4X · Indie games to play together

31 4X · Indie games your group can play together online, including OpenFront, Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition, and Global Protocol: New World Order.

All games: 24

OpenFront

A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game pitting hundreds of players against one another. Over one million nuke each other every month.

86%86% positive of 1,173 reviews638Playing now: 638$6.99

Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition

Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.

82%82% positive of 252 reviews6Playing now: 6Free

Global Protocol: New World Order

Lead any of 221 countries through a living 2026 world in this data-driven grand strategy game. Shape economies, politics and alliances, wage conventional or nuclear war, run covert operations, and rewrite the global order—alone or online with up to seven friends.

73%73% positive of 102 reviews6Playing now: 6$19.99

Dune: Spice Wars

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

78%78% positive of 11,615 reviews138Playing now: 138$34.99

Lawgivers II

Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.

73%73% positive of 582 reviews37Playing now: 37$19.99

Conquest of Elysium 5

Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.

89%89% positive of 1,937 reviews150Playing now: 150$29.99

Making History: The First World War

A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles. Join the global conflict between the Great Powers of the age and forge a new world order for freedom or tyranny.

66%66% positive of 109 reviews4Playing now: 4$24.99

Thea 2: The Shattering

In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?

76%76% positive of 1,986 reviews41Playing now: 41$24.99

Hades' Star

A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.

72%72% positive of 2,696 reviews134Playing now: 134Free

Ymir

Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.

72%72% positive of 844 reviews7Playing now: 7$34.99

Deity Empires

Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world.

85%85% positive of 334 reviews11Playing now: 11$24.99

Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith

In Dominions 5 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

93%93% positive of 1,928 reviews10Playing now: 10$39.99

Making History: The Second World War

Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.

77%77% positive of 268 reviews13Playing now: 13$29.99

ENDLESS Space™ 2

ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

82%82% positive of 17,329 reviews269Playing now: 269$39.99

Oriental Empires

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

79%79% positive of 2,593 reviews25Playing now: 25$29.99

Downtown Mafia: Gang Wars

Addictive text-based Mafia MMO RPG where you team up with other players to wage Gang Wars, Turf Wars, Boss Fights, Hire Mercs, Hit-List your enemies, buy weapons, vehicles and equipments, City-based Missions, TOURNAMENTS and much more..

67%67% positive of 161 reviews5Playing now: 5Free

Demise of Nations

Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.

81%81% positive of 558 reviews1Playing now: 1Free

Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO

Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.

67%67% positive of 209 reviews9Playing now: 9Free

ENDLESS Legend™

ENDLESS Legend™ is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS Space™ and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

83%83% positive of 14,431 reviews114Playing now: 114$29.99

Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator.

88%88% positive of 1,125 reviews5Playing now: 5$34.99

Eador: Masters of the Broken World — Alliances on a Shattered Map

Take a turn-based fantasy shard with friends, build heroes and armies, and form uneasy alliances between rival Masters.

67%67% positive of 1,668 reviews29Playing now: 29$19.99

ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition

ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

78%78% positive of 6,632 reviews69Playing now: 69$9.99

AI War: Fleet Command Turns Co-op Into a Galactic Campaign

Join up to seven friends in a long strategy campaign against two AI empires. Expansion helps your resistance, but destroying key enemy infrastructure can draw more attention.

84%84% positive of 992 reviews3Playing now: 3$9.99

Gods and Idols

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.

67%67% positive of 761 reviews0Playing now: 0Free

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