Games like Solar Nations

84%Game Brain Score

gameplay, music

graphics, grinding

84% User Score Based on 1,214 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 2 reviews

"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their attention outward, away from the galaxy, to alien threats or opportuni…

80%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

stability, grinding

78% User Score Based on 12,958 reviews

Critic Score 82%Based on 11 reviews

Galactic Civilizations III is the largest strategy sandbox ever made. Start with a single world and expand across the galaxy through diplomacy, trade, cultural hegemony or military conquest in this single-player or multiplayer 4X strategy game.

77%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

stability, grinding

79% User Score Based on 5,703 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 2 reviews

Endless Space - Definitive Edition includes all the expansions and updates released for the game (including Endless Space Disharmony).

73%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

optimization, music

70% User Score Based on 3,688 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 4 reviews

Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. The Universe is Yours!Huge Galaxies with up to 2,000 star systems and tens of thousands of planets, moons and asteroids are yours to explore and exploit, whether pe…

81%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

optimization, grinding

88% User Score Based on 133,145 reviews

Critic Score 74%Based on 44 reviews

The Stellaris: Console Edition - Starter Edition is crafted to guide you through your first steps in the Stellaris universe, giving you the tools to explore, expand, and conquer as you build your interstellar empire.

83%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, optimization

83% User Score Based on 6,230 reviews

An extraterrestrial probe is detected approaching Earth. Unknown to humanity, an alien force has arrived in the far reaches of the icy Kuiper Belt and has begun mining a dwarf planet to prepare for an invasion. With Earth’s nations unable to unite to address the alien arrival, transnational groups of like-minded political, military, and scientific leaders develop covert channels to coordinate a r…

65%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

graphics, grinding

64% User Score Based on 433 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 1 reviews

Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.

61%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

stability, grinding

55% User Score Based on 2,790 reviews

Critic Score 69%Based on 6 reviews

StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles. As the galactic ruler of your race you will lead your people into a procedurally-generated galaxy, exploring and expanding your space empire to greatness. Exploi…

96%Game Brain Score

graphics, gameplay

story, music

96% User Score Based on 435 reviews

Lazerbait is a free arcade strategy game set in virtual reality with one simple goal: capture all the planets to build more ships and destroy your enemies!

85%Game Brain Score

gameplay, replayability

graphics, grinding

87% User Score Based on 1,296 reviews

Critic Score 78%Based on 1 reviews

Shadow Empire is an immersive and rather complex turn-based wargame with a unique mix of military focus, 4X elements, procedural generation and role-playing features.