- #1 Splinter Colony
97% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cast and Wrought Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Exploration 4.2%
- #2 Gate Builders
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pyralis Studio
Windows · Linux
Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!
Why similar: 4X 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, Management 9%, Space 8.5%, Economy 7.8%
- #3 Solar Wave
96% matchNo user 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 28.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Space 10.3%, Economy 8.5%, Management 7.3%
- #4 Antropico: Colonies
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows · Linux
Un gioco di strategia spaziale su larga scala che mira a costruire e mantenere il potere in una galassia simulata. Costruisci, sviluppa e sopravvivi in una galassia plasmata dalla storia e conseguenze.
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 8.5% ★, Strategy 7.9%, Economy 7.8%
- #5 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Resource Management 8.1%, Management 7.2%
- #6 Cosmist
94% matchNo user reviews
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 38.5% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Space 9.6%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #7 Space One - Electron
93% matchMixed56% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Triangle4 Studios Inc.
Windows
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: 4X 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Space 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #8 Reshaping Mars
92% matchVery Positive85% of 831 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 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #9 Space Empires I
91% matchMixed54% of 13 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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Management 11.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 8.8%
- #10 Tachyon Wars
91% 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 35.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Space 12.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #11 Agecraft
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SnakyDevelop
Windows
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 26.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Economy 8.7%, Building 7.9%
- #12 Ascendance
89% matchNo user reviews2026
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 28.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20% ★, Resource Management 9.3%, Space 9%, Economy 8.3%
- #13 Near Sol
89% 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 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4% ★, Space 9.6%, Management 9%, Economy 5.7%
- #14 Exogate Initiative
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Aliens 9.5%, Management 9%
- #15 Nova Historia
86% 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 41% ★, Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Economy 6.7%
- #16 Galactic Inheritors
88% matchMixed44% of 86 reviews2015
Dev: Crispon GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 45% ★, Space 19.3%, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #17 Elemental Empire
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: WizardingGames
Windows · Mac
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 39% ★, Grand Strategy 29.1% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Space 10.8%, Strategy 5.7%
- #18 Galactic Conquest Battle Infinity
85% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Dennys LaraPub: Denvzla Estudio
Windows
In the year 3200. The Ethernal ore used as fuel for spaceships was beginning to run out, a galactic war broke out for control of the Ethernal, the galactic emperor Erick V issued a challenge to achieve peace, "the faction that can produce the most Ethernal will control the entire galaxy".
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.7%, Aliens 9.3%
- #19 Imperial Kingdoms
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BaroxxTech
Windows · Linux
Expand your kingdom: Gather resources and transport them to your capital city to produce the materials you need to expand your army and conquer new regions. Research new technologies to improve your economy and army. Use your troops wisely to outmanoeuvre your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 38.1% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, Management 11.6%, Strategy 9%, Economy 8.2%
- #20 Ymir
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,110 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, Economy 13.1%, Building 7.1%
- #21 The Pegasus Expedition
83% matchMixed63% of 382 reviews2023
Dev: Kalla GameworksPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The Pegasus Expedition is a story-driven sci-fi grand strategy game set in a key moment for humankind’s survival. Facing an overwhelming threat at home, humanity sends expeditions to the Pegasus Galaxy in a desperate attempt to find a refuge for the population of Earth.
Why similar: 4X 25.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Aliens 9.7%, Space 8.7%, Management 7.5%
- #22 Stellar Monarch 2
82% matchVery Positive88% of 123 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 45.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.9% ★, Space 9.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Sci-fi 8%
- #23 Distant Worlds 2
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,478 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 42.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 42.7% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7% ★, Space 11.9%, Sci-fi 9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #24 Uncharted Sectors
81% matchNo user reviews2029
Dev: Luc ToupensePub: N42C
Windows · Linux
A grand strategy game built on a deep economic simulation and orchestrated by an intelligent AI storyteller. Ensure the survival of your domain at the edge of the galaxy: colonize worlds, manage populations, navigate politics, design custom goods, and master dynamic markets.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, 4X 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Economy 12.5%, Space 8.7%
- #25 Whiskerwood
79% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #26 Dark Moon
80% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 11.9%, Space 8.5%
- #27 Nova Roma
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #28 Distant Worlds: Universe
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,845 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 48.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Space 15.1%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Strategy 7.6%
- #29 Norland
77% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Economy 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #30 Rivers of Chaos
79% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Bugarug GamesPub: Burgarug Games
Windows
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 32.1% ★, Grand Strategy 26% ★, Space 13.2%, Management 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #31 Manor Lords
77% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #32 Neural Dominion
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GamesBond StudiosPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A brutal cyberpunk 4X turn-based strategy game. Take control of one of 5 gangs in Technograd — a dark, crime ridden city where getting to the top is the only thing that matters.
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8% ★, Building 9.2%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #33 Stellar Reach
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 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 38% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Space 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Management 7.3%
- #34 Against the Storm
74% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Economy 9.6%
- #35 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
74% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Resource Management 8.1%, Crafting 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%
- #36 Shattered Spheres
75% matchNo user reviews
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 40.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22.2% ★, Space 12.1%, Management 8%, Sci-fi 5.4%
- #37 Space Empires II
76% matchMixed59% of 17 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 30.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Management 12%, Strategy 9.9%, Economy 8.5%
- #38 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
73% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 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 35.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #39 Star Traders: 4X Empires
76% matchMixed63% of 82 reviews2014
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.
Why similar: 4X 27.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Economy 9.5%, Aliens 8.8%, Building 7.3%
- #40 New Stars
73% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: adamjr
Windows · 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 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Space 9.9%, Economy 6.6%
- #41 Empires of the Undergrowth
72% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #42 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
71% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, 4X 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.1%
- #43 Stellaris
73% matchVery Positive86% of 191,915 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 142.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 26.2% ★, Space 15%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #44 THREAT ACTOR
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nocturne Studio
Windows
Threat Actor is a cybercrime-themed RTS game featuring a series of campaign maps with increasingly complex mechanics and objectives.
Why similar: 4X 23.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 7.7%
- #45 Orbit Economica
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Phoenix SmithPub: Parallel Games
Windows
Trade, Build, Spy, Negotiate, and Battle for total control of the galaxy's riches. Become the backbone of galactic commerce in a grand strategy universe ripe with opportunity for exploitation and conquest.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1% ★, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 9%
- #46 Heart of the Machine
69% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #47 Imperial Ambitions
71% matchNo user 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 25.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #48 Antimatter
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation or control your own spaceships to explore a huge and living galaxy !
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #49 Goblins of Elderstone
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.2%
- #50 Heliopolis Six
70% matchMixed55% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Acid Mines Software UG
Windows
Embark on a cosmic odyssey as the director of your own space station in a galaxy full of wonders. Skillful management is vital as you construct and connect station components, oversee resource handling, and guide your space haven to reach new heights amidst the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Resource Management 13.2%, Space 11.9%, Economy 11.7%, Building 10.2%
- #51 Nebula Miner
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Tacit Software Solutions
Windows
Nebula miner puts you in control of a space mining company. A real time resource management game where you need to explore space to find resources, and then harvest them efficiently.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Space 17.4%, Resource Management 16.6%, Economy 16%, Management 8.7%
- #52 Final Vanguard
69% 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 30% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, Space 10.5%, Economy 10.1%, Management 8.4%
- #53 Critias Empire
68% 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 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Economy 10.3%
- #54 Order: The New Dawn
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, 4X 25.7% ★, Resource Management 13.7%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.8%
- #55 Void Ascendancy
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: lijohnttle Studio
Windows
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 42.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Space 6.5%, Sci-fi 5.3%
- #56 Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
66% matchVery Positive95% of 172 reviews2025
Dev: Holistic Design, Inc.
Windows · Linux
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your Royal House through battles on land, sea, air, and the vast reaches of space.
Why similar: 4X 33.6% ★, Lore-Rich 15.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.5%
- #57 Sovereign Stars
66% 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 36.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, Economy 10%, Management 7.3%, Space 6.6%
- #58 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
64% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Strategy 8.5%, Management 7.2%, Economy 6.5%
- #59 Star Ruler
68% matchVery Positive83% of 340 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 47.4% ★, Space 17.1%, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Sci-fi 7%
- #60 Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
69% matchMixed44% of 956 reviews2012
Dev: Kerberos ProductionsPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 55.2% ★, Space 15.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Lore-Rich 7.9%