Miss the replayable and competitive pull of Hexarchy? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Replayable, Minimalist
A whole empire in one sitting. Ozymandias strips the 4X genre down to its sharpest moves: expand across hex maps, found cities, and pick one opportunity per turn. With 52 empires, 8 handmade Bronze Age maps and multiplayer with simultaneous turns, a full game takes about an hour, and the next one is already tempting.
Replayable, Competitive, Minimalist
Lead a historic civilization from its first settlers toward the modern age in this turn-based grand strategy game. You spread cities across a hex map, place districts for terrain and adjacency bonuses, court rivals and city states, and steer toward one of five victories. It rewards slow planning and watching a small settlement grow.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
Lead a civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age in the turn-based strategy classic. Settle lush hex-map land, raise cities, research tech, haggle and backstab historic leaders, and win by war, diplomacy, or science. Easy to start, hard to stop at one more turn.
Replayable, Competitive
Deep civilization-building strategy in a fast-paced card game! There are many paths to victory in this competitive card drafting game featuring 12 unique characters and hundreds of cards ranging from great pyramids and war elephants to sneaky spies and crafty merchants.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive, Minimalist
HUMANKIND™ is a historical strategy game where you rewrite human history by mixing up to 60 cultures, from Neolithic tribe to modern superpower. Build sprawling cities, fight tactical battles and chase fame instead of plain conquest, so every playthrough becomes a story only you could have written.
Replayable, Competitive
A turn-based grand strategy game where you build a nation from any point in human history. Its heart is a crafting economy: forges, farms and workshops turn raw resources into goods that power your cities and armies. Every nation moves at once each turn, so no turn is ever a waiting room. Deep, demanding, and hard to put down.
Replayable
Millennia is a turn-based 4X game that runs 10,000 years, from the first cities to possible futures. Guide your own nation through ten ages, steer history into alternate timelines, and build an economy that turns iron into weapons and grain into empire. Every run bends a different way, and no two histories match.
Replayable, Competitive
The official digital version of Vlaada Chvátil's civilization classic. Grow a small tribe into a mighty empire: build farms and mines, research technologies, raise wonders and back your politics with military muscle. Hundreds of cards, clever AI, online play and a genuinely funny tutorial. Every game plays out differently, and one more turn is never enough.
Replayable, Competitive
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
A mix of deep gameplay and rich historical flavor, Aggressors: Ancient Rome lets you relive history as the ruler of one of the mighty civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Choose one of twenty available factions and conquer the world.
Replayable
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced 60-minute competitive sessions. Play Solo or Multiplayer for 2-8 players.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
Settle cities, guide research and diplomacy, and carry your people from the first village to a modern power across maps that never play out the same…
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the…
A fast, casual (And also haunted.) 4X game with asymmetric factions and roguelike elements.
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?
A deckbuilder where you never add new cards: you upgrade the twenty you start with, slot by slot, turning blank sleeves into powerful combos.
Apollo4x is a casual-to-difficult space trading tycoon game, where success is measured in earnings from how efficient your trade routes are in…
Take a role of a true general of a real army. Join the battle, capture enemies’ castles and raise the power of your army.
DICETINY is a turn-based card and board game mash-up set in a fantasy world that offers strategic card and board game experience with its unique…
Draft a fantasy party at a tabletop table, gear them up and let the battles unfold while you keep all the thinking time.
Strategy & Tactics: Wargame Collection is a set of three historical turn-based strategies, in which you are going to take command of the armies in…
Command hell's legions on a cramped grid, devour your own units to grow them, and hold the line against a holy purge.
Place hexagonal tiles to shape enemy paths, then hold your castle with towers, armies and spells.
Lead a cute empire as a historical warlord, expand across the fog and out-scheme your rivals in half-hour matches.
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x.
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced…
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game.
Dice Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy board game where you grow a small island kingdom and race friends to win by culture, conquest, or an…
Lead a Bronze Age civilization across hex maps, founding cities and choosing one move per turn, alone or against rivals in multiplayer.
Guide Queen Lorelai's people across a hand-painted fantasy world, raising armies that fight on their own while your heroes turn the tide.
Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder with a day-night rhythm: by day you play building and unit cards to grow a medieval kingdom, by night…
Lead your kingdoms. protect your lands, conquer your enemies. Stop the fallen god Draeul.
A turn-based WWII wargame on hexes, covering Europe, Africa and the Pacific.
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally…
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
Lead a Viking clan to glory in this accessible turn-based conquest strategy game.
Lead a cute empire as a historical warlord, expand across the fog and out-scheme your rivals in half-hour matches.
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game!
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x.
Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder with a day-night rhythm: by day you play building and unit cards to grow a medieval kingdom, by night…
Guide Queen Lorelai's people across a hand-painted fantasy world, raising armies that fight on their own while your heroes turn the tide.
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding…
Lead a civilization from its first tribe to a world power, managing armies, laws and economy as your choices bend history into something new.
Grow your cities, craft their goods and guide your people through history while every rival moves alongside you.
WARCANA is a fantasy inspired base defence, RTS game with a deck-building mechanic.
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game.
