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
211 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
Open-world airship trading and combat with factories and fleets
75% positive
1,066 reviews
Age of Wonders
Turn-based fantasy strategy with rival races and growing heroes
78% positive
1,048 reviews
War Planet Online: Global Conquest
Free-to-play MMO strategy with bases and real-time world conquest
62% positive
Free
Three Kingdoms: Innovatory
Three Kingdoms strategy with real-time army battles and diplomacy
59% positive
981 reviews
Legendary Creatures 2
Roguelike auto-battler with creature builds on randomly generated maps
72% positive
970 reviews
Power & Revolution 2022 Edition
Political strategy simulation where you govern nations amid global crises
59% positive
969 reviews
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
Space 4X strategy with custom ships and real-time battles
44% positive
959 reviews
Heroes of Science and Fiction
Turn-based sci-fi strategy with rival factions and tactical battles
90% positive
934 reviews
Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest
Multiplayer space strategy where ship swarms conquer planets in real time
83% positive
Free
Field of Glory: Empires
Classical-era grand strategy where expanding empires face decadence
82% positive
869 reviews
Solargene
Space colony sim built around logistics across the solar system
76% positive
854 reviews
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Turn-based space strategy with remote exploration and custom warships
84% positive
850 reviews
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
Turn-based space strategy with starbase rebuilding and fleet combat
79% positive
841 reviews
Stars in Shadow
Turn-based space strategy with streamlined empires and tactical fleet battles
78% positive
837 reviews
Power & Revolution 2021 Edition
Political strategy simulation where you govern nations or seize power
55% positive
834 reviews
Reshaping Mars
Mars colony simulation about building bases and terraforming the planet
84% positive
833 reviews
军团战棋Legion War
Fantasy 4X strategy with hex-grid battles and customizable heroes
89% positive
828 reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Real-time space strategy with empire building and large fleet battles
78% positive
818 reviews
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
Turn-based grand strategy commanding unreliable armies in 1920s China
86% positive
770 reviews
Master of Magic Classic
Turn-based fantasy 4X strategy built around wizard-led conquest
97% positive
766 reviews
Gods and Idols
Online space strategy game about governing followers as a god
69% positive
Free
Marble Age
Turn-based historical strategy about growing a Greek village into a city-state
83% positive
745 reviews
X3: Reunion
Single-player space sim with trading, combat, and a changing economy
72% positive
743 reviews
Exogate Initiative
Underground base-building strategy with teams exploring alien worlds through portals
76% positive
736 reviews