The Best 4X Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Star Trek: Infinite added at rank #3.
Here are our 10 Best 4X Games for Nintendo Switch:
1

The Battle of Polytopia (2016)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Linux Mac OS Android Nintendo Switch

The Battle of Polytopia is a simplified 4X game that allows players to experience the Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate aspects of the genre in under an hour. Available for mobile devices, it's the pocket-sized 4X that anyone can play anywhere.


What we like:
  • Distillation of the 4X genre in a great turn-based action game
  • Mechanism for competitive play
  • Addresses limitations of chess
What could be improved:
  • Limited multiplayer and co-op options
  • Not ideal for players who want a longer game

  • turn-based
  • 4x
  • strategy
  • civilization
  • diplomacy
  • empire
  • multiplayer
  • building
  • economy
  • tactical
  • real-time

2

CIV (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Build your civilization, research technologies, expand your cities and defeat your foes!


  • 4x
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • historical
  • tactical

3

Star Trek: Infinite (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.

Buy

  • grand-strategy
  • space
  • 4x
  • diplomacy
  • science
  • pve
  • military
  • pvp
  • flight
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • management
  • exploration
  • strategy
  • choices

4

Nuwa (2023)

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Mac OS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Nuwa is a Sci-Fi Strategy Game. Explore an unknown galaxy, discover alien civilization relic and incredible giants, make creatures to help you terraform the planets.


  • outbreak
  • collector
  • creature
  • colony
  • simulation
  • space
  • 4x
  • sandbox
  • mars
  • exploration
  • automation
  • science
  • base-building

5

Moon Defence (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Stand still and fight for the Earthlings across the Solar System. Accumulate energy to repair, build and research. Reveal the unthinkable truth.

Buy

  • mars
  • wargame
  • 4x
  • shooter
  • gun
  • first-person
  • pve
  • shoot-em-up
  • tps
  • tower-defense
  • space
  • multiple-endings
  • arena
  • third-person
  • 3d

6

Thea 2: The Shattering (2018)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?

Buy

  • card
  • 4x
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • survival
  • battler
  • cooperative
  • fantasy
  • innovative
  • rogue-like

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