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
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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 to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
Replayable, Competitive
86% of 261 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Sins 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, Competitive
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$39.99Distant 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: 5$29.99Imperium Galactica II
A classic space empire builder from 1999, back with sharper textures and modern resolutions. Run a galactic power in real time: colonize planets, raise cities, design ships and tanks, spy on rivals or simply outbuild them. Three races, three campaigns, huge battles in space and on the ground. Old-school in the best way, and still hard to put down.
Replayable, Retro, Competitive
87% of 598 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$9.99Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection
A 4X space strategy from 2405, when humanity's first faster-than-light drive meets an alien attack on Earth. Six races with genuinely different ways to travel the stars, a randomized tech tree, hands-on ship design and real-time fleet battles. Turn-based empire building that plays differently every time, alone or with up to eight players.
Replayable, Retro, Competitive
87% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$9.99StarDrive
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Replayable
43% of 1,255 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$29.99Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
Replayable, Competitive
83% of 251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6FreeEmperor 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, Retro, Competitive
95% of 178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99Stellaris
Lead a young starfaring civilization and shape it into something that spans the galaxy. You choose its species, ethics and ambitions, explore new systems, meet alien empires and decide if history remembers you as a pioneer or a conqueror.
Replayable
82% of 146,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12,817$49.99ENDLESS 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, Competitive
83% of 17,339 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$39.99Armada 2526 Gold Edition
Conquer the Galaxy In This ‘4x’ Strategy Game. Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions.
Replayable, Retro
67% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Cheaper than Space Empires V
Space Empires IV Deluxe
Grow a turn-based space empire from a single home world to Dyson spheres, designing every species, ship and star system along the way.
87% of 260 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$9.99
Imperium Galactica II
Colonize planets, design your fleets and outsmart rival empires across three very different campaigns.
87% of 598 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$9.99
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Guide a spacefaring civilization through a randomly generated galaxy, designing ships and choosing whether war, culture, diplomacy or technology…
80% of 959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$9.99
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection
Build a space empire turn by turn, design your own fleets and fight real-time battles across a galaxy that never plays out the same way twice.
87% of 590 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$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
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
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
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
Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which you are in control of humanity's destiny.
47% of 141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Space Empires II
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources.
61% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Lead a faction of ideologues across an alien world, out-think six rivals and shape a whole planet's future one turn at a time.
90% of 610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$4.99
Hidden gems like Space Empires V
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
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Lead a faction of ideologues across an alien world, out-think six rivals and shape a whole planet's future one turn at a time.
90% of 610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$4.99
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
Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
76% of 199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
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
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: 18$19.99
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: 4$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 II
Colonize planets, design your fleets and outsmart rival empires across three very different campaigns.
87% of 598 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$9.99
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
Newest games like Space Empires V
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: 4$22.99
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
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
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: 4$19.99
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
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Lead a faction of ideologues across an alien world, out-think six rivals and shape a whole planet's future one turn at a time.
90% of 610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$4.99
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
Dust Fleet
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
76% of 199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Design every deck and turret of a starship, crew it with simulated people, and take it into battles where damage tears your work apart piece by piece.
94% of 12,143 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 588$19.99
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