- #1 Countryballs at War
97% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: SHN Games
Windows
Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles. Lead any countryball nation, expand your territory through conquest or diplomacy, and rise as the ultimate superpower.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Historical 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 9.4%
- #2 Countryballs Conquest
96% matchVery Positive86% of 90 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 38.7% ★, Management 13.8%, Diplomacy 10.5% ★, Historical 8.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%
- #3 Europa Universalis IV
96% matchVery Positive88% of 137,236 reviews2013
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 281.9 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 20.1% ★, Real-Time with Pause 17% ★, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Historical 11.9%, 4X 10.4% ★
- #4 Imperiums: Greek Wars
95% matchVery Positive86% of 547 reviews2020
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.8 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 19.9% ★, 4X 13.2% ★, Historical 11.8%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%
- #5 The Emperor and State
94% matchMixed58% of 339 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 20.5% ★, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Historical 12.2%, Alternate History 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%
- #6 CountryBalls Heroes
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 471 reviews2021
Dev: Innominate GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 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 29.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Strategy RPG 9.5%, PvP 9.2%
- #7 Old World
93% matchVery Positive82% of 6,828 reviews2022
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 19.2% ★, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, 4X 12.3% ★, Historical 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #8 Countryballs: Power Protocol
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: KNK DEVELOP
Windows · Mac
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 50.8% ★, Memes 28.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 7.6%, 2D 2.5%
- #9 Countryball: Europe 1890
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 749 reviews2022
Dev: SHN Games
Windows
Discover the 19th and 20th centuries with countryballs!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 41%, Strategy RPG 20.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Story Rich 8.4%, Management 7.9%
- #10 Millennia
91% matchMixed67% of 3,777 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 36.2 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 19.3% ★, 4X 13% ★, Diplomacy 12.2% ★, Historical 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%
- #11 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
90% matchVery Positive88% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 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 22.9% ★, 4X 13.9% ★, Historical 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Economy 10.1%
- #12 Imperial Ambitions
89% matchVery Positive82% of 100 reviews2026
Dev: aoiti
Windows · Mac
Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Historical 13.4%, 4X 12.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Alternate History 10.5%
- #13 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
89% matchMixed69% of 2,291 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 23.3% ★, 4X 15.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, Historical 12%, Alternate History 11.9%
- #14 For The Glory: A Europa Universalis Game
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 173 reviews2009
Dev: Crystal Empire GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 23.3% ★, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, Historical 13.8%, 4X 12.7% ★, Alternate History 9.7%
- #15 Trade Conquest
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: GrandPaw Games
Windows
Turn wealth into political power in this modern Grand Strategy game. Build a global economic empire, manipulate governments, and challenge the world's superpowers through Economic supremacy or military Conquest.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, Real-Time with Pause 22.8% ★, Diplomacy 14.9% ★, Economy 10.5%, 4X 10.4% ★
- #16 Marble Age
87% matchVery Positive83% of 747 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 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 18.5%, Diplomacy 15.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, 4X 13.7% ★, Economy 11.6%
- #17 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
86% matchVery Positive87% of 763 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 21.4% ★, 4X 14.9% ★, Diplomacy 14.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Historical 9.3%
- #18 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
85% matchVery Positive81% of 380 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 34.2% ★, Historical 19.1%, Management 12.1%, Strategy RPG 9.3%, Economy 9%
- #19 Heart of the Machine
84% matchVery Positive92% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.1 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 22.3% ★, Diplomacy 16% ★, Historical 13.1%, 4X 12.5% ★, Economy 10.1%
- #20 Empires of the Undergrowth
83% matchVery Positive94% of 18,736 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.4% ★, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Historical 13%, 4X 12.5% ★, Economy 10.3%
- #21 Warnament
82% matchVery Positive85% of 495 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 27.8% ★, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Economy 11.2%, Historical 11%
- #22 Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
84% matchVery Positive95% of 225 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 35.5% ★, Historical 29.3%, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Strategy 13.3%
- #23 吾皇万岁
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 452 reviews2026
Dev: AI GAME STUDIO
Windows
You'll time-travel to a turbulent ancient Chinese dynasty as a young monarch. Ascend the throne amidst chaos and navigate among powerful officials, noble clans, and common scholars. Each vermilion note harbors danger. Your choice will shape history: Create a prosperous era or be a fallen king.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Diplomacy 18.2% ★, Historical 15.7%, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.3%
- #24 Age of History 3
80% matchVery Positive85% of 18,617 reviews2024
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 37.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 35.2% ★, Diplomacy 23% ★, Alternate History 16.3%, Economy 13.6%, Strategy 5.9%
- #25 Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 109 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 24.6% ★, Historical 15.4%, 4X 14.7% ★, Alternate History 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%
- #26 Aggressors: Ancient Rome
81% matchVery Positive82% of 281 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 22.1% ★, Historical 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%
- #27 The Succession of Changing Kings
77% matchVery Positive87% of 547 reviews2026
Dev: KwaKwaGames
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 17.5%, Alternate History 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Economy 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%
- #28 Marble Age: Remastered
79% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.4 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 21.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, 4X 15.1% ★, Economy 14%, Management 13.6%
- #29 Castle Empire
79% matchMixed51% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Historical 21.3%, Strategy RPG 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Strategy 9.7%
- #30 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,695 reviews2022
Dev: Black Sea GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.1 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 48.4% ★, Historical 16.6%, Strategy 12.6%, 4X 9% ★, Simulation 7.7%
- #31 Imperator: Rome
78% matchMixed66% of 26,881 reviews2019
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 37.7 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 43.6% ★, Historical 19.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 6.6%, Management 6.1%
- #32 ENDLESS Legend™ 2
75% matchVery Positive83% of 2,825 reviews2025
Dev: AMPLITUDE StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 20.8% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, 4X 13.3% ★, Historical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%
- #33 From Village to Empire
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 57 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 23.9% ★, Historical 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 12.5%
- #34 Great Houses of Calderia
76% matchMixed61% of 442 reviews2024
Dev: Resistance GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 38.5% ★, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, Economy 12.2%, 4X 10.5% ★, Management 10.2%
- #35 Nations
74% matchVery Positive90% of 141 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 27%, Diplomacy 16.5% ★, Alternate History 12.1%, Strategy 9.1%
- #36 Microcivilization
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,449 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.7 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 25% ★, Historical 22.3%, Diplomacy 21.1% ★, Economy 12.9%, Management 11%
- #37 Politon
73% matchVery Positive90% of 87 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 22.3% ★, 4X 18.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Alternate History 10.6%
- #38 Supreme Ruler Ultimate
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,252 reviews2014
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 51.1 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 32.8% ★, Real-Time with Pause 30.7% ★, Alternate History 10.7%, Historical 10.1%, Strategy 4.3%
- #39 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
71% matchVery Positive84% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: 古玩工作室
Windows
"SandTable War: Three Kingdoms" is a strategic simulation game set during the Three Kingdoms period. Here you can play as various factions from Three Kingdoms history to conquer cities and lands, unify the realm. With abundant historical officers and scenarios, come restore the Han Dynasty!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.9% ★, Historical 21.6%, 4X 18.7% ★, Alternate History 8%, Strategy 6.3%
- #40 Sid Meier's Civilization VII
72% matchMixed48% of 58,486 reviews2025
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 49.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20% ★, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, 4X 11.5% ★, Historical 11.2%, Economy 8.2%
- #41 Doodle Empires
71% matchVery Positive92% of 1,263 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 31.9%, Historical 28.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.6%
- #42 Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients
74% matchVery Positive82% of 558 reviews2015
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 23.8% ★, Historical 22.2%, Alternate History 11.9%, Strategy 9.1%
- #43 Orbi Universo
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 262 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 32.8% ★, Historical 17.9%, Management 12.2%, Grand Strategy 11.8% ★, Economy 9.9%
- #44 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 153,279 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 33.3%, Historical 30.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 14.7%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #45 KAISERPUNK
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 921 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 30.8% ★, Alternate History 17.8%, Historical 17.1%, Economy 12.2%, Management 10.5%
- #46 Bellfortis
69% matchVery Positive91% of 148 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 39.6% ★, Historical 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Strategy 5.9%
- #47 Knights of the Crusades
69% matchMixed70% of 181 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 46.9% ★, Diplomacy 20.6% ★, 4X 18.4% ★, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.6%
- #48 The Battle of Polytopia
69% matchVery Positive94% of 5,978 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 19.3% ★, 4X 18.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Economy 10.9%
- #49 Europa Universalis V
67% matchMixed67% of 30,445 reviews2025
Dev: Paradox TintoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 52.4 hrsMean: 119.4 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 23.6% ★, Diplomacy 16.8% ★, Historical 14%, 4X 12.6% ★, Economy 10.9%
- #50 Making History: The First World War
71% matchMixed66% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: Factus Games
Windows · Linux
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 23.1% ★, Historical 15.7%, 4X 12.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Alternate History 10.2%
- #51 Making History: The Great War
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 455 reviews2015
Dev: Muzzy Lane SoftwarePub: Factus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.4 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 31.6% ★, Historical 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Alternate History 9.4%, 4X 9.2% ★
- #52 Kingdom's Life
70% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 31.5% ★, 4X 20.7% ★, Historical 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Economy 10.6%
- #53 Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs
67% matchVery Positive85% of 252 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 22.6%, Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Alternate History 14.3%, Strategy RPG 12.7%, PvP 10.2%
- #54 ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV
68% matchMixed63% of 15,920 reviews2020
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 107.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24% ★, Diplomacy 19.4% ★, Historical 14%, Alternate History 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%
- #55 Kingdoms Conquer / 攻城天下
68% 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 33% ★, Historical 23.8%, PvP 14.5%, Multiplayer 11%, Strategy RPG 8.5%
- #56 Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
67% matchVery Positive94% of 6,242 reviews2020
Dev: RPN Indie Developer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Memes 32.6%, Strategy 31.5%, Simulation 22%, Multiplayer 8.8%, 2D 5%
- #57 The Hilarious Three Kingdoms
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 73 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 27.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.3%, Strategy RPG 16.6%, Story Rich 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%
- #58 Noblesse Oblige: Legacy of the Sorcerer Kings
66% matchVery Positive94% of 95 reviews2023
Dev: Lord Forte Games
Windows
Noblesse Oblige: Legacy of the Sorcerer Kings is a high fantasy RPG that reenvisions turn-based combat in dynamic ways, telling the story of Alexander—an idealistic yet pragmatic nobleman—and his allies as they navigate politics, intrigue, ruling, and love amidst a tempestuous civil war.
Why similar: Historical 35.7%, Economy 26.7%, Story Rich 14.6%, Strategy 11.6%, RPG 6.2%