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Games Like The Exalted Descendant

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, 4X, Grand Strategy, Space.

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Rebuild a fallen species in this dark sci-fi 4X strategy game. Extract and refine real elements, command drone swarms, and make tough choices as you guide The Exalted Descendant toward resurgence—or extinction—in a procedurally generated galaxy. No diplomacy. No mercy.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2026
Developer: Idania
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Linux

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    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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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%

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    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. #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. #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. #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.

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  14. #14 Near Sol
    88% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
    Dev: LTide
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  15. #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%

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    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%

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    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%

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    86% matchMixed43% of 88 reviews2015
    Dev: Crispon GamesPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%

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    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.

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    Dev: WizardingGames
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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    Dev: Dennys LaraPub: Denvzla Estudio
    Windows

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    82% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,115 reviews2019
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    Windows
    Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    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.

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    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.

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    79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
    Dev: Rotten Sewer Productions
    Windows

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  27. #27 Uncharted Sectors
    79% matchNo user reviews2029
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    78% matchVery Positive82% of 10,324 reviews2024
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    Windows
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  29. #29 Whiskerwood
    77% matchVery Positive92% of 3,254 reviews2025
    Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    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.

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    77% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    78% matchNo user reviews2024
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: WoN
    Windows

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    73% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2025
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    Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
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    72% matchMixed59% of 452 reviews2025
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    73% matchVery Positive94% of 31,368 reviews2017
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    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    71% matchNo user reviews
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    71% matchNo user reviews
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    72% matchMixed56% of 452 reviews2020
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    68% matchNo user reviews
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    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%

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