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
Games like Stellar Ascendancy
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Galactic 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.
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72% of 2,248 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99Stellar 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$19.99Star 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$9.99Stellar 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$24.99Interstellar 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$29.99Imperium
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 51 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$22.49Star 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$7.99Sid Meier's Starships
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
Replayable
49% of 1,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$14.99Stars in Shadow
A turn-based space 4X in the spirit of the old classics: explore nearby stars, settle worlds, grow a fleet from a few destroyers to planet-destroying Dread Stars, and win the galaxy by diplomacy or force. Streamlined empire management, sharp tactical ship battles, seven factions and a comic-book look make it easy to learn and hard to put down.
Replayable
77% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99Polaris 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$39.99Distant 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$29.99Astronomics Rise of a New Empire
Astronomics Rise of a New Empire is an easy-to-learn real-time global strategy(4X) game. Control your faction in an intergalactic conflict. Manage your economy, conduct diplomatic negotiations and build a fleet to rule the galaxy.
Replayable
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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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…
86% of 261 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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 958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$9.99
Sid Meier's Starships
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
49% of 1,966 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$14.99
Astronomics Rise of a New Empire
Astronomics Rise of a New Empire is an easy-to-learn real-time global strategy(4X) game. Control your faction in an intergalactic conflict.
57% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$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
Galactic Empire
Build your own galactic empire and lead it to dominance across the cosmos.
33% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$9.79
Fleets of Ascendancy
Meet allies, foes and aliens on your trek across a solar system.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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
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
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
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 25,595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,122$9.99
Hidden gems like Stellar Ascendancy
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 7,269 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
Nexus Legacy
Rebuild civilization from one planet in a persistent online 4X.
66% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85Free
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 2,248 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99
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
Foundation: Galactic Frontier
Navigate the vast, futuristic cosmos, managing a self-sufficient starship while engaging in grand strategy and intense action.
64% of 127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 119Free
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 2,682 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 134$49.99
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
Star Ruler 2
Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command…
81% of 661 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
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 25,595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,122$9.99
Newest games like Stellar Ascendancy
Foundation: Galactic Frontier
Navigate the vast, futuristic cosmos, managing a self-sufficient starship while engaging in grand strategy and intense action.
64% of 127 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 51 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$22.49
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
Nexus Legacy
Rebuild civilization from one planet in a persistent online 4X.
66% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85Free
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
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
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 7,269 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 848$49.99
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 2,248 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 275$39.99