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.
Making History: The Great War
Turn-based World War I grand strategy with economic management
76% positive
454 reviews
Great Houses of Calderia
Feudal grand strategy with family politics and real-time battles
61% positive
444 reviews
Revival: Recolonization
Post-apocalyptic 4X strategy with changing climates and customizable armies
69% positive
428 reviews
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
Turn-based fantasy strategy with wizard towers and world-altering spells
84% positive
411 reviews
Seven Kingdoms 2 HD
Isometric real-time strategy with trade, diplomacy, espionage, and conquest
81% positive
407 reviews
Goblins of Elderstone
Goblin city builder about managing unruly workers and surviving winters
73% positive
403 reviews
Marble Age: Remastered
Turn-based strategy about growing a Greek village into a city-state
86% positive
402 reviews
The Pegasus Expedition
Story-driven space strategy where a search for refuge sparks war
63% positive
392 reviews
Deity Empires
Turn-based fantasy 4X with deity magic and tactical battles
86% positive
339 reviews
Chaos Galaxy 2
Turn-based galactic strategy with rival factions and tactical mech battles
83% positive
333 reviews
Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
Turn-based space strategy in a race for habitable worlds
50% positive
306 reviews
Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
Modern grand strategy about governing a nation and reaching space
38% positive
303 reviews
Drox Operative 2
Space action RPG with ship loot and shifting alien wars
89% positive
293 reviews
Space Empires IV Deluxe
Turn-based space 4X strategy with ship design and tactical warfare
86% positive
291 reviews
Making History: The Second World War
Turn-based World War II strategy where any nation can change history
78% positive
291 reviews
Rogue Hex
Turn-based civilization strategy with card drafting and roguelike runs
88% positive
282 reviews
Yield! Fall of Rome
Turn-based empire strategy during Rome's decline, built around shorter matches
72% positive
268 reviews
Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition
Space 4X strategy with streamlined colonies and turn-based battles
83% positive
Free
Dust Fleet
Space strategy with turn-based fleet planning and real-time battles
76% positive
233 reviews
Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
Fantasy grand strategy MMO with city building and player-run trade
69% positive
Free
Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
Turn-based sci-fi 4X strategy with planetary warfare and political bargaining
95% positive
193 reviews
Master of Orion 3
Turn-based space strategy with politics, diplomacy, war, and espionage
53% positive
191 reviews
Pennon and Battle
Turn-based fantasy strategy with town building and tactical battles
69% positive
183 reviews
Knights of the Crusades
Medieval strategy with holy orders, town building, and real-time battles
69% positive
183 reviews