60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, 4X, Grand Strategy, Space.
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.
Old Stars
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.
Galactic Inheritors
Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Space 12%, Real Time Tactics 7.6%
Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.
Why similar: 4X 40.9% ★, Space 21.7%, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Sci-fi 7.3%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 39.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Space 13.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%
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 30.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9% ★, Strategy 16.1%, Space 15.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%
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 33.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Space 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, Strategy 9%
A real-time 4X where each faction plays like a different game. Rule a Gothic empire that runs on faith, unmake the galaxy world by world, or forge a warhost from salvage. Up to 10,000 procedurally generated star systems. No diplomacy. Only war.
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Space 12.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 5.9%
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 42.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Space 11.4%, Sci-fi 7.3%
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 42.4% ★, Space 18.9%, Strategy 18.6%, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, Sci-fi 6.2%
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 45.6% ★, Space 17.4%, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 7.3%
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, Space 11.2%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%, Strategy 7.5%
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 26.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Space 9.7%, Strategy 8.5%
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 31.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Space 7.3%
An economic 4x strategy in a space filled with magic and procedurally generated planets. Build your own empire and become the sole ruler of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.6% ★, Space 13.2%, Strategy 9.8%, PvE 4.5%
Conquer the galaxy in this cinematic, battle-simulator. Each playthrough offering a completely unique galaxy, over 100 total specialized ships to command, and distinct commanders to lead your people. Pick your favorite faction and lead your forces into a dynamically generated battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, Space 15.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%
A space 4X game. Colonize planets and annihilate enemy races in an intergalactic war for living space. Designed to be fun, fast, and easy to play.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7% ★, Space 22.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Sci-fi 7.7%
Command your space fleet, mine asteroids, and conquer colonies in this immersive real-time strategy game. Build powerful space stations, upgrade your ships through combat experience, and manage vital resources as you expand your dynasty across a star system.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, Space 13.1%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%, Strategy 8.6%
Expand your empire one sector at a time in a fast-paced turn-based 4X strategy game. Capture planets, harvest resources, command powerful fleets, and adapt your strategy with unique Emperors and unpredictable divine interventions. Play solo, or challenge rivals in tactical PvP.
Why similar: 4X 40.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, Space 12.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Sci-fi 6.1%
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 36% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Space 13.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.5%
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 32.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Space 9.7%, Futuristic 8.1%
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 32.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.7% ★, Space 14.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Real Time Tactics 7.7%
"Fire and Dark Stars" is a real-time 4X strategy game. You can grow your base, build your fleet, search for enemies, and destroy them. You need to carefully manage your resources, set up and protect your supply lines, so that your fleet does not run out of ammo and fuel.
Why similar: 4X 35.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Space 13.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Sci-fi 7%
The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.
Why similar: 4X 52.7% ★, Strategy 19.6%, Space 15.3%, Grand Strategy 6.3% ★, Sci-fi 6%
ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
Why similar: 4X 43.7% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Space 18.1%, Sci-fi 8%, Grand Strategy 4.9% ★
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 33.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, Space 15%, Strategy 9.7%, Sci-fi 7.8%
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Space 13.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%
StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.
Why similar: 4X 42.7% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Space 20.7%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Singleplayer 0.2%
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
Why similar: 4X 53.3% ★, Strategy 19.7%, Space 18%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 30.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2% ★, Space 10.7%, Real Time Tactics 8.1%, Futuristic 7.4%
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25% ★, Space 18.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.8%
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 53.6% ★, Space 20.1%, Strategy 17.8%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
Why similar: 4X 56.2% ★, Strategy 20.9%, Space 13.5%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
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 37.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%, Wargame 5.8%
Experience first-hand the challenges of leading one of 16 different races into unequalled galactic supremacy and face a universe of decisions. Set policies, explore, build, declare war, negotiate - put all these elements into motion to guarantee your place in the annals of space and time.
Why similar: 4X 61.2% ★, Strategy 22.9%, Space 11%, Sci-fi 4.9%
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Why similar: 4X 33.5% ★, Space 20.7%, Strategy 18%, Grand Strategy 15.4% ★, Sci-fi 6.8%
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 39.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Strategy 15.7%, Space 10.5%, Sci-fi 5.3%
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
Why similar: 4X 51.8% ★, Space 21.2%, Strategy 21.1%, Sci-fi 5.8%
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 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, Space 16.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Wargame 10.7%
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Why similar: 4X 33% ★, Grand Strategy 24.2% ★, Space 14.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%
In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Grand Strategy 22.7% ★, Space 13.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Futuristic 8%
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 53.5% ★, Strategy 21.6%, Space 16.2%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.3%
4X Lite Strategy Game where You are a war AI rebooting after 800 years of silence. Your orders are still active. The enemy is gone—so is everyone else. Conquer the galaxy, uncover corrupted memories, and face the horrifying truth: no one told you to stop.
Why similar: 4X 44.9% ★, Grand Strategy 28.3% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Sci-fi 6.1%, 2D 2%
Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.
Why similar: 4X 49.4% ★, Space 22.1%, Strategy 17.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard. It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light.
Why similar: 4X 54.4% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Space 16.8%, Sci-fi 9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge. Build alliances, make enemies and fight your way to victory and galactic domination. Will you conquer the galaxy?
Why similar: 4X 46.1% ★, Strategy 19.6%, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%, War 5.8%
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 42.8% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4% ★, Space 15.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Sci-fi 5.6%
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 37.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Wargame 7.7%, Futuristic 6.4%
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 42% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Futuristic 7.4%, Sci-fi 6.2%
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 41% ★, Space 16.1%, Strategy 16.1%, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Sci-fi 6.8%
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Strategy 15.8%, Space 14.7%, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, Sci-fi 11%
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 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, Space 15.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Real Time Tactics 8.9%
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 45.4% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Space 13.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.1%
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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Space 12.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Sci-fi 8%
Play a grand strategy game in any world you want, on land or in space. Import real maps, play a procedurely generated world, or hand-draw your own fictional universe. Then lead your faction to domination by managing its economy, diplomacy, and military.
Why similar: 4X 36.5% ★, Grand Strategy 27.7% ★, Strategy 11.4%, Space 7.2%, Wargame 6.4%
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 26% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3% ★, Space 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Strategy 10.8%
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 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.2%, Space 12.3%, Aliens 8%
A turn-based 4X of rival governments contesting the dim Atlas through economy, war and an Influence-weighted Council. At the edge of sensor range, the Shadow does not lose - it only rises.
Why similar: 4X 51.5% ★, Strategy 22.4%, Space 13.2%, Sci-fi 9.7%, 2D 2.8%
Play campaign stories within the Galactic Ruler universe. Invade the galaxy to eliminate those who stand in your way or rally alien races to defend against the invaders. Fight battles at both planet and space across a procedurally generated galaxy. Use new unit control systems to manage your forces.
Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Space 14.9%, Strategy 10%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 37.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Space 14.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.7%
Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate in this sci-fi 4X turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 51.3% ★, Strategy 21.9%, Space 13.6%, Sci-fi 9.8%, 2D 3%
