Expansion
A strategy game about space (location) in space (cosmic). Colonise the galaxy with a thousand clicks of a mouse. Winner of DreamHack Austin Jam!
65% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Games like Galactic Conflict
Did Galactic Conflict leave you in a replayable and minimalist frame of mind? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Space Expand
Take control and expand your empire through different constellations in this minimalist 4X strategy game.
Replayable, Minimalist
49% of 35 Steam reviews are positiveFreeGalactic Overthrow
Build a massive galactic empire and conquer many galaxies in this incremental game of space conquest. Manage resources, expand your reach, and grow your influence with a casual spin on a 4x theme.
Replayable, Minimalist
80% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Galactic Ruler
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
Replayable
46% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns. You zoom from missile-by-missile fleet fights to managing orbiting planets across a living galaxy, leading one of six factions from the TEC, Vasari, and Advent to victory by war, trade, culture, or diplomacy.
Replayable
82% of 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 719$49.99Galactic 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.
Replayable
72% of 2,249 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99Sovereign Stars
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
Replayable
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Stellar Reach
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.
Replayable
79% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$19.99AI War 2
AI War 2 is a grand strategy and RTS hybrid where growing too fast is the real danger. Sneak, hack, build fleets and strike the AI's core before it notices you. Deep, tense and endlessly replayable, alone or with friends.
Replayable, Tense
87% of 1,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99Distant Worlds: Universe
A pausable real-time 4X space strategy on a huge scale: galaxies of up to 1400 star systems, private citizens running your economy, pirates to bribe or crush, and enough automation (or micromanagement) to play it exactly your way. Every galaxy is generated fresh, so no two empires unfold the same.
Replayable
71% of 1,422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99Mini Gal4Xy
Mini Gal4Xy is a light strategy game set in space.
Replayable, Minimalist
87% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Stellar 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.
Replayable
55% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Galactic Ruler Enlightenment
Play campaign stories within the Galactic Ruler universe. Invade the galaxy to eliminate those who stand in your way or rally alien races to defend against the invaders. Fight battles at both planet and space across a procedurally generated galaxy. Use new unit control systems to manage your forces.
Replayable
57% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Cheaper than Galactic Conflict
Stellar Industrialist
You are neither a general nor a soldier — you are a Stellar Industrialist. To you, peace is nothing but shutdowns and losses.
89% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Galaxy Exodus
Build your space empire across the galaxy. Conquer planets, expand your fleet, mine valuable resources, manage fuel, and upgrade your operations.
$1.99
The Vanguard Expanse 4065
Forged over 9 years, The Vanguard Expanse 4065 is a deep, text-based incremental 4X RPG that refuses to hold your hand.
57% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Space Empires II
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources.
61% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Galaxy Admirals
Galaxy Admirals is a multiplayer turn-based cosmic strategy with pretty innovative and challenging gameplay.
78% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Apollo4x
Apollo4x is a casual-to-difficult space trading tycoon game, where success is measured in earnings from how efficient your trade routes are in…
58% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
Celestial Front - Galactic War Sim
Watch as stars battle for control of a simple simulated galaxy.
$0.99
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base
An epic struggle for control!
79% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Iron Stars
Iron Stars is a realistic space 4X strategy game where you explore believable star systems, colonize planets and moons, grow your population, and…
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
Fleet Star V
Command your fleets to victory in this fully customisable space simulator. Be steadfast in defence and ruthless in conquest!
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Symphony of Stars
This is space combat with a twist. Choose a faction to fight for, colonize and defend planets for it, while also leading the attack against your…
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like Galactic Conflict
Riftborne
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare.
92% of 123 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Sins of a Solar Empire II
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
82% of 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 719$49.99
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
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 2,249 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.
81% of 1,464 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$19.99
AI War 2
Build fleets in secret, hack the enemy's systems and hit its core before it wakes up to what you are doing.
87% of 1,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Build a turn-based galactic empire your way, from first colony ship to tactical battles between the stars.
83% of 720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$29.99
Distant Worlds 2
A vast pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Generate a galaxy of up to 2,000 star systems, run an empire where every freighter and fleet is…
71% of 2,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 131$49.99
Imperium Galactica
Imperium Galactica. The Universe is yours... if you can handle it. The fourth millennium. Mankind has colonised the galaxy. Created an Empire.
91% of 147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.99
Stellar Monarch
Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer.
78% of 206 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
X4: Foundations
Trade, fight and build your way from a single cockpit to a space empire in a simulated economy that runs whether you join in or not.
79% of 25,605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,238$9.99
Polaris 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…
70% of 420 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$39.99
Newest games like Galactic Conflict
Imperium
Grow a single colony into a galactic power through colonization, shipbuilding, research and diplomacy, with a fresh galaxy every run.
74% of 58 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$22.49
Empires of a Tiny Universe
Empires of a Tiny Universe is a relaxed single-player RTS where you build and expand your empire across space.
80% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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 positivePlayers online now: 1$17.99
Galactic Overthrow
Build a massive galactic empire and conquer many galaxies in this incremental game of space conquest.
80% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Riftborne
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare.
92% of 123 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Stellar Industrialist
You are neither a general nor a soldier — you are a Stellar Industrialist. To you, peace is nothing but shutdowns and losses.
89% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Astro Protocol
High-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy distilled into intense matches of about an hour.
94% of 72 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$13.99
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 33 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Hyper Empire
Play a 4x game in 40 minutes... or less! We streamlined 4x strategy down to a game that captures the fun in a manageable play time.
78% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Sidereal Dominion: Avalon
Rebuild the remnants of humanity and conquer the Milky Way in this grand strategy game.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Lord of Rigel
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics.
68% of 119 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99