Games like Space Empires IV Deluxe
If Space Empires IV Deluxe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Empires V, Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection and Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modding extends lifespan indefinitely, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Space Empires IV Deluxe: The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.
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Space Empires V
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Shares species customization, planet terraforming and a contemplative mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Top pick for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection
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Shares mod support and a retro mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Second-strongest match for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard. It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light.
Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
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Shares a retro mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Third-strongest match for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which you are in control of humanity's destiny.
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
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Shares a contemplative mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Ranked #4 for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Ranked #5 for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
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.
The Last Federation
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Ranked #6 for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Ranked #7 for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
Sid Meier's Starships
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Shares a contemplative mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Ranked #8 for Space Empires IV Deluxe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
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Stellaris
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Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Reviewers of Space Empires IV Deluxe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Master of Orion 2
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Shares a retro mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Reviewers of Space Empires IV Deluxe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.
Space Empires V
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Shares species customization, planet terraforming and a contemplative mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Reviewers of Space Empires IV Deluxe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Master of Orion
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Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Reviewers of Space Empires IV Deluxe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.
Space Empires II
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Reviewers of Space Empires IV Deluxe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Distant Worlds 2
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Reviewers of Space Empires IV Deluxe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Empires IV Deluxe at current Steam store prices.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~75% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~75% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
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Priced ~75% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
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Priced ~50% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
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Priced ~63% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Lead the great armies of the Star Wars™ Episode II: Attack of the Clones saga in intense real-time strategy clashes. Enter the fray as the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Wookies, Trade Federation, Gungans or Royal Naboo to determine the course of the Galactic Civil War.
Russian Life Simulator
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Priced ~75% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
Achievement Clicker
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Priced ~75% under Space Empires IV Deluxe on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on steam!
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
Toribash
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
Endless Sky
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Card Hunter
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.
Battle for Wesnoth
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life.
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Space Empires V
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Shares species customization, planet terraforming and a contemplative mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires IV Deluxe. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.
Space Empires: Starfury
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Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires IV Deluxe. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.
Space Empires I
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Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires IV Deluxe. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.
Space Empires II
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Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires IV Deluxe. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.
Space Empires III
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Shares a retro mood with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
Another title from Malfador Machinations, the studio behind Space Empires IV Deluxe. Shares Strategy with Space Empires IV Deluxe.
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.
Frequently asked about Space Empires IV Deluxe
- Does Space Empires IV Deluxe run on Steam Deck?
- Space Empires IV Deluxe is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Space Empires IV Deluxe cost?
- Space Empires IV Deluxe is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Space Empires IV Deluxe have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Space Empires IV Deluxe supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Space Empires IV Deluxe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Empires IV Deluxe are Space Empires V, Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection, Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition.
- Who developed Space Empires IV Deluxe?
- Space Empires IV Deluxe was developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First.
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