- #1 Imperium of the Stars
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hyrcronix
Windows
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 34.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Space 9.1%, Resource Management 7.2%, Strategy 6.1%
- #2 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 35.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Strategy 8.7%, Exploration 4.2%
- #3 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 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Management 8.8%, Space 8.6%, Economy 7.4%
- #4 Project Sol
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quack Reactions
Windows
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 32.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Space 7.1%, Management 7%
- #5 Solar Wave
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 27 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 28.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, Space 10.4%, Economy 8.1%, Management 7.1%
- #6 Antropico: Colonies
94% 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 29.2% ★, Grand Strategy 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Economy 7.4%
- #7 Spaceman's Luck
93% 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 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Space 16.8%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Strategy 6.7%
- #8 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
92% 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 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.2%, Resource Management 7.7%, Management 7%
- #9 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 38.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Space 10%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #10 Space One - Electron
91% 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 28.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, Space 10%, Resource Management 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #11 Reshaping Mars
90% matchVery Positive84% of 832 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 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, Building 9.3%, Space 7.9%
- #12 Space Empires I
89% 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 32.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, Management 11.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 8.3%
- #13 Tachyon Wars
89% 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 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5% ★, Space 12.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #14 Near Sol
88% 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 34.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Space 9.7%, Management 8.7%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #15 Agecraft
87% 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 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.3%, Economy 8.3%, Building 8%
- #16 Ascendance
86% matchNo user reviews2027
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% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3% ★, Space 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Economy 8%
- #17 Exogate Initiative
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 726 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 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 17%, Resource Management 9.8%, Aliens 9.7%, Building 9%
- #18 Galactic Inheritors
86% 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%
- #19 Nova Historia
84% 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 41.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, Resource Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Economy 6.4%
- #20 Elemental Empire
83% 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 39.3% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Space 10.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #21 Star Traders: 4X Empires
84% 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 27.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, Economy 9%, Aliens 8.9%, Building 7.3%
- #22 Galactic Conquest Battle Infinity
82% 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 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 12.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Aliens 9.5%
- #23 Ymir
82% 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 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 27.3%, Grand Strategy 14% ★, Economy 12.5%, Building 7.2%
- #24 Stellar Monarch 2
81% 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%, Strategy 8%, Sci-fi 8%
- #25 Distant Worlds 2
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,550 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.2 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%, Strategy 8.8%
- #26 Mind Prison: The Last War
79% 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 42.3% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Dark 6.5%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #27 Uncharted Sectors
79% 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 23.9% ★, 4X 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Economy 11.9%, Space 8.8%
- #28 Norland
78% matchVery Positive82% of 10,324 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 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 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.7%, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Economy 9.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #29 Whiskerwood
77% matchVery Positive92% of 3,254 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #30 Distant Worlds: Universe
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,855 reviews2014
Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.3 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 7.9%, Strategy 7.5%
- #31 Neural Dominion
77% 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 29.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Building 9.3%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #32 Nova Roma
75% matchVery Positive94% of 2,226 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, Economy 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #33 Rivers of Chaos
78% 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 26.1% ★, Space 13.3%, Management 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #34 Dark Moon
76% matchMixed47% of 161 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 24.6%, Economy 13.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 11.8%, Space 8.7%
- #35 Shattered Spheres
75% 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 40.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Space 12.2%, Management 7.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%
- #36 Stellar Reach
74% 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% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Space 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Management 7.1%
- #37 Space Empires II
76% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, Management 11.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Economy 8.1%
- #38 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
74% 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% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Economy 12.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Management 7.1%
- #39 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
73% matchPositive94% of 35 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 38.4% ★, Colony Sim 25.8%, Resource Management 7.8%, Crafting 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%
- #40 Stellaris
73% matchVery Positive86% of 196,718 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 144.9 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 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 26.3% ★, Space 15.1%, Sci-fi 9%, Strategy 5.5%
- #41 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
72% matchMixed59% of 452 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 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #42 Kingdoms and Castles
73% matchVery Positive94% of 31,368 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 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.3%, Management 8.7%
- #43 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
70% matchVery Positive91% of 26,981 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, 4X 17.6% ★, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.6%
- #44 The Veiled Atlas: A Cycle of Falls
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flat Gradient
Windows
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 49.1% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Space 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Economy 8.6%
- #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 29.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.9%
- #46 New Stars
70% 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 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Space 10%, Resource Management 10%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #47 Empires of the Undergrowth
69% matchVery Positive94% of 18,691 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.2%, Economy 9.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #48 Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
70% matchVery Positive95% of 189 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 34.1% ★, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #49 Antimatter
71% 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 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #50 Pax Nova
72% matchMixed56% of 452 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 20.6% ★, Space 9.2%, Building 8.6%, Management 7.6%
- #51 Imperial Ambitions
67% matchVery Positive83% of 98 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% ★, Grand Strategy 22% ★, Colony Sim 13.6%, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #52 万象战略
68% 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 41% ★, Grand Strategy 27% ★, Resource Management 10%, Economy 6.9%, Management 6.8%
- #53 Heart of the Machine
66% matchVery Positive92% of 2,094 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.1 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 23.1% ★, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, Economy 9.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #54 THREAT ACTOR
68% 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 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 17%, Grand Strategy 15.5% ★, Resource Management 9.3%, Dark 7.4%
- #55 Sunward
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Voidworks Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A deep, relaxed space-industry sim. Mine asteroids, refine raw ore into valuable goods, and trade on a living market while you build a modular station, grow a colony, and expand across the solar system and beyond into a freighter-linked empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Aliens 12.7%, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.6%, Space 8.8%
- #56 Goblins of Elderstone
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 24% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.4%
- #57 Imperium
67% 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 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Aliens 10.8%, Building 8%, Space 7.6%
- #58 First Colony
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Atesh Entertainment, Inc.
Windows · Mac
A turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games. Explore a new continent, expand across a hex-based world map, and build a network of production settlements directly on the frontier.
Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, Colony Sim 26.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Economy 7.9%, Management 5.9%
- #59 Star Ruler
69% matchVery Positive82% of 341 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 17.2%, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Strategy 11.8%, Sci-fi 7%
- #60 Against the Storm
65% matchVery Positive94% of 37,178 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 23.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 9.1%