Strategy Core
Lead your clan from a small settlement all the way to the launch of a colony ship.
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Games like Apollo4x
If the competitive and minimalist rhythm of Apollo4x stuck with you, this helps. Browse these games for your next favorite.
X4: Foundations
You start with one ship and a whole galaxy that does not wait for you. Trade, fight, explore and build your way up to fleets, stations and production chains, in a simulated universe where factions keep trading and fighting with or without you.
79% of 25,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,122$9.99Star Traders: 4X Empires
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.
61% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Slipways
Weave isolated planets into a trade empire with warp routes instead of wars. Slipways boils space grand strategy down to its best decisions, and a whole run fits in under an hour. Colonize, research game-changing tech, connect the dots just right, and still be done before lunch.
Minimalist
92% of 2,247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$16.99Offworld Trading Company
In this fast-paced economic strategy game you build a company, corner resource markets and buy out your rivals before they buy you. No armies, no shooting: just you, a volatile market and up to seven other tycoons.
Competitive
77% of 3,605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40Stellar Sovereigns
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.
55% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Mini Gal4Xy
Mini Gal4Xy is a light strategy game set in space.
Minimalist
87% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
Competitive
83% of 251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6FreeAstro Protocol
High-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy distilled into intense matches of about an hour. Lead one of six premade factions, or design your own, against an AI that plays to win. Randomized techs, anomalies, maps and victory conditions make every match unique.
94% of 72 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Polaris Sector
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
70% of 420 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$39.99Solar Wave
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.
73% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$17.99A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
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!
Minimalist
94% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Galactic Civilizations IV
Lead a young starfaring civilization from its first faster-than-light flight to galactic power. Explore procedurally generated galaxies, colonize worlds, design fleets, out-talk or out-fight rival empires, and win your way: by conquest, culture, diplomacy or prestige. Every run plays out differently, and no two empires feel the same.
72% of 2,243 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99
Cheaper than Apollo4x
SCHISM WORLD
Divide the world—and rule the fragments. A turn-based strategy game in the style of a digital board game, where diplomacy, economics, and tactics…
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Rise of the Ancients
They appeared seemingly from nowhere and are ready for battle...
43% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Cards of Cthulhu
CARDS OF CTHULHU is the Roguelike Card RPG full of madness. Experience the unique combination of strategic deck-building with fast-paced combat and…
73% of 346 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.49
First Day: Home Defender
Build and protect your home after a nuclear apocalypse!
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Stellar Empires
Indie strategy game where you take control of an Empire, lead it to complete domination by colonizing new planets!
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Anime And Your Life
This is more than a game. This is your whole life!
66% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Rhino's Rage
It is a turn-based tactical game, where you can accelerate and bunt enemies.
76% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Martians Vs Robots
Martians want to regain control of their planet! But we have not yet finished exploiting Martian mining resources...
33% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Ninja Stealth
Evade the guards and the defences to escape the evil facility on this click and play stealth game, there will be difficult on your path, young…
76% of 915 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Phoenix Force
Phoenix Force is a shoot 'em up about a group of phoenixes that fight big and strong mythological creatures in over 100 levels.
83% of 662 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
My Cute Fuhrer
Small satiric anti-war game with a cute Fuhrer as the lead character. She dreams of love and world domination.
85% of 996 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Hidden gems like Apollo4x
Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.
95% of 178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Lead a Bronze Age civilization across hex maps, founding cities and choosing one move per turn, alone or against rivals in multiplayer.
89% of 1,324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
82% of 7,259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 848$49.99
Caravaneer 2
Haul cargo through a harsh desert world where every deal, battle and dialogue choice shapes how the story ends.
94% of 538 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$5.99
Slipways
Link planets with warp routes, balance their needs and grow a trade network, one calm turn at a time.
92% of 2,247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$16.99
Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
83% of 251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
76% of 198 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Galactic Civilizations IV
Guide a young spacefaring civilization across a fresh galaxy each run, growing it by war, trade, diplomacy or culture until the stars answer to you.
72% of 2,243 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99
Shadow Empire
Run a small state on a procedurally generated world, balancing armies, politics and supply as you reconquer a devastated sci-fi planet.
82% of 1,459 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$19.99
Imagine Earth
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade.
79% of 813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Prosperous Universe
Trade, produce and outmaneuver rival companies in a shared sci-fi economy that keeps running while you're away.
72% of 1,117 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25Free
The Pegasus Expedition
The Pegasus Expedition is a story-driven sci-fi grand strategy game set in a key moment for humankind’s survival.
69% of 244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Newest games like Apollo4x
Solar Wave
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire.
73% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Space Imperia 4X
A board-game 4X that finishes in one to two hours. Explore a new hex galaxy, research techs, build fleets from scouts to Dreadnaughts, and hunt down…
92% of 88 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$22.99
Astro Protocol
High-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy distilled into intense matches of about an hour.
94% of 72 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Terra Invicta
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
79% of 9,162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy!
94% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Stellar Reach
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier.
79% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.
95% of 178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
82% of 7,259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 848$49.99
Nexus 5X
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced…
90% of 889 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Spaceport Trading Company
Become spacefaring merchant in a galaxy filled with diverse planets, each with its own economy, resources, and challenges.
88% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Planet S
Claim procedurally generated planets, raise cities from a single spaceport, and grow your faction into a scientific or military power, alone or…
91% of 2,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Galactic Civilizations IV
Guide a young spacefaring civilization across a fresh galaxy each run, growing it by war, trade, diplomacy or culture until the stars answer to you.
72% of 2,243 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99