Early Access
4X games in Steam Early Access, scored by how recently and how regularly they ship updates. Filtered to recently updated.
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Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Outer Space Workshop · Last update today · Mixed · 65% of 99 · 49 playing
Update frequency
Too new to rate
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A week-long multiplayer game of strategy, diplomacy, and betrayal. Schedule moves for hours in the future, forge fragile alliances, and time the perfect backstab as events unfold in real time. Coming to Steam Early Access with mobile cross-play and a player pool running since 2015.
Secret Plan · Last update today · Positive · 100% of 24 · 3 playing
Update frequency
Too new to rate
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Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.
JatteGames · Last update today · Mixed · 69% of 759 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Rarely updated
6/100
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Frantic · Last update yesterday · Very Positive · 84% of 50 · 5 playing
Update frequency
Too new to rate
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Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Gamatron AB · Last update yesterday · Very Positive · 94% of 9,472 · 1.1k playing
Update frequency
Sporadic
32/100
A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game pitting hundreds of players against one another. Over one million nuke each other every month.
OpenFront Inc · Last update 5 days ago · Very Positive · 87% of 1,197 · 631 playing
Update frequency
Too new to rate
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Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.
EmpireCraft Studios · Last update 5 days ago · Mostly Positive · 76% of 595 · 135 playing
Update frequency
Too new to rate
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Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
Regalis Studio · Last update 6 days ago · Very Positive · 96% of 52 · 4 playing
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Too new to rate
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Restitutor is a historical incremental grand strategy game focused on statecraft, diplomacy, and calculated warfare. Strengthen your economy, research new technologies, form alliances, and outmaneuver rivals through high-level strategic decisions without micromanagement.
Fish Pond Studio · Last update 7 days ago · Positive · 88% of 26 · 3 playing
Update frequency
Too new to rate
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Experience a new take on the competitive 4x genre with Arkheim - Realms at War: Team based strategy in a free to play MMO fantasy world, played in game rounds of 10 weeks each!
Travian Games GmbH · Last update 15 days ago · Mixed · 63% of 80 · 2 playing
Update frequency
Rarely updated
3/100
Build your ship part by part, guard the core, and manage Hull & Pressure to stay alive. Fight pirates, slugmites and rogue droids across the Syntar system, and dig into the mystery of the long-gone Syntarian Empire.
Frostech Game Studio · Last update 15 days ago · Mixed · 65% of 23 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Irregular
41/100
A crime based 4X strategy game with heavy RPG elements. Money, power, women... in the Prohibition, the world of crime is prospering, but in it, the road to the top is filled with blood. The ruthless competition, the greedy politicians and the pesky policemen, everyone wants to come out on top!
OMNIA · Last update 18 days ago · Mostly Positive · 74% of 34 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Sporadic
38/100
A 2D multiplayer sandbox game revolving around industry, innovation, factions, combat and emergent gameplay. Design factories, customize tools and weapons, fight or trade with other players or get viciously murdered by an angry badger.
TFlippy · Last update 19 days ago · Very Positive · 80% of 125 · 2 playing
Update frequency
Sporadic
27/100
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.
SavGus Studio · Last update 20 days ago · Mostly Positive · 76% of 87 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Too new to rate
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Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Slavic Magic · Last update 23 days ago · Very Positive · 84% of 92,869 · 3.4k playing
Update frequency
Irregular
47/100
HARD VOID is a 4X turn-based space strategy game in a lovecraftian universe. Lead your species across galaxies and multiple dimensions to build an Empire. Design your spaceships, assemble your fleets and fight for supremacy. But beware, unthinkable Eldritch horrors lurk in the vast darkness.
jejoxdev · Last update 35 days ago · Positive · 100% of 10 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Irregular
47/100
A logistics-focused turn-based space 4X. Govern through Administrative Nodes, connect systems with wormhole infrastructure, assign population to production and research, and expand only as far as your empire can support.
Oddbit · Last update 39 days ago · 0 playing
Update frequency
Irregular
57/100
Master of Luna is a turn-based 4X strategy game where you play a half-forgotten deity seeking to regain your former power. It features powerful magic, tactical battles, city building, sweet pixel art, and a calm, melancholic atmosphere.
Aleksandr Tiupin · Last update 44 days ago · Positive · 95% of 22 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Irregular
45/100
Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.
Eridanus Industries · Last update 48 days ago · Very Positive · 81% of 4,463 · 94 playing
Update frequency
Sporadic
28/100
The Dwarves of Glistenveld is a Colony Strategy game about clans of dwarves trying to live and expand underground. Help them explore, mine, forage, fight, and build a home in a forgotten underworld! Features a unique blend of traditional RTS and Colony-Sim.
Nysko Games Ltd. · Last update 52 days ago · Positive · 92% of 13 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Sporadic
29/100
Total Conflict: Resistance is a unique symbiosis of global strategy, tactics and first-person action. Realistic mass battles, many types of armored vehicles, weapons, uniforms, unique mechanics, immersive free gameplay. Lead any state and bring it to greatness!
Thunder Devs. · Last update 2 months ago · Mostly Positive · 74% of 5,386 · 72 playing
Update frequency
Sporadic
35/100
Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty is a wargame demonstrating ancient warfare in China and combining elements of Big Strategy, RTS and RPG. You can learn little-known stories of heroes in ancient China by experiencing battles accommodating thousands of soldiers.
不秋草游戏工作室(Bamboo Games) · Last update 2 months ago · Mixed · 67% of 2,105 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Rarely updated
18/100
Physics multiplayer with player growth, manager mode and club building
SenseDevil Games · Last update 2 months ago · Mostly Negative · 22% of 23 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Irregular
49/100
A fantasy strategy with turn-based tactical combat where your goal is to become a God. Build your empire, forge alliances, ascend to godhood, then watch every ally turn on you the moment you're about to win.
Ironward · Last update 2 months ago · Very Positive · 84% of 76 · 0 playing
Update frequency
Sporadic
28/100