Games Like Empire Origin:Rise

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 23.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18%, RTS 12.2%, War 9.6%, Medieval 8.6%

东汉末年，天下动荡，群雄并起，在这片风云变幻的乱世中，你将化身一方霸主，自偏安一隅的孤城出发，广揽贤才、经营城政、整军备战、攻城略地。是匡扶汉室，重振中兴？还是割据一方，自立为王？亦或是问鼎中原，君临天下？你的每一次抉择皆可改写这段波澜壮阔的乱世史诗！

Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.4%, Historical 10%, War 9.7%, RTS 8.8%

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 26.6%, RTS 16.2%, Medieval 14.2%, 4X 10.4% ★, Strategy 10.4%

DeckTerra is a 4X strategy game built around cards. Explore procedurally generated maps, research new technologies, develop your settlements, and raise armies all while building a deck that complements your strategy.

Why similar: 4X 21.8% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Historical 12.3%, City Builder 11.3%, War 10.2%

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 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8%, City Builder 11.2%, RTS 9.8%, Medieval 8.1%

《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 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4%, Historical 12.7%, War 11.1%, City Builder 7.3%

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 21%, War 14.3%, City Builder 12.3%, Medieval 9.6%, Historical 9.5%

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 16.2%, Historical 12.3%, RTS 12.3%, Grand Strategy 11.7%, 4X 8.8% ★

Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, City Builder 14.8%, Historical 13.2%, Strategy 9.4%

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: Grand Strategy 22.6%, 4X 16% ★, Historical 13.5%, Medieval 11.9%, RTS 9.3%

Build a civilization that spans the ages in this historical turn-based strategy game. Combine evolving cultures, raise cities, command armies and expand your empire as a changing climate reshapes the world and your path through history.

Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7%, Historical 13.3%, City Builder 11.4%, Strategy 8.4%

《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 27.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7%, Historical 14.4%, War 11.2%, RTS 11%

It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.

Why similar: 4X 19.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5%, RTS 12.1%, City Builder 12%, Historical 9.3%

Be sure to become the King of the Kingdom of Jerusalem!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.4%, Massively Multiplayer 19.1%, City Builder 15.7%, Medieval 14.7%, Strategy 7.3%

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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 23.1%, RTS 14.4%, Historical 11.8%, Strategy 9%

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 22.5% ★, War 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, City Builder 11.6%, RTS 11.4%

游戏是一款以战国时期为背景的快节奏沙盘战争策略游戏，再现诸子百家，百花齐放，诸侯争霸，乱世风云。

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23%, Grand Strategy 15.5%, RTS 14%, City Builder 11.7%, War 9.4%

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: Historical 20.5%, Grand Strategy 18.3%, RTS 17.6%, War 12.6%, Medieval 12.2%

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: Grand Strategy 17.4%, RTS 16%, Historical 15.3%, War 14.8%, 4X 10.5% ★

A real-time space strategy MMO where your colony keeps working, your fleets keep moving, and the galaxy remembers every choice. Travel in real time, watch every battle resolve, raid and ally across one living galaxy that resets every 6 months. Free to play. No pay-to-win, ever.

Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, Massively Multiplayer 14.6%, RTS 14%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

"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 22.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4%, RTS 14.5%, Historical 13.2%, War 9.8%

Miniciv is an accessible hex‑grid 4X turn‑based strategy. Start with one city and settler, explore and build your budding civilization into a mighty empire. Procedural maps and flexible playtime bring unique runs, pairing easy entry with deep political, trade, faith and industrial mechanics.

Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 8.4%, War 7.7%

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: Grand Strategy 26.3%, Medieval 19.1%, RTS 16%, Strategy 13.6%, Historical 12.1%

A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op

Why similar: 4X 34.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9%, RTS 15.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 9.3%

Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Why similar: 4X 21.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7%, Historical 14.9%, Strategy 11.1%, City Builder 10.8%

Trumpets of War is a grand-scale historical strategy game where armies clash and empires rise. Command vast forces across dynamic battlefields, orchestrate campaigns with precision, and experience the drama of war through an innovative system that blends tactical combat with strategic mastery.

Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.2%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Historical 9.1%

Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.

Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.7%, City Builder 14.8%, War 12%, Historical 7.1%

Kuroba is a historical RTS set in the brutal frontier of 13th-century Anatolia. Build settlements, manage logistics, and command armies in grounded, realistic combat. No magic, no heroes—only economy, strategy, and leadership determine who endures.

Why similar: RTS 22%, War 16.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Historical 11.1%, Strategy 9.2%

Lead powerful civilizations across the globe, master strategies and tactics, and relive history in co op battles—now remastered in stunning 4K and modernized gameplay.

Why similar: RTS 20.1%, City Builder 15.3%, War 12.8%, Historical 12.4%, Base Building 10.9%

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 21.8%, 4X 18% ★, RTS 15.2%, City Builder 14.4%, Medieval 8.9%

Build a planetary empire, research game-changing tech, and raid real players across a persistent galaxy. The classic browser space strategy, reborn - and finally fair: no pay-to-win, ever. Team up for 8-fleet combined attacks. Your mines keep working while you sleep.

Why similar: 4X 36% ★, Massively Multiplayer 22.2%, RTS 12.1%, Grand Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%

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 49% ★, Grand Strategy 18.3%, Historical 9.9%, Medieval 8.6%, Strategy 7.8%

Set in a medieval Europe-inspired world, you begin with a single city and a handful of territories on a vast hex-based map. Expand your domain, conquer new lands and lead your house and empire to glory in a time-based Massively Multiplayer setting.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27.2%, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Medieval 12%, 4X 10.9% ★, 2.5D 7.5%

Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.7%, Medieval 14%, RTS 13.4%, City Builder 12.1%, Strategy 9.9%

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: Grand Strategy 26.8%, RTS 19.1%, War 16.3%, 4X 14.7% ★, Historical 11.5%

点燃你的战魂，投身乱世掀起惊天风暴！化身铁血诸侯，号令三国名将，统领无敌雄师，在真实还原的三国版图上纵横沙场，血战四方！

Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5%, Historical 12.9%, War 12.3%, City Builder 10.5%

Set 10 years after the original, Stronghold 3: Gold follows the vengeful story of The Wolf in the third installment of the award-winning castle building series. The Wolf has cheated death become even more bitter and twisted. Build castles, rally your troops and save medieval England!

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, RTS 16.1%, Medieval 15.5%, Strategy 14.3%, Historical 8.7%

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 37.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.2%, Medieval 12.5%, Strategy 9.9%, War 8.5%

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 23.6% ★, RTS 12.1%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, War 11%, Historical 10.8%

A persistent multiplayer RTS where players shape kingdoms through building, politics, and warfare. Join a kingdom, claim territory, elect leaders and defend your realm in fast-paced 1–2 week campaigns with dynamic events and player-driven strategy.

Why similar: 4X 31.6% ★, City Builder 16.3%, RTS 15.6%, Medieval 9.3%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%

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: Grand Strategy 21.1%, Medieval 17.6%, Historical 16.8%, War 13.1%, RTS 12.7%

Real-time Three Kingdoms strategy. No turns. No waiting. Domestic affairs, diplomacy, court politics, war — all of it runs at once. Up to 8 players in one world. Bring your friends. Lose the night. Write a new history of the Three Kingdoms.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.6%, RTS 17.2%, Historical 14.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, War 9.4%

Minimalistic RTS game about logistics and war! On this battlefield, supply lines are everything - cut them off and your enemies will wither, or use special abilities to gain the advantage. The game features an original story campaign and skirmish challenges. Conquer your enemies by Sword & Road!

Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1%, RTS 15.5%, Historical 12.6%, War 9.2%

A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.

Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, War 12.2%, Strategy 9.9%, RTS 7.8%

Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, RTS 19.5%, Medieval 17%, Strategy 14.6%, Historical 9%

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 34.7% ★, RTS 17.2%, Historical 15.4%, War 12.6%, Strategy 6.4%

"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 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4%, RTS 14.3%, Historical 9.4%, Strategy 7.4%

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 41.8% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7%, Historical 12.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.3%

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: 4X 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 22.6%, War 11.5%, Historical 10.9%, Medieval 8.4%

在这款沉浸式三国策略卡牌游戏中，你将化身一方主公，招揽名将、打造无敌军团，体验从乱世枭雄到一统天下的霸业征程！

Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, Historical 13.9%, War 13.5%, City Builder 11%

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: Grand Strategy 29.2%, Historical 17.9%, RTS 17.2%, War 14.9%, Strategy 10.2%

Conquer Medieval Europe and North Africa in a combination of Grand Strategy and Real-Time Strategy gameplay where you rule one of 28 kingdoms as you build and manage your cities, engage in diplomacy and command massive armies on the world map and on the battlefield

Why similar: 4X 26.1% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4%, RTS 13.8%, Historical 10.3%, Medieval 8.7%

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 25.9% ★, Grand Strategy 16%, War 15.4%, RTS 14.3%, Medieval 8.6%

Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Grand Strategy 19.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Historical 7.5%