms
75% matchNegative0% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Red Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A New World: Kingdoms is a turn-based strategic 4X game. Carefully expand your kingdom by constructing buildings and managing your resources. Building your own empire is not easy; there will be challenges along the way, from mountains to navigate to your rival and his warriors.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, War 8%, Tactical 7.5%
- #43 Colossal Citadels
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uneven Dungeon
Windows · Linux
A fantasy strategy, featuring turn-based factory building over procedural resource types. Expand and optimize your network of towns, grow your heroes, and excel in deep tactical seamless auto-battler combat.
Why similar: 4X 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%
- #44 Sid Meier's Civilization VII
70% matchMixed48% of 55,216 reviews2025
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Economy 11.1%, War 9.9%
- #45 Dynastic Era
71% 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 35.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 7.9%, War 5.6%
- #46 三國.爭霸
70% 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 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20% ★, City Builder 12.5%, War 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%
- #47 Agecraft
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SnakyDevelop
Windows · Mac
Agecraft is a historical strategy and city-building sim. Build your settlement, develop the economy, take care of your people, and guide your civilization through the ages, from the Stone Age to the future.
Why similar: 4X 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 11.1%, War 9.1%
- #48 Deity Empires
71% matchVery Positive86% of 340 reviews2018
Dev: BaileyHausdorff Systems
Windows
Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world.
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, City Builder 9.1%, Tactical 9%
- #49 Milord
69% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: iBright GamesPub: InEv Creative
Windows · Mac
Milord is a Kingdom Management RPG with city-building mechanics. Immerse yourself in a world where your decisions shape your fiefdom's destiny. Rule wisely as you construct, strategize, and navigate the challenges of leadership. Will you rise to glory or crumble under the weight of your choices?
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Strategy RPG 17.4%, City Builder 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Top-Down 6.7%
- #50 Space Empires II
71% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Economy 10.1%, Strategy 9.7%
- #51 Songs of Silence
68% matchVery Positive81% of 2,653 reviews2024
Dev: Chimera Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness! Embark on an epic journey of strategy in a visually stunning world. Fight intense battles and uncover a captivating story.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Strategy RPG 15.2%, War 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Tactical 10.5%
- #52 Heroes, Warlords and Ruin
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Autware
Windows
Create your hero, manage resources, raise armies and build an empire. This fantasy turn-based 4x strategy game features empire management, large-scale tactical battles, and RPG mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Tactical 9%, RPG 5.9%
- #53 Dominions - Priests, Prophets & Pretenders
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Illwinter Game Design
Windows · Linux
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. It all takes place in a fantasy world with monsters, magic items and world altering spells. Dominions is a 4x turn based strategy game with a large variety of spells and units.
Why similar: 4X 51.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Fantasy 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 5%
- #54 Small Kingdoms
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25% ★, City Builder 11.4%, War 10.7%, Tactical 9.3%
- #55 Wizards and Warlords
69% matchVery Positive83% of 258 reviews2020
Dev: Valravn Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wizards and Warlords is an indie turn-based strategy game, where you play in a randomly generated fantasy world, contending with rival wizards, warlords, roaming marauders and hidden ancient evils. Create a customized sovereign or choose from one of many predefined templates.
Why similar: 4X 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy RPG 9%, Old School 7.6%
- #56 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
67% matchVery Positive87% of 751 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, War 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Strategy RPG 10.2%
- #57 Monstrous Realms
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lockbow Games
Windows · Linux
Monstrous Realms is a Grand Strategy-Tactical RPG Hybrid in a medieval fantasy world. Govern a kingdom, directing heroes and monsters to conquer the continent. Victory is grasped through warfare, research, city development, diplomacy, trade, dungeon delving, crafting, and unit customization.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26.5% ★, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Economy 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%
- #58 Critias Empire
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%
- #59 Ascendant Dawn
66% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Nikous Studio
Windows
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 31.5% ★, Grand Strategy 27.3% ★, Economy 12.8%, War 9.5%, Top-Down 5.1%
- #60 The Heroic Legend of Eagarlnia
67% matchVery Positive85% of 1,621 reviews2022
Dev: HongShou StudioPub: Pixmain
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Lay out your grand strategy on the land of Eagarlnia where humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, and the undead each battle out a corner of land. Manage your territories by navigating complex decisions and grow your economy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, War 11.9%, Tactical 10.6%, Retro 6.6%