- #1 Imperium of the Stars
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hyrcronix
Windows
Rebuild a scattered empire in a Gothic galaxy of distant beacons and lost colonies. A real-time 4X with four distinct playable factions, empire-wide command, and Living Sagas shaped by how you govern and conquer up to 10,000 star systems.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22%, Space 9.1%, Resource Management 7%, Strategy 6.1%
- #2 VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NeuroCore Game Design
Windows
VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH is a sci-fi colony-building strategy game. Lead 50 survivors on Elyra, build a thriving colony, develop its economy and research, return to the stars, and search for the lost path back to Earth.
Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, Economy 8.2%, Resource Management 8.1%, Space 7%
- #3 Splinter Colony
96% 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 35.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.2%, Grand Strategy 21.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Exploration 4.3%
- #4 Gate Builders
95% 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 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Space 8.7%, Management 8.7%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #5 Project Sol
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quack Reactions
Windows · Linux
Project Sol is a Sci-Fi colony sim set in the future when you civilization is just beginning to reach for the stars. Take control of your Empire, build massive orbital satellites, defend from roving pirates, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Space 7.2%, Aliens 6.9%
- #6 Solar Wave
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 84 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 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Space 10.5%, Economy 7.9%, Management 7%
- #7 Money Wars : Modern Ages
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EarthQuick
Windows · Mac · Linux
A country simulator built on strategy: 160 real nations, deep production chains, a live world market, diplomacy, intelligence and war. Win the world with economy, not armies.
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.4%, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Economy 6%
- #8 Antropico: Colonies
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows · Linux
A large-scale space strategy game focused on building and maintaining power within a simulated galaxy. Build, develop, and survive in a galaxy shaped by history and consequences.
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Colony Sim 8.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Economy 7.2%
- #9 Spaceman's Luck
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gideon Kennedy
Windows
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 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Space 16.9%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Strategy 6.7%
- #10 Cosmist
91% 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 38.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Space 10.1%, Sci-fi 6%
- #11 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
90% 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 24.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Resource Management 7.5%, Management 6.9%
- #12 NABERON
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NABERON Studio
Windows
Explore an unknown galaxy, colonize planets, and build an interstellar empire. In NABERON, a real-time space strategy game, you lead fleets and ground armies to war in space and on planet surfaces — alone or with your friends. Inspired by a legendary '90s Hungarian classic.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Space 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #13 Reshaping Mars
88% matchVery Positive84% of 834 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 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Grand Strategy 16.5%, Building 9.3%, Space 7.9%
- #14 Space One - Electron
89% 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 28.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%
- #15 Tachyon Wars
87% 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 35.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6%, Space 12.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #16 Space Empires I
86% 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 32.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 8.1%
- #17 Near Sol
86% 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 34.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Space 9.8%, Management 8.6%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #18 Agecraft
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SnakyDevelop
Windows · Mac
Agecraft is a city-builder strategy where you guide a settlement through thousands of years of human history. Manage individual citizens, grow your economy, trade or wage war with other states, and advance from the Stone Age to the Space Age.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Economy 8.1%, Building 8%
- #19 Ascendance
84% matchNo user reviews
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 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5%, Space 9.2%, Resource Management 8.6%, Economy 7.8%
- #20 Exogate Initiative
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 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 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 17%, Aliens 9.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9%
- #21 Galactic Inheritors
85% matchMixed43% of 88 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 44.9% ★, Space 19.4%, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Strategy 8.4%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #22 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Economy 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #23 Tales From Outer Space
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: William MurphyPub: Ludi Absurdi
Windows · Mac · Linux
The hardest part about interstellar expansion isn't the technical cost, its the people. Exploit ecosystems, manipulate the masses, and conquer the intergalactic market. Growth is mandatory -- ethics are not.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.8%, 4X 22.7% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 10.1%
- #24 Nova Historia
81% 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 41.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23%, Strategy 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Economy 6.2%
- #25 Elemental Empire
80% match5 user reviews60% of 5 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 39.4% ★, Grand Strategy 29.6%, Space 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 5.6%
- #26 Star Traders: 4X Empires
82% 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 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.6%, Aliens 9%, Economy 8.8%, Building 7.3%
- #27 The Pegasus Expedition
79% matchMixed63% of 392 reviews2023
Dev: Kalla GameworksPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 19.1%, Aliens 9.9%, Space 8.8%, Management 7.1%
- #28 Galactic Conquest Battle Infinity
78% 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 20.3%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%, Aliens 9.6%
- #29 Stellar Monarch 2
78% matchVery Positive89% of 133 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 29%, Space 9.9%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Strategy 8%
- #30 Ymir
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,115 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 77.4 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 30.9% ★, Colony Sim 27.3%, Grand Strategy 14.1%, Economy 12.2%, Building 7.2%
- #31 Astral 4X
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Encelade Interactive
Windows
A deep-space 4X simulation. Explore a procedurally generated universe, colonize worlds, build a realistic economy, and lead your civilization toward galactic domination. Brave ecological and economic crises, face famines, wars, and disasters, and ensure your survival!
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Space 10.7%, Economy 9.3%
- #32 Distant Worlds 2
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,566 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 42.6% ★, Grand Strategy 26.8%, Space 12%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Strategy 8.7%
- #33 Mind Prison: The Last War
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Rotten Sewer Productions
Windows
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 42.4% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Dark 6.5%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #34 Uncharted Sectors
76% 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 24%, 4X 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.8%, Economy 11.6%, Space 8.9%
- #35 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 40.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Space 12.3%, Management 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.5%
- #36 Neural Dominion
74% 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 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.4%, Resource Management 8%
- #37 Whiskerwood
72% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 19%, Grand Strategy 18.8%, Economy 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #38 Distant Worlds: Universe
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,856 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Why similar: 4X 48.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Space 15.1%, Sci-fi 8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #39 Solar Imperium
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Node One Digital
Windows
Crash-land on an unknown world and build your settlement hex by hex across its entire globe. Then take it to the stars: a real-time grand strategy game where you zoom from one colony's roads out to a galaxy held by ancient powers that play by the same rules you do.
Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Grand Strategy 18.3%, Economy 8.4%, Space 7.5%
- #40 Rivers of Chaos
75% 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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2%, Space 13.4%, Management 9%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #41 Dark Moon
73% matchMixed47% of 162 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 24.7%, Economy 13.1%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Space 8.9%
- #42 Nova Roma
71% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 21.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Economy 9.5%, Building 9%
- #43 Stellar Reach
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Stelleas
Windows
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 38.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Space 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Management 7%
- #44 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
70% matchPositive95% of 37 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 38.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.8%, Resource Management 7.5%, Crafting 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%
- #45 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
71% 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 39.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26%, Economy 12.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Management 7%
- #46 Space Empires II
73% matchMixed58% of 19 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 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.3%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Economy 7.9%
- #47 Stellaris
71% matchVery Positive86% of 197,307 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 145.5 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 26.3%, Space 15.2%, Sci-fi 9%, Strategy 5.4%
- #48 RECROSS IDLE
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AntiopePub: Ouest Audit
Windows
An idle space 4X drawn entirely in Minitel-era text. Your empire builds, scans and colonizes while the game is closed — but the Hegemony raids on ninety seconds' warning, and something at the centre of the galaxy has started listening.
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Space 12%, Strategy 7%, Aliens 6.1%
- #49 The Veiled Atlas: A Cycle of Falls
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flat Gradient
Windows · Linux
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 49.3% ★, Strategy 12%, Space 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Economy 8.4%
- #50 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
69% matchMixed58% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 36.1% ★, Grand Strategy 19.3%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #51 Antimatter
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a 4X strategy game set in a vast, living, and fully simulated galaxy of immense scale and depth. Become anything from a humble spaceship captain to a galactic emperor, and everything in between.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #52 New Stars
67% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 30.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #53 Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
67% matchVery Positive95% of 193 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 34.4% ★, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Economy 9%, Building 8.7%
- #54 Orbit Economica
68% 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 30% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.8%
- #55 Pax Nova
70% matchMixed56% of 453 reviews2020
Dev: Grey Wolf EntertainmentPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Space 9.3%, Building 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #56 Empires of the Undergrowth
66% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 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 23% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Economy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #57 Imperium
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Petroff Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Imperium is a single-player 4X space strategy game. Colonize alien worlds, design your own spaceships, research exotic technologies, and outmaneuver rival empires through diplomacy or open war. Build a galactic empire and rule it your way.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22%, Aliens 11.3%, Building 8.3%, Space 7.8%
- #58 Kingdoms and Castles
68% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 9.1%, Management 8.6%
- #59 Norland
66% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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 23.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Economy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #60 Imperial Ambitions
65% 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 26.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.4%