- #1 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
97% matchVery Positive86% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the ‘Stalingrad on the Yangze’, as was sometimes called the Battle for Shanghai in 1937. Play as the Chinese willing to reclaim the whole city or as the Imperial Japanese forces in their counter-attack.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, Wargame 16.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%
- #2 SGS Battle For: Fort Donelson
96% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the first decisive battle of the U.S. Civil War. Lead the Union force as General Grant to seize the key forts on the Cumberland, or play the Confederate defenders to maintain the gate to the South closed.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Wargame 18%, Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%
- #3 Silesian Wars
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: GenuiTX Bittner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule Silesia through a thousand years of history. Wage war, forge alliances and build duchies on a map of real provinces, against cunning historical AI leaders or your friends online — from pagan tribes to the modern day.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.2% ★, Wargame 15.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Historical 7.6%
- #4 Schwerpunkt
95% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: Anonymoose Games
Windows
Schwerpunkt is a World War 2 military simulation game. Take control of hundreds of units over a large frontline, making daring manoeuvres to push your enemy back. Fight in one of the scenarios given or make your own in the map maker.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.3% ★, Wargame 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.6%, Strategy 9.7%
- #5 SGS Battle of the Bulge
94% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
On 16 December 1944, under appalling weather conditions, the Germans launch their last major offensive in the West. Their goal: cut off the Allies from their sources of supply by taking Antwerp. To do so, they must break through the Ardennes salient, starting the battle of the Bulge…
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.1% ★, Wargame 22.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Historical 9.1%
- #6 Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 154 reviews2023
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Napoleon's Eagles is the classic board game War & Peace for computer. Be Napoleon – or stand against him – in a series of short scenarios that cover the epic battles of the age, or in a multiplayer-only grand campaign that may – or may not – end on the field of Waterloo.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, Wargame 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 9.6%
- #7 Countryballs at War
93% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: SHN Games
Windows
Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles. Lead any countryball nation, expand your territory through conquest or diplomacy, and rise as the ultimate superpower.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29% ★, Wargame 14.8%, Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%
- #8 Total Victory: World Conflict 1939-1945
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Kraken Studios
Windows
The ultimate turn-based World War 2 grand strategy game wargamers have been yearning for decades. The best ideas born from players and from wargames so huge they overtook your dining room table, and your wife’s patience. From the developer of the WarPlan series.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.3% ★, Wargame 15.7%, Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, World War II 8.1% ★
- #9 Ashen Destiny
91% match1 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Arrow & Blade Games
Windows
Invade rival provinces with your armies, command powerful generals, and unite a fractured ancient land through strategy and conquest.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.7% ★, Wargame 19.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy 8.1%
- #10 Pacific Fire
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wirraway Software
Windows
Pacific Fire is a turn-based strategic wargame set in the Pacific Theater of World War II using a node-based map, rather than hexes. Take command of US, Japanese, British, Australian, New Zealand, Chinese and Dutch forces in the Pacific and Southeast Asia from 1941-1945.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Wargame 15.4%, World War II 13.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Historical 9.3%
- #11 WarDoom ssp Wargame
90% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Mark AinsworthPub: (Mark Ainsworth)
Windows
2D Hard core, Hex & Chit, Turn Based Wargame with A.I. or Hotseat. Move units or stacks around, attack using all the info from live database and unit breakdowns. set your battle objectives in the battle report. A detailed Editor effect live game systems
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.1% ★, Strategy 21.7%, Wargame 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, 2D 2.4%
- #12 SGS Operation Downfall
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Project Manhattan failed! Operation Downfall, the Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands is set in motion. Start with Operation Olympic to capture Kyushu, and move on with Coronet, the landing near Tokyo. Force Japan surrender with the largest amphibious operation in history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Strategy 14.6%, Historical 11.5%, Wargame 11.3%
- #13 三国記II
89% 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 27.3% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Wargame 13.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%
- #14 Tetraclash Reforged
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: RainDoKKaPub: RainDoKKa Games
Windows
《Tetraclash Reforged》 is a lightweight turn-based strategy game. You will choose a faction, build, research, engage in diplomacy, and expand across a continent made of square tiles, gradually unifying the grid continent as the situation continues to change.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Wargame 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%
- #15 Rhodesia '72
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Every Single Soldier
Windows
The first strategy game to capture the essence of the entire Rhodesian Bush War, from Llewellyn Barracks to BMAT (Jul '64 - Dec '79)
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.8%, Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Military 12.3%
- #16 Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive
86% matchVery Positive92% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: VR DesignsPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive is the fourth wargame in the Decisive Campaign series. Covering the battles in the Ardennes between December 1944 and January 1945, it brings to life Operational wargaming by lowering the scale to just above tactical level.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.2% ★, Wargame 18.1%, Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, World War II 11.8% ★
- #17 Mobile Soldiers: Plastic Army
86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Ecliptec Mobile Ltd.
Windows
Get ready to embark on a thrilling journey down memory lane, with Mobile Soldiers: Plastic Army, bringing the beloved childhood table-top game to life in a new 3D experience that fits in your pocket. Brace yourself for fun that combines nostalgia with the excitement of mobile gaming!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.3% ★, Wargame 19.9%, Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%
- #18 War of Resistance
84% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: chenjd
Windows
In this turn-based strategy game simulating the Second Sino-Japanese War, players will take on the role of the Communist forces, fighting against the Japanese army in the upcoming War of Resistance, and later, battling the Republic of China to win the Civil War.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Wargame 13.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.2%
- #19 Gary Grigsby's War in the East
85% matchVery Positive90% of 583 reviews2015
Dev: 2by3 GamesPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 49.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.4% ★, Wargame 20.6%, World War II 16.3% ★, Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%
- #20 Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific
84% matchVery Positive88% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific is a turn-based strategy game. It offers a comprehensive experience of the Pacific Theater, challenging you to achieve victory in one of history's greatest conflicts.
Why similar: Wargame 20.5%, Strategy 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, World War II 12.1% ★, Historical 10.5%
- #21 逐鹿汉末:三国
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2026
Dev: VOWZIN GAME
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 46.5% ★, Wargame 18.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Historical 12.1%, Military 3.8%
- #22 Frontline: World At War
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Frontline: Games Series
Windows
Victory awaits those who can adapt and seize the upper hand in this thrilling war game. Can you reshape history and lead your forces to glory?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.6% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Wargame 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%
- #23 Germany at War - Soviet Dawn
82% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2021
Dev: Phobetor
Windows
Germany At War: Soviet Dawn is a turn-based operational wargame, with a strong historical focus. You command either the German forces through a branching historical campaign covering the entire 1941 campaign as well as part of the 1942 one or the Soviets from 1941 to the revenge of 1944/45.
Why similar: Wargame 21%, Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, World War II 15% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%
- #24 Hexagon Imperium
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: L33t Pro Studio
Windows
Command your empire across a hexagonal battlefield. Conquer cities, raise armies of soldiers, artillery, and tanks, and crush 3 rival factions. Fast-paced turn-based strategy — solo or online multiplayer for up to 4 players.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.8% ★, Strategy 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Historical 8.8%
- #25 Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad
81% matchVery Positive90% of 141 reviews2021
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac
Cauldrons of War Stalingrad is the turn-based strategic wargame you will launch whenever you want your WW2 shot but don't have time for a monster strategy game.From May 1942 to November 1942 play the USSR or the Axis forces in some of the largest and bloodiest operations in history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.8% ★, Wargame 17.7%, World War II 16.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy 10.7%
- #26 Destiny of the World
80% matchPositive80% of 45 reviews2022
Dev: Fiddlyware
Windows · Linux
WWII grand strategy game where planning and logistics are foundations of successful campaigns: simultaneous weekly turns, convoy warfare, production, trade, research, espionage and command from 1939 to 1945. Control a single major power, or the entire Axis or Allied command.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.9% ★, Wargame 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Strategy 8.9%, World War II 8.4% ★
- #27 WarPlan
79% matchVery Positive82% of 230 reviews2020
Dev: Kraken Studios
Windows
WarPlan is an incredibly accurate World War II simulation engine. It is a balance of realism and playability incorporating the best from 50 years of World War II board wargaming. Play a recreated World War II in every detail, thanks to the engine flexibility and database
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.1% ★, Wargame 16.1%, World War II 13.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Military 9.3%
- #28 SGS Okinawa
79% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
A standalone epic rendering of the 1945 bloody fighting on Okinawa, the last great battle of the Pacific War. The game is part of the Pacific D-Day collection. Both sides are playable, each with their own challenge.
Why similar: Wargame 22.4%, Strategy 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, World War II 12.8% ★, Historical 10.5%
- #29 Panzer Corps 2
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,186 reviews2020
Dev: Flashback GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 59.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, World War II 14.5% ★, Wargame 12.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%
- #30 SGS Overlord
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The largest amphibious operation of WW2, and a two-month campaign in the hell of the Norman bocage. Will you manage to make the decisive breakthrough before the Germans recover? Or will you succeed, as Rommel wanted, in crushing the Allied landing as close to the beaches as possible?
Why similar: Wargame 24.4%, Strategy 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.2%, Historical 11.4%, War 8.5%
- #31 Bomber Command
77% matchMixed45% of 29 reviews2023
Dev: Silent S Studios, LLC
Windows
Take command of what would become the greatest air armada in history! Build, plan, coordinate, and command your forces into a mighty aerial armada against a smart German economy that adapts to your attacks, researches tech, and smartly reacts to your moves. Take over the Bomber Command.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.4% ★, Wargame 14.5%, World War II 13.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%
- #32 Making History: The Calm & the Storm
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 632 reviews2007
Dev: Muzzy LanePub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.7% ★, Strategy 24.1%, World War II 17% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Historical 7.1%
- #33 Pacific General
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Strategic SimulationsPub: SNEG
Windows
Pacific General explores the Pacific front of the Second World War. Taking control of Axis or Allied forces, you must strategically battle your way through the Eastern and Western front of the Pacific war, using a wide array of land, air and naval forces.
Why similar: Wargame 21.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Strategy 13.7%, World War II 10% ★
- #34 SGS Avalanche
74% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the whole Italian campaign of World War II, from Husky landings of July 1943 till the final capitulation of 1945. Struggle your way up the boot as the Allies, or defend every inch of the peninsula as the Axis.
Why similar: Wargame 25.2%, Strategy 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Historical 11.2%, Military 7.3%
- #35 Rise of Prussia Gold
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 46 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Rise of Prussia Gold is the new and improved version of AGEODs Seven Years War (1757-1763) game set in Europe. This hugely detailed strategy game was initially released by AGEOD in 2010 and the Gold version adds numerous improvements and additional scenarios that take the game to the next level.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.7% ★, Wargame 21.2%, Strategy 19.7%, Historical 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%
- #36 H.I.v.C.A.: Human Intelligence vs Computer Algorithm
75% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Tavlykaev Rinat
Windows
"H.I.v.C.A." is a strategic game where every choice matters. Gather resources, develop technologies, and strategically place your forces to ensure victory over opponents. There is no room for a draw in this game - only one can become the absolute ruler of the new world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, Wargame 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 10.7%
- #37 大戦略SSB2
73% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: Systemsoft beta, Inc.
Windows
Wield over 300 modern weapons, from jets to tanks, and outmaneuver rival forces with your strategy. From small islands to massive total-war maps, turn-based battles let both newcomers and veterans play at their own pace.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Wargame 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%
- #38 SGS Battle For: Madrid
74% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
With Battle for Madrid, relive the Nationalists most determined attempt to take the Republican capital of spain from November 1936 to February 1937.
Why similar: Wargame 24.1%, Strategy 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.3%, Historical 10.2%, World War II 10% ★
- #39 Unity of Command II
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,200 reviews2019
Dev: 2x2 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, World War II 17.6% ★, Wargame 13.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%
- #40 魔物警戒
75% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: pp
Windows
魔物警戒是一款策略回合制游戏. 玩家需要建造建筑,设施,购买战斗单位来抵御敌人的进攻.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.4% ★, Strategy 19%, Wargame 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.3%
- #41 No Retreat! The Russian Front
71% matchVery Positive76% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Cyril JarnotPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
This game is a Strategic game on the Eastern Front of World War II.It is a digital port from the famous and eponym boardgame, No Retreat!, designed by Carl Paradis.
Why similar: Wargame 22%, Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Historical 10.4%, War 9.8%
- #42 Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Estuego Games
Windows
A turn-based strategy game based off the Napoleonic Wars! Lead, attack, buy, and communicate. Learn how to play difficult 4x grand strategy games by starting with simple strategy. *Disclaimer, this game is made by a teenager for a school project*
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26% ★, Wargame 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Strategy 8.8%
- #43 中华三国志 the Three Kingdoms of China
72% matchVery Positive86% of 1,388 reviews2019
Dev: 中三之家
Windows
Three Kingdoms of China is a free, open-source single-machine strategy three-country game developed by the domestic folk team. The game does not have any commercial nature, hoping to create a dream of Three Kingdoms for the fans of the three kingdoms.
Why similar: Strategy 22.5%, Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, Historical 13.2%, Wargame 11.4%, War 9.1%
- #44 SGS Glory Recalled
72% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2022
Dev: The Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Relive the Battle of Hong Kong (8–26 December 1941), one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.
Why similar: Wargame 20.2%, World War II 18.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Historical 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%
- #45 Crimson Banner: War of Liberation
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 赤旗制作组
Windows · Mac
Ready, comrades? In 'Crimson Banner: War of Liberation', command the PLA, strike the Kuomintang reactionaries, and liberate all China! Turn-based hex wargame, experience every battle!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Wargame 16.1%, World War II 13.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%
- #46 英雄竞起:三国
70% matchMixed62% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: 自在工作室
Windows
The world is in chaos, heroes are rising, and the public is a high-ranking official. We must take the collection of heroes as our heart, and we can help the Han dynasty and save the people.
Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Strategy 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Military 9%
- #47 The Last Days in Arnhem
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nicola GuidoniPub: Apuan Wargames
Windows
Turn-based 3D tactical wargame set during Operation Market Garden. Command Allied or German forces, use cover, line of sight, fire and assault, and fight for key objectives around Arnhem.
Why similar: World War II 19.2% ★, Wargame 18.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Strategy 11.3%
- #48 World War 2: Strategy Simulator
71% matchMostly Negative37% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: joynowstudio
Windows
★Tactics & Collocations 30+ Historical Campaigns: Normandy Landing, Operation Market Garden 2 Warfare Conflict Camps: Allies faction and ally Axis 30+ large battlefield maps are provide in this strategy games Omni-directional combat space: naval battle, air combat, land battle.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Wargame 14.9%, World War II 12.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%
- #49 WEGO World War II: Overlord
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Brian KellyPub: Matrix Games
Windows
WEGO World War II: Overlord is an operational-level, ground-centric WEGOWW2 game system. This hex-based wargame recreates the Allied invasion of Western Europe. Includes 14 historical scenarios, from the landing at Omaha beach to a huge 135-turn campaign that covers the entire Normandy campaign.
Why similar: Wargame 22%, Strategy 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, World War II 11.8% ★
- #50 SGS Battle For: Stalingrad
69% matchPositive84% of 44 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The terrible "rat fights" (Rattenkrieg) fought out in the urban area of Stalingrad end of 1942, on a battalion scale and two days per turn scales. Relive one of the fiercest and deadliest battles in history, a ‘Hell in a Small Place’.
Why similar: Wargame 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, World War II 10.9% ★
- #51 Global Chess
69% match9 user reviews60% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Joseph Kinsella
Windows
A chess-based global conquest game
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29% ★, Wargame 22.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Strategy 13.2%
- #52 Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
69% matchVery Positive91% of 38,025 reviews2009
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Historical 15.7%, Military 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%
- #53 Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,019 reviews2012
Dev: 2x2 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.
Why similar: World War II 19.9% ★, Strategy 18%, Wargame 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Grand Strategy 9.8% ★
- #54 SGS Battle for: Gettysburg
67% match7 user reviews78% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
SGS' Battle for: Gettysburg recreates the 3 days of the most iconic and deadliest battle of the American Civil War. July 1 to 3, 1863, in Pennsylvania, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, under Robert E. Lee, attempted to outflank and destroy the Army of the Potomac, led by General Meade.
Why similar: Wargame 26.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.5%, Strategy 17.5%, Historical 11.2%
- #55 Warplan Pacific
68% matchVery Positive88% of 100 reviews2022
Dev: Kraken StudiosPub: Matrix Games
Windows
WarPlan Pacific is an operational level wargame which covers all the nations at war in the Pacific theatre from December 1941 to 1945 on a massive game scale.
Why similar: World War II 17.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Wargame 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.1%, Strategy 14.6%
- #56 Maneuver Warfare 2: BTG
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Decisive Action Games
Windows · Mac
A simulation of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War where the player maneuvers battalion tactical groups on a map and controls assets such as aircraft, special forces teams, satellites, field hospitals, and repair facilities to support these. The player can play single battles or a campaign game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.5% ★, Wargame 25.3%, Strategy 21.3%, Military 14.9%, War 6.2%
- #57 SGS Sealion
66% match8 user reviews89% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game SudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Operation Sealion is Germany's code name for the planned invasion of Britain in 1940. It could have happened after a victory of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. Find out in this game how in could have unfolded.
Why similar: Wargame 24.5%, Strategy 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.6%, Historical 8.3%, Military 7.7%
- #58 Ruler of Empires
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mehmet Sefa KARATAŞPub: Pasha Interactive
Windows
Command a nation through the age of steel and empire. Ruler of Empires is a turn-based grand strategy game. Seize a nation, rewrite the century, and conquer province by province across lands. Save an empire doomed to fall, or bring the whole world under a single flag.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.4% ★, Strategy 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Historical 8.1%
- #59 Napoleon 1813
66% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Empire Interactive EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
In an enormous strategic area stretching from Paris to Breslau, from Hamburg to Vienna, control everything from major strategic territorial decisions to tactical battle manoeuvres.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32% ★, Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Military 7.6%
- #60 Radio Commander: Battle of Britain ’40
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Serious SimPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Command the battle you cannot see. Take charge of RAF Fighter Command in a pausable RTS set during the Battle of Britain. Manage radar intelligence, delayed communications, and squadron deployments through the Dowding System to intercept Luftwaffe raids and defend Britain.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29% ★, Wargame 18.7%, World War II 16.8% ★, Strategy 11.8%, War 8.3%