4 Games with a space setting like Age of Wonders: Planetfall that you should try

Civ V's systems relocated to an alien planet, with affinity paths that visibly change your units as you commit to one. The alien wildlife adds early pressure Civ never had. It was criticised for feeling like a reskin — the diplomacy is shallow, the victory conditions blur together, and the planet never develops the character Alpha Centauri had.

The most thematically ambitious 4X ever made: factions built on ideology rather than nationality, terraforming that reshapes the planet, and a unit designer that lets you build exactly what your doctrine implies. The writing is exceptional. The interface is genuinely archaic, and running it on modern hardware usually requires community patches.

###Impulse A real-time strategy developed by independent developers from Arcen Games. The game first appeared on the public in 2009 on the developer's site and the Impulse site, and later appeared on Steam in version 2.0.