- #1 Gallic Wars: Violens Annalis
97% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: 白新社
Windows · Mac
A turn-based strategy game set in the "Gallic Wars". It features a simple command system and a variety of storylines.
Why similar: Rome 38.3% ★, Wargame 14.1%, Historical 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 7%
- #2 Field of Glory II
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,224 reviews2017
Dev: Byzantine GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Field of Glory II is a turn-based tactical game set during the Rise of Rome from 280 BC to 25 BC.
Why similar: Rome 21.2% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Wargame 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Historical 9.5%
- #3 Mare Nostrvm
96% matchPositive88% of 34 reviews2017
Dev: TurnopiaPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
From the dawn of history to the Roman Civil Wars, from Iberia to Cyprus, revive the ancient naval battles of the Mediterranean Sea.
Why similar: Rome 42% ★, Strategy 22.2%, Wargame 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Indie 0.9%
- #4 Roman General
95% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Moore Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A hex based strategy game set in the time of the Roman Republic. Fight through numerous historical wars and campaigns to experience the rise of one of the worlds greatest empires.
Why similar: Rome 32.8% ★, Wargame 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Hex Grid 12.6% ★, Strategy 10.4%
- #5 Roma Invicta
94% matchVery Positive83% of 247 reviews2022
Dev: Puntigames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Roma Invicta combines action packed real-time battles with turn-based strategy on a big campaign map. Supply your legions and conquer ancient Gaul turn by turn. Fight by yourself or hand over your soldiers to the AI and enjoy the spectacle.
Why similar: Rome 39.4% ★, Strategy 16.4%, Wargame 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%, Historical 8.2%
- #6 Strategos
94% matchVery Positive87% of 205 reviews2026
Dev: Strategos GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Strategos is a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. Simulate large-scale battles with over 120 factions, and 250+ units, from the ancient world. Create custom battles, or take command of historical ones.
Why similar: Rome 34% ★, Wargame 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Historical 9.6%, Strategy 9%
- #7 Glory of the Colosseum
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Mechanix
Windows
Glory of the Colosseum is a turn-based tactical strategy game set across the Roman empire. A fresh take on tactical turn based combat with minimal randomness and maximum choice. Shape gladiators from fresh recruits to legends of the arena. Will you make it to the Colosseum and win eternal glory?
Why similar: Rome 40.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Hex Grid 11.1% ★, Historical 9.9%, Strategy 8.2%
- #8 Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
92% matchVery Positive87% of 86,286 reviews2013
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 24.8 hrsMean: 113.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
Why similar: Rome 38.8% ★, Strategy 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Historical 12.7%, Tactical 5.2%
- #9 英雄竞起:三国
91% matchMixed61% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: 自在工作室
Windows
The world is in chaos, heroes are rising, and the public is a high-ranking official. We must take the collection of heroes as our heart, and we can help the Han dynasty and save the people.
Why similar: Wargame 21.9%, Strategy 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Historical 8.7%
- #10 Songs of Steel: Hispania
91% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Meteorbyte StudiosPub: Combat Time
Windows
Relive the conflict between the mighty Roman Republic and the brave Celtiberian people of Numantia! Featuring hand-drawn illustrations, classic turn-based strategy mechanics, and combat tactics, with decision-making and side missions.
Why similar: Rome 34.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Historical 10.1%
- #11 Saratoga
89% matchPositive98% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: Hexes of WarPub: GMT Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Saratoga is a digital implementation of the Saratoga, Volume I of the Great Battles of the American Revolution wargame published by GMT Games and designed by Mark Miklos.
Why similar: Wargame 23.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Hex Grid 13.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%
- #12 纸上谈兵模拟器
90% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: 犟游社
Windows
一款简单易上手的兵团战争游戏。 扮演战国七雄,搭配自己的将领,统一天下。
Why similar: Wargame 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 20%, Strategy 20%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.4%, Simulation 14%
- #13 Hispania
88% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
HISPANIA is the computer adaptation of a famous historical board game that broadly depicts the two thousand years of history of the Hispanian Peninsula.
Why similar: Wargame 25.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.1%, Strategy 19.5%, Historical 11.9%, Rome 11.8% ★
- #14 Sidereal Wanderer ST
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SPICE PRESSPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
To master space warfare, the evolution of ‘Side Real Wanderer’ continues. On a battlefield formed from an 8x8 grid, annihilate hostile forces.
Why similar: Wargame 21.8%, Strategy 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%, Simulation 13.9%
- #15 Arete
87% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Molotov Cockatiel Games
Windows · Mac
Arete: The Battles of Alexander the Great is a classic hex-and-counter digital wargame where you'll relive the Macedonian king's most epic battles, from fighting alongside his father in Greece to climactic clashes with Darius in Persia to battling warlords at the extreme fringe of the empire.
Why similar: Wargame 19.8%, Hex Grid 16% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Tabletop 11%, Historical 10.9%
- #16 Pacific General
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 48 reviews2021
Dev: Strategic SimulationsPub: SNEG
Windows
Pacific General explores the Pacific front of the Second World War. Taking control of Axis or Allied forces, you must strategically battle your way through the Eastern and Western front of the Pacific war, using a wide array of land, air and naval forces.
Why similar: Wargame 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, Strategy 14.2%, Historical 10%
- #17 SGS Overlord
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The largest amphibious operation of WW2, and a two-month campaign in the hell of the Norman bocage. Will you manage to make the decisive breakthrough before the Germans recover? Or will you succeed, as Rommel wanted, in crushing the Allied landing as close to the beaches as possible?
Why similar: Wargame 26.7%, Strategy 21.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.3%, Historical 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%
- #18 SGS Battle For: Dien Bien Phu
85% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The emblematic siege battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French rule over Indochina in 1954. Fight for the defense of the fortified camp or try to storm it, in order to reach the upcoming Geneva Peace Conference in a position of force.
Why similar: Wargame 27.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.5%, Strategy 22.3%, Historical 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.3%
- #19 Trickery&Strategy
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Ian Young
Windows
This is a war chess strategy game with the historical background of the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. The game contains sociological knowledge, military knowledge, and conspiracy knowledge. Some knowledge reserve and cognitive ability may be required.
Why similar: Wargame 25.3%, Strategy 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Hex Grid 13.5% ★, Historical 11.1%
- #20 Alea Jacta Est
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
“ALEA JACTA EST” (The Die is Cast) is what Caesar said as he crossed the Rubicon River when he learned that the Senate had removed him from his command. Crossing that small Italian river was equivalent to disobeying Rome’s orders and entering into open rebellion in this historical turn-based strategy wargame .
Why similar: Rome 51.5% ★, Strategy 23.6%, Historical 13.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #21 Battles For Spain
82% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2019
Dev: Headquarter S.L.Pub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
This game represents Four Battles of the Spanish Civil War, battles of Ebro, Teruel, Guadalajara and Merida or La Serena. Players can play as Nationalists, Republican or both in player vs player game. Unit size is battalion for infantry and cavalry, company or battalion for armoured cars or tanks, batteries for artillery and squadron for...
Why similar: Strategy 26.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.2%, Wargame 17.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Historical 12.4%
- #22 Field of Glory: Empires
82% matchVery Positive83% of 858 reviews2019
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 30.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.
Why similar: Rome 36.5% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Wargame 10.2%, Historical 10%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
- #23 De profundis 1454
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radosław KurczewskiPub: To be announced
Windows
1454 is a turn-based tactical game set in 15th-century Prussia. Lead a desperate band of outcasts- peasants, fugitives, the forgotten- through brutal skirmishes shaped by terrain, supply, and survival. A tabletop wargame reborn for history lovers and fans of raw, grounded strategy.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Historical 15.4%, Strategy 13.9%, Hex Grid 13.5% ★
- #24 Mini Army Tactics Medieval
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: John Caruso
Windows
Casual turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy Medieval era. Strategically command your troops on the battlefield to crush your opponent in combat. Use your troops abilities carefully to turn the tide of battle in your favor. Do you have what it takes to win the war?
Why similar: Wargame 24.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Strategy 19%, Hex Grid 13.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%
- #25 Chariots of War
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Chariots of War is an operational real-time game where you can play one of 58 different nations on a huge historically accurate and beautiful map covering the entire Middle East! Build up your cities and keep their inhabitants happy.
Why similar: Wargame 31.7%, Strategy 25.6%, Historical 18.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, War 7.6%
- #26 Vietnam '66
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Every Single Soldier
Windows
The successor to the critically acclaimed Vietnam '65!
Why similar: Wargame 31.3%, Strategy 27.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%, 3D 2.6%
- #27 Age of Gladiators II: Rome
79% matchMixed67% of 264 reviews2018
Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Age of Gladiators II: Rome is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities. Build your story. Build your empire.
Why similar: Rome 48.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%, Tactical 6.5%
- #28 Great Battles of Carolus XII
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖉𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖎 𝕾𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖎𝖔𝖘 (ᚴᛘᛋ)Pub: 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖉𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖎 𝕾𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖎𝖔𝖘 (ᚴᛘᛋ)
Windows
GBOCXII is a simple, hexagon-based strategy game about the Great Northern War. Lead the Swedish army against the powerful enemies of the empire: Denmark, Poland-Saxony and Russia. With the Carolean gå-på spirit, you shall perform great deeds and overcome almost impossible odds!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Historical 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Wargame 13.1%, Strategy 11.7%
- #29 天下統一SSB
77% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Systemsoft beta, Inc.
Windows
数多の群雄が割拠する戦国時代…… 。 この戦乱の世を治めるために、織田信長や武田信玄などの戦国大名に 成り代わって天下統一を目指す戦国シミュレーションゲーム。
Why similar: Wargame 22.3%, Strategy 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.4%, Simulation 12.3%
- #30 World War: Rome - Free Strategy Game
77% matchMixed70% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Joynow Games
Windows
A turn-based strategy war chess game. You will play a commander in the Roman period, and command the generals and troops to complete the specified mission objectives and occupy important strongholds in the level. Rome, Samnite, Epirus, Carthage. Different choices will open different histories!
Why similar: Rome 27.1% ★, Wargame 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Strategy 9.7%
- #31 Warring States
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: polynation games ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Warring States : Tactics is a turn-based battle strategy game set during the Warring States period of Ancient China. The Warring States period is one of turmoil in China, where various feudal states struggle for control of all of China.
Why similar: Wargame 16.3%, Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Historical 13.1%
- #32 WEGO World War II: Stalingrad
75% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Brian KellyPub: Matrix Games
Windows
WEGO World War II: Stalingrad is a hex-based wargame depicting the German offensive to seize Stalingrad in 1942. With historical scenarios and dynamic campaigns, players command forces in one of WWII’s most pivotal battles.
Why similar: Wargame 29.4%, Strategy 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, War 10%
- #33 Total War: ROME REMASTERED
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 13,138 reviews2021
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 39.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire.
Why similar: Rome 38.9% ★, Wargame 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Historical 8.9%
- #34 Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
74% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Battlefront.comPub: SNEG
Windows
The first in the award-winning series, Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord lets you command German or Allied forces from Normandy to Germany in WWII. Battle through towns, woods, and fields in deep, immersive, turn-based and real-time tactical combat.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 21.8%, Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Wargame 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.1%
- #35 Battle for Iwo Jima
76% matchMixed68% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: Yobowargames
Windows
Battle for Iwo Jima simulates the WWII Invasion and desperate fighting for the island that took place in 1945. Take command of the US Marines, manage your tanks, infantry, and HQ communication in a day and night furious battle against the Japanese garrison.
Why similar: Strategy 39.4%, Wargame 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Hex Grid 9.3% ★, Historical 9%
- #36 Valor and Glory: Napoleonic Wars
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zeuta Caffe
Windows
Take on the campaign and lead one of 5 factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the enemies.
Why similar: Wargame 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Strategy 19.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Historical 9.1%
- #37 Strategic Command: American Civil War
73% matchVery Positive85% of 233 reviews2022
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
For the first time in the series’ history, Strategic Command will be taking you to the 19th century battlefields of the American Civil War. You will control the armies, research, production and diplomatic policy of either the Union or the Confederacy during a time of innovation and dramatic battles.
Why similar: Wargame 30.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 26%, Strategy 24.9%, Historical 18.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #38 Broadsword Warlord Edition
73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Hoplite Research LLCPub: GS2 Games
Windows
Broadsword: Warlord Edition is a turn-based tactical strategy game set to historical events of medieval conflict. Assemble your armies and put your tactics to the test, in Broadsword: Warlord Edition.
Why similar: Wargame 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.2%, Strategy 21.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Hex Grid 9.9% ★
- #39 Wargame Construction Set
73% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Strategic SimulationsPub: SNEG
Windows
Ever dreamed of crafting your own wargames, from maps to soldiers? Design simple or complex battles, from man-to-man combat to large-scale campaigns. Build maps, customize units, and choose from historical, modern, fantasy, or sci-fi settings. Play ready-to-go games or unleash your creativity.
Why similar: Wargame 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 11.7%
- #40 No Retreat! The Russian Front
71% matchVery Positive82% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Cyril JarnotPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
This game is a Strategic game on the Eastern Front of World War II.It is a digital port from the famous and eponym boardgame, No Retreat!, designed by Carl Paradis.
Why similar: Wargame 26.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Strategy 21.1%, Historical 12.5%, War 9.2%
- #41 太平洋之嵐6 ~ 史上最大的激戰諾曼第攻防戰! Pacific Storm 6 - Battle for Normandy
74% matchMixed62% of 34 reviews2018
Dev: SystemSoft Alpha CooperationPub: 英特衛多媒體股份有限公司
Windows
" Pacific Storm” series is a war simulation game. It is a scene of historical facts, and it has been praised by many historical war fans.
Why similar: Strategy 20.5%, Wargame 17.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Hex Grid 13.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12%
- #42 Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2
71% matchVery Positive92% of 428 reviews2021
Dev: 2by3 GamesPub: Matrix Games
Windows
War in the East 2 is the most comprehensive, most realistic, and most advanced wargame modeling Eastern Front warfare in World War Two.
Why similar: Wargame 28.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Historical 8.6%
- #43 Total War: ATTILA
72% matchVery Positive82% of 36,976 reviews2015
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...
Why similar: Rome 30.9% ★, Strategy 19.1%, Historical 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, War 9.8%
- #44 Expeditions: Rome
70% matchVery Positive88% of 6,478 reviews2022
Dev: Logic ArtistsPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?
Why similar: Rome 46.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Historical 9.1%
- #45 Wizards and Knights
72% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Jon FabrisPub: JAF Productions
Windows · Mac
Wizards and Knights is turn-based fantasy strategy game featuring randomly generated maps for an infinite variety of games. The goal of the game is to battle five other AI controlled teams to conquer the world.
Why similar: Wargame 25%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.4%, Strategy 22.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.7%, Hex Grid 10.6% ★
- #46 Wars of Cards: ROMA
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Commander BasePub: Beijing tactics game Culture Co., Ltd
Windows
Wars of Cards: ROMA is a multiplayer strategy game. Compared with the high-fidelity, brain-burning strategy game masterpieces, Wars of Cards: ROMA adopts a minimalist gameplay of maps and cards, which can easily satisfy the desire of strategy lovers to color the map.
Why similar: Rome 32.8% ★, Wargame 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Historical 9.7%
- #47 Britannia
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Avalon DigitalPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac
Relive over a thousand years of Great Britain's history in this epic game of conquest and domination. From Roman legions to the Norman Conquest led by William the Conqueror, explore the fate of numerous nations and fight to become king.
Why similar: Wargame 25.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.6%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Historical 10.7%
- #48 Roman Conquest: Rise to Power
69% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: LOMS Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Roman Conquest: Rise to Power is a turn-based strategy game in which the player can feel like a great commander of the Roman Empire. Lead a legion and go with your army to recapture the occupied lands.
Why similar: Rome 36.2% ★, Wargame 22.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Historical 10.7%, Simulation 8.4%
- #49 Pike and Shot : Campaigns
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 384 reviews2015
Dev: Byzantine GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate wargame set in the age of Pike and Shot is back. You are now in full charge of your nation’s armies, throughout a long campaign in the struggle for dominance.
Why similar: Wargame 27.8%, Strategy 24.2%, Historical 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.8%
- #50 Combat Mission: Red Thunder
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Combat Mission Red Thunder focuses on the hard fought Eastern Front battles of Bagration and Poland, from the swamps of Belarus to the gates of Warsaw during the summer of 1944.
Why similar: Wargame 28.7%, Strategy 26%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #51 Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar
71% matchMixed60% of 449 reviews2014
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where Julius Caesar wages a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes. Hegemony Rome will immerse you in the history like no other real time strategy game ever before, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and rapidly...
Why similar: Rome 47% ★, Strategy 29.2%, Historical 15%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 1.4%
- #52 Banality Wars Carridin
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andrew Zuo
Windows
Discover the secrets of Project Carridin in this deep tactical turn based strategy game inspired by Advanced Wars Days Of Ruin.
Why similar: Wargame 25.1%, Strategy 22.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.7%, War 7.7%
- #53 RBM Studio's Gettysburg
67% matchPositive94% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Hexes of War
Windows · Mac · Linux
A historical hexagonal turn-based strategy wargame using markers to represent units designed by the legendary Mark Herman. Throwback to the great hex-based wargames of the 70's and 80's. Solo and online multiplayer modes are supported.
Why similar: Wargame 28.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Hex Grid 18% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Historical 8.6%
- #54 Praetorians
68% matchVery Positive81% of 700 reviews2014
Dev: Pyro StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire. You will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the combat theaters of Gaul and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy in the crusade to become Emperor.
Why similar: Rome 59.1% ★, Strategy 25.2%, Historical 9.6%, War 5.3%, Indie 0.9%
- #55 Germany at War - Soviet Dawn
68% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Phobetor
Windows
Germany At War: Soviet Dawn is a turn-based operational wargame, with a strong historical focus. You command either the German forces through a branching historical campaign covering the entire 1941 campaign as well as part of the 1942 one or the Soviets from 1941 to the revenge of 1944/45.
Why similar: Wargame 26.7%, Strategy 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%, Historical 9.8%
- #56 Rebel Fury
65% matchPositive92% of 36 reviews2025
Dev: Hexes of WarPub: GMT Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rebel Fury is a digital implementation of the wargame published by GMT Games and designed by Mark Herman.
Why similar: Wargame 30%, Strategy 26.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.3%, Historical 16.7%, Indie 1%
- #57 Ibboran
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ian C PookPub: Paphian Games
Windows
The Empire is aflame! Lead your fantastical troops through a 15-battle, turn-based strategy campaign. Build your army by achieving objectives to fill your Treasury. Recruit mercenaries to tilt the battle in your favor and use your General to improve your units or blast the enemy. To war!
Why similar: Wargame 26.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.7%, Strategy 21.4%, Hex Grid 10.5% ★, War 6.2%
- #58 Combat Mission Black Sea
66% matchVery Positive84% of 558 reviews2021
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
Why similar: Wargame 25.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 9%
- #59 大戦略SSB
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Systemsoft beta, Inc.
Windows
"Daisenryaku SSB" is a simulation game in which you command and fight troops such as tanks and fighters on a battlefield separated by hexes. Since the birth of the "Daisenryaku" series, AI has been tough, and it has been evaluated as a simple game but deep game.
Why similar: Wargame 19.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Simulation 10.6%