- #1 Island Dwellers
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: 4X 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Hex Grid 8.3% ★
- #2 Kepler Protocol
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Boe
Windows
Kepler-186e, Humanity's first colony — on a world that is not theirs. Lead the Kaiserreich in turn-based hex strategy against the Ordo Arachnis, a swarm intelligence with no commander. Research, build, supply, fight. Survive.
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Hex Grid 16.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Combat 7.3%
- #3 First Colony
96% 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 33.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Hex Grid 7.5% ★, Strategy 7.5%
- #4 As Far As The Eye
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,123 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Hex Grid 16.2% ★, 4X 15.4% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%
- #5 Critias Empire
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Hex Grid 11.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%
- #6 DeckTerra
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Medieval 4X Deckbuilder. Lead a kingdom as you build your deck to conquer the map and expand your rule. Develop your technology through the middle ages to improve your army of knights and keep your peasants happy. Develop your trade, religion, science, and military to conquer the continent.
Why similar: 4X 29.1% ★, Hex Grid 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.7%, City Builder 9.7%, Procedural Generation 7.3%
- #7 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
93% 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 35.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.1%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 6.3%, Procedural Generation 6.3%
- #8 Arc of Icarus
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 17%, Management 7.7%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #9 Myriads: Renaissance
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Sleeping Eight Studio
Windows
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Why similar: 4X 30.9% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Hex Grid 9.3% ★, Procedural Generation 8.4%
- #10 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
91% matchVery Positive89% of 703 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: 4X 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Nature 8.6%
- #11 Radia Island
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: 4X 24.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 7.3%
- #12 Potventure
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Open a restaurant on a fantasy continent and build a culinary empire, one dish at a time. Explore, gather, cook, and expand — while six rival empires plot their own rise. Survive crises, seize opportunities, and carve your own path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Resource Management 13%, Management 6.7%
- #13 The Ancients
88% matchMixed54% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: GorillaSoftWorksPub: Camlann Games
Windows
The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Hex Grid 16.1% ★, Grid-Based Movement 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Nature 9.5%
- #14 Flora Domina
87% matchMixed58% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Dave Van VerdegemPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
In this unique take on turn-based 4X strategy, play as a nature goddess that defends her island by playing cards to use nature as your ally.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Hex Grid 16.7% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Nature 9.6%
- #15 Void Ascendancy
86% match1 user reviews0% of 1 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 40.5% ★, Colony Sim 26.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #16 MicroTown
86% matchVery Positive95% of 477 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Hex Grid 12.2% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 7.6%
- #17 Frostward
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KoPoint Games
Windows
Plan industrial districts and strive toward monumental wonders while defending humanity against hostile forces and the endless winter.
Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, Hex Grid 22.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #18 Windowed Realms
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Nature 7%
- #19 Make the Empire Great Again
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Cloud Studio
Windows
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, maybe some thrilling fun. But monsters seize Your lands, plunder Your fields & mines! Fight, reclaim lost! Build, forge grandest! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 25.1%, Hex Grid 13.5% ★, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%, Resource Management 7%
- #20 Island Master
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 22.4%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Nature 8.5%
- #21 Build The Sun
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Nature 12.6%, Simulation 5.3%
- #22 Thule
82% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Xeaker
Windows
A quick turn-based 4X strategy game with RPG elements. Explore and conquer randomly generated worlds, complete diverse missions and forge a powerful empire.
Why similar: 4X 44.1% ★, Hex Grid 17.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, City Builder 7.1%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #23 Shardorium
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turtle Speed Development
Windows · Mac · Linux
Indie turn-based strategy game. Capture the whole shard by defeating their guards, build your own stronghold, level up your heroes and equip most powerful items!
Why similar: Hex Grid 29.6% ★, 4X 24.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Grid-Based Movement 11.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.3%
- #24 BOC: Birth of Cultures
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Hex Grid 18.2% ★, City Builder 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #25 Folk Emerging
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Curious Dynamics
Windows
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Why similar: 4X 33.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Nature 12.5%, Hex Grid 12% ★, Resource Management 7.2%
- #26 Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars
79% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars is the sequel to Wizard Warfare, a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer. Now includes fully simulated naval battles.
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Hex Grid 18.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Strategy 5.5%
- #27 Burned Land
80% matchMixed56% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: Koya Game
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Hex Grid 14.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Perma Death 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 6.3%
- #28 Astro Protocol
77% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Null Vector Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
Why similar: 4X 33.2% ★, Hex Grid 13.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Grid-Based Movement 12.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #29 SporeBloom
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antigen Interactive Inc.
Windows
A fungi-fueled 'battle of nutrition!' Turn-based strategy inspired by mycelium networks and territory control. Produce fantastical mushrooms and expand to outgrow your rivals. Develop peacefully or parasitize your friends in multiplayer and solo play - may the fittest fungi survive!
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Hex Grid 21.1% ★, Nature 9.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #30 One More Voyage
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: starshed studio
Windows
ONE MORE VOYAGE is a minimalist 4X game with incremental progression. Embark on voyages through the galaxy on the flight from an enemy seeking your extinction. Explore strange planets, harvest vital resources and unlock transformative technologies. Can you find a way to escape from your pursuers?
Why similar: 4X 40.4% ★, Hex Grid 18% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Resource Management 9%, Procedural Generation 7.8%
- #31 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
77% matchVery Positive88% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Hex Grid 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #32 Tracktopia
76% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: GalaDev
Windows
Tracktopia is a strategy game with city-building elements, where your city moves on tracks and serves as a super powerful unit. Expand it to boost production, advance technologies, and create smaller units to ultimately defeat the enemy nation!
Why similar: 4X 33.3% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Grid-Based Movement 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Combat 7.3%
- #33 Money Wars : Modern Ages
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EarthQuick
Windows · Mac · Linux
🌍 Conquer the world with economy! 52 real countries. Offline strategy sim.
Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 8.2%
- #34 Monarchs at Play
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGames
Windows · Mac
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 35% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Hex Grid 15.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Strategy 5.9%
- #35 Ultakia
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Simon Alber
Windows
Ultakia is a turn-based space 4X strategy game with distinctive resource management. Explore exotic systems and acquire powerful technologies. Exploit your planets, trade with other races and destroy those who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 36.6% ★, Hex Grid 22.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 9%, Management 6.5%
- #36 It Takes a Tribe
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Cog
Windows · Linux
A turn-based strategy where you build culture, not cities. Migrate your hunter-gatherer tribe across a simulated ecosystem, survive harsh seasons and awaken mythical beings. Design powerful art inspired by your journey. What stories will your tribe tell?
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Procedural Generation 7.8%, Nature 7.7%
- #37 Pandora: First Contact
75% matchMixed63% of 645 reviews2014
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 53.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Hex Grid 14.3% ★, Strategy 10%, Simulation 4.4%
- #38 Tartaria: Frozen Frontier
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Rubedo Games
Windows
Lead your clan, build settlements, and survive enemy raids in a turn-based strategy set in the harsh northern lands.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Hex Grid 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
- #39 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
71% 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 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 25.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 8%
- #40 Ymir
74% 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 33.1% ★, Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 23.7%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 5%
- #41 Blueprint Tycoon
73% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Management 15.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 8.2%
- #42 The Mystic
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: PipeDream
Windows
The Mystic is a dark fantasy, turn-based strategy game. Become a follower of the first gods, gain their favour, overthrow the High King by innovative combat and magic systems and establish harmony. The game offers an exciting campaign full of twists, battles and difficult decisions and multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 42.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Hex Grid 15.5% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
- #43 Seeds of Resilience
72% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 20.1%, Nature 11.8%, Management 8.3%, Procedural Generation 8%
- #44 HUMANKIND™
71% matchMixed69% of 28,603 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 37.4% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Hex Grid 9.4% ★, Strategy 9.4%
- #45 Kingdoms and Castles
71% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 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 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 21.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 7.4%
- #46 Wild West Pioneers
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 19%, Sandbox 6.1%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #47 Cities Domination
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: D Green Games
Windows
Cities Domination is a city builder, resource management and strategy game. Gestion all the units and resources between cities for create an empire, attack enemies cities, build, defend and expand your cities and dominate the castles... or lose yours.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Hex Grid 19.4% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
- #48 5th Frontier, The New Space Race
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: J. C. SpringBourne
Windows
A 4x Turn-Based Single Player Strategic Space game. Design and build Your own fleet of space ships, to conquer the Galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 43.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 6.1%
- #49 Powerplay
67% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 32.9% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 5.7%
- #50 Pirate Plight
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 27% ★, Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 8%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #51 Fleeting World
70% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Ozol Games
Windows
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 24.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Nature 9.9%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
- #52 Beard of Stone
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Dwarfaparte Games
Windows
4x turn based strategy mixed with real time (turn stealing) bidding mechanics. Complete single player or competitive online matches with up to 4 players in a single sitting, while telling the history of a fantasy world from the creation of its continents to the twilight of its gods.
Why similar: 4X 43.1% ★, Hex Grid 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Strategy 6.6%, Turn-Based Combat 6.3%
- #53 Numbers & Nodes
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Resource Management 18.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.4%
- #54 StellarForge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justin HellmanPub: Darkstar
Windows
In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build industrial colonies across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery.
Why similar: 4X 39.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 19.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #55 Rise And Grind!
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AkdumanDev
Windows
We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!
Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Sandbox 6%
- #56 Colonerra Age of Exploration
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Game Tzar
Windows
Govern the New World as His Majesty's Viceroy during the Age of Exploration. Explore unknown lands, build thriving colonies, trade across the Atlantic, wage war, and forge an independent nation in this historical turn-based 4X strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 43.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Turn-Based Combat 4%
- #57 City Builder Pro
66% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Management 10%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9.4%
- #58 Orc Colony
69% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #59 Ever War
66% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Autware
Windows
Ever War is a turn-based strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. This game combines empire-building, resource management and large-scale tactical turn-based battles.
Why similar: 4X 39.5% ★, Hex Grid 19.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Turn-Based Combat 9.7%