Best Rated 4X Games Free

The best rated 4X games on Steam that are free to play. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.

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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
  1. 1Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest85.02%
  2. 2Gods and Idols84.59%
  3. 3War Planet Online: Global Conquest83.69%
  4. 4Hades' Star83.06%
  5. 5Pixel Starships82.36%
  6. 6March of Empires81.53%