- #1 Countryballs Conquest
97% matchVery Positive88% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: Indenial Games
Windows
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 38.1% ★, Management 14.2%, Diplomacy 10.4% ★, Historical 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%
- #2 Imperiums: Greek Wars
96% matchVery Positive86% of 540 reviews2020
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 19.6% ★, 4X 13.1% ★, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Historical 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
- #3 CountryBalls Heroes
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 457 reviews2021
Dev: Innominate GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
CountryBalls Heroes is a game where you get to play as your favorite Countryball. Become a legend by leading massive Countryball armies. Create your forces, build master-planned cities, gather powerful artifacts and prove that your Countryball is the most powerful.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Strategy RPG 9.5%, PvP 9.2%
- #4 Old World
95% matchVery Positive82% of 6,135 reviews2022
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 19% ★, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, 4X 12.1% ★, Historical 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #5 Countryballs: Power Protocol
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: KNK DEVELOP
Windows
Play as a Countryball and conquer the world—through force, cunning deals, or clever tricks. Grow your economy, build your army, forge alliances or rivalries, and rule all 195 countries. Global domination, rounder and funnier.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 50.9% ★, Memes 27.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.8%, 2D 2.6%
- #6 Europa Universalis IV
94% matchVery Positive88% of 135,916 reviews2013
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 279.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.9% ★, Real-Time with Pause 16.7% ★, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Historical 11.8%, 4X 10.4% ★
- #7 Countryball: Europe 1890
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 725 reviews2022
Dev: SHN Games
Windows
Discover the 19th and 20th centuries with countryballs!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 41.1%, Strategy RPG 20.3%, Strategy 17.8%, Story Rich 8.3%, Management 8.1%
- #8 The Emperor and State
92% matchMixed57% of 317 reviews2024
Dev: 涂途Pub: Hawthorn Games
Windows
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 20.2% ★, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Historical 12%, Alternate History 10.1%, Economy 9.5%
- #9 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
91% matchVery Positive88% of 1,626 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, 4X 13.7% ★, Historical 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Economy 10.7%
- #10 Millennia
91% matchMixed67% of 3,746 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19.7% ★, 4X 13.3% ★, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Historical 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%
- #11 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
90% matchMixed70% of 2,201 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, 4X 15.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, Historical 11.9%, Alternate History 11.8%
- #12 For The Glory: A Europa Universalis Game
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 171 reviews2009
Dev: Crystal Empire GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Take up the reins of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical figures and events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, Historical 13.6%, 4X 12.7% ★, Alternate History 9.5%
- #13 Trade Conquest
88% matchMostly Positive70% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: GrandPaw Games
Windows
Rise from a cunning strategist to a powerful ruler. Master economic warfare, manipulate global events, and build industries or armies to conquer the world. Every decision in this modern Grand Strategy game shapes your ascent to power—will you rise through wealth or force?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Real-Time with Pause 20.4% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, Economy 11.3%, 4X 9.9% ★
- #14 Marble Age
89% matchVery Positive83% of 741 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!
Why similar: Historical 18.1%, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, 4X 13.5% ★, Economy 12.2%
- #15 ENDLESS™ Legend 2
86% matchVery Positive84% of 2,346 reviews2025
Dev: AMPLITUDE StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 19.1% ★, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, 4X 12.2% ★, Historical 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%
- #16 Sid Meier's Civilization VII
87% matchMixed48% of 53,475 reviews2025
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, 4X 11.5% ★, Historical 11%, Economy 8.6%
- #17 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
86% matchVery Positive81% of 375 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Lordy
Windows
In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords,develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.7% ★, Historical 18.7%, Management 12.4%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy RPG 9.3%
- #18 Heart of the Machine
84% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22% ★, Diplomacy 15.9% ★, Historical 12.9%, 4X 12.3% ★, Economy 10.7%
- #19 Age of History 3
84% matchVery Positive85% of 17,231 reviews2024
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 35.8% ★, Diplomacy 23.7% ★, Alternate History 16.6%, Economy 15%, Strategy 6.1%
- #20 Empires of the Undergrowth
82% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22% ★, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Historical 13%, 4X 12.5% ★, Economy 10.9%
- #21 Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
85% matchVery Positive95% of 218 reviews2012
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
Conquer the ancient Greek world in Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, an epic strategy wargame that expands and refines the award-winning Hegemony: Philip of Macedon with brand new content and features.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 35.1% ★, Historical 29.3%, Grand Strategy 22% ★, Strategy 13.6%
- #22 Aggressors: Ancient Rome
83% matchVery Positive83% of 277 reviews2018
Dev: Kubat SoftwarePub: Kube Games
Windows
A mix of deep gameplay and rich historical flavor, Aggressors: Ancient Rome lets you relive history as the ruler of one of the mighty civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Choose one of twenty available factions and conquer the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.3% ★, 4X 21.6% ★, Historical 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%
- #23 Imperator: Rome
82% matchMixed65% of 26,771 reviews2019
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 43.7% ★, Historical 19%, Strategy 9.1%, Economy 7%, Management 6.4%
- #24 The Succession of Changing Kings
79% matchVery Positive88% of 482 reviews2026
Dev: KwaKwaGames
Windows
Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.
Why similar: Historical 17%, Alternate History 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Economy 11.6%, Management 10.9%
- #25 Castle Empire
81% matchMixed57% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
Why similar: 4X 34.4% ★, Historical 21.1%, Strategy RPG 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Strategy 9.8%
- #26 Marble Age: Remastered
80% matchVery Positive86% of 388 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!
Why similar: Historical 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, 4X 14.8% ★, Economy 14.6%, Management 13.9%
- #27 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,461 reviews2022
Dev: Black Sea GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 48% ★, Historical 15.8%, Strategy 12.8%, 4X 9.4% ★, Simulation 8%
- #28 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
78% matchVery Positive87% of 741 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 21.1% ★, 4X 14.8% ★, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Historical 9.2%
- #29 Nations
78% matchVery Positive87% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: Krzysztof SteinerPub: Krzysztof Steiner Games
Windows
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: Grand Strategy 33.7% ★, Historical 26.9%, Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Alternate History 11.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #30 From Village to Empire
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, Historical 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 12.6%
- #31 Politon
76% matchVery Positive90% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Pinq Games
Windows · Mac
Politon: A turn-based strategy game that will push your strategic and management skills to the limit! Expand your territory, strengthen your economy, and outsmart your enemies by planning your strategy carefully.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.2% ★, 4X 18.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Alternate History 10.4%
- #32 Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Imugi
Windows
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Historical 15.7%, 4X 15% ★, Alternate History 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%
- #33 Doodle Empires
74% matchVery Positive92% of 982 reviews2025
Dev: Turtle Stack Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Alternate History 30.2%, Historical 28.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #34 Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients
77% matchVery Positive82% of 552 reviews2015
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, Real-Time with Pause 23.5% ★, Historical 22.1%, Alternate History 11.8%, Strategy 9.3%
- #35 Crusader Kings III
73% matchVery Positive91% of 137,655 reviews2020
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 28.8 hrsMean: 143.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 27.1% ★, Historical 15.1%, Real-Time with Pause 13.9% ★, Management 9.6%, 4X 9.3% ★
- #36 Bellfortis
74% matchVery Positive94% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Rake in Grass
Windows
Bellfortis is a strategy game from the early Middle Ages. Expand your kingdom, use politics and power. Strategic planning on the map alternates with realtime battles of armies. Play as a grand strategy or on smaller local maps, build, recruit armies and fight!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.2% ★, Historical 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 6%
- #37 Microcivilization
72% matchVery Positive80% of 1,364 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: 4X 24.7% ★, Historical 21.8%, Diplomacy 20.9% ★, Economy 13.6%, Management 11.2%
- #38 Making History: The Great War
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 453 reviews2015
Dev: Muzzy Lane SoftwarePub: Factus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 31.4% ★, Historical 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Alternate History 9.3%, 4X 9.2% ★
- #39 KAISERPUNK
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 792 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.3% ★, Alternate History 17.4%, Historical 16.9%, Economy 12.8%, Management 10.8%
- #40 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 147,242 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Memes 32.8%, Historical 30.3%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 14.9%, Singleplayer 4.8%
- #41 Knights of the Crusades
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 165 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 46.7% ★, Diplomacy 20.7% ★, 4X 18.3% ★, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 5.7%
- #42 Great Houses of Calderia
72% matchMixed61% of 418 reviews2024
Dev: Resistance GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Great Houses of Calderia is a Feudal Grand Strategy game focusing on family dynamics & stories. Use your family strengths to compete against rivals to rise in the ranks of Calderia - produce, trade, scheme, bribe, and battle to build your legacy of power!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.6% ★, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, Economy 12.9%, Management 10.5%, 4X 10.4% ★
- #43 The Battle of Polytopia
71% matchVery Positive94% of 5,740 reviews2020
Dev: Midjiwan AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Diplomacy 19.2% ★, 4X 18.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Economy 11.5%
- #44 Kingdom's Life
73% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.1% ★, 4X 20.5% ★, Historical 13.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Economy 11.2%
- #45 Supreme Ruler Ultimate
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,248 reviews2014
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 34% ★, Real-Time with Pause 31.6% ★, Alternate History 11.1%, Historical 10.5%, Strategy 4.5%
- #46 Europa Universalis V
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 26,573 reviews2025
Dev: Paradox TintoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 45.3 hrsMean: 90.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 27.5% ★, 4X 16.6% ★, Historical 13.5%, Diplomacy 12.7% ★, Alternate History 9.4%
- #47 Orbi Universo II
70% matchVery Positive82% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Orbi Universo Team
Windows · Linux
Guide your very own civilization's destiny in this abstract strategy sim. Master a complex node system, overcome unique challenges, and evolve your society from humble beginnings to the mastery of the atom. Can your civilization *really* withstand the test of time?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, Real-Time with Pause 21.6% ★, Historical 16.4%, Management 12.1%, Economy 11.7%
- #48 Kingdoms Conquer / 攻城天下
70% matchVery Positive91% of 237 reviews2021
Dev: 攻城天下
Windows
Kingdoms Conquer is a Massive National Battles Card Strategy Game. Recruit troops, build the battle lineup, conquer and expand your territory, all is to make your realm grown more powerful and finally reign over all the realms! Write your own history and become the one true king of all the kingdoms!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9% ★, Historical 23.7%, PvP 14.6%, Multiplayer 11%, Strategy RPG 8.5%
- #49 ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV
70% matchMixed63% of 15,669 reviews2020
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 24.7 hrsMean: 110.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.8% ★, Diplomacy 19.4% ★, Historical 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Alternate History 11.8%
- #50 Renaissance Kingdom Wars
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 161 reviews2024
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, Diplomacy 22.2% ★, Historical 16.2%, Economy 14.1%, PvP 7.8%
- #51 The Hilarious Three Kingdoms
68% matchVery Positive83% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: 老K666 Studio
Windows
In the game, players will play the role of Liu Bei, the monarch of Shu Han during The Three Kingdoms period, and defeat the strong enemies encountered by cultivating the military generals and forming the characteristic army. Whether you can change your life and unify the three countries is up to you
Why similar: Historical 27.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.6%, Strategy RPG 16.6%, Story Rich 9.4%, Strategy 8.9%
- #52 Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs
67% matchVery Positive85% of 227 reviews2024
Dev: Object SoftwarePub: Strategy First
Windows
An epic real-time strategy game set in chaotic Ancient China. Control the kingdoms of Liu Bei, Sun Quan, or Cao Cao, warlords who played a pivotal role in Ancient China. Lead your kingdom, innovate tech, forge alliances, build a formidable army to unite the nation.
Why similar: Historical 22.4%, Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Alternate History 14%, Strategy RPG 12.7%, PvP 10.2%
- #53 Warnament
66% matchVery Positive87% of 367 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29% ★, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Economy 12.5%, Historical 11.6%
- #54 Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
67% matchVery Positive94% of 6,195 reviews2020
Dev: RPN Indie Developer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Strategy 32%, Memes 31.1%, Simulation 22.6%, Multiplayer 9%, 2D 5.2%
- #55 Field of Glory: Empires
68% 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: Grand Strategy 27.7% ★, Historical 15.9%, 4X 14.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%
- #56 Yield! Fall of Rome
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 258 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, 4X 17.3% ★, Historical 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%
- #57 Orbi Universo
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 260 reviews2020
Dev: Orbi Universo Team
Windows
Play as the leader of a civilization, make it prosper and stand the test of time. Orbi Universo is a strategy/simulation game in which you manage your civilization with an abstract and complex node system and you make your society evolve through different periods, from cavemen to the Modern Era.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.6% ★, Historical 18.6%, Management 13.3%, Grand Strategy 12.1% ★, Economy 10.9%
- #58 Age of History II
65% matchVery Positive90% of 49,233 reviews2018
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master.Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it.Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.3% ★, Historical 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Diplomacy 12.2% ★, Strategy 7.5%