- #1 Gewevo : Interstellar
97% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Victor Filipiak
Windows
Gewevo : Interstallar is a space strategy game derived from the tabletop RPG universe Gewevo. It offers an approach a little closer to a wargame with regard to the empire management aspect. Made with passion by a one-man team;)
Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, RTS 21.4%, Action RTS 19.3% ★, Strategy 11.6%, War 7.3%
- #2 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
96% 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: RTS 23.5%, Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, Medieval 14.9%, Strategy 13.9%, 4X 12.7% ★
- #3 Arinoa: Conquest
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alternate
Windows
Arinoa: Conquest is a real time grand strategy game with a focus on hero units, and combines elements of strategy, resource management, and light RPG mechanics. Gather resources, build your army, and conquer your enemies within the harsh world of Arinoa.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, RTS 18.4%, Action RTS 16.1% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, War 7%
- #4 Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,190 reviews2024
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, RTS 19.8%, Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Historical 7.4%
- #5 Daimyo Reign
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: koichark
Windows
Unify Medieval Japan in this real-time tactical grand strategy game. Build your domain, recruit armies, plan your attack, and fracture your enemies with rebellions to win!
Why similar: RTS 19.3%, Action RTS 16.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.9% ★, 4X 10.5% ★, Medieval 9.6%
- #6 Empire Origin:Rise
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EmpireOrigin Studio
Windows
The grand strategy game "Empire Origin: Rise" is coming. Explore the traces left by human civilization on the earth, pursue the great achievements of the kings in the historical fragments, and revive the brilliant civilization in history. glory? territory? Waiting for you to dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, RTS 17.1%, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, War 10.8%, Medieval 10.2%
- #7 SAND CASTLES
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GREEN ICE STUDIOS, LLC
Windows
SAND CASTLES is a Kingdom and Castle Building Real-Time Strategy / 4X game with a full 3D Graphics Engine. The game supports up to 6-players and features true fog of war within the 3D game world. Your available resources are Gold, Sand, Lumber, and Food.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Action RTS 23% ★, RTS 17.4%, War 11.9%, Medieval 11.5%
- #8 Knights of the Crusades
92% 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: RTS 20.3%, 4X 19.1% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Action RTS 16.3% ★, Medieval 8.5%
- #9 Small Kingdoms Prologue
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Rule a small fantasy kingdom and conquer your rival as you build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and real-time strategy game, the Small Kingdoms Prologue is a free introductory campaign
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, RTS 20.6%, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Medieval 7.6%, War 7.6%
- #10 Starithm
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Orithm
Windows
Become the dominant star-fairing-civilization throughout the procedurally generated star systems. The player must establish/pursue: (1) Ideology; (2) Population; (3) Military assets; (4) 4x dominance (5) Technologies; (6) Artificial Evolution; (7) Cyber attacks; (8) Peace or war.
Why similar: 4X 34.8% ★, RTS 20.4%, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Strategy 8.1%, War 7%
- #11 Kingdom Ascension
90% matchVery Positive85% of 218 reviews2025
Dev: RainRingStudio
Windows
Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, RTS 18.1%, War 11.6%, Grand Strategy 11.5% ★, Minimalist 9%
- #12 Small Kingdoms
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, RTS 19.8%, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Medieval 9.9%, War 9.2%
- #13 Knights of Honor
89% matchVery Positive93% of 2,365 reviews2009
Dev: Black Sea Studios LtdPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
As King, it is your duty to lead your people in their struggle to raise your kingdom from its humble beginnings to a position of power and prestige. War, diplomacy and a burgeoning economy are the means by which you increase your power and expand your influence.
Why similar: RTS 22.8%, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Medieval 19.5%, Strategy 17.6%, War 9.6%
- #14 Medieval Kingdom Wars
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,602 reviews2019
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…
Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, RTS 18%, Action RTS 15.9% ★, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Medieval 9.6%
- #15 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
87% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Aserisoft
Windows · Mac
Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms is a turn-based 4X grand strategy game, played on a procedurally generated world. Battles are real-time and tactical. Every world-map and battlefield is entirely unique, so this game will always have something to throw at you.
Why similar: 4X 41.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Medieval 12.6%, Strategy 12.5%, War 7.1%
- #16 Taste of Power: Medieval
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OneOcean
Windows
Master the art of war in brutal action-RTS across an alternate medieval world. Lead Europe, China or the Timurids to supremacy through strategic brilliance and lightning-fast tactics. Expand your realm, advance powerful technologies and lead massive armies. DISCOVER NEW HORIZONS OF THE MEDIEVAL WARS
Why similar: RTS 38.1%, Action RTS 27.9% ★, Medieval 17.6%, Strategy 14.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #17 Total War: PHARAOH
86% matchMixed63% of 5,332 reviews2023
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction.
Why similar: RTS 27.1%, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, 4X 16.5% ★, War 13.7%, Strategy 8.8%
- #18 Songs of the Chalice
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: vodasoft_tm
Windows
Song of the Chalice is a simple 3D realtime strategy for a single player with tower defense mechanics, inspired by the events of the Hussite era (1419-1420).
Why similar: RTS 30%, Action RTS 27.6% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Medieval 9.1%, War 8.7%
- #19 Rush The Towers
84% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Ian Jowe
Windows
Will you break through enemy defenses, or watch your forces fall before the towers?
Why similar: RTS 30.9%, Action RTS 28.8% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Medieval 10.9%, Casual 7.1%
- #20 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
84% matchNo user 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: 4X 26.4% ★, RTS 21.6%, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Historical 9.4%, War 8.6%
- #21 Ultimate General: American Revolution
82% matchMixed54% of 1,053 reviews2024
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
American Revolution is a sandbox strategy game featuring the epic historical period during the rebellion of the American colonies against the British Empire.
Why similar: 4X 32.2% ★, RTS 20.6%, Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, War 10%, Historical 9.3%
- #22 The Qin Empire
83% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: MAX GAME PTE. LTD.
Windows
真·春秋戦国戦略SLG―中国史上最もドラマチックな時代が舞台! 名もなき小国の人物から成長し、春秋時代の戦国武将を集め、領土を広げ、他のプレイヤーや味方と同盟を結んで共に戦い、戦略と知恵を駆使して始皇帝の如く天下を制覇しよう! いざ出陣だ!これは、始皇帝へとつながる戦乱!
Why similar: 4X 43.5% ★, RTS 26.2%, Strategy 14.5%, War 8.4%, Historical 7.3%
- #23 CannonCraft
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: mihuangame
Windows
Real-time strategy game. Players move freely to find a suitable place to settle down and develop. They build various buildings to explore, attack, and defend themselves, so as to resist AI attacks. They also find and defeat other targets on the map to become the only surviving human player.
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, RTS 24.9%, Minimalist 9.2%, Strategy 9%, War 6.5%
- #24 Nova Historia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: 4X 46.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Historical 8.2%, Simulation 6%
- #25 Star Ruler
80% matchVery Positive83% of 340 reviews2010
Dev: Blind Mind Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
Why similar: 4X 48.9% ★, RTS 21.8%, Strategy 16.5%, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #26 山海:传承
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 薮羽制作组
Windows
在这款幻想题材的4X类型游戏中,您将扮演真龙天子,上承天命,下安黎民。打造一个四方来朝的盛世王朝。您将在此过程中体验朝代的更迭与传承,体验或真实或奇妙的事件,经受住时代的考验。每一次风云变幻都将让您感受到独特的民族魅力与文化。谨记,帝国只有一位真龙。
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, RTS 24.2%, War 10.5%, Historical 10.5%, Strategy 8.2%
- #27 A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 14,652 reviews2018
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?
Why similar: RTS 26.7%, Grand Strategy 15.4% ★, Historical 15%, Strategy 14.5%, Medieval 13.2%
- #28 dreamboat
78% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: dreamboat
Windows
This is a wonderful game!
Why similar: 4X 43.4% ★, Action RTS 25.1% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Medieval 9.3%, Adventure 3.5%
- #29 Descending Empires
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parcyval
Windows
A multiplayer space RTS blending in depth mechanics with fast paced skirmish matches. control and manage an empire together with your team in large-scale online battles
Why similar: 4X 27.9% ★, RTS 19.7%, Action RTS 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 15.6% ★, War 7.6%
- #30 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
《万民长歌:三国》是一款单机 · 历史 · 战争策略游戏。在无缝连续、真实还原的3D沙盘地图上,玩家可以自选视角、以自己的意志重演三国。来体验真实的三国策略——真实的沙盘,真实的二十四节气,真实的百姓,真实的战争!
Why similar: 4X 36.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, War 10.5%, Historical 9.9%, RTS 8.5%
- #31 General Chaos - MAJOR SNAFU
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Game Refuge Inc.
Windows
"Currently, GENERAL CHAOS - MAJOR SNAFU is considerably more than halfway to the finish line! This time around, its a sprite-based, multiplayer PC Game that uses an Xbox-style Game Controller &/or Keyboard & Mouse .
Why similar: RTS 29.7%, Action RTS 27.7% ★, Strategy 16.2%, War 11.7%, Simulation 5.3%
- #32 Imperial Kingdoms
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BaroxxTech
Windows · Linux
Expand your kingdom: Gather resources and transport them to your capital city to produce the materials you need to expand your army and conquer new regions. Research new technologies to improve your economy and army. Use your troops wisely to outmanoeuvre your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 42.9% ★, Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Medieval 9.3%, Historical 7.4%
- #33 Bellfortis
73% 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 21% ★, RTS 19.1%, Action RTS 14.8% ★, Medieval 12.9%, War 10.8%
- #34 Stronghold Siege
74% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Override
Windows
Command your army against a relentless demon horde in this intense real-time strategy game. Master strategy and resource management to conquer the enemy's stronghold while defending your own in the ultimate battle for survival.
Why similar: RTS 26%, Action RTS 25.3% ★, Medieval 11.7%, War 11.4%, Strategy 8.8%
- #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: 4X 19.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, RTS 14.6%, Medieval 13%, Strategy 10%
- #36 SPACECOM
76% matchMixed68% of 527 reviews2014
Dev: Flow CombinePub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
Why similar: 4X 37.8% ★, RTS 34.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Minimalist 8.7%, PvE 4.7%
- #37 Near Sol
74% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: LTide
Windows · Mac · Linux
Space 4X game with the ability to build factories, extract resources, with characters, internal and external markets ... Take part in the discussion of the game, share your vision)
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, RTS 24.1%, Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 4.7%
- #38 Dominium Mundi
75% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Dusan Petrovic
Windows · Linux
Dominium Mundi is a lightweight 4X strategy game set in the medieval period where 4 players compete to create the most influential empire. Expand your empire over the map, convert more people to your religion, and control more trade routes.
Why similar: 4X 57.2% ★, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Medieval 9.1%, Historical 7.1%
- #39 Moons That Belong
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: v4.games
Windows
Embark on a journey of strategy and domination in Moons That Belong, a 2D space strategy game that challenges your tactical prowess. Command your fleet, conquer planets, and outsmart your opponents in this visually captivating and intellectually engaging adventure.
Why similar: 4X 39.2% ★, RTS 26.2%, Minimalist 13.5%, Strategy 7.1%, PvE 6.4%
- #40 Byte Lynx
72% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Artful Games
Windows
Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!
Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, RTS 22.8%, Action RTS 21.9% ★, War 9.9%, Strategy 6.9%
- #41 Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 35,447 reviews2006
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.
Why similar: RTS 18.8%, Medieval 18.7%, Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Historical 12%
- #42 Stellar Reach
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Stelleas
Windows
Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 41.6% ★, RTS 16.7%, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Strategy 9%, War 7.7%
- #43 Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
70% matchVery Positive86% of 91,161 reviews2021
Dev: World's EdgePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 75.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
Why similar: RTS 34.5%, War 14%, Strategy 13.8%, Action RTS 12.3% ★, Medieval 11.4%
- #44 鏖战三国
71% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: 我的三国,由我主宰Pub: 征战九州,问鼎天下
Windows
不看战报,不走回合,即时战斗的策略国战游戏!突破传统SLG游戏的战报式、回合制的战斗模式,采用即时战斗,让战斗不再局限于简单的数值对碰,不再是轮流操作的缓慢战斗过程;上百三国名将阵型战法自由搭配,战场内武将带兵即时战斗,超100战斗单位同屏独立作战,演义气势恢弘战争大戏。
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, RTS 17.9%, Action RTS 17.6% ★, War 9.7%, Medieval 9.2%
- #45 Divided Empire: SENGOKU
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Composition GS
Windows
Lead your clan through Japan's turbulent Sengoku period. Craft wise strategies to expand your domain and use cunning tactics to defeat your enemies on the battlefield. Emerge victorious, restore order, and claim the title of Shogun!
Why similar: RTS 24.8%, Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Strategy 13.4%, War 12.8%, Historical 12.6%
- #46 Instant War
71% matchMixed67% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: Playwing LTD
Windows
Embark on a military strategy 4X RTS game, in a world where your battle tactics and your massive army are the keys to victory. Instant War delivers an amazing battlefield experience in a realistic military game. As a commander, you develop your military base and lead your army to victory!
Why similar: 4X 34.7% ★, Action RTS 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, War 8.1%, Strategy 8%
- #47 Command & Conquer™ and The Covert Operations™
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 403 reviews2024
Dev: Westwood StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
The legendary RTS game which started it all. Will you side with the humanistic GDI or bring the world to its knees with Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod. Your adversaries are without mercy. And so are you.
Why similar: RTS 41.3%, Action RTS 28.4% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Action 7.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #48 文明征程
68% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: 广州小鑫互娱科技有限公司
Windows
《文明征程》是一款以历史文明为背景的策略游戏,让玩家扮演一位伟大的文明开拓者,带领自己的国家蓬勃发展。在游戏中,你将面临各种挑战和决策,需要智慧和策略来发展经济、建设城市、训练军队,同时也要与其他玩家进行外交交流和战争对抗。
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9% ★, RTS 17.7%, Historical 11.2%, War 10.8%
- #49 March of Empires
70% matchMixed63% of 1,811 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 77.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Claim your title as Shogun, Highland King, Northern Tsar or Desert Sultan and join this genre-redefining strategy game where you will wage constant war for real territorial conquest! Fortify your castle, fuel a massive army, and enter the ultimate fight for realm domination!
Why similar: 4X 28% ★, Action RTS 18.5% ★, RTS 18%, War 12.3%, Medieval 11.7%
- #50 Muskets VR
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Swordmaster2k Games
Windows
Put on your VR headset and fix that bayonet. Muskets VR is an immersive real-time strategy shooter set in the Napoleonic era. Prepare your musket, take charge of your troops, and head forth into battle at Waterloo.
Why similar: RTS 25.8%, Grand Strategy 22.2% ★, Action RTS 19.5% ★, Strategy 12.6%, Historical 5.1%
- #51 The Rebellion
69% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Caz Game Design
Windows
The Rebellion is a brand new take on real-time strategy enabling you to seamlessly transition into 3rd person to join your warriors in battle. Build your village, equip each unit with powerful weapons and armor, and secure absolute victory for your faction!
Why similar: RTS 27%, Action RTS 19.1% ★, Medieval 15.5%, War 15%, Strategy 8.5%
- #52 NationWar:Annals
69% matchMixed68% of 168 reviews2021
Dev: Yiming
Windows
This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.
Why similar: 4X 30.4% ★, RTS 20.5%, Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, War 8.7%, Historical 7%
- #53 Power of the Horde [RTS]
66% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Windforce
Windows · Mac
Power of the Horde is a fantasy RTS with three unique factions: Humans, Horde, and Undead. In Skirmish Mode, enjoy classic RTS gameplay with RPG-style hero progression and a permanent equipment system. The AI assistant can also help you build bases and train units automatically.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Action RTS 23.8% ★, RTS 22.4%, PvE 7.5%, Historical 7%
- #54 政通人和
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SuBaiism
Windows
"Peace and Prosperity" is a independently developed ink-wash style historical strategy game set in an alternate pre-Qin period of China. Starting from a small village of just a few hundred people, and conquer all sides to gradually build their own vassal state with millions of people.
Why similar: 4X 34.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, RTS 21.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Historical 6.7%
- #55 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
66% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, RTS 16.9%, Grand Strategy 15.4% ★, Medieval 9.9%, Strategy 5.8%
- #56 The Valiant
67% matchMixed66% of 331 reviews2022
Dev: KITE GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Embark on a journey of brotherhood and redemption in The Valiant, a squad-based RTS set in 13th Century Europe and the Middle East. Command and level-up your medieval knights as you fight through an epic SP campaign, then take your skills online in both cooperative and competitive MP modes.
Why similar: RTS 35.4%, Action RTS 25.1% ★, Medieval 16.8%, Strategy 12.8%, PvE 6%
- #57 A Total War Saga: TROY
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,579 reviews2021
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Inspired by The Iliad and brought to life through the award-winning strategy game series, A Total War Saga: TROY brings a blend of grand, turn-based empire management and spectacular real-time battles to the heart of the Trojan War.
Why similar: RTS 25.1%, Grand Strategy 15.5% ★, War 13.9%, 4X 13.2% ★, Historical 11.7%
- #58 Commanders Fury
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RoboFox Games LLC
Windows
Take command of the war machine of an empire in this 4x RTS hybrid. Fight battles with your flagship fleet in fully 3D real-time space combat. Recruit, train and dispatch commanders. Give them orders, directives and equip their fleets. Manage your empire’s supply logistics and fleet operations.
Why similar: 4X 38.5% ★, RTS 26.2%, Grand Strategy 14.3% ★, Strategy 8.8%, War 6.5%