After the Empire
Build a galaxy-spanning machine empire! Bend galactic geography to your will to seize hundreds of territories with Fleet, Crypto and Glory.
76% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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Loved how replayable Galactic Empire can get? Give these games a try when the craving hits.
Imperium
Imperium is a single-player 4X space strategy game: start with one colony and one home star, then grow into a galactic empire. Colonize alien worlds tile by tile, design warships from the keel up, research exotic physics, and win by war, diplomacy or politics. Every run generates a new galaxy, so no two empires play out the same.
Replayable
73% of 55 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$22.49Stellar 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$19.99After the Empire
Build a galaxy-spanning machine empire! Bend galactic geography to your will to seize hundreds of territories with Fleet, Crypto and Glory. Master your economy with Guilds, Trade Routes and Pilgrimages. Prove your faith, honor your culture, and conquer the Milky Way!
Replayable
76% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Galactic 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$39.99Stellar 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$24.99Star 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.
Replayable
61% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Hyper 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. Lead your faction against escalating enemies and expand the reach of your empire. Multiple paths to victory allows for a variety of strategies. Build your empire.
Replayable
78% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Interstellar Space: Genesis
A turn-based space 4X about building a galactic empire the classic way: explore, colonize, research, and fight on a tactical grid when talks fail. Remote exploration hides secrets in every system, six races and custom builds keep runs fresh, and micromanagement stays out of your way.
Replayable
83% of 720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$29.99Children of the Galaxy
Children of the Galaxy is a grand scale 4x turn-based strategy game with a turn-based combat and tactical elements. You can explore the galaxy, colonize planets and build huge armies of starships to fight in epic space battles.
Replayable
92% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Stellar Monarch
Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. No micromanagement, grand scale, fast paced, audiences, assassins, imperial court, disloyal admirals.
Replayable
78% of 206 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Stellar Ascendancy
Build an interstellar civilization in a turn-based 4X strategy game. Explore a configurable galaxy, colonize new worlds, design warships, manage a complex economy, and outmaneuver rival empires through diplomacy, espionage, or war.
Replayable
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Galactic 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
80% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Cheaper than Galactic Empire
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: 3$4.99
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
Space Empires III
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration.
83% of 46 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$3.99
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
Mini Gal4Xy
Mini Gal4Xy is a light strategy game set in space.
87% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Star Ruler
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option…
86% of 261 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Galimulator
Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game.
91% of 476 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Space industrial empire
Click mines and smelters into place, research new tech and grow a single production line into a fleet that conquers planets.
85% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$5.99
My Colony
Build a space colony from a single rover, grow it into a sprawling economy, and rule it your way.
88% of 277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Galactic Dominion
Galactic Dominion is a fast paced 4x space strategy game. Explore the stars, perform research, manage your colonies, build a fleet, defend your…
47% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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
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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
Stellar Monarch 2
Stellar Monarch 2 is a feudal space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer.
88% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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: 848$49.99
Chaos Galaxy 2
A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up…
82% of 305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
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.
82% of 1,463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$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: 25$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: 134$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: 3$4.99
Stars in Shadow
Claim star systems, grow a fleet from destroyers to Dread Stars, and take the galaxy by diplomacy or force.
77% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99
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
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Foundation: Galactic Frontier
Navigate the vast, futuristic cosmos, managing a self-sufficient starship while engaging in grand strategy and intense action.
64% of 137 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 119Free
Imperium
Grow a single colony into a galactic power through colonization, shipbuilding, research and diplomacy, with a fresh galaxy every run.
73% of 55 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
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
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
Star Titans : War of the Galaxy
Command a powerful fleet in a story-driven sci-fi 4X strategy adventure.
93% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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