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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Field of Glory: Empires
Classical-era grand strategy where expanding empires face decadence
81% positive
772 reviews
Demo Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
Turn-based grand strategy commanding unreliable armies in 1920s China
84% positive
768 reviews
Demo 军团战棋Legion War
Fantasy 4X strategy with hex-grid battles and customizable heroes
89% positive
763 reviews
Huaxia: Warring States
Open-world action RPG combining sword combat, trade, and military conquest
61% positive
760 reviews
Gods and Idols
Online space strategy game about governing followers as a god
69% positive
Free
Master of Magic Classic
Turn-based fantasy 4X strategy built around wizard-led conquest
97% positive
751 reviews
3 Days War
Real-time multiplayer strategy fought across a grid-based future battlefield
84% positive
Free
Stars in Shadow
Turn-based space strategy with streamlined empires and tactical fleet battles
76% positive
750 reviews
Demo Marble Age
Turn-based historical strategy about growing a Greek village into a city-state
83% positive
745 reviews
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
Turn-based colony building on Mars, with public support to maintain
88% positive
Free
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Turn-based space strategy with remote exploration and custom warships
82% positive
736 reviews
Exogate Initiative
Underground base-building strategy with teams exploring alien worlds through portals
73% positive
712 reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Real-time space strategy with empire building and large fleet battles
78% positive
704 reviews
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
Space 4X strategy with custom ships and real-time battles
44% positive
694 reviews
World Warfare & Economics
Grand strategy simulation about ruling nations through economics and war
58% positive
688 reviews
Star Ruler 2
Real-time galactic strategy where political influence can win territory
81% positive
687 reviews
Power & Revolution 2021 Edition
Political strategy simulation where you govern nations or seize power
56% positive
683 reviews
Demo Solar Nations 2
Solar System grand strategy spanning national politics and interplanetary war
85% positive
677 reviews
Void Destroyer 2
Open-world space sandbox combining ship piloting and fleet command
80% positive
675 reviews
Pandora: First Contact
Turn-based sci-fi 4X strategy about colonizing a hostile planet
63% positive
645 reviews
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Turn-based sci-fi strategy with rival factions and custom units
91% positive
632 reviews
WitchHand
Card-based strategy game about growing and defending a witch coven
90% positive
631 reviews
X3: Reunion
Single-player space sim with trading, combat, and a changing economy
72% positive
630 reviews
Ragnorium
A survival colony simulator where you manufacture your own colonists
61% positive
620 reviews