- #1 Nova Historia
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7%, Historical 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Hex Grid 8.1% ★
- #2 Astro Protocol
96% matchVery Positive94% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: Null Vector Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, Hex Grid 16.2% ★, Grid-Based Movement 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%
- #3 It Takes a Tribe
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Cog
Windows · Linux
A turn-based strategy where you build culture, not cities. Migrate your hunter-gatherer tribe across a simulated ecosystem, survive harsh seasons and awaken mythical beings. Design powerful art inspired by your journey. What stories will your tribe tell?
Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, Hex Grid 13% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, PvE 7%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #4 HUMANKIND™
95% matchMixed69% of 28,852 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Historical 13.5%, Hex Grid 9.1% ★
- #5 Demise of Nations
94% matchVery Positive81% of 558 reviews2017
Dev: Noble Master LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.
Why similar: 4X 25.9% ★, Hex Grid 19.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Historical 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%
- #6 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 221 Games
Windows
《水浒豪》是一款回合制战略游戏,是《三国志》、《文明》、《欧陆风云》的粉丝们不容错过的作品。您扮演山寨之主,运筹帷幄,纵横捭阖。原著中528位好汉、116处据点、49个势力在游戏中登场。被奸臣谋害,魂断蓼儿洼?呸!洒家要清君侧!慢着……洒家要当皇帝!兀那赵老官!给洒家从宝座上爬下来!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27%, 4X 21.5% ★, Historical 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Strategy 8.3%
- #7 From Village to Empire
93% matchMostly Positive70% of 57 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Hex Grid 21.7% ★, Historical 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Strategy 9.5%
- #8 Lands of Rumour
92% 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 25% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6%, Hex Grid 14.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Historical 7.2%
- #9 Hex Kingdoms
91% 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 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7%, Hex Grid 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Tactical 9%
- #10 BOC: Birth of Cultures
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
The 4X where you shape 50,000 years of human history across planet-scale worlds.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Hex Grid 19.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6%, Historical 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%
- #11 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
90% matchVery Positive88% of 1,681 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 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 21.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, Hex Grid 17.7% ★, Historical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%
- #12 Folk Emerging
89% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Curious Dynamics
Windows
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Historical 14%, Hex Grid 12.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Nature 9.9%
- #13 Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sovereign Era Games
Windows · Mac
Command a civilization from antiquity to the modern era in a historical 4X focused on grand strategy over micro-management. Direct armies, research technologies, run spy networks, and shape your empire through deep, intuitive macro-mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, Historical 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Hex Grid 9.8% ★
- #14 Dominium Mundi
88% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Dusan Petrovic
Windows · Linux
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Why similar: 4X 43% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Historical 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #15 HUMANKIND™ 2
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows
Build a civilization that spans the ages in this historical turn-based strategy game. Combine evolving cultures, raise cities, command armies and expand your empire as a changing climate reshapes the world and your path through history.
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, Grand Strategy 19%, Historical 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Strategy 8.1%
- #16 EOL: End Of Line
86% 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 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24.2%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #17 Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
86% matchVery Positive86% of 379,637 reviews2016
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 101.6 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 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Grand Strategy 18.3%, Historical 15.6%, Strategy 10.4%
- #18 Monarchs at Play
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGames
Windows · Mac
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Hex Grid 16.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Historical 7.4%
- #19 万象战略
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeleePsycho
Windows
Myriad Strategies: a turn-based strategy game. Rule a nation amid wars, famine, plague, and refugees. Manage cities, talent, economy. The world shifts. Win by holding cities, stabilizing lives, solving refugee crises, building food systems & spy networks, or surviving the chaos.
Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, Hex Grid 17.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 6.5%
- #20 Alliance of the Sacred Suns
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KatHawk Studios
Windows · Mac
Alliance of the Sacred Suns is a sci-fi grand-strategy RPG that begins with your coronation as the head of an interstellar Empire, and ends with your demise. Manage feuding noble houses and the schemes of would-be usurpers as you try to revive the glory of an Empire on the brink of collapse.
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Grand Strategy 17%, Hex Grid 16.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
- #21 Zaman
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Naleka Studio
Windows
Zaman is a fast, card-driven 4X strategy game where every card shapes your empire. Found cities, research technologies, command your leader on the battlefield and unleash game-changing abilities in short, high-stakes matches.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Hex Grid 19.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Historical 11.1%
- #22 Imperial Ambitions
81% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: aoiti
Windows · Mac
Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
Why similar: 4X 21% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Hex Grid 16.1% ★, Historical 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%
- #23 Wizard Warfare
82% matchVery Positive97% of 63 reviews2019
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.
Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Tactical 12%, Procedural Generation 11.2%
- #24 Imperialist
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
From a veteran 4X Strategy developer comes a new deep strategy game of logistics, empire, and control. Develop the New World, industrialise your capital, manage your growing Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals to become history's first Superpower. Can you exploit the New World to control the Old?
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9%, Historical 14.5%, Hex Grid 12.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%
- #25 Underfoot Queens
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ElVillano
Windows · Linux
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Hex Grid 16.2% ★, Grid-Based Movement 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Nature 9.5%
- #26 Great Powers
80% matchMixed68% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: Flame-Dragons
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9%, Hex Grid 19.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Historical 10.1%
- #27 Millennia
79% matchMixed67% of 3,788 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Hex Grid 12.8% ★, Historical 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%
- #28 Hexarchy
79% matchVery Positive82% of 1,656 reviews2023
Dev: Main Tank SoftwarePub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Hexarchy is an innovative, fast-paced, historical 4x strategy game where you use cards and deckbuilding to make your decisions. Single-player and online multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 21.9% ★, Hex Grid 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6%, Historical 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%
- #29 Mercatoria
78% match4 user reviews40% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: DKS
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 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Historical 10.6%, Strategy 6.7%
- #30 Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boqi Island
Windows
Return to the Three Kingdoms period. On the grand strategic tactical battlefield, use terrain for defense setup and resource allocation to shift the battle situation. Control the war via hexagonal grid movement and tactical ability activation, and unify the realm.
Why similar: Hex Grid 23% ★, 4X 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1%, Historical 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%
- #31 Yield! Fall of Rome
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 268 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 21.2% ★, Hex Grid 16.5% ★, Grand Strategy 14.5%, Historical 10.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%
- #32 Rogue Hex
77% matchVery Positive87% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Hex Grid 17.7% ★, Historical 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%
- #33 Dwarf Guild Mania
76% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: QuarkbluePub: Kennedy Publishing House
Windows · Mac
Lead a campaign of glory as you mine, trade, conquer, & sabotage your way to victory. Your Kingdom of Dwarves must vanquish its rivals and conquer the realm in this turn-based economic strategy game. Lead your Dwarves across new lands in search of gems, gold, & glory. For the Guild!
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Hex Grid 16.7% ★, Grand Strategy 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Historical 10.5%
- #34 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
76% 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 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.8%, Historical 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Tactical 7.6%
- #35 Revival: Recolonization
75% matchMixed69% of 428 reviews2024
Dev: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
Why similar: 4X 23.9% ★, Hex Grid 20.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Tactical 8%
- #36 Frostward
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KoPoint Games
Windows
Frostward is a turn-based 4X survival strategy game set on a frozen hex world, where you plan districts, work toward monumental Wonders, command armies in battle, and decide whether humanity will endure, escape, or restore warmth to the world.
Why similar: 4X 35% ★, Hex Grid 26% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Tactical 9.4%, Survival 7.9%
- #37 Shattered Spheres
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 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 35% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Management 7%, Tactical 6.4%
- #38 DeckTerra
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
DeckTerra is a 4X strategy game built around cards. Explore procedurally generated maps, research new technologies, develop your settlements, and raise armies all while building a deck that complements your strategy.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4%, Historical 15%, Hex Grid 14% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%
- #39 Inflection Point
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Giannakopoulos
Windows
A multiplayer 4X strategy game of globe-spanning 19th-century battle. Break through enemy lines, encircle their armies, and cut off their supply. Colonize resource-rich islands and blockade those of your opponents. Games are quick and packed with dramatic, high-stakes combat.
Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2%, Hex Grid 13.6% ★, Historical 10.9%, Grid-Based Movement 9.6%
- #40 Tartaria: Frozen Frontier
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Rubedo Games
Windows
Lead your clan, build settlements, and survive enemy raids in a turn-based strategy set in the harsh northern lands.
Why similar: 4X 25.9% ★, Hex Grid 23.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Historical 10.6%, Procedural Generation 6.8%
- #41 Cosmist
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gulbrandr Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 37.4% ★, Grand Strategy 26.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Strategy 6.7%, Tactical 5.3%
- #42 Space Empires I
73% matchMixed56% of 16 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 30.8% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 10.4%
- #43 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WoN
Windows
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 8.7%
- #44 Imperiums: The Americas
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Guide your people across generations in the pre-Columbian Americas. Build a lasting civilization through trade, diplomacy, culture, and war in this historical turn-based 4X grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 22.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Hex Grid 16.5% ★, Historical 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%
- #45 Politon
70% matchVery Positive90% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Pinq Games
Windows · Mac
Politon: A turn-based strategy game that will push your strategic and management skills to the limit! Expand your territory, strengthen your economy, and outsmart your enemies by planning your strategy carefully.
Why similar: 4X 25.9% ★, Hex Grid 23% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, PvE 6.2%
- #46 Antiyoy
70% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: yiotro
Windows
Turn-based strategy with simple rules
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Hex Grid 16.3% ★, Historical 12.2%, Grid-Based Movement 10.7%
- #47 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 29.9% ★, Hex Grid 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Tactical 8.2%
- #48 Wizards and Warlords
71% matchVery Positive83% of 260 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 27.2% ★, Hex Grid 20.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
- #49 Ever War
69% 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 32.8% ★, Hex Grid 21.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Tactical 8.2%
- #50 Embersong: History Is Yours
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Camis Publishers
Windows · Mac · Linux
A historical turn-based 4X with the feel of '90s strategy games. Build your empire across eight eras in a roguelike campaign: five completed matches, win or lose, build bonuses for a sixth-match mythic finale. Beware your Archenemy.
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Historical 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Management 6.6%
- #51 Epoch of Guardians
68% matchPositive85% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: 伊洛维游戏
Windows
In history, many brilliant civilizations faced annihilation due to the invasion of powerful empires, leaving only sighs of regret. In a fictional world, you will take on the role Guardian of Civilization. Can you help these civilizations grow and thrive, resisting the invasion of formidable enemies?
Why similar: Hex Grid 31.9% ★, Historical 17%, 4X 15.7% ★, Grand Strategy 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%
- #52 Kinjea
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tenikkan Games
Windows · Linux
Lead your people through all of human history on a spherical planet. Wage war and forge alliances as you guide your nation in this 4X grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5%, Historical 9.1%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.8%
- #53 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
69% 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 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Tactical 6.5%
- #54 Critias Empire
68% matchNo user reviews
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 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Hex Grid 14.7% ★, Historical 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%
- #55 Winter Hunts Us
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Syslí Nora
Windows
Lead a prehistoric clan across a brutal hex map in a turn-based survival roguelite. Outrun the glacier, fight hunger, face strange events, and defy extinction.
Why similar: Hex Grid 24.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Historical 12.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Survival 10.6%
- #56 European War 4: Napoleon Remastered
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EASYTECH GAMES
Windows
European War 4: Napoleon Remastered is a turn-based strategy game, offering a comprehensive renovation of the original. Return to the Napoleonic era, deploy tactics, conquer territories, command historical generals, experience legendary battles, and master the art of war.
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Hex Grid 19.2% ★, Historical 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%
- #57 Rise and Fall: Bronze Age
67% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Ludwig LoreKhan
Windows
Rise & Fall: Bronze Age is a Grand Strategy game set in the Bronze Age between 3400BC and 1150BC. Expand your power by diplomacy and war and manage your troublesome elites. Feed your people, build temples for your gods and tombs for your rulers. How high can you rise before your empire falls ?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Historical 19.1%, Management 12%, Strategy 8.3%
- #58 Hexagon Imperium
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: L33t Pro Studio
Windows
Command your empire across a hexagonal battlefield. Conquer cities, raise armies of soldiers, artillery, and tanks, and crush 3 rival factions. Fast-paced turn-based strategy — solo or online multiplayer for up to 4 players.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.9%, Hex Grid 20.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.8%, Historical 14.6%, Strategy 13%
- #59 Cee One Vee
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BANANACODE LTD
Windows
Lead your civilization across six thousand years of history in this turn-based strategy game built for the Game Boy Advance. D-pad-first play makes it a natural fit for Steam Deck.
Why similar: 4X 43.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 23.1%, Historical 20.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #60 Annhexation
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: James Randall
Windows · Mac · Linux
Conquer the world in an evening. 4X distilled. Eight civilisations, three victory paths, complete games in 3-4 hours. No twelve-hour death marches. No spreadsheets. Just maps, decisions, and the next turn.
Why similar: 4X 38.6% ★, Hex Grid 28.6% ★, Historical 20.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%