The Best 4X strategy Games

Update : Ascension added at rank #1.
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Ascension (2025)

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early access Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality.


  • strategy
  • 4x
  • turn-based
  • card
  • building
  • mythology
  • tactical
  • resource-management
  • hex
  • management
  • asynchronous
  • top-down
  • sandbox
  • board-game
  • fantasy

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Sid Meier's Civilization VII (2025)

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Nintendo Switch 2 Xbox Series X/s Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Linux Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X quest 3

The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!

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  • 4x
  • strategy
  • empire
  • military
  • historical
  • economy
  • tile
  • war
  • turn-based
  • resource

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Rogue Hex (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars! ✨

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  • rogue-like
  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • hex
  • deckbuilder
  • card
  • battler
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • grid
  • replay-value
  • historical
  • building

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Songs of Silence (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 j

Songs of Silence is a next-generation turn-based strategy game. It features a unique mix of kingdom and army management, hero development and real-time combat.


  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • lore
  • cinematic
  • 4x
  • fantasy
  • pvp
  • atmospheric
  • card
  • auto-battler
  • rpg
  • real-time
  • multiplayer
  • kingdom

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Nova: Space Armada (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

An exceptional sci-fi strategy game based on space adventure as its core.


  • space
  • 4x
  • sci-fi
  • pve
  • strategy
  • political
  • pvp
  • simulation
  • exploration
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • -person
  • tactical
  • multi
  • historical

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Ara: History Untold (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X

Build a nation and lead your people throughout history to the pinnacles of human achievement as you explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler ever known. It's Your World Now.


  • 4x
  • historical
  • grand-strategy
  • military
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • simultaneous
  • economy
  • war
  • empire
  • resource
  • city-building

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Ozymandias (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.


  • turn-based
  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • tactical
  • hex
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • resource-management
  • asynchronous
  • historical
  • economy
  • grid
  • military
  • management
  • multiplayer

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Fallen (2024)

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Android PC Windows

FALLEN is an exciting psychic action shooter. Chris and Heidi gain superpowers after encountering an unidentified entity. Using abilities like telekinesis, teleportation, and more, they must escape the lab.


  • 4x
  • choices
  • minigame
  • tactical
  • fantasy
  • empire
  • rpg
  • battle
  • tps
  • conversation
  • combat
  • adventure
  • strategy
  • visual-novel
  • casual

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Sins of a Solar Empire II (2024)

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PC Windows

Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • 4x
  • empire
  • space
  • pirates
  • tactical
  • economy

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Cataclismo (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.


  • real-time
  • city-building
  • colony
  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • moddable
  • 4x
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • economy
  • building
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • historical

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