The Best 4X Games for PC Windows - Page 5

Update : Sid Meier\'s Civilization VII added at rank #2.
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The Ancients (2024)

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early access PC Windows

The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.


  • grid
  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • hex
  • pve
  • movement
  • procedural
  • nature
  • historical
  • choices
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • management
  • crafting
  • exploration

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Master of Magic Remake (2022)

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PC Windows

Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?

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  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • 4x
  • tactical
  • city-building
  • fantasy
  • grand-strategy
  • 1990s
  • building
  • rpg
  • dark
  • management
  • economy
  • old-school
  • 3d

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Endless Space 2 (2016)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Endless Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious Endless universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?


  • 4x
  • empire
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • economy

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Stars in Shadow (2017)

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PC Windows

Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.


  • 4x
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • sci-fi

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Epoch of Guardians (2025)

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PC Windows Android

In history, many brilliant civilizations faced annihilation due to the invasion of powerful empires, leaving only sighs of regret. In a fictional world, you will take on the role Guardian of Civilization. Can you help these civilizations grow and thrive, resisting the invasion of formidable enemies?

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  • hex
  • 4x
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • grid
  • god-game
  • political
  • tactical
  • historical
  • city-state
  • rogue-like
  • grand-strategy

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Chaos Galaxy 2 (2023)

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PC Windows

A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up various buildings, study technology, and lead fleets to carry out grand strategic actions on the map of the galaxy.

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  • turn-based
  • grand-strategy
  • 4x
  • strategy
  • mech
  • tactical
  • rpg
  • anime
  • historical
  • pixel
  • multiple-endings
  • 2d
  • economy
  • story
  • war

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Terra Invicta (2022)

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early access PC Windows

From the creators of Long War, an alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • simulation
  • turn-based
  • military
  • 4x
  • diplomacy
  • city-building
  • economy
  • war
  • moddable
  • sandbox
  • political
  • sci-fi

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Universal Conquest (2024)

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PC Windows

4X/Grand Strategy/RTS Hybrid Space Simulation based on principles - and developed in consultancy with - alien contactees.

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  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • colony
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • diplomacy
  • wargame
  • illuminati
  • immersive
  • dystopian
  • building
  • conspiracy
  • aliens
  • real-time
  • turn-based

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Toy Toy Up! (2024)

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PC Windows

Experience the thrill of Toy Toy Up, where the whimsical world of toys meets adrenaline-fueled action!

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  • auto-battler
  • 4x
  • illustration
  • design
  • simulation
  • board-game
  • action-adventure
  • fiction
  • farming
  • bullet-hell
  • fmv
  • rogue-like
  • cinematic
  • dungeon-crawler
  • interactive

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Three Kingdoms: Innovatory (2024)

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early access PC Windows

This is a classic historical simulation + real-time strategy game, where you will go back to the era of the Three Kingdoms and play as various renowned sovereigns.

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • wargame
  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • tactical
  • historical
  • turn-based
  • multiple-endings
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • military
  • story
  • rpg
  • drama

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