- #1 Mapborn
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yunfc Games
Windows
Your map is the world. Mapborn is a real-time grand strategy sandbox played directly on your original artwork. Add cities and nations, choose one to rule, and shape its history through war, diplomacy, politics, and rebellion.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.7%, Political Sim 16.9% ★, Alternate History 11.2%, Wargame 11.1%, Level Editor 8.1%
- #2 Fantasy Map Simulator
96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,362 reviews2024
Dev: The Stranger
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: God Game 18.1% ★, Political Sim 17.2% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2%, Alternate History 10.4%, Wargame 9.4%
- #3 Command by Voice: World Conquest
96% matchMixed56% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: Side Meicai
Windows
Rule a nation by issuing voice or text commands to an AI and conquer the world. Voice input supports Chinese and English; text input supports all languages.
Why similar: Political Sim 21.3% ★, God Game 21% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, Wargame 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #4 Simulator of Countries
95% matchMostly Positive67% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
This game is a global strategy game that gives you the opportunity to play for countries in the modern world. Here you will be given a choice of 198 countries for which you can play.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.1% ★, Wargame 21.6%, Grand Strategy 14.9%, Military 9.3%, Economy 8.7%
- #5 Historarium
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SemiRandom Interactive
Windows
Shape continents, civilizations, and see the rise and fall of empires. Follow individual characters as they rise to power. Or as mighty rulers fall to irrelevance. Create nations and see them evolve through the centuries. Or destroy it all and watch civilization react to your actions.
Why similar: God Game 21.5% ★, Political Sim 18.7% ★, Wargame 12.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Alternate History 9.4%
- #6 Cascade: Hindcast
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Herni Dedalvs
Windows · Mac
Cascade: Hindcast is an alternate-history grand strategy game where monthly political and military decisions reshape a living war map. Use hindsight, spend scarce political capital, and watch borders, armies, and consequences move in real time.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.6%, Political Sim 22.3% ★, Wargame 13.8%, Alternate History 9%, Strategy 7.2%
- #7 Age of Enlightenment
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GSG Johan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Shape the destiny of the world as an 18th century ruler. Forge alliances and prepare your armed forces to expand your domain and colonize new lands. Or focus on internal development and help your subjects thrive with prudent economic policy and lawmaking. The choice is yours in Age of Enlightenment!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.7%, Political Sim 18.9% ★, Alternate History 9.5%, Wargame 9.2%, Historical 8.1%
- #8 Twisted Three Kingdoms
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seasonbean Team
Windows
Amidst this chaotic era, shape your own destiny—whether as a loyal minister, a ruthless warlord, or an independent ruler. Every choice and battle writes your legend. Are you ready to rise from a commoner to claim the realm?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9%, Political Sim 18.8% ★, Wargame 15.9%, Historical 9.9%, Alternate History 8.8%
- #9 1992: Rasputie
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: A2B games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take a place of a politician in the post-Soviet space and immerse yourself in the struggle for power amid the ruins of the former empire. Your decisions will determine the path of the young state's development.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4%, Wargame 11.6%, Alternate History 10.9%, Historical 8.3%
- #10 Front Frontiers
91% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: baus96
Windows
The World is on the brink of irreversible Tragedy. Global tensions are rising, alliances are falling apart and states are preparing to decide their fate in the shadow of a massive war. Front Frontiers invites you to fight a massive war, offering an in-depth strategy experience.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.1%, Political Sim 19.9% ★, Wargame 17.5%, Alternate History 8.8%, War 7.1%
- #11 THREE KINGDOMS: STRATEGY SIMULATOR
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 闪电游戏工作室
Windows
Three Kingdoms Strategy Simulator is an AI-native historical strategy title. Every NPC possesses independent cognition and persistent long-term memory. None of the regional warlords are pre-scripted routines hardcoded into the game engine。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9%, Political Sim 23.6% ★, Wargame 19.9%, Strategy 7.4%, Economy 6.9%
- #12 Provinces
89% matchNo user reviews88% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: HullHeimPub: HullHeim Games
Windows
A world-building sandbox where you create provinces, cultures, nations and characters to build your own custom worlds. Then influence the world you have just created by giving your characters ambitions make your own sandbox stories.
Why similar: God Game 26% ★, Political Sim 25.9% ★, Wargame 17.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Alternate History 9.3%
- #13 Crowns of Medieval Europe
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: plausegame7
Windows
Lead one of ten medieval kingdoms in this turn-based grand strategy game. Expand your territory, develop your economy, strengthen your army, and shape the future of Europe through diplomacy, war, and strategic decisions.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.6%, Political Sim 20.2% ★, Wargame 16.9%, Strategy 7.4%, Military 6.1%
- #14 Things That Happen on the Map - Realm Simulator
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lysemin
Windows · Mac
A sandbox world simulator where you generate a world and watch history emerge from interacting systems. Track wars, alliances, economies, cities, families, and individuals, then zoom from shifting borders to personal lives.
Why similar: Political Sim 28.7% ★, God Game 22% ★, Wargame 11.9%, Alternate History 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #15 Mandate Eternal
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mandate Eternal
Windows · Mac · Linux
A grand strategy game that focuses on events across Eurasia during the Ming Dynasty of China. Featuring robust and detailed simulation. Lead your army in a real time 1:1 scaled RTS battle against your enemy. Manage thousands of regional markets and shape your empire to your will.
Why similar: Political Sim 18.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, God Game 18.1% ★, Wargame 13.9%, Alternate History 7%
- #16 Flames in Modern Europe
86% matchMixed68% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Volodymyr Marsenko
Windows · Mac
Global real-time strategy on a highly detailed map! You are the leader of a state — build a powerful economy and army, research technologies and even nuclear weapons! But remember: the aggressor will always breathe down your neck. Use your political courses to achieve your great goal!
Why similar: Political Sim 25% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Wargame 19.1%, Alternate History 10.6%, Historical 7.1%
- #17 Ascendant Dawn
86% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Nikous Studio
Windows
Ascendant Dawn is a grand strategy game where you lead a nomadic tribe in a brutal bronze age world. Work your way up from a small clan to a great empire by founding cities and conquering your enemies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.2%, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Wargame 14.4%, Alternate History 10.2%, Historical 8.7%
- #18 Another Map Simulator
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Overdramatic Games
Windows
Be the architect and the audience of a living, breathing fantasy world. Generate vast procedural maps, paint your empires, and watch as autonomous AI nations wage war, forge alliances, and build deep economies. Intervene as an active god, or sit back and watch centuries of history unfold.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.5%, Political Sim 27% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Historical 6.1%, Simulation 5.8%
- #19 逐鹿汉末:三国
84% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: CXC STUDIO
Windows
这款游戏邀请您来到精彩刺激且充满变革的东汉末年三国时代,以前所未见的自由、深度及历史真实性,进行称霸天下一统中原的征程。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39%, Wargame 20.7%, Political Sim 11.8% ★, Historical 11.6%, Strategy 7.9%
- #20 SGS NATO's Nightmare
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
What if the Warsaw Pact had attacked NATO in the mid-1980s. Or the other way around? Study this titanic conflict, within its most emblematic theater, Germany and Central Europe. Will you be able to achieve your goals without escalating into an uncontrollable nuclear conflict?
Why similar: Wargame 25.3%, Political Sim 23.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Alternate History 10.5%, Historical 5.6%
- #21 Three Kingdoms : Alias
82% matchVery Positive80% of 373 reviews2026
Dev: Plotrick
Windows
A world where officers hide their names and abilities. Can you spot Zhuge Liang? A hardcore turn-based strategy simulation for true Three Kingdoms devotees.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.1%, Political Sim 20.5% ★, Wargame 15.3%, Alternate History 10.2%, Historical 8.8%
- #22 Legacy of Six Generations
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 疯狗工作室
Windows
《Legacy of Six Generations》 is a hardcore grand strategy game set during the Warring States period.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4%, Political Sim 26.7% ★, Wargame 20.9%, Historical 6.6%, Strategy 6.2%
- #23 Warlord
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Baby War Elephant
Windows
Warlord is a fantasy map simulator where factions build, expand, and fight on their own. Create custom maps, scenarios, factions, and units. Then watch your world come to life.
Why similar: Wargame 19%, Sandbox 13.5%, God Game 11.9% ★, Alternate History 11.7%, Grand Strategy 11.1%
- #24 Mandate 1600: The East
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RM GAME
Windows
At a turning point in history, decide the future of a nation. Mandate 1600: The East is a global historical grand strategy game. Govern lands and dynasty, secure your bloodline, grow through trade, and prevail in war. Rewrite history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.3%, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Wargame 12.9%, Historical 9.3%, Strategy 5.2%
- #25 State of Command
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Layth Issam El Zaim
Windows · Linux
A modern grand strategy game where you act as head of state, managing military forces, economic development, and diplomacy while directing large-scale operations on dynamic frontlines.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.7%, Political Sim 25.4% ★, Wargame 19.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Historical 6.5%
- #26 The Stars Are Never Still
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Sojourner. Game
Windows
The Stars Are Never Still is a 2D space sandbox. Shape a galaxy and watch 16 unique races colonize, trade, ally, betray and wage war. Observe, or intervene with technology, aid, discord, disasters, new life—even black holes. Chronicle millennia of history. No set goals. No empire lasts forever.
Why similar: God Game 23.7% ★, Political Sim 18% ★, Grand Strategy 17%, Wargame 11.4%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #27 Clockwork Dawn
79% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Terra Studios LLC
Windows
A new dawn approaches with the advent of intricate mechanical designs that will transform the world into an era of steam and steel. Take control of a country in this alternate history steampunk timeline and either survive and prosper or be forgotten in the dust of ages past.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.8%, Political Sim 20.1% ★, Wargame 13.9%, Alternate History 13.2%, Historical 8.2%
- #28 Globalism
79% matchMixed61% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: igelanium games
Windows
A global strategy for the 21st century. The threat of nuclear war, economic inequality, overpopulation of some regions and extinction of other regions, the crisis of capitalism... Find your solutions to the current problems of mankind!
Why similar: Political Sim 20.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Wargame 15.4%, War 9%, Economy 7.7%
- #29 Kingdoms in Ink
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SQOOL
Windows
A fantasy world's history unfolds on a single map. In this grand strategy game, kingdoms rise, borders shift, and kings and generals pass through the generations. Simply watch, or command a nation and unite the world. Follow towns, people, dragons, and adventurers through a history all your own.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.7%, Political Sim 18.5% ★, Wargame 11.9%, Alternate History 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #30 Kingdom's Life
78% 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 21.9%, Political Sim 20.6% ★, Wargame 15.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Historical 7%
- #31 Tempest of Nations
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Faustian Ambitions LLC
Windows
Tempest of Nations is a real-time, historical grand strategy game set during the Industrial Revolution. Lead your nation through one of the most transformative eras of history as you manage diplomacy, economics, and politics.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.5%, Political Sim 27.4% ★, Wargame 17.9%, Historical 11.7%, Strategy 9.5%
- #32 昭明日月 Pax Serica: Rise of the Ming
76% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Serica Dynamics Studio
Windows
昭昭天命,复归大明。在星变时空的恢弘重塑中,熔铸八十三载春秋:变钞法以通有无,革军制而强九边;修水利以固邦本,改科举而纳贤良。崇格物方致知穷理;兴矿冶而器利工商。靖九边以抚八方,镇四海而服万邦。于庙算奏疏间,重整日月山河;在革故鼎新中,再创中华治世。一切,皆在你一念之间。
Why similar: Political Sim 23.8% ★, Wargame 15.6%, Alternate History 15.4%, Historical 11.1%, Grand Strategy 9.7%
- #33 Crown Of Hispania
75% matchPositive100% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: Regalis StudioPub: indie.io
Windows
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.2%, Political Sim 16.8% ★, Wargame 12.8%, Alternate History 8.7%, Historical 7.4%
- #34 Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,393 reviews2023
Dev: JoySpark Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 20.2% ★, God Game 18.7% ★, Wargame 14.4%, Alternate History 11.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #35 Power & Revolution 2021 Edition
77% matchMixed56% of 836 reviews2021
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
A new expansion of the ultra-realistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! New Features for 2021: administration of the EU, Covid vaccinations, Biden's Challenge, political coalitions, diplomatic negotiations, worldwide tax and free-trade agreements.
Why similar: Political Sim 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2%, Wargame 15.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Alternate History 7.5%
- #36 Victoria II
76% matchVery Positive88% of 20,842 reviews2010
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 49.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.2%, Political Sim 23.1% ★, Historical 10.5%, Economy 7.7%, Strategy 5.9%
- #37 Simulator of Ukraine 1991
74% matchVery Positive86% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Alternate History 17%, Wargame 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%
- #38 Meiji Oligarchy
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: January Desk
Windows
Meiji Oligarchy is a historical simulation game that models the political, economic, and military systems of Meiji-era Japan. It spans the period from the assassination of Ōkubo Toshimichi through the Katsura–Saionji era (1878–1912).
Why similar: Political Sim 31.2% ★, Wargame 16.3%, Economy 10.8%, Historical 9.5%, Alternate History 9.5%
- #39 Civitas: World Simulator
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3-Storm StudiosPub: Wrenchy Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Civitas: World Simulator is a deep historical-fantasy simulation where nations will dynamically rise, fall, and evolve. In this game we model internal forces like ethnicity, culture, language and other inner political struggles.
Why similar: Political Sim 18.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.6%, God Game 13.7% ★, Wargame 11.8%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #40 Doodle Empires
71% matchVery Positive93% of 1,320 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: God Game 23.9% ★, Alternate History 20.7%, Wargame 13.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Historical 11%
- #41 卢沟桥事变
73% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: 文墨
Windows
The game begins on July 7, 1937. You can choose either of the two major forces located in Nanjing and Yan'an at that time, or operate the regular army to fight frontally, or develop guerrillas to attack the enemy's rear and save the precarious country!
Why similar: Political Sim 28.4% ★, Wargame 23.4%, Grand Strategy 16.4%, Military 9.4%, War 7.4%
- #42 Samhan: Where Korea Began
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CODEMAPO
Windows · Mac
Silla's thousand-year reign is crumbling, and Gyeon Hwon, Gung Ye and Wang Geon rise to claim the peninsula. Command 500+ historical figures across a 3D Korea in this turn-based grand strategy of statecraft, diplomacy and war—and reunite the Three Han.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.6%, Political Sim 22% ★, Wargame 17%, Historical 9.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #43 STATO
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows
Shape a nation in a procedural grand strategy sandbox where geography, industry, diplomacy, and war drive emergent history. Build your state, secure resources, manage instability, and survive a world of rival powers.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.5% ★, Grand Strategy 26.5%, Sandbox 12%, Historical 9.8%, Strategy 5.4%
- #44 Global Supremacy
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glory MediaPub: SJ co.
Windows
A vast, real-time geopolitical simulation where 196 nations live and breathe at once. Economy, finance, monetary policy, trade, energy, military, diplomacy, nuclear strategy, politics, society — every lever that moves a nation is in your hands. The clock never stops — until you stop it.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.1%, Political Sim 21.5% ★, Wargame 16%, Sandbox 8.7%, Economy 7.6%
- #45 Ultimate Arena
73% matchVery Positive80% of 995 reviews2016
Dev: Triverske
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Pick and create characters to fight to the death in this action-packed nonsensical arena simulation.
Why similar: God Game 22% ★, Political Sim 20.7% ★, Wargame 19.2%, Alternate History 13.4%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #46 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
69% matchVery Positive85% of 343 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 23.3%, Political Sim 18.9% ★, Wargame 15.5%, Historical 9.5%, Military 7.2%
- #47 Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
70% matchMixed48% of 317 reviews2025
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.
Why similar: Political Sim 28% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4%, Wargame 18.1%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 5.2%
- #48 Mini WW2 Simulator: Gear and War
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Aim Studio
Windows
A WW2 god-simulation game where you observe or influence nations’ military development and the course of war. Customize WWII unit loadouts, edit formations, and deploy infantry, artillery, and armored forces to shape the outcome of battles.
Why similar: God Game 22.3% ★, Political Sim 18.5% ★, Wargame 14.7%, Grand Strategy 12.7%, Military 9%
- #49 Aye! My Liege
70% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Tappole Software
Windows · Mac
A grand strategy game set in an alternate history. Lead your noble house to power using a 4-tier command system that allows for granular management of every individual soldier. Master complex industrial chains, navigate tariffs, and balance diplomacy to shape the continent's ultimate fate.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.5%, Political Sim 21.7% ★, Wargame 16.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Alternate History 5.9%
- #50 Fate Candle: Three Kingdoms - Chronicle Restored
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XIA WANWAN
Windows
The fire at Red Cliffs fractures history. Rise from one of 44 cities, govern your domain, befriend forgotten generals, and restore their memories. Develop your faction and deploy stratagems across ten-slot battles. Hold cities and awaken City Veins before the world unravels.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.3%, Political Sim 18.6% ★, Wargame 14.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Alternate History 7.2%
- #51 Mr. President
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 172 reviews2026
Dev: Exia Labs
Windows · Mac
Can you face the challenges of the Oval Office? Find out in Mr. President, a sandbox simulation of the U.S. presidency. Pursue your legislative agenda. Compete with rivals Russia and China. Deal with crises from 9/11 to COVID-19; and direct the U.S. military against terror groups and rogue states.
Why similar: Political Sim 24% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7%, Wargame 15.6%, Historical 9.4%, Military 6%
- #52 EarthRoyale
69% matchVery Positive85% of 180 reviews2024
Dev: Lizzycat / Lizabeth Gidlund
Windows · Mac · Linux
EarthRoyale is a Map simulation Observer game where the game each turn chooses one of many events to edit the world map
Why similar: Political Sim 28.5% ★, God Game 17.1% ★, Wargame 16.5%, Alternate History 16.5%, Historical 4.7%
- #53 Reversed Front
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ESC Taiwan
Windows
The players may assume the role of Hong Kong, Tibet, Uyghurs (East Turkestan), Kazakhs, Mongolia, Manchuria, Taiwan or Cathaysian Rebel factions, establishing organisations in 269 territories in the Cathayan Continent to overthrow the Communist regime!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.3%, Political Sim 23.1% ★, Wargame 17.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, War 5.9%
- #54 Rename the History
67% match8 user reviews40% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Codime Dev
Windows
Lead your country in one of the most difficult periods of post-war history. At this time, you will have to choose between the strong, or become a great power. To go west or east? It's up to you to decide.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.5%, Alternate History 12.9%, Political Sim 11.8% ★, Wargame 11.4%, Historical 9.4%
- #55 History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms
66% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Uncle GoodBen
Windows
Set in the Three Kingdoms period of late Eastern Han China, the game History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms aims for players to choose from various competing warlords, unify the divided world, survive, and become the ultimate victor.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9%, Wargame 22.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Alternate History 9.9%, Historical 8.3%
- #56 三国記II
68% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: lufy
Windows · Mac
《三国记II》是三国记系列的第2部作品,是一款正统的历史模拟策略游戏。以中国东汉末年的三国时期为总体背景,围绕着争夺大陆霸权,展开了一系列的故事。 《三国记II》采取直接在大地图上进行游戏和战斗,让玩家体验征战四方的快感。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26%, Political Sim 21% ★, Wargame 16.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Military 6.9%
- #57 Firearms Factory
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Triplex TerminalPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Firearms Factory is a WWII strategy game focused on weapon manufacturing and logistics. Starting in 1939, you manage a German war factory, expanding control over key regions by supplying battlefronts. Balance production, logistics, and territorial defense on the path to nuclear weapon development.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.5%, Transportation 10.8% ★, Wargame 9.3%, Historical 9.3%, Economy 9.1%
- #58 Power & Revolution 2020 Edition
68% matchMixed62% of 856 reviews2020
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
The new version of Geopolitical Simulator 4, the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and restart the economy, participate in the US elections or engage in lightning wars with new 2020 scenarios.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.9%, Wargame 16.3%, Economy 8.2%, Military 7.3%
- #59 Nations
65% matchVery Positive90% of 148 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 23.6%, Political Sim 19.8% ★, Wargame 17.7%, Historical 13.6%, Alternate History 10%
- #60 How Empires Work
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crow Cottage
Windows · Mac · Linux
An incremental strategy game about building the machinery of empire. Develop your economy and military, and automate them into institutions of power that expand your reach across centuries of history. Grow from humble beginnings to take your place on the world stage!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.7%, Political Sim 21.3% ★, Wargame 16.3%, Alternate History 13.4%, Historical 11.3%