Games Like Age of History II

Grand strategy wargame where the destiny of Civilizations rests in your hands - will they stand united under your leadership or fall divided in conflict? Journey through the entire saga of human civilization, from its earliest days to the futuristic era, crafting your legacy age by age.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.7%, Diplomacy 14.7% ★, World War I 13.9% ★, World War II 12.6% ★, War 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its direct successor retains the accessible nation-conquest sandbox while expanding the era coverage, systems, and scenario possibilities.

The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.

Why similar: Political Sim 15.2% ★, Grand Strategy 12.6%, Diplomacy 11.9% ★, War 11.9%, World War I 10% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest option for players who specifically want the familiar Age of History II formula with a more polished, expanded package.

Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23%, War 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Historical 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based provincial warfare, diplomacy, alliances, and extensive historical scenarios closely match Age of History II's core loop.

Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24%, Historical 15.9%, World War II 15.5% ★, War 15.4%, Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A much deeper real-time grand strategy alternative focused on leading a nation through war, diplomacy, industry, and alternate-history World War II outcomes.

An approachable turn-based grand strategy sandbox. Lead a nation, forge alliances, wage wars and rewrite history. Play solo or with friends, create your own maps and scenarios, and explore community mods on Steam Workshop.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.8%, Turn-Based 11.5%, Historical 11.4%, Diplomacy 10.8% ★, World War I 10% ★

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined turn-based world-conquest game with customizable maps, diplomacy, wars, and an immediately familiar territory-taking flow.

Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.5%, Diplomacy 18.8% ★, War 18.3%, Political Sim 11.8% ★, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a minimalist but highly replayable geopolitical sandbox centered on expanding a country, managing resources, and conquering the map.

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.2%, Historical 21.1%, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Strategy 8.3%, Alternate History 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive historical map where military conquest, alliances, colonization, and diplomacy can turn any state into a world power.

Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.4%, Historical 19.6%, Political Sim 17.8% ★, Strategy 13.9%, War 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its ancient-world setting combines province management, warfare, diplomacy, and empire building on a broad grand-strategy map.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24%, Historical 16.2%, Political Sim 16.1% ★, Diplomacy 11.2% ★, World War I 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Players who enjoy managing a country beyond warfare will find its politics, economy, diplomacy, and nineteenth-century expansion especially rewarding.

Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.2%, Historical 17.9%, Political Sim 15.2% ★, Strategy 8%, War 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its nation-scale political and economic systems offer a classic grand-strategy route to industrialization, colonialism, diplomacy, and war.

A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.6%, War 15.3%, Political Sim 15.1% ★, Diplomacy 12.3% ★, Historical 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Set during China's Warlord Era, it combines turn-based territorial warfare, political maneuvering, recruitment, and factional diplomacy.

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.2%, Historical 23.8%, War 14.3%, Strategy 14%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It adds character-driven dynastic politics to medieval grand strategy while still supporting conquest, alliances, vassals, and alternate history.

Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.8%, Political Sim 13.4% ★, World War II 11.8% ★, War 10.3%, Historical 10%

Why You'll Like It: This expansive geopolitical simulator lets you run a nation’s military, economy, diplomacy, research, and wars across multiple historical eras.

Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.7%, World War II 20.5% ★, Historical 17.7%, Strategy 10.4%, War 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A more simulation-heavy World War II grand strategy game with detailed command structures, production planning, diplomacy, and worldwide conflict.

Politics, religion, war. They are nothing without a legacy that can stand the test of time. Lead any nation, and turn it into a mighty kingdom in one of the most compelling grand strategy games ever created.

Why similar: Historical 43.2%, Strategy 33%, Grand Strategy 16%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This historical grand strategy game focuses on ruling and expanding a state through provincial development, diplomacy, armies, and long-term empire management.

Lead your people to glory and write a new chapter of history in Realpolitiks II, a real-time grand strategy game where you lead any contemporary nation in an attempt to secure world dominance.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.4%, Political Sim 27.5% ★, Strategy 21.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Indie 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its contemporary geopolitical sandbox emphasizes national decisions, diplomacy, covert actions, military expansion, and competing paths to global dominance.

SuperPower 2 is the only global geopolitical simulation game which allows players to control entire countries. Players control countries in 3 major areas: political, economic and military, but this time, in a beautiful real-time 3D environment.

Why similar: Political Sim 36.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.7%, War 14%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This older but broad political simulation is built around directing a modern country’s economy, military, diplomacy, and international ambitions.

Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.8%, World War II 19% ★, Historical 16.9%, World War I 11.9% ★, Strategy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly moddable, long-span historical grand-strategy experience from World War we through the Cold War.

Take over the control of one of the mighty nations during the times of World War 2 in this persisting long-term strategy game. Conquer provinces, forge alliances and build up your economy in real-time. Research top secret weapons of World War 2 and become the one true superpower!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.8%, War 17.7%, World War II 16.8% ★, Historical 13.1%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer-focused World War II strategy game is about building armies, forming alliances, researching technology, and taking provinces across a large map.

Strategic Command: World War I is a new chapter in the Strategic Command Franchise. Relive this momentous conflict from the opening shots of 1914 to the final offensives. Strategic Command: World War I covers all the main aspects and theatres of the war.

Why similar: Strategy 53%, World War I 30.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly readable turn-based geopolitical war game, but shifts the focus to alliances, fronts, and national decisions during World War we.

Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!

Why similar: Political Sim 21.4% ★, Historical 18.3%, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, World War II 13.4% ★, Alternate History 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is ideal for the sandbox side of Age of History II, letting players create nations, alter maps, and watch alternate-history wars unfold.

Take over the control of one of the mighty nations during the times of World War 1 in the biggest WW1 strategy game of all time. Conquer provinces, forge alliances and build up your economy in real-time on persistent maps. Build experimental weapons of World War 1 and become the one true superpower!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.1%, War 18.9%, Historical 17.5%, World War I 13.6% ★, Strategy 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its long-form multiplayer wars emphasize territorial control, production, diplomacy, alliances, and strategic planning across a World War we map.

A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.4%, Historical 17.8%, War 16.3%, Diplomacy 14.7% ★, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Though more focused on stabilization than conquest, it shares the appeal of balancing military choices, diplomacy, resources, and political control over territory.

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1%, Historical 19.6%, War 16.2%, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Alternate History 8.2%

Command your nation's armies, economy, and diplomacy in this WWII Grand Strategy Wargame. Easy to start, hard to master and a full match fits in one session. Play singleplayer and multiplayer, or create, play and share your own custom scenarios with the built-in Scenario Editor.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.5%, World War II 14.4% ★, Historical 14.3%, War 14%, Diplomacy 10.4% ★

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.1%, Historical 15.3%, War 13.5%, Diplomacy 11.2% ★, Turn-Based 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based historical 4X combines territorial expansion, warfare, diplomacy, and dynastic politics in a focused ancient-era empire simulation.

The latest edition of the ultrarealistic world simulator where you play as the Head of State or as the opposition! New Additions: dive deeper into the war in the Ukraine with artillery, trenches, mines, troop morale, etc; detailed immigration management; the justice system; and children.

Why similar: Political Sim 46.5% ★, Diplomacy 36.2% ★, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 3.6%, RTS 1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a detailed modern political simulation for players who want to govern a country through diplomacy, internal policy, economics, and military intervention.

What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.3%, World War II 20% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Historical 14.4%, Turn-Based 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines global World War II strategy with production, research, diplomacy, and flexible alternate-history nation management.

Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.5%, Historical 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Strategy 15.6%, War 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based empire building, diplomacy, city development, technology, and victory-driven expansion make it a natural broader strategy alternative.

Easy to learn, hard to master. A simple & free RTS game.

Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, War 23.3%, Historical 21.6%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Alternate History 9.4%

Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 50.3%, Historical 15.9%, Political Sim 15.1% ★, Strategy 7.6%, Diplomacy 4.7% ★

Doodle Empires is an alternate history sandbox game all about drawing your own nations with your own histories and stories in a variety of maps. Watch your world take shape and evolve over time, and decide which nations will rise and which nations will fall.

Why similar: Historical 31.6%, Alternate History 19.3%, Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Sandbox 11.3%

Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24%, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Historical 20.5%, Diplomacy 11.4% ★, Alternate History 9.8%

Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.7%, Political Sim 22.1% ★, War 18.3%, Alternate History 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion. In Nations you can rule your people for centuries – from ancient times to the modern day and beyond. You shape your state, history and map of the world.

Why similar: Historical 24%, Grand Strategy 23.8%, Political Sim 13.5% ★, Strategy 12.2%, Diplomacy 9.8% ★

Taking place from 1936-64, Arsenal of Democracy lets you play as any nation during the era of WW2, complete with detailed models for economics, diplomacy, research, and intelligence. Warfare is also fully represented with all three branches of operations: land, sea, and air.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 48.1%, Strategy 31.8%, World War II 20% ★

Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.7%, Historical 15.1%, War 14.6%, World War II 14% ★, Turn-Based 9.7%

Become the leader of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.8%, Political Sim 21% ★, Diplomacy 20.8% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Historical 11.7%

A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles. Join the global conflict between the Great Powers of the age and forge a new world order for freedom or tyranny.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.6%, Historical 16.8%, World War I 15.3% ★, War 11.2%, Turn-Based 9.8%

Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.9%, World War II 17.3% ★, Historical 13.7%, Strategy 11.9%, War 11.8%

AfterWar is a simple yet feature-rich strategy game for everyone.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.1%, Political Sim 16.7% ★, War 15.2%, Diplomacy 13.7% ★, Historical 10.9%

Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9%, Political Sim 20.8% ★, War 16.3%, Diplomacy 14.7% ★, Strategy 7.8%

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.

Why similar: War 54%, Strategy 30.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Casual 1.9%

The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.6%, World War I 13.8% ★, Historical 12.7%, War 11.3%, World War II 8% ★

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4%, Historical 14.8%, War 12.8%, Diplomacy 11.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%

Includes Hearts of Iron II plus the two expansions, Doomsday and Armageddon When Germany is defeated in 1945, the Allies and the new Soviet alliance fight for supremacy. World War III is drawing closer. Play as the ruler of one of 175 countries through World Wars II and III.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.2%, Historical 21.2%, Strategy 20.2%, World War II 20.2% ★, RTS 0.2%

Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion, colonization and social upheaval, to emerge as one of the great world powers by the dawn of the 20th century in Victoria Complete.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 50.8%, Strategy 27.4%, Historical 21.8%

Age of Clicks - A unique blend of global strategy and clicker gameplay. Manage your country with clicks: build factories, mine resources, and lead armies into battle. Click your enemies into surrender and reshape the political map of the world!

Why similar: Political Sim 38.1% ★, World War I 27.2% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 5.7%

Addictive yet chill. An immersive Cold War sandbox. Revive the Cold War in this classic strategy game—easy to pick up, yet challenging and deep, offering endless replayability.

Why similar: Political Sim 22.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5%, Historical 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 7.5%

Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.

Why similar: Political Sim 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7%, Diplomacy 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Strategy 7.8%

Cauldrons of War Barbarossa is the turn-based strategic wargame you will launch whenever you want your WW2 shot but don't have time for a monster strategy game.From June 1941 until the Battle of Moscow, play the USSR or the Axis forces in one of the largest and bloodiest operations in history.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.7%, War 14.9%, Historical 14.9%, World War II 14.5% ★, Turn-Based 10.3%

Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?

Why similar: Political Sim 39.2% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Grand Strategy 13.4%, Historical 10.8%, Diplomacy 8.8% ★

Real-Time Strategy Game. Guide your nation through the most violent era in modern history. Play massive campaigns as one of the principal nations, set-piece scenarios of famous battles, or set your own victory condition and play as any nation in the world in Sandbox mode.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.8%, Historical 17.5%, War 15.2%, World War II 15% ★, Strategy 7.8%

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.1%, Historical 18%, War 14.7%, Diplomacy 11.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%

Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.9%, Strategy 21%, World War II 18.9% ★, Historical 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%

The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.7%, Historical 17.8%, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, War 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%

Strategy & Tactics: Wargame Collection is a set of three historical turn-based strategies, in which you are going to take command of the armies in the greatest Medieval wars as well as take control of countries and nations during World War II.

Why similar: Strategy 19.2%, Grand Strategy 19.1%, War 16.2%, Historical 15.7%, World War II 12.2% ★

Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.6%, Historical 14.6%, War 13.4%, Diplomacy 11.8% ★, Turn-Based 9.6%

Lead your country through the Victorian age, expand your empire as you go head to head with the great powers of the world.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.7%, War 23.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Historical 9.7%, Diplomacy 7.9% ★

A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term ambitions. Every action risks an enemy reprisal, and if nobody backs down from a standoff, we all lose.

Why similar: Political Sim 21.7% ★, Historical 15%, Diplomacy 14.3% ★, War 14.2%, Strategy 13.9%