- #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 14.3%, Wargame 12.6%, Voxel 12.4% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Economy 8.4%
- #2 Songs of Syx
96% matchVery Positive94% of 9,302 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 42.4 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 25.7%, Economy 14.8%, Medieval 12.4%, Open World 7.8%
- #3 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,737 reviews2022
Dev: Black Sea GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 35.1%, RTS 22.9%, Medieval 18.8%, Strategy 10.6%, City Builder 5.4%
- #4 City States: Medieval
95% matchMixed63% of 57 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 20.8%, Wargame 17.1%, City Builder 16.7%, RTS 16%, Economy 10.2%
- #5 Eyes of War
94% 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 15.6%, Medieval 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #6 Cataclismo
93% matchVery Positive89% of 4,346 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 24.8%, City Builder 21.3%, RTS 16.3%, Economy 15.3%, Open World 7.7%
- #7 Supreme Ruler 2030
94% matchMixed65% of 555 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 24.9%, Wargame 23.7%, RTS 19.1%, Economy 11.4%, Tactical 8.2%
- #8 Medieval Kingdom Wars
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,616 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 21.7%, Wargame 17.4%, City Builder 16.8%, RTS 15.9%, Economy 11.8%
- #9 KAISERPUNK
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 935 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23.8%, City Builder 22.5%, Wargame 20.3%, Economy 12.2%, Tactical 7.3%
- #10 Norland
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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 24.8%, City Builder 21.5%, RTS 16.2%, Economy 14.9%, Open World 7.7%
- #11 Kingdoms Reborn
90% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 37.1%, Economy 12.2%, RTS 10.8%, Medieval 10%, Procedural Generation 5.6%
- #12 ICBM: Escalation
89% matchVery Positive86% of 1,459 reviews2024
Dev: SoftWarWarePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 18.6 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 31.1%, RTS 24%, Strategy 5%, Multiplayer 3.4%
- #13 Age of History 3
89% matchVery Positive85% of 18,912 reviews2024
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 38.5 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 25.8%, Grand Strategy 24.8%, RTS 16.2%, Economy 12.3%, Medieval 9.1%
- #14 Mandate Order
87% matchVery Positive81% of 1,304 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23.4%, Wargame 21.5%, RTS 16.1%, Grand Strategy 14.2%, Medieval 10.1%
- #15 Carrier Command 2
88% matchVery Positive82% of 3,781 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 30.1%, Wargame 29.2%, RTS 25.1%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 4.9%
- #16 Going Medieval
86% matchVery Positive89% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.6 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 21.5%, RTS 18.6%, Economy 15.5%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
- #17 World Warfare & Economics
86% matchMixed59% of 688 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 33.7%, RTS 23.6%, Economy 18.2%, Tactical 8%, Strategy 5.7%
- #18 Diplomacy is Not an Option
84% matchVery Positive86% of 12,713 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.0 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 33.8%, RTS 27%, Resource Management 16.9%, Tactical 10.9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #19 Master of Command
82% matchVery Positive92% of 4,017 reviews2025
Dev: Armchair Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 27.3%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Tactical 10.9%, Open World 7.8%
- #20 AI War 2
84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,563 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 37.1%, RTS 21.3%, Economy 16.8%, Tactical 6.9%, Co-op 6.8%
- #21 Forged Battalion
85% matchMixed58% of 1,114 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 69.4%, Strategy 17%, Simulation 9%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #22 Heart of the Machine
81% matchVery Positive92% of 2,139 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.8 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 30.3%, City Builder 25.2%, Economy 17.7%, Open World 9.1%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #23 Steel Division 2
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,602 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 28%, Grand Strategy 22.7%, Wargame 22%, Strategy 8.5%, Tactical 7.6%
- #24 Sins of a Solar Empire II
81% matchVery Positive84% of 8,792 reviews2024
Dev: Ironclad Games CorporationPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 32.8 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 48.4%, Tactical 14.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Co-op 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #25 Industries of Titan
82% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.3 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 34.9%, Voxel 31.8% ★, Resource Management 10.6%, Tactical 9.8%, Strategy 7.2%
- #26 Knights of the Crusades
80% matchMixed69% of 183 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 18.4%, Medieval 10.1%
- #27 Bellwright
79% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 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 38.1%, Medieval 23.4%, Open World 17%, Co-op 6.5%, Strategy 4.7%
- #28 Manor Lords
78% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 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 24.3%, City Builder 20.8%, RTS 17.6%, Economy 15.1%, Open World 7.8%
- #29 Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
79% matchMixed61% of 8,005 reviews2023
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 81.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.8%, Wargame 31.8%, RTS 17.8%, Economy 12.7%, Simulation 3.9%
- #30 Empires of the Undergrowth
76% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.8%, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 17.8%, Open World 9%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #31 Cossacks 3
78% matchVery Positive82% of 16,201 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 26.8%, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Open World 7.9%
- #32 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 28%, RTS 21.7%, Tactical 8%, Strategy 5.1%
- #33 Captain of Industry
75% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 31.8%, City Builder 29.7%, Resource Management 20%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.1%
- #34 States of Power
73% matchVery Positive89% of 403 reviews2026
Dev: Sarunas
Windows
Command your nation's armies, economy, and diplomacy in this WWII Grand Strategy Wargame. Easy to start, hard to master and a full match fits in one session. Play singleplayer and multiplayer, or create, play and share your own custom scenarios with the built-in Scenario Editor.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.8%, Wargame 29.1%, RTS 19.9%, Strategy 6.2%, Tactical 5%
- #35 Renaissance Kingdom Wars
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 171 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 23.4%, Wargame 21.8%, RTS 17.5%, Economy 13.5%, Medieval 11.1%
- #36 Supreme Ruler Ultimate
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,255 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 31.5%, Wargame 27%, RTS 22.2%, Tactical 9.3%, Strategy 4.8%
- #37 Anno 1800
74% matchVery Positive81% of 32,498 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Why similar: City Builder 44.7%, Economy 19.9%, RTS 10.2%, Strategy 8%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #38 Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 5,000 reviews2016
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 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 61.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Co-op 11.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Multiplayer 5.2%
- #39 Mindustry
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,247 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: RTS 52.3%, Resource Management 19.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Co-op 9.2%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #40 Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
73% matchMixed64% of 12,462 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: Open World 26.6%, RTS 26.3%, Strategy 25.4%, Tactical 15.6%, Simulation 3.4%
- #41 Great Houses of Calderia
72% matchMixed61% of 447 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 38.8%, Economy 15.9%, RTS 11.8%, Medieval 11.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #42 Anno 117: Pax Romana
69% matchMixed69% of 12,872 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 29.2 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 35.3%, RTS 23.5%, Economy 19.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 5.4%
- #43 Airships: Conquer the Skies
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,626 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 37.3 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 4.4%, Multiplayer 3.8%
- #44 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 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 43.1%, Economy 29.3%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 7.4%, Fantasy 6.1%
- #45 Ancient Wars: Medieval Crusades
70% matchVery Positive80% of 95 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 19.4%, RTS 17.6%, Medieval 9.9%
- #46 Distant Worlds 2
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,566 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 55.2%, Strategy 16.2%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Simulation 10.6%, 3D 4.6%
- #47 Empire of Ember
72% matchMixed66% of 150 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%, Open World 13.5%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Strategy 7.6%
- #48 Kingdoms and Castles
70% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 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 31.4%, RTS 18%, Economy 15.1%, Medieval 12.2%, Open World 7.8%
- #49 Solar Wave
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 84 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 28.4%, Wargame 21.7%, RTS 18.9%, Economy 13%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #50 Rise of Industry 2
69% matchMixed64% of 220 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 32.8%, Economy 26.3%, Tactical 15.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 7.6%
- #51 ENDLESS Legend™ 2
65% matchVery Positive83% of 3,878 reviews2026
Dev: AMPLITUDE StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 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 39.6%, Economy 22.7%, Tactical 11.6%, Co-op 8.1%, Strategy 7.4%
- #52 Empire Architect
71% 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 36.7%, Economy 17%, RTS 14.6%, Medieval 9.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #53 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
67% matchVery Positive81% of 382 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 36.8%, Medieval 20%, Wargame 18.4%, Economy 12.5%, Strategy 7.2%
- #54 BLOCKLORDS
68% matchMostly Negative34% of 67 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 28.1%, Wargame 23.6%, RTS 19.9%, Medieval 10.9%, Strategy 5.9%
- #55 Railway Empire 2
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,687 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Economy 27.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #56 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
65% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 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 29.1%, City Builder 28.4%, Economy 17.9%, Open World 7.4%, Strategy 6.3%
- #57 Empires and Tribes
68% 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 33.1%, RTS 21.9%, Medieval 18.7%, Economy 7.6%, Open World 7.2%
- #58 Blacksmith Master
65% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Economy 20.6%, Medieval 18.5%, Open World 10.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #59 Grand Ages: Medieval
71% matchMixed48% of 1,977 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 22.4%, RTS 15.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Medieval 15.3%, Economy 14%