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
Games like Hyper Empire
If the replayable and fast-paced rhythm of Hyper Empire stuck with you, this helps. These games are worth a look next.
Astro 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.
Replayable
94% of 72 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Stellar 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 34 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$7.99Nexus 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 60-minute competitive sessions. Play Solo or Multiplayer for 2-8 players.
Replayable, Colorful
90% of 889 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Stellar 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$14.99Galactic Empire
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos. Develop technology, manage your fleet, colonize planets, and engage in turn-based battles. Every decision shapes your path to victory in a dynamic sci-fi strategy game.
Replayable
33% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$9.79Shadow Empire
A deep turn-based 4X wargame where you rule a small nation on a procedurally generated planet and try to reconquer a devastated world. Manage leaders, politics, supply lines and armies while balancing conquest against everything your own government wants. Every campaign plays out differently.
Replayable
82% of 1,459 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$19.99Star 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$9.99Polaris 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.
Replayable
70% of 420 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$39.99Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
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
89% of 1,324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99Sins 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 7,259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 848$49.99Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your Royal House through battles on land, sea, air, and the vast reaches of space.
Replayable
95% of 178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Cheaper than Hyper Empire
Galactic Empire
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos.
33% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$9.79
Star Traders: 4X Empires
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars.
61% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
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 25,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,122$9.99
Mini Gal4Xy
Mini Gal4Xy is a light strategy game set in space.
87% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Hexarchy
Build cities, draw your next move from a deck of cards, and grow a civilization one quick match at a time.
83% of 1,251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$19.99
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Grow your civilization, negotiate with rivals and pirates, and command huge fleets in battles that reshape the star map.
78% of 690 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
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
Dominari Empires
Got 5-10 minutes? Annihilate your enemy in a lightning fast micro 4X/RTS game set in deep space.
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Starion Tactics
After assuming command of one of four human or alien factions vying for galactic dominance, immediately define your game’s scope.
25% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
Hidden gems like Hyper Empire
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
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
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
ENDLESS Legend™ 2
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
82% of 3,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
Hexarchy
Build cities, draw your next move from a deck of cards, and grow a civilization one quick match at a time.
83% of 1,251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$19.99
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
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 7,259 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
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
Yield! Fall of Rome
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game!
69% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Newest games like Hyper Empire
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
ENDLESS Legend™ 2
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
82% of 3,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
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 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
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
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
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
Yield! Fall of Rome
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game!
69% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
DR4X
A fast, casual (And also haunted.) 4X game with asymmetric factions and roguelike elements.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
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