Games like Jon Shafer's At the Gates

"Millennia: Premium Edition is a single-player and multiplayer 4X strategy game spanning 10,000 years of history. Create your own nation, experience different timelines, and dictate the course of history through 10 ages, from the first cities to space travel. Expect good game mechanics, lots of grinding, bugs, and replayability, along with awful graphics and great music."

"Pax Nova" is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where players establish their faction in a new world, Eos, after humanity has failed itself on Earth. Choose between several factions from three races, and engage in exploration, diplomacy, city-building, and combat on land and in space. Each planet offers unique secrets, dangers, and possibilities for colonization, adding depth and excitement to the gameplay.

"StarDrive 2" is a real-time strategy game that lets you build and customize your spaceships with various paint jobs and designs. The Digital Deluxe Edition also includes a developer's journal, digital artbook, and a soundtrack featuring classical music and original scores. As a space empire builder, you will explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate across different galaxies in this 4X strategy game.

"Kingdoms Reborn" is a city-building strategy game set in a fantasy world. Gather resources, construct buildings, and manage your kingdom to ensure its growth and prosperity. Navigate dynamic seasons and weather systems, interact with NPCs, and engage in diplomacy or warfare with other kingdoms to expand your influence and secure your legacy.

Distant Worlds 2 is a 4X space strategy game that offers a vast, procedurally generated universe to explore. Players can manage their space empires, engage in real-time tactical battles, and interact with intelligent alien races. With a focus on empire management and automated tasking, it provides a unique and in-depth gameplay experience for hardcore strategy fans.

In Humankind, a turn-based historical strategy game, you'll craft your own civilization by combining up to 60 cultures from different eras, such as Babylonians, Mayans, Umayyads, and British. Your choices in scientific development, moral decisions, and response to historical events will shape your unique story. The Heritage Collection includes the main game and additional culture packs.

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. The Deluxe Edition Includes •Ara: History Untold Base Game •Exclusive Leader Collection - featuring five exclusive leaders not …

"Depraved is a single-player historical open-world game set in the Wild West implications. As a pioneer leader, you must build a settlement, manage resources, and ensure the happiness and survival of your residents. Facing challenges such as storms, illnesses, and even your own residents' discontent, you must balance their needs for food, water, and protection in a procedurally generated world."

"Hammerting" is a fantasy role-playing game that offers both single-player and multiplayer/co-op gameplay for 2 players. As a dwarven mining colony sim, you'll manage a clan, craft weapons, and delve deep into mines for resources and glory. The game features stunning visuals, a good soundtrack, and a unique atmosphere, but be prepared for a grind, optimization issues, and bugs. Help your dwarves establish a legendary mining operation, crafting weapons and supplies for allies in need.

"Galactic Civilizations IV" is a 4X strategy game that lets you explore the vastness of space as a newly space-faring civilization. Choose from over a dozen civilizations, each with its own unique history and abilities, or create your own using the AlienGPT AI. Build and customize starships, colonize planets, and engage in diplomacy with alien species as you strive for interstellar dominance. The game features a rich, immersive universe filled with lore and discovery.