Games Like Age of Wonders: Planetfall (2026)

Shared: Faction Asymmetry, Turn-Based Tactics

A 4X strategy game where eight wildly asymmetric factions fight for survival on a dying world, blending hex-based empire-building with deep RPG quest lines and lore.

Shared: Strategy

Few strategy games have the staying power to sit at 96% positive after 200,000 Steam reviews and still pull newcomers in. With both expansions, Civ V is the most complete the series ever felt before Firaxis moved on.

Shared: Turn-Based Tactics

Tight, turn-based mech tactics where every move is a puzzle, and every failed run teaches you something new about the next one.

Shared: auto-admitted

Ninety-four percent positive across 18,000+ Steam reviews for an ant colony RTS. Either Slug Disco figured out something most strategy studios miss, or the genre bar is on the floor. It's the former.

Shared: Faction Asymmetry

Forget resource harvesting and blob warfare, CoH's territory-control economy and cover-based squad tactics set a benchmark in 2006 that most RTS games still haven't cleared.