Best 4X games on PC
Large-scale strategy games centered on exploring territory, expanding a realm, using resources, and competing with rival powers. Players manage long-term development while pursuing military or other strategic goals.
- Empire expansion and resource management
- Long-term strategic planning
- Conflict between rival powers
Related: Strategy, Grand Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Base Building
333 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Kingdom Wars 4
Medieval grand strategy with real-time battles and a spreading plague
60% positive
189 reviews
Downtown Mafia: Gang Wars
Text-based mafia RPG about gang wars and city turf
66% positive
Free
Goodgame Empire
Medieval multiplayer strategy with kingdom building and coordinated alliance warfare
45% positive
Free
Master of Orion 3
Turn-based space strategy with politics, diplomacy, war, and espionage
54% positive
181 reviews
Pennon and Battle
Turn-based fantasy strategy with town building and tactical battles
61% positive
180 reviews
Hero Generations
Turn-based roguelike strategy where every step costs a year
49% positive
179 reviews
Demo Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Turn-based sci-fi 4X strategy with planetary warfare and political bargaining
95% positive
179 reviews
StarFringe: Adversus
Space real-time strategy with resource processing and control-point battles
72% positive
164 reviews
For The Glory: A Europa Universalis Game
Historical grand strategy spanning centuries of diplomacy, trade, and war
73% positive
157 reviews
Forgetful Dictator
A geography quiz where correct answers help conquer the world
92% positive
Free
Empire Deluxe Combined Edition
Classic turn-based strategy about producing units and capturing cities
92% positive
154 reviews
Imperium Galactica
Space 4X strategy combining colony management with real-time planetary warfare
91% positive
153 reviews
Demo Drop Command
Mech combat and empire strategy where you pilot any unit
78% positive
153 reviews
Call to Power II
Turn-based empire building from early history to a science-fiction future
64% positive
152 reviews
Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
Turn-based space strategy in a race for habitable worlds
50% positive
151 reviews
Pirates of Everseas
Online pirate strategy game with city building and naval raids
65% positive
Free
Demo Shields of Loyalty
Dark fantasy turn-based strategy built around cooperation between unit types
75% positive
147 reviews
Gemini Wars
Space real-time strategy with planetary invasions and ship boarding
32% positive
145 reviews
4th Generation Warfare
Geopolitical strategy RPG about destabilizing rival countries through covert operations
60% positive
138 reviews
Cantata
Turn-based strategy with base building on a planet that fights back
63% positive
136 reviews
Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers
Online base-building strategy with squad battles and Monsterverse creatures
53% positive
Free
Stellar Monarch 2
Turn-based space strategy centered on a feudal royal court
89% positive
132 reviews
Legion Gold
Roman-era strategy combining empire management with troop placement and formations
82% positive
130 reviews
Dominions 3: The Awakening
Turn-based fantasy strategy where custom gods compete for ascension
81% positive
127 reviews