- #1 Kron Wars
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alien Bulb
Windows
A persistent space MMO that runs in your browser. No download. No installation. Open a tab and you are in the Frontier. Trade, mine and fight across 2 universes and 12,000 sectors, in an economy that players build. And one mechanic that no other MMO has: war rewrites the map.
Why similar: 4X 15.1% ★, Space Sim 13.7%, Grand Strategy 13.6%, Trading 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.4%
- #2 Hollow Stars
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AppGX
Windows
A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, RTS 15%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #3 Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
94% matchVery Positive93% of 16,354 reviews2012
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 17.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.1%, Space Sim 14.4%, RTS 11.7%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #4 TON Wars
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Basalt Interactive OÜ
Windows
Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 22.7%, RTS 11.5%, Grand Strategy 9.1%, Space 6.4%
- #5 Foundation: Galactic Frontier
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FunPlus International AG
Windows
Command Asimov's OFFICIAL Foundation universe! Live the life as an interstellar trader to exploit your trade routes! Build your starship home, crush enemies in explosive shootouts & outsmart rivals with fleet strategies in epic space wars - with new content expanding your saga!
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.1%, Trading 12.4%, RTS 9.6%, Space 6.1%
- #6 Near Sol
92% 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 26.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, RTS 16.2%, Management 6.6%, Space 5.8%
- #7 Structura
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Binary Station Studio
Windows · Linux
Structura is a rather unique sci-fi real-time strategy set in space. Its a hybrid of rts and fps, with emphasis on combat and survival. Build your economy for war, modify the unit by adding components, explore, expand, and survive the savage waves of enemy attacks.
Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Space Sim 18.8%, RTS 15.9%, Strategy 5%
- #8 Existence: The Outer Reach
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cozy Orchards
Windows
Existence is a strategy game on a massive scale. Lead your expanding empire, explore the galaxy, and master simultaneous space and planetary battles. Engage in solo play or team up with friends for intense PvP and co-op action.
Why similar: 4X 17.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3%, Space Sim 12.4%, RTS 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #9 Solar Wave
89% 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 24.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3%, RTS 14.7%, Space 7%, Economy 6.4%
- #10 Old Stars
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Space Sim 11.4%, Strategy 8.4%, RTS 7.6%
- #11 Solar Imperium
89% 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 18.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Space Sim 16.1%, RTS 13.1%, Economy 5.9%
- #12 Galaxor
87% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: MyVLife
Windows
Galaxor is an online sci-fi strategy game where you build planets, research technologies, command fleets and expand your empire across the galaxy. Manage resources, join clans, take part in events and face alien threats in long-term space warfare.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.8%, Space Sim 21.3%, RTS 18.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Simulation 5.7%
- #13 X4: Foundations
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 30,300 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 95.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Why similar: 4X 19.8% ★, Space Sim 16.7%, Grand Strategy 16.3%, Trading 14.6%, Economy 6.8%
- #14 New Stars
86% 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 23.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1%, Space Sim 15.3%, Trading 11.9%, Space 6%
- #15 Space Castle
86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: PR games
Windows
Space Strategy. A mix of tower hold games and role-playing action.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.3%, Space Sim 21.5%, RTS 18.7%, Massively Multiplayer 18.3%, Simulation 9.3%
- #16 Empire Origin:Rise
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EmpireOrigin Studio
Windows
The grand strategy game "Empire Origin: Rise" is coming. Explore the traces left by human civilization on the earth, pursue the great achievements of the kings in the historical fragments, and revive the brilliant civilization in history. glory? territory? Waiting for you to dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Massively Multiplayer 14.6%, RTS 14%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #17 Periphery Online
84% matchMixed71% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Aleksandr Nagaev
Windows
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.
Why similar: RTS 20.1%, Massively Multiplayer 19.9%, Grand Strategy 19.5%, 4X 17.8% ★, Space 7.7%
- #18 Final Vanguard
84% 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 22.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.2%, Space Sim 16.8%, RTS 13.9%, Economy 6.6%
- #19 Freewake
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Oakshore Studios
Windows
A team-based strategy and space simulation game where allies build an empire together while competing to control it. Explore, trade, colonize, scheme, and fight tactical battles shaped by stealth, sensors, and deception.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.3%, 4X 24.4% ★, Space Sim 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 7.5%, Trading 6.8%
- #20 Galactum Meridian
82% matchNegative14% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Hedra Games
Windows
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Space Sim 21%, Grand Strategy 15.5%, Strategy 9%, Space 7.7%
- #21 Gate Builders
82% 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 25.7% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6%, Trading 11.6%, Management 8.1%, Economy 6.4%
- #22 Distant Worlds 2
81% 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 34.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.4%, Space 7.7%
- #23 Star Trek: Infinite
81% matchMixed42% of 3,529 reviews2023
Dev: Nimble Giant EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.7%, 4X 24.6% ★, Space Sim 14%, RTS 13.4%, Management 6.4%
- #24 Ascendance
80% 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 24.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, RTS 15.9%, Economy 6.3%, Space 6.1%
- #25 Astronomics Rise of a New Empire
79% matchMixed50% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: JayFiArts
Windows
Astronomics Rise of a New Empire is an easy-to-learn real-time global strategy(4X) game. Control your faction in an intergalactic conflict. Manage your economy, conduct diplomatic negotiations and build a fleet to rule the galaxy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.2%, 4X 23.1% ★, RTS 14.6%, Trading 12.2%, Management 6.6%
- #26 Orbit Economica
78% 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: Grand Strategy 25.3%, 4X 23.5% ★, Trading 19.3%, Economy 8.6%, Management 7%
- #27 War For Galaxy: New Era
79% matchMixed41% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: UAB Kinelija
Windows · Mac
Become the ruler of the entire Galaxy: colonize planets, extract resources, build defenses and fight in planetary battles!
Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.1%, RTS 16.2%, Space Sim 15.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%
- #28 AI War 2
78% matchVery Positive87% of 1,563 reviews2019
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.8%, RTS 12.4%, Online Co-Op 6.2%, Economy 6.2%
- #29 CIVIREVIVAL
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 筋斗云
Windows
In this 4X + RPG strategy game, lead humanity’s last ark and rebuild a new home among the mysterious ruins of the stars. Starting from nothing, you will develop technology, build powerful fleets, resist external threats, and shape the rebirth of human civilization.
Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7%, Space Sim 17.5%, RTS 16.1%, Space 8.3%
- #30 Stellar Sovereigns
77% matchMixed65% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Imagined Reality
Windows
Indie 4X space strategy game with TB empire management and RTS combat set in a 3D star cluster. Build an interstellar empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, develop your colonies establish trade routes and construct fleets from a range of retrofittable capital & escort class vessels.
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1%, Space Sim 20.2%, RTS 12.9%, Space 5.5%
- #31 Antropico: Colonies
76% 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: Grand Strategy 30.9%, 4X 27.5% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Economy 6.5%
- #32 Star Zeal 4x
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Akuu Digital Entertainment
Windows
Star Zeal 4x is an open world space based strategy and rpg hybrid with elements from the 4x genre and survival mechanics sprinkled on top of it. Highly emergent gameplay within an open world persistent galaxy is the core purpose and idea of the game.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Space Sim 17.7%, RTS 15%, Simulation 5.1%
- #33 Orbit Zero
75% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Create a Company, Build structures, Collect Resources, Make Investments and Speculate on Assets. Carefully manage your Workforce, Finances, Resources, Shareholders, BOD & Political Partnerships.
Why similar: 4X 18.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.3%, Space Sim 16.3%, Trading 16%, Economy 8.2%
- #34 Star Ruler
76% matchVery Positive83% of 342 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 37.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5%, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Space 10.7%
- #35 NABERON
74% 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 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3%, RTS 17.4%, Space 6.6%, Economy 5.2%
- #36 Stellar Reach
73% 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 31% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, RTS 12.8%, Space 7.4%, Strategy 6.6%
- #37 Commanders Fury
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RoboFox Games LLC
Windows
Take command of the war machine of an empire in this 4x RTS hybrid. Fight battles with your flagship fleet in fully 3D real-time space combat. Recruit, train and dispatch commanders. Give them orders, directives and equip their fleets. Manage your empire’s supply logistics and fleet operations.
Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, RTS 19.3%, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Space 8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #38 Galactic Conflict
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Sinpros Software & GamingPub: Sinpros
Windows
A real-time sci-fi 4X strategy game where you explore procedurally generated star systems, expand your empire, manage resources, build fleets, and wage war against multiple AI factions in a dynamic and evolving galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Space Sim 22.2%, RTS 19.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 9%
- #39 NobleFront
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cheap Entertainment
Windows
Set in a medieval Europe-inspired world, you begin with a single city and a handful of territories on a vast hex-based map. Expand your domain, conquer new lands and lead your house and empire to glory in a time-based Massively Multiplayer setting.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 33.4%, Grand Strategy 28.7%, Trading 10.4%, 4X 9.6% ★, Strategy 7.2%
- #40 Dune: Spice Wars
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,585 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4%, RTS 14.5%, Management 9.7%, Economy 7.2%
- #41 Grand Ages: Medieval
73% matchMixed48% of 1,977 reviews2015
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.4%, Trading 22.7%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Economy 8.7%
- #42 Distant Worlds: Universe
73% 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 40.9% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Space 10%, RTS 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #43 Spaceman's Luck
71% 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: Grand Strategy 28.6%, 4X 25.7% ★, Space 12.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Space Sim 6.7%
- #44 Galaxicus
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Crimson Leaf LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
An MMO experience that's perfect for solo or team play. Join the adventure and become the ultimate Emperor of the galaxy. Conquer Planets, Manage Economies, Optimize Production, Upgrade Technology while exploring a Randomly-Generated Galaxy, and compete Seasonal PVP.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9%, Space Sim 21.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Space 8.2%, Online Co-Op 6.6%
- #45 Mandate of Galactic Empires
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oddbit
Windows · Linux
A logistics-focused turn-based space 4X. Govern through Administrative Nodes, connect systems with wormhole infrastructure, assign population to production and research, and expand only as far as your empire can support.
Why similar: 4X 35.9% ★, Space Sim 22.6%, Grand Strategy 16.1%, Space 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #46 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 30.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.8%, RTS 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Management 5.7%
- #47 Jellystar Empires: When Space Bunnies Attack!!
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rat Wrath Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
An area-control real-time strategy game, filled with auto-battling bunnies bent on destroying the human race! Explore space and uncover hand-painted planets. Research unique upgrades! Kill your friends! -er use diplomacy in multiplayer!
Why similar: 4X 22.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.5%, Space Sim 17.2%, RTS 14.3%, Space 6%
- #48 Hades' Star
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,686 reviews2019
Dev: Parallel Space Inc
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 28.2%, Space 15.4%, 4X 14.1% ★, RTS 13.4%, Strategy 8.9%
- #49 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
69% 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 33% ★, Grand Strategy 29.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Economy 9.8%
- #50 Fire and Dark Stars
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 没工作工作室
Windows
"Fire and Dark Stars" is a real-time 4X strategy game. You can grow your base, build your fleet, search for enemies, and destroy them. You need to carefully manage your resources, set up and protect your supply lines, so that your fleet does not run out of ammo and fuel.
Why similar: 4X 31.6% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Online Co-Op 8%, Space 7.8%, RTS 7.3%
- #51 Astral 4X
68% 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 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 24.7%, RTS 17.3%, Economy 7.9%, Space 7.4%
- #52 Space Empires: Starfury
69% matchMixed68% of 21 reviews2020
Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.6%, Trading 20%, RTS 19%, Strategy 11.3%, Space 10.7%
- #53 Imperium of the Stars
67% 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 37.5% ★, Grand Strategy 32.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Space 7.8%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #54 Star Hunter - Infinite Lagrange
68% matchMixed57% of 1,075 reviews2021
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 90.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
In a remote corner of the Milky Way, you, a star hunter, will control a fleet, take on a wide variety of bounty contracts and missions, and venture into the vastness of space. You will hunt for mysterious items for your employers and explore specific targets in uncharted territory.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 34.3%, Space Sim 20.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Space 11%, Simulation 7.8%
- #55 Capital Command
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hellride GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Take the helm of a state-of-the-art warship as you fight epic space battles in a sandbox campaign. Upgrade and customize your ship, master the art of maneuvering, and use a blend of tactical prowess and heavy firepower to overcome deadly threats.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.9%, 4X 19.6% ★, Trading 18.7%, Economy 8.6%, Space 7.3%
- #56 NWO - Anarchy Collapsed
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KNK DEVELOP
Windows · Mac
A grand strategy game of world domination. Conquer and unite 195 countries before an unknown enemy arrives. Build your economy, military, and influence. Choose war or diplomacy, control resources, and shape the future—only one ruler will rise to the top. Will it be you?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.4%, 4X 26.3% ★, RTS 17.9%, Trading 8.4%, Economy 8.1%
- #57 SolPlex: Dominion
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stratis Group Europe S.L.
Windows · Mac
From a single colony to a galactic empire, every expansion strengthens your economy, your military and your influence as you battle for dominance in a persistent MMO galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.1%, RTS 15.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.6%, Trading 10.4%
- #58 Descending Empires
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parcyval
Windows
A multiplayer space RTS blending in depth mechanics with fast paced skirmish matches. control and manage an empire together with your team in large-scale physic-based online battles, and expand your army mit modded factions
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.3%, 4X 22.6% ★, Space Sim 19.1%, RTS 16.3%, Strategy 5.2%