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
Games like Solar Wave
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Stellar 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$24.99Distant 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 simulated, and decide how much of it you want to control yourself. No two galaxies play out the same.
Replayable
71% of 2,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 134$49.99X4: 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.
Replayable
79% of 25,605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,238$9.99Sins 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: 848$49.99Stellar 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$19.99Stellar 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$14.99ENDLESS Space™ 2
A turn-based space opera where you lead one of eight wildly different civilizations across a galaxy littered with the ruins of the ENDLESS. Colonize systems, steer senates, design ships and chase the truth about Dust. Gorgeous to look at, backed by a superb soundtrack, and built so each new empire plays like a different game.
Replayable
83% of 17,339 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$39.99Solar Nations 2
Grand strategy in 2092: take the helm of a Solar System Great Power, colonize nine worlds, build space fleets ship by ship, and fight wars that can end in nuclear fire. Deep politics, wild alternate histories, and a whole solar system to conquer, alone or with friends.
Replayable
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99Polaris 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$39.99Star Ruler 2
Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.
Replayable
81% of 661 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
Replayable
76% of 199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99Galactic 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$39.99
Cheaper than Solar Wave
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
Solar Nations 2
Steer a 2092 superpower through nine worlds, fleet building and deep politics, solo or with friends, where a war can end in nuclear fire.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
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 691 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
Slipways
Link planets with warp routes, balance their needs and grow a trade network, one calm turn at a time.
92% of 2,248 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$16.99
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
ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition
Grow a civilization from a single star system to a galactic power, turn by turn, in a galaxy that never generates the same way twice.
79% of 6,631 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 72$9.99
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
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
Solar War
A turn-based grand strategy game in space, set in the near future: Defend Earth against an alien invasion from the edge of the Solar System and…
85% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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
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 Solar Wave
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
Annihilate The Spance
Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.
89% of 355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Solar Nations 2
Steer a 2092 superpower through nine worlds, fleet building and deep politics, solo or with friends, where a war can end in nuclear fire.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$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
Space Reign
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.
72% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
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 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 573$39.99
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 7,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 848$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
Slipways
Link planets with warp routes, balance their needs and grow a trade network, one calm turn at a time.
92% of 2,248 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$16.99
Nexus Legacy
Rebuild civilization from one planet in a persistent online 4X.
66% of 391 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85Free
Newest games like Solar Wave
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 3,797 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 354$49.99
Nexus Legacy
Rebuild civilization from one planet in a persistent online 4X.
66% of 391 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85Free
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
Space Reign
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements.
72% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
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 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 573$39.99
SpaceBourne 2
Fly, fight, mine and trade your way across a procedurally generated galaxy, then run the faction that rules it.
75% of 5,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 87$19.99
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
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
Solar Nations 2
Steer a 2092 superpower through nine worlds, fleet building and deep politics, solo or with friends, where a war can end in nuclear fire.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
Annihilate The Spance
Annihilate The Spance is a single-player RTS where your shipyards build endlessly and your ships fight on their own.
89% of 355 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
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
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