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Stellaris

Stellaris offers a sprawling 4X (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) experience set in a procedurally generated galax...

Sci Fi Space Opera Complex Grand Strategy

9.8 Brilliant

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RimWorld

RimWorld is a sci-fi colony simulator that focuses on the stories of the people who inhabit it. While it features comple...

Sci Fi Management Storytelling Simulation

9.6 Brilliant

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Terraforming Mars: The Card Game

Terraforming Mars: The Card Game distills the epic scope of its board game counterpart into a streamlined, card-driven e...

Strategy Sci Fi Resource Management Competitive

9.4 Brilliant

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XCOM 2

XCOM 2 remains a benchmark for turn-based tactical combat, tasking players with leading a global resistance against an a...

Strategy Tactical Sci Fi Turn Based

9.2 Brilliant

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Subnautica

Subnautica remains a benchmark for the survival genre, offering a breathtaking underwater world teeming with life and da...

Sci Fi Story Driven Exploration First Person

9.2 Brilliant

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Into the Breach

Into the Breach is a brilliantly concise and challenging turn-based strategy game where you command mechs defending citi...

Strategy Tactical Sci Fi Turn Based

9.1 Brilliant

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XCOM: Enemy Within

XCOM: Enemy Within is a critically acclaimed turn-based strategy game where you defend Earth from an alien invasion. Th...

Android Strategy Tactical Sci Fi

9.0 Brilliant

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Frostpunk

Frostpunk is a brutal survival city-builder where players must manage the last city on Earth during a global ice age. It...

Resource Management Management Challenging Survival

9.0 Brilliant

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactics game where players control XCOM, a multinational paramilitary organization,...

Strategy Tactical Sci Fi Retro

9.0 Brilliant

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Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2 expands on the brutal survival city-building of its predecessor. Players must manage a freezing society wher...

Strategy Resource Management Complex Challenging

8.8 Excellent

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Oxygen Not Included

Oxygen Not Included is a challenging strategy video game where players manage a group of colonists inhabiting an undergr...

Strategy Sci Fi Management Simulation

8.8 Excellent

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Anno 1800

Anno 1800 transports players to the industrial revolution, challenging them to build and manage a thriving empire. The g...

Strategy Management Complex Beautiful

8.6 Excellent

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They Are Billions

They Are Billions is a challenging real-time strategy game where players build and defend colonies against hordes of zom...

Tactical Post Apocalyptic Multiplayer Challenging

8.4 Excellent

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Dr. Stone: Stone Wars

Senkuu has made it his goal to bring back two million years of human achievement and revive the entirety of those turned...

Educational Strategy Adventure Sci Fi

8.2 Excellent

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No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky has undergone a remarkable transformation since its initial release. Now boasting a vast, procedurally gene...

Sci Fi Open World Exploration Multiplayer

8.2 Excellent

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Anno 2070

Anno 2070 is a real-time strategy game set in a flooded post-apocalyptic future. Players manage and expand settlements a...

Strategy Germany Sci Fi Video Game

8.1 Excellent

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Zeus: Master of Olympus

This single-player strategy game, developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Studios, continues the City Bui...

Strategy Ancient Greece Mature Historical

8.1 Excellent

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Arknights: Rise from Ember

With the threat of Ursus and Reunion doubling down upon Lungmen, Ch'en, once the city's fiercest defender, renounces her...

Strategy Fantasy Tactical Action

7.8 Very Good

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Arknights: Perish in Frost

Rebel organization Reunion has reduced the city of Chernobog to ashes and despair. That is only the beginning of its upr...

Strategy Fantasy Tactical Action

7.6 Very Good

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Banished

Banished is a Windows-based city-building simulation released in 2014. The game challenges players to manage resources a...

Strategy Management Challenging INDIE

7.6 Very Good