>> best 4X games on steam the full ranking

These are the best 4X games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled 4X games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what 4X fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Anno 2205™

beats 83%

16 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Europa Universalis V	24 players	beats 75%
03	Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era	22 players	beats 75%
04	The Battle of Polytopia	15 players	beats 75%
05	Farthest Frontier	22 players	beats 74%
06	Songs of Silence	4 players	beats 81%
07	Sid Meier's Civilization VII	36 players	beats 72%
08	Songs of Syx	21 players	beats 72%
09	Terra Invicta	11 players	beats 73%
10	X3: Reunion	5 players	beats 76%
11	Sins of a Solar Empire II	5 players	beats 76%
12	Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator	5 players	beats 75%
13	Conquest of Elysium 5	5 players	beats 75%
14	Sid Meier's Civilization® V	249 players	beats 66%
15	X4: Foundations	32 players	beats 67%
16	Total War: ROME REMASTERED	14 players	beats 64%
17	Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI	338 players	beats 62%
18	Europa Universalis IV	124 players	beats 60%
19	Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword	22 players	beats 59%
20	Hades' Star	4 players	beats 62%
21	StarDrive	4 players	beats 61%
22	Stellaris	213 players	beats 56%
23	Distant Worlds: Universe	3 players	beats 58%
24	Songs of Conquest	35 players	beats 53%
25	WitchHand	7 players	beats 53%
26	Total War: PHARAOH	9 players	beats 53%
27	Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim	7 players	beats 53%
28	Age of Wonders 4	31 players	beats 52%
29	Sid Meier's Civilization® IV	36 players	beats 52%
30	Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne	4 players	beats 53%
31	Total War: WARHAMMER	67 players	beats 52%
32	Slipways	9 players	beats 52%
33	HUMANKIND™	44 players	beats 52%
34	Civilization IV®: Warlords	12 players	beats 52%
35	Microcivilization	19 players	beats 51%
36	AI War 2	10 players	beats 51%
37	Northgard: Definitive Edition	93 players	beats 51%
38	Master of Orion	4 players	beats 51%
39	ENDLESS Legend™	85 players	beats 51%
40	Dune: Spice Wars	18 players	beats 50%
41	Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™	45 players	beats 50%
42	Old World	27 players	beats 50%
43	Horizon	3 players	beats 50%
44	After Inc: Revival	9 players	beats 50%
45	Kingdoms and Castles	59 players	beats 50%
46	Star Ruler	3 players	beats 50%
47	Rebel Inc: Escalation	24 players	beats 50%
48	ENDLESS Space™ 2	64 players	beats 50%
49	Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES	21 players	beats 50%
50	Terraformers: First Steps on Mars	5 players	beats 49%
51	Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville	13 players	beats 49%
52	Airships: Conquer the Skies	4 players	beats 41%
53	Interplanetary	16 players	beats 42%
54	Scythe: Digital Edition	13 players	beats 41%
55	Ymir	3 players	beats 35%
56	Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®	6 players	beats 38%
57	SPACECOM	14 players	beats 39%
58	Age of Wonders: Planetfall	17 players	beats 37%
59	Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)	11 players	beats 37%
60	Warlock - Master of the Arcane	23 players	beats 36%
61	ZEPHON	3 players	beats 25%
62	Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition	31 players	beats 34%
63	Sid Meier's Starships	9 players	beats 30%
64	Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization	13 players	beats 30%
65	Knights of Honor II: Sovereign	10 players	beats 29%
66	Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete	49 players	beats 31%
67	Starpoint Gemini Warlords	5 players	beats 25%
68	Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition	7 players	beats 25%
69	Galactic Civilizations III	16 players	beats 28%
70	Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition	3 players	beats 17%
71	Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes	13 players	beats 25%
72	Thea: The Awakening	13 players	beats 25%
73	Hexarchy	15 players	beats 25%
74	Driftland: The Magic Revival	21 players	beats 26%
75	Distant Worlds 2	6 players	beats 20%
76	Oriental Empires	3 players	beats 13%
77	Eador. Masters of the Broken World	17 players	beats 25%
78	Fantasy General II	18 players	beats 25%
79	Pixel Starships	9 players	beats 22%
80	AI War: Fleet Command	23 players	beats 25%
81	CivIdle	30 players	beats 25%
82	Battlestar Galactica Deadlock	33 players	beats 25%
83	Age of Wonders III	81 players	beats 26%
84	Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion	76 players	beats 25%
85	ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition	103 players	beats 25%
86	Demise of Nations	5 players	beats 15%
87	Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War	108 players	beats 25%
88	The Last Federation	8 players	beats 18%

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