- #1 Great Powers
97% matchMixed68% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: Flame-Dragons
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.
Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, Wargame 13.2%, Hex Grid 10% ★, Isometric 6.9%
- #2 Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
96% 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: 4X 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21% ★, Wargame 17%, Historical 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #3 Napoleon 1813
96% 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: 4X 35.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.3% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Military 6.8%, Historical 5.6%
- #4 Master of the Ages: Foundations of History
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sovereign Era Games
Windows · Mac
Command a civilization from antiquity to the modern era in a historical 4X focused on grand strategy over micro-management. Direct armies, research technologies, run spy networks, and shape your empire through deep, intuitive macro-mechanics.
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Historical 9.2%, Naval Combat 7.1% ★, Military 7.1%
- #5 Dynastic Era
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LOONW
Windows
Simple map coloring game, And about history of ancient civilized, Mini ancient strategy game with a large world map to explore, in which you can simulate different ancient civilizations, the game will have different chapters showing ancient historical events.
Why similar: 4X 33.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22% ★, Wargame 13.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Military 4.9%
- #6 World War: Rome - Free Strategy Game
94% matchMixed67% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Joynow Games
Windows
A turn-based strategy war chess game. You will play a commander in the Roman period, and command the generals and troops to complete the specified mission objectives and occupy important strongholds in the level. Rome, Samnite, Epirus, Carthage. Different choices will open different histories!
Why similar: 4X 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Wargame 17.9%, Strategy 7.4%, Historical 6.6%
- #7 Conqueror's Stage
93% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: LeftLane InteractivePub: Lunexa Solutions
Windows
The grand strategy you can actually finish. A full 4X empire to build, expand, and conquer, with all the depth and none of the grind, in a campaign you complete in a single evening. Fight across five ages on a fresh world every time, or design your own, all the way to total conquest.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Wargame 15.1%, Historical 8.2%, Military 6.4%
- #8 Trumpets of War
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xblur
Windows
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 34.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Wargame 12.3%, Historical 6.1%
- #9 Politon
91% matchVery Positive90% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Pinq Games
Windows · Mac
Politon: A turn-based strategy game that will push your strategic and management skills to the limit! Expand your territory, strengthen your economy, and outsmart your enemies by planning your strategy carefully.
Why similar: 4X 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, Wargame 14.1%, Hex Grid 13.1% ★, Strategy 7.9%
- #10 文明征程
91% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: 广州小鑫互娱科技有限公司
Windows
《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 30.2% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, Wargame 18.7%, Historical 10.4%, Military 8.9%
- #11 Beyond
90% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Quixotic Universe
Windows
Beyond is a sci-fi turn-based strategy game set in a generated solar system that orbits a distant star every round. Play as one of five alien species as you race to collect resources, build your military, develop new tech, expand the area you control, and drive opposing factions from the system.
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Hex Grid 13.1% ★, Wargame 12.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #12 Fire and Dark Stars
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 没工作工作室
Windows
"Fire and Dark Stars" is a real-time 4X strategy game. You can grow your base, build your fleet, search for enemies, and destroy them. You need to carefully manage your resources, set up and protect your supply lines, so that your fleet does not run out of ammo and fuel.
Why similar: 4X 35.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Hex Grid 12.2% ★, Wargame 10.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #13 Annhexation
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: James Randall
Windows · Mac
Conquer the world in an evening. 4X distilled. Eight civilisations, three victory paths, complete games in 3-4 hours. No twelve-hour death marches. No spreadsheets. Just maps, decisions, and the next turn.
Why similar: 4X 41.9% ★, Strategy 17.3%, Hex Grid 16.7% ★, Historical 12.5%, Turn-Based Combat 5.6%
- #14 Clay Soldiers
88% matchMixed57% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: ArchDawn
Windows · Mac · Linux
The war rages on, choose to side with the Mercenaries, the Undead, the Angels, and more! Play through the single-player campaign, unifying the factions. Fight against other players and AI in the battleground's mode! Or strive for a conquest that takes you through the ages in war mode.
Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Grand Strategy 22% ★, Wargame 14.9%, Military 8.5%, Grid-Based Movement 8.3%
- #15 Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
87% matchVery Positive82% of 18,573 reviews2018
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Hex Grid 12.1% ★, Wargame 11.3%
- #16 Imperialist
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
From a veteran 4X Strategy developer comes a new deep strategy game of logistics, empire, and control. Develop the New World, industrialise your capital, manage your growing Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals to become history's first Superpower. Can you exploit the New World to control the Old?
Why similar: 4X 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, Historical 9.9%, Hex Grid 7.9% ★, Strategy 7.8%
- #17 Nova Historia
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
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 43.5% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 8.4%, Hex Grid 5.9% ★
- #18 Mercatoria
85% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Dinkel Games
Windows
Turn-based grand strategy in the Age of Discovery. Develop a transport network, industrialise your economy, colonise the New World, and compete with five rival powers. Inspired by Imperialism 2. Early Access — built by one developer in his spare time.
Why similar: 4X 33.3% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, Wargame 15.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Historical 7.2%
- #19 Three Kingdoms: Innovatory
84% matchMixed59% of 981 reviews2024
Dev: 瞬息万变工作室Pub: Moment HK
Windows
This is a classic historical simulation + real-time strategy game, where you will go back to the era of the Three Kingdoms and play as various renowned sovereigns.
Why similar: 4X 30.9% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4% ★, Wargame 19.5%, Historical 7.8%, Strategy 7.7%
- #20 EOL: End Of Line
84% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: MLS Games, LLC
Windows
A sci-fi turn-based strategy game, no gimmicky mechanics just pure 4x glory.
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, Strategy 15.8%, Hex Grid 8.8% ★, Top-Down 5.6%
- #21 European War 4: Napoleon Remastered
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EASYTECH GAMES
Windows
European War 4: Napoleon Remastered is a turn-based strategy game, offering a comprehensive renovation of the original. Return to the Napoleonic era, deploy tactics, conquer territories, command historical generals, experience legendary battles, and master the art of war.
Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Wargame 14.7%, Hex Grid 11.5% ★, Historical 8.1%
- #22 Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boqi Island
Windows
Return to the Three Kingdoms period. On the grand strategic tactical battlefield, use terrain for defense setup and resource allocation to shift the battle situation. Control the war via hexagonal grid movement and tactical ability activation, and unify the realm.
Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Hex Grid 14.8% ★, Wargame 11.1%, Historical 9.7%
- #23 Sovereign Stars
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: KYDEN
Windows
Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 34.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.7% ★, Wargame 17.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Real Time Tactics 5.6%
- #24 Samurai Conqueror
79% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Miura Production
Windows
Unify Japanese History! A Timeline Strategy Game Where History Itself Becomes the Battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Wargame 14%, Historical 10.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #25 World War 2: WW2 Strategy Games
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joynow Studio
Windows
A World War II themed turn-based war chess game. You will play a commander during World War II, directing your troops to complete various tasks. You have the opportunity to reproduce every historical battle, command the ace generals and elite troops in history to win the victory!
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Wargame 18.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Historical 6.1%
- #26 Dominium Mundi
81% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Dusan Petrovic
Windows · Linux
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 53.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.6% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Historical 7.2%, Procedural Generation 3.2%
- #27 Starithm
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Orithm
Windows
Become the dominant star-fairing-civilization throughout the procedurally generated star systems. The player must establish/pursue: (1) Ideology; (2) Population; (3) Military assets; (4) 4x dominance (5) Technologies; (6) Artificial Evolution; (7) Cyber attacks; (8) Peace or war.
Why similar: 4X 35.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.3% ★, Wargame 17.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Isometric 9.7%
- #28 逐鹿汉末:三国
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 33 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 38.6% ★, Wargame 26.2%, Strategy 21.4%, Historical 13.7%
- #29 Global Protocol: New World Order
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Dorlion Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command any of 261 real-world countries in this 2026 grand strategy game. Build your economy, lead armies, and navigate deep diplomacy. Features built-in modding support and 12 supported languages. Shape the global order through espionage, nuclear deterrence, and AI-driven geopolitics.
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, Wargame 12.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Military 4.8%
- #30 Mind Prison: The Last War
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Rotten Sewer Productions
Windows
4X Lite Strategy Game where You are a war AI rebooting after 800 years of silence. Your orders are still active. The enemy is gone—so is everyone else. Conquer the galaxy, uncover corrupted memories, and face the horrifying truth: no one told you to stop.
Why similar: 4X 43.8% ★, Grand Strategy 30.8% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.9%, 2D 2.6%
- #31 World Order: Global Power
77% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Global Strategy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead any nation in a deep, turn-based grand strategy and political sim. Master the economy, military, diplomacy and society against rival AI you can actually read. Build a democracy or a dictatorship; the game names what you become, and your reign becomes a shareable saga.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, Wargame 13.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Real Time Tactics 4.8%
- #32 Base of War
77% matchMixed41% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Atom Games
Windows
Base of War is a next generation 4x RTS game.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Wargame 15.9%, Isometric 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #33 Magic And Dragons : 4X Battle
76% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: The Team With a TPub: The Developer With a D
Windows
Turn-based strategy game in a world filled with magics, demons and dragons! Build, expand, conquer, form alliances and wage wars.
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8% ★, Wargame 17.3%, Isometric 8.9%, Strategy 6.9%
- #34 Kingdom's Life
76% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Why similar: 4X 33.4% ★, Grand Strategy 24.9% ★, Wargame 15.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Historical 7.7%
- #35 三国.群英录
75% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGONJOY Studios
Windows · Mac
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 29.5% ★, Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Wargame 14.5%, Historical 9.4%, Military 8.3%
- #36 Infinite Borders: Three Kingdoms
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
《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 36.1% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2% ★, Historical 10.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Wargame 8.3%
- #37 Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
75% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Aserisoft
Windows · Mac
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 40.8% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, Wargame 15.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 2.4%
- #38 Ultimate General: American Revolution
73% matchMixed54% of 1,097 reviews2024
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
American Revolution is a sandbox strategy game featuring the epic historical period during the rebellion of the American colonies against the British Empire.
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Grand Strategy 26.8% ★, Wargame 16%, Historical 9.5%, Military 8.7%
- #39 Pixel Domain
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Minmaxdog
Windows
Play cards to capture territories. Improve territories to get better cards and make the island your domain.
Why similar: 4X 28.5% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Wargame 15.3%, Historical 8.3%, Military 8.1%
- #40 Rimefall
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Vlachia
Windows
Your colony ship has landed on an alien planet — but the environment kills electronics. Salvage the ark, survive the early years, and build a nation as your society regresses to medieval with remnants of modern knowledge. Grand strategy with simulated population and turn-based combat.
Why similar: 4X 34% ★, Grand Strategy 29.6% ★, Wargame 14.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Turn-Based Combat 5.7%
- #41 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
71% matchVery Positive84% of 312 reviews2026
Dev: 古玩工作室
Windows
"SandTable War: Three Kingdoms" is a strategic simulation game set during the Three Kingdoms period. Here you can play as various factions from Three Kingdoms history to conquer cities and lands, unify the realm. With abundant historical officers and scenarios, come restore the Han Dynasty!
Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Wargame 15.3%, Historical 10.1%, Strategy 8.6%
- #42 Kingdoms of Myth
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marcos Cruz
Windows
Lead a global army with unique units and heroes, each with their own skills. Kingdoms of Myth features 100 civilizations with unique armies, tech, and skills, providing diverse ways to defeat enemies.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Wargame 18.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Historical 8.6%, Military 7.3%
- #43 Almanach: Of Empires and Sorcery
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Foretold Entertainment
Windows
Almanach is a turn-based 4X strategy game where you take control of an empire in a world that is in a constant cycle of rebirth. Every game represents a new age of the world, and the choices you make will impact the next ones! Can you rise from the ashes of ages past and lead your people to glory?
Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Hex Grid 12.7% ★, Naval Combat 11.2% ★, Isometric 9.4%
- #44 Carthage: Bellum Punicum
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MindebytePub: Aquila Interactive
Windows
Lead Hannibal's epic campaign to crush the Roman Republic. Command individually rendered legions, manage complex supply lines, master realistic real-time tactics, and outplay challenging enemies in the Second Punic War to claim your place in history.
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.2% ★, Wargame 17%, Historical 9.6%, Military 8.3%
- #45 Interstellar Conquest
71% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take planets and assemble your fleet. The conquest of space is now, navigate through asteroid fields and hide in nebulas to outsmart your opponents. Experience the challenge of ion storms disrupting your ship's sensors and become the ultimate space fleet commander.
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, Wargame 18.1%, Isometric 10.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Military 8.3%
- #46 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
70% 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 28.8% ★, Wargame 24.3%, Strategy 17.5%, Historical 10.6%, Military 6.7%
- #47 万象战略
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeleePsycho
Windows
Myriad Strategies: a turn-based strategy game. Rule a nation amid wars, famine, plague, and refugees. Manage cities, talent, economy. The world shifts. Win by holding cities, stabilizing lives, solving refugee crises, building food systems & spy networks, or surviving the chaos.
Why similar: 4X 41.6% ★, Grand Strategy 29% ★, Hex Grid 11.8% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%
- #48 政通人和
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SuBaiism
Windows
"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 32.2% ★, Grand Strategy 28.7% ★, Wargame 12.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Historical 6.8%
- #49 Red Pearl Pirates
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Eoin Tolster
Windows · Linux
Command vast fleets in epic space battles, master a turn-based galactic campaign, and unite a pirate rebellion to find the legendary Red Pearl and stand against the tyrannical Z-Army. They can't take the stars from us!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.3% ★, 4X 30.2% ★, Wargame 14.1%, Military 10.6%, Strategy 9%
- #50 Ashen Destiny
69% 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 29.7% ★, Wargame 24.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Military 7.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%
- #51 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
67% matchMixed69% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Historical 9.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Military 7.7%
- #52 Field of Arms: Tactics
69% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: BALANDRA S.A.S
Windows
A strategy game set in the 18th century Caribbean recreating clashes between the empires of the time. Manage resources and armies via three integrated game layers; a strategic overworld for logistics; city building for production and tactical battles to conquer your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, Wargame 13.9%, Naval Combat 10.7% ★, Hex Grid 7.5% ★
- #53 WarBoard: Arena Empire
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Velron Games
Windows
WarBoard: Arena Empire is a turn-based tactical strategy game on a hex arena. Command Rome, the Turks, Vikings, Egypt, Japan or Persia. Play solo against AI, or battle up to 4 Steam friends in private matches. Every move counts.
Why similar: 4X 37.2% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Wargame 15.5%, Military 8%, Historical 7.3%
- #54 Old Stars
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adamjr
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 41.2% ★, Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Wargame 8.5%, Real Time Tactics 4%
- #55 Silesian Wars
66% 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 32.7% ★, Wargame 21.3%, Strategy 16%, Historical 9.7%, Military 8.8%
- #56 Lords of Kingdoms
69% matchMixed43% of 89 reviews2018
Dev: ThankGame.com
Windows
Lords of Kingdoms is a multiplayer online war game. Turn your small castle into a mighty fortress and become ruler of the greatest realm.
Why similar: 4X 52.1% ★, Wargame 29.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Grand Strategy 4.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 0.9%
- #57 March of Reveille
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: xbig
Windows
Turn-based strategy where every Order is a trade-off. Capture cities, command combined forces, and take up to three Orders into a match — each granting one unique strength and one real weakness. Missions, online play, CPU skirmishes, King of the Hill, Domination, and a map editor.
Why similar: 4X 41.9% ★, Wargame 17%, Strategy 15.7%, Naval Combat 9.7% ★, Military 8%
- #58 Instant War
67% matchMixed67% of 89 reviews2022
Dev: Playwing LTD
Windows
Embark on a military strategy 4X RTS game, in a world where your battle tactics and your massive army are the keys to victory. Instant War delivers an amazing battlefield experience in a realistic military game. As a commander, you develop your military base and lead your army to victory!
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, Wargame 17.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Military 8%
- #59 Rivers of Chaos
68% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Bugarug GamesPub: Burgarug Games
Windows
Conquer the galaxy in this cinematic, battle-simulator. Each playthrough offering a completely unique galaxy, over 100 total specialized ships to command, and distinct commanders to lead your people. Pick your favorite faction and lead your forces into a dynamically generated battlefield.
Why similar: 4X 34.5% ★, Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, Wargame 17.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Military 4.8%
- #60 Power & Revolution 2022 Edition
67% matchMixed59% of 966 reviews2022
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
New edition of the ultrarealistic simulator of today's world where you play as the head of state or as the opposition! Major developments: the war in the Ukraine and all of its consequences, conspiracy theories, fake news, interference by secret services, animal welfare and climate objectives.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.1% ★, Wargame 16.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Military 6.3%