The Best Grand-strategy Games - Page 3

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Shadow Empire (2020)

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PC Windows

Shadow Empire is a sci-fi 4X game with a huge scope where players rule as an absolute leader of a nation on a far-future planet. Discover new technology, invent industrial-scale warfare, and become the most powerful ruler on the planet. The game has a complex, detail-oriented simulation of politics, governance, and economics that complements the focus on technology and warfare. With a diverse and complex universe, Shadow Empire offers a unique 4X wargame experience that is worth playing.


What we like:
  • Deep strategy game with lots of attention to detail
  • Unique planet generator ensures every game feels different
  • Excellent balancing of game mechanics
  • Combines wargame, city builder, empire management, and RPG elements
  • Hours of gameplay without any dull moments
What could be improved:
  • Steep learning curve and complex mechanics
  • Archaic graphics
  • Lengthy end turn times
  • AI doesn't always play by the same rules as the player
  • Requires time and dedication to master

  • 4x
  • turn-based
  • wargame
  • grand-strategy
  • hex
  • strategy
  • sci-fi
  • multiplayer
  • asynchronous
  • war
  • economy
  • management
  • aliens
  • space
  • empire

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Cooking Fever (2014)

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IOS iPhone Android

Various minor changes and balance improvements to make your gaming experience better. Travel back in time to the Middle Ages and discover dishes fit for kings and queens in a new, exciting restaurant.


  • turn-based
  • time-management
  • strategy
  • card
  • rpg
  • diplomacy
  • grand-strategy
  • japanese
  • wargame
  • immersive
  • cooperative
  • 4x
  • military
  • real-time

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Total War: Warhammer III (2022)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • fantasy
  • tactical
  • workshop
  • turn-based
  • dwarf
  • dark
  • war
  • cooperative
  • pvp
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox

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Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows

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


  • hex
  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • turn-based
  • asynchronous
  • tactical
  • economy
  • strategy
  • historical
  • grid
  • tabletop
  • management
  • board-game
  • resource-management
  • multiplayer

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Strategic Command WWII: World at War (2018)

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PC Windows

Strategic Command WWII: World At War is your chance to re-fight the 20th century’s greatest conflict, from Poland to China, Normandy to the Pacific, on a map encompassing the globe.


  • grand-strategy
  • hex
  • world-war-2
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • wargame

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Raiders! Forsaken Earth (2020)

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PC Windows

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...


  • grand-strategy
  • rpg
  • base-building
  • 2.5d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • strategy
  • building
  • isometric
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • top-down
  • old-school
  • management
  • open-world
  • economy

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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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Imagine Earth (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!


What we like:
  • Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
  • Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
  • Great fun in multiplayer games
  • Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
  • Unique approach to a tile-based system
What could be improved:
  • Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
  • Voice acting could be better
  • Limited countermeasures against weather effects
  • Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation

  • simulation
  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • lore
  • nature
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • science
  • management
  • base-building
  • economy
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • space
  • resource

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Striker Zone: War Shooting Games (2022)

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Xbox One Android

Striker Zone is a PvP shooter game. Outstanding 3D graphics. Realistic physics. Great choice of guns. Become elite stalker in the best online PvP shooter.


  • turn-based
  • card
  • diplomacy
  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • rpg
  • japanese
  • wargame
  • military
  • immersive
  • cooperative
  • tactical
  • online
  • 4x

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Maiz (2023)

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PC Windows

Using laser beams, reflexions, blocks and button to push and activate, solve the puzzles in Maiz to discover the story of this Moroccan village.


  • puzzle
  • maze
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • platform
  • farming
  • grand-strategy
  • inventory
  • point-and-click
  • precision
  • funny
  • casual
  • mystery
  • interactive
  • walking-simulator

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