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
366 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo BioEden
A management sim about restoring ecosystems and reviving extinct animals
72% positive
117 reviews
Making History: The First World War
Turn-based grand strategy combining global warfare and economic management
69% positive
115 reviews
Galactic Ruler
Pausable space strategy with empire management and planetary battles
53% positive
113 reviews
Unending Galaxy
Space sandbox combining direct ship control with empire management
62% positive
112 reviews
SimPocalypse
Incremental civilization simulator about rebuilding society and conquering the world
65% positive
110 reviews
Punk Wars: Prologue
Turn-based strategy with steampunk armies and a deadline for victory
77% positive
Free
Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
Turn-based strategy in Revolutionary France with politics and war machines
77% positive
109 reviews
Order: The New Dawn
Space colony sim with fleet building and interplanetary exploration
56% positive
108 reviews
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Imperial Ambitions
Turn-based 4X strategy with colonial expansion and class-based labor management
82% positive
106 reviews
Milord
Medieval kingdom management RPG balancing subjects' demands against limited resources
65% positive
105 reviews
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Global Protocol: New World Order
Modern grand strategy where domestic crises can topple your government
71% positive
105 reviews
Punk Wars
Turn-based strategy with steam, diesel, steel, and atomic factions
58% positive
104 reviews
Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage
Space real-time strategy combining empire building with fleet battles
66% positive
103 reviews
Burned Land
Turn-based 4X survival against rival races and increasingly hostile gods
53% positive
101 reviews
远征契约
Turn-based fantasy tactics where positioning and spell timing shape battles
81% positive
Free
Lords of Kingdoms
Online medieval strategy with castle building and wars between players
47% positive
Free
Instant War
Free-to-play military strategy with real-time battles over territory and resources
63% positive
Free
Armada 2526 Gold Edition
Space empire strategy with turn-based planning and real-time fleet battles
66% positive
99 reviews
Castle Empire
Top-down strategy with castle management and real-time army battles
60% positive
Free
Worshippers
Turn-based strategy combining tribe management with a collectible card game
76% positive
98 reviews
Solaris
Real-time space strategy with weeks-long matches shaped by player alliances
81% positive
Free
Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
Turn-based historical strategy about conquest at the height of Napoleon's empire
75% positive
Free
Territory Control 2
A 2D industrial sandbox with physics-based construction and faction warfare
75% positive
95 reviews
Arkheim - Realms at War
Team-based strategy MMO with territorial warfare across floating islands
63% positive
Free