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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Line War
Real-time strategy game where drawn lines direct armies
79% positive
1,133 reviews
War Planet Online: Global Conquest
Free-to-play MMO strategy with bases and real-time world conquest
63% positive
Free
Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
Turn-based colonial strategy built around trade, expansion, and independence
96% positive
1,073 reviews
Viking Rise
Real-time multiplayer strategy with Viking settlements and naval raids
70% positive
Free
Fantasy General II
Hex-grid fantasy wargame where your army develops between battles
82% positive
1,060 reviews
Master of Magic
Fantasy 4X strategy with spell-driven battles across parallel worlds
70% positive
1,047 reviews
Warlock 2: The Exiled
Turn-based fantasy strategy with spellcasting across fractured worlds
69% positive
1,042 reviews
Doomsday: Undead Bride
Multiplayer zombie strategy with shelter building and tower defense
65% positive
Free
AI War: Fleet Command
Real-time space strategy where aggression alerts a stronger AI
85% positive
1,036 reviews
Warlock - Master of the Arcane
Turn-based fantasy empire building with spells and army combat
86% positive
1,027 reviews
Demo Three Kingdoms: Innovatory
Three Kingdoms strategy with real-time army battles and diplomacy
64% positive
991 reviews
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Turn-based space strategy with rival civilizations and multiple paths to victory
80% positive
982 reviews
Ultimate General: American Revolution
Real-time Revolutionary War strategy where orders may arrive too late
54% positive
970 reviews
Legendary Creatures 2
Roguelike auto-battler with creature builds on randomly generated maps
72% positive
970 reviews
Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest
Multiplayer space strategy where ship swarms conquer planets in real time
84% positive
Free
Age of Wonders
Turn-based fantasy strategy with rival races and growing heroes
77% positive
956 reviews
Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
Open-world airship trading and combat with factories and fleets
73% positive
945 reviews
Nexus 5X
Turn-based space strategy with matches lasting about an hour
91% positive
906 reviews
Ymir
City-building strategy with Pigmen civilizations and simulated economies
72% positive
884 reviews
Heroes of Science and Fiction
Turn-based sci-fi strategy with rival factions and tactical battles
89% positive
874 reviews
Power & Revolution 2022 Edition
Political strategy simulation where you govern nations amid global crises
60% positive
873 reviews
Demo TOHOTOPIA
Turn-based 4X strategy with Touhou characters leading rival empires
96% positive
822 reviews
Demo Solargene
Space colony sim built around logistics across the solar system
74% positive
813 reviews
Reshaping Mars
Mars colony simulation about building bases and terraforming the planet
82% positive
774 reviews