- #1 DSS war party
97% matchVery Positive93% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows
A real-time grand strategy game set in a low fantasy world. Recruit vast armies to conquer the world. Dominate through strategic resource management and production chains.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Wargame 12.5%, Voxel 12.4% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Economy 8.5%
- #2 Songs of Syx
96% matchVery Positive94% of 9,164 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.5% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Economy 15.2%, Medieval 12.4%, Open World 7.7%
- #3 City States: Medieval
96% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are the leader of a city-state in high medieval Europe. Expand your city through deep city-building systems, build a trade empire across the known world, and lead men to war to defend trade routes in a high-stakes struggle of global strategy and brutal warfare.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Wargame 17%, City Builder 16.7%, RTS 16%, Economy 10.4%
- #4 Eyes of War
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!
Why similar: Wargame 26.2%, RTS 21.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Medieval 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #5 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
94% 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 35% ★, RTS 22.9%, Medieval 18.8%, Strategy 10.7%, City Builder 5.4%
- #6 Cataclismo
94% matchVery Positive89% of 4,300 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.7% ★, City Builder 21.1%, RTS 16.3%, Economy 15.5%, Open World 7.5%
- #7 Medieval Kingdom Wars
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,615 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: Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Wargame 17.4%, City Builder 16.7%, RTS 15.8%, Economy 12.1%
- #8 Supreme Ruler 2030
92% matchMixed65% of 553 reviews2023
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
Rise to power as any modern day country in a realistic military, political and economic simulation. Command your country's diplomacy, espionage, and resource management to strengthen your position. Use real-time tactical control of your military to fortify your place as the Supreme Ruler.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Wargame 23.6%, RTS 19%, Economy 11.7%, Tactical 8.2%
- #9 KAISERPUNK
91% 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 23.7% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Wargame 20.2%, Economy 12.4%, Tactical 7.3%
- #10 Norland
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,349 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.6% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 15.2%, Medieval 13.7%, Open World 7.8%
- #11 Kingdoms Reborn
90% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Economy 12.5%, RTS 10.8%, Medieval 9.9%, Procedural Generation 5.6%
- #12 ICBM: Escalation
89% matchVery Positive86% of 1,434 reviews2024
Dev: SoftWarWarePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.
Why similar: Wargame 32.7%, Grand Strategy 31% ★, RTS 24%, Strategy 5%, Multiplayer 3.4%
- #13 Age of History 3
88% 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: Wargame 25.6%, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, RTS 16.2%, Economy 12.6%, Medieval 9.1%
- #14 Going Medieval
86% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Voxel 26.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, RTS 18.5%, Economy 15.8%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
- #15 Diplomacy is Not an Option
86% matchVery Positive86% of 12,512 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Medieval 33.6%, RTS 26.8%, Resource Management 17.3%, Tactical 10.9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #16 Carrier Command 2
87% matchVery Positive82% of 3,750 reviews2021
Dev: GeometaPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30% ★, Wargame 29.1%, RTS 25.1%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 4.9%
- #17 Forged Battalion
89% matchMixed58% of 1,113 reviews2018
Dev: Petroglyph
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
Why similar: RTS 69.2%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #18 Mandate Order
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 897 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Wargame 21.5%, RTS 15.9%, Grand Strategy 14.4% ★, Medieval 10%
- #19 Master of Command
84% matchVery Positive92% of 3,925 reviews2025
Dev: Armchair Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.
Why similar: Wargame 28.1%, RTS 27.2%, Procedural Generation 11%, Tactical 10.8%, Open World 7.7%
- #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 29.7% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Economy 18.1%, Open World 8.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #21 World Warfare & Economics
84% matchMixed60% of 687 reviews2023
Dev: Okron Studio
Windows · Mac
Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.5% ★, RTS 23.5%, Economy 18.5%, Tactical 8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #22 Sins of a Solar Empire II
82% matchVery Positive84% of 8,614 reviews2024
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Why similar: RTS 48.2%, Tactical 15%, Strategy 14.8%, Co-op 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #23 Manor Lords
81% matchVery Positive84% of 90,512 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.5% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Medieval 16.4%, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 5.9%
- #24 Industries of Titan
82% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Voxel 31.8% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Tactical 9.8%, Strategy 7.2%
- #25 Heart of the Machine
79% 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 30.1% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Economy 18.1%, Open World 9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #26 AI War 2
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,559 reviews2019
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.9% ★, RTS 21.2%, Economy 17.1%, Tactical 6.9%, Co-op 6.8%
- #27 Cossacks 3
80% matchVery Positive82% of 16,115 reviews2016
Dev: GSC Game World
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 50.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!
Why similar: RTS 26.5%, City Builder 21%, Economy 14.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Open World 7.8%
- #28 Knights of the Crusades
79% 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Wargame 18.9%, RTS 18.5%, Medieval 10.1%
- #29 Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
78% matchMixed61% of 7,964 reviews2023
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 16.0 hrsMean: 81.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.8% ★, Wargame 31.7%, RTS 17.7%, Economy 12.8%, Simulation 3.9%
- #30 Bellwright
76% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: City Builder 38%, Medieval 23.5%, Open World 16.8%, Co-op 6.5%, Strategy 4.8%
- #31 Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,979 reviews2016
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Why similar: RTS 61.3%, Strategy 13.6%, Co-op 11.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Multiplayer 5.2%
- #32 Steel Division 2
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,583 reviews2019
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 52.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
Why similar: RTS 27.9%, Grand Strategy 22.7% ★, Wargame 22%, Strategy 8.6%, Tactical 7.6%
- #33 Heavyarms Assemble: WWII
77% matchMixed66% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: XR Studio
Windows
This is a strategy game with the theme of WWII. As a battlefield commander, maintaining your army's motivation and satisfaction, promoting your generals, managing your own economy, dealing with your friends' armies, and real time grand battle. What kind of commander will you become in the process?
Why similar: Wargame 29.4%, Grand Strategy 27.9% ★, RTS 21.7%, Tactical 8%, Strategy 5.1%
- #34 Renaissance Kingdom Wars
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 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 23.2% ★, Wargame 21.7%, RTS 17.4%, Economy 13.8%, Medieval 11.1%
- #35 Airships: Conquer the Skies
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,597 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: Wargame 34.8%, Grand Strategy 34.5% ★, RTS 22.5%, Strategy 4.5%, Multiplayer 3.8%
- #36 Dune: Spice Wars
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,540 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, RTS 23.1%, Economy 18.5%, Tactical 9%, Co-op 6.2%
- #37 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
71% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.5% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Economy 18.5%, Open World 6.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #38 Supreme Ruler Ultimate
74% 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 31.4% ★, Wargame 27%, RTS 22.1%, Tactical 9.4%, Strategy 4.8%
- #39 Grand Ages: Medieval
76% matchMixed48% of 1,976 reviews2015
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, RTS 15.5%, City Builder 15.5%, Medieval 15.2%, Economy 14.2%
- #40 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Economy 29.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Fantasy 6%
- #41 Great Houses of Calderia
73% 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% ★, Economy 16.1%, RTS 11.7%, Medieval 11.5%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #42 Ancient Wars: Medieval Crusades
71% matchVery Positive83% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: JOTASOFT STUDIOS
Windows
New Real Time Strategy Game based on medieval times, where you will control powerful factions and empires, with large-scale epic battles, asymmetric civilizations, unit customization system with RPG elements, dynamic AI, 8K support and much more.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Wargame 20.4%, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 17.7%, Medieval 9.9%
- #43 ENDLESS Legend™ 2
69% 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 33.1% ★, Economy 18%, Medieval 17.1%, Tactical 9.8%, Co-op 6.8%
- #44 Empire Architect
73% matchMixed65% of 171 reviews2017
Dev: Batholith Entertainment
Windows
Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Economy 17.3%, RTS 14.5%, Medieval 9.6%, Strategy 8.4%
- #45 Empire of Ember
72% matchMixed66% of 149 reviews2022
Dev: Poleaxe Games LLC
Windows
Become a battlemage, build a city, and command your troops in this fantasy warfare simulator. Jump into the fray and use your might, magic, and wits to fight enemies in battles of up to a hundred units and fully destructible city siege combat. The fate of an empire is in your hands.
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Medieval 21.9%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Open World 13.3%, Strategy 7.7%
- #46 Anno 117: Pax Romana
69% matchMixed70% of 12,661 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, RTS 23.5%, Economy 19.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 5.5%
- #47 Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
72% matchMixed65% of 12,453 reviews2019
Dev: KK Game Studio
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.
Why similar: RTS 26.3%, Open World 26.3%, Strategy 25.6%, Tactical 15.6%, Simulation 3.4%
- #48 Kingdoms and Castles
70% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, RTS 17.9%, Economy 15.4%, Medieval 12.1%, Open World 7.7%
- #49 BLOCKLORDS
70% matchMostly Negative33% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: MetaKing Studios
Windows
BLOCKLORDS is a player-driven medieval grand strategy game where your decisions and skills shape the world and narrative. Choose from several playstyles, including farming, fighting, resource management, and ruling, and forge your own destiny as your Hero.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28% ★, Wargame 23.5%, RTS 19.9%, Medieval 10.9%, Strategy 6%
- #50 Rise of Industry 2
69% matchMixed64% of 219 reviews2025
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Economy 26.7%, Tactical 15.4%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 7.6%
- #51 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
68% 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 36.6% ★, Medieval 19.9%, Wargame 18.3%, Economy 12.7%, Strategy 7.2%
- #52 Empires and Tribes
70% matchMixed66% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, RTS 21.9%, Medieval 18.7%, Economy 7.8%, Open World 7.1%
- #53 Captain of Industry
67% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Economy 31.9%, City Builder 29.5%, Resource Management 20.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 7.2%
- #54 Distant Worlds 2
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,552 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 55% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Simulation 10.6%, 3D 4.6%
- #55 Mindustry
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,902 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: RTS 52%, Resource Management 20.1%, Strategy 12.6%, Co-op 9.2%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #56 Lords of Solgrund
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Sillylas
Windows
Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, RTS 21.3%, Economy 19.9%, Medieval 15.5%, Strategy 5.1%
- #57 Solar Wave
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: SavGus Studio
Windows
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.2% ★, Wargame 21.6%, RTS 18.8%, Economy 13.3%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
- #58 Stronghold: Warlords
67% matchMixed65% of 5,310 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: City Builder 29%, RTS 19.1%, Economy 17.7%, Medieval 15.1%, Open World 6.7%
- #59 Dyson Sphere Program
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Open World 20.8%, Resource Management 17.4%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 7.5%