- #1 Ironclads: Anglo Russian War 1866
97% matchMostly Negative34% of 35 reviews2011
Dev: Totem gamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Russia sought to seize control of Constantinople. The city controlled the Black Sea straits, an important economic and strategic point of the Black and Mediterranean Sea. This area was the cause of constant conflict with Britain, which was concerned about her Mediterranean interests.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #2 Ironclads: High Seas
96% matchMixed40% of 45 reviews2010
Dev: Totem GamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
For over a year the forces of the United States of America (Northern States) and the Confederates States of America (Southern States) have fought a bitter war. In 1862 the governments of Great Britain, France and Spain recognize the Southern States to secure raw materials.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #3 Ironclads: Schleswig War 1864
96% matchMostly Negative32% of 34 reviews2011
Dev: Totem GamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
The Danish government wanted to annex the duchy of Schleswig to the Danish kingdom while the Prussian government, for internal political and strategic reasons, wanted Schleswig to finally became a part of Germany.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #4 Command HQ
94% matchVery Positive91% of 88 reviews2014
Dev: Ozark SoftscapePub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this fast-paced game of strategic global conquest from award-winning game designer Dan Bunten, you'll control your own superpower as you attempt to outguess and overcome opposing superpowers in World Wars I, II, III IV, and V!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #5 Ironclads: American Civil War
95% matchMostly Negative25% of 55 reviews2010
Dev: Totem GamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Battle of the civil war ironclads. Take part in battles from USS Monitor vs CSS Virginia before battles between armored squadrons of steamships and other vessels. The flow of time is organized into rounds.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #6 Run For Rum
94% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2014
Dev: Reload Game StudioPub: Strategy First
Windows
Help Short Legs Bill find his rum!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #7 Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades
93% matchMixed47% of 135 reviews2011
Dev: Unicorn Games StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is the next installment in this series of realistic real-time strategy games covering various periods in the development of the present day civilization – from the Middle Ages to today.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #8 Frontline : Longest Day
92% matchMostly Negative38% of 21 reviews2014
Dev: 88mmPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
In Frontline: The Longest Day, players command the Allied forces through some of the most famous battles of the war, freeing Europe from the hands of the German Army. The game takes place over five massive, engaging and challenging missions, all inspired by historical missions which took place during operation Overlord: Utah, Omaha,...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #9 Morps
91% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Random developers
Windows
Morps game is 2D pixel art strategy with simple principies of fight and defense. Use your king to control Morp´s world. The future of little creatures and end tyranny of king Gark is in your hands.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #10 Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 90 reviews2015
Dev: G5 SoftwarePub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Ice Crusade is a stand-alone expansion for post-apocalyptic real time strategy Cuban Missile Crisis. Ice Crusade continues the original story and adds new campaigns, battlegrounds and units.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #11 Warlock: Tower Defence
89% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Snowdon Games
Windows
Warlock: Tower Defence is a story driven tower defence game, giving players access to 6 elemental magics to face challenges spread across 5 chapters.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #12 Prison Tycoon 3™: Lockdown
91% matchMostly Negative23% of 124 reviews2008
Dev: GamebryoPub: Cosmi Valusoft
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Crack that Whip! Take reigns of a privately run prison. You are responsible for the care, custody, and control of individuals who have been arrested. Begin with a low security prison and build it up to a SuperMax. From construction to daily operations, you must protect society while turning a profit. It's time for lockdown.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #13 Imperium Galactica
88% matchVery Positive93% of 157 reviews2017
Dev: Digital RealityPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Imperium Galactica. The Universe is yours... if you can handle it. The fourth millennium. Mankind has colonised the galaxy. Created an Empire. Now, it is crumbling. The aliens are restless. The oppressed are building armies. And a strange invader is headed for the heart of the Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #14 Pirates vs Corsairs: Davy Jones's Gold
89% matchMixed59% of 34 reviews2015
Dev: Little World StudioPub: M.INDIE
Windows · Mac
Davy Jones' gold has been lying at the bottom of the sea for years... ... it's time to bring it to the surface!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #15 Highland Warriors
86% matchMixed67% of 88 reviews2016
Dev: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
In the year of our lord 843, the first king of Scotland, Kenneth McAlpin, united the lands of the Picts and Scots to form the Kingdom of Alba. 400 years later Edward I, also known as the "Hammer of the Scots" engulfed the land in a great feud. It was not long before Edward I controlled most of Scotland.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #16 Tank Battle: East Front
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 35 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Use hex based tactical combat to dominate foes on the Russian front of the Second World War. Fight as the Germans or the Soviets in a series of ever more complex missions.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #17 Elven Legacy: Magic
87% matchMixed65% of 37 reviews2009
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The era of Elven Legacy is coming to an end. The relentless wave of demonic magical energy triggered by the death of the demon Farrakh has swept the world and has now reached the free city of Sylent. Powerless, the Masters of the Academy of Magic are being driven insane.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #18 Tank Battle: 1945
85% matchMixed52% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
The end is near for the Third Reich, masters of Europe for too long! In Tank Battle: 1945 you will fight some missions as the German Army, in its last efforts to prevent the Allied advance.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #19 Civil War: 1862
84% matchMixed56% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Relive iconic battles of the American Civil War. Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces in this exciting turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #20 Novus Campis
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Benedikt Baum
Windows
Novus Campis is a space strategy game where you have to manage a base, wich has to gain influence to win the game. You will have to make smart strategic decisions, to survive the increasingly more difficult events and build your base into prosperity.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #21 Armada 2526
84% matchMixed54% of 35 reviews2011
Dev: Ntronium GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Guide one of 12 races on their first interstellar journey from a single planet, until it becomes a mighty pan-galactic empire.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #22 Clash of Magic: Spectator Only
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Narvalous Inc
Windows
On the United Island of Magic, there is an Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Students with magic powers, regardless of their ethnicity and background, can apply to this university. The acceptance rate is lower than Harvard.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #23 Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
83% matchMixed53% of 116 reviews2014
Dev: Accolade, Inc.Pub: Atari
Windows
Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #24 BC Kings
82% matchMixed64% of 216 reviews2009
Dev: Mascot EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
BC Kings features several new elements not commonly found in strategy games. In addition to gathering resources, training an army and defeating the enemy, you will have to solve adventure and role-playing elements as well.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #25 Near Impact
81% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2014
Dev: Sonalysts Combat SimulationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Thousands of incoming asteroids...One robot...An untested defense force...The odds are about even!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #26 Rush on Rome
79% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: Z-Software GmbHPub: familyplay
Windows
Find the missing pieces of the artifact and save the Roman Empire from its enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #27 Reign: Conflict of Nations
82% matchMixed49% of 128 reviews2010
Dev: Lesta StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Reign: Conflict of Nations allows players to have a well thought-out and historically accurate system of building and assigning labor forces in cities, a large selection of scenario-based and random missions, an expansive and realistic technology tree, more than 150 types of military units and elaborated graphics and animations which brin
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #28 Massive Assault
80% matchPositive94% of 36 reviews2009
Dev: Wargaming.netPub: Matrix Games/GMX Media
Windows
Take the command of Free Nations Union forces and defeat the Phantom League on one of six distant planets. The rebels decided to seize the power on Earth by first conquering the space colonies, which provide vital energy resources to AOG. The war for global domination unrolls on continents, at sea, and in the air.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #29 Real Warfare 1242
81% matchMixed55% of 94 reviews2011
Dev: Unicorn Games StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Real Warfare: 1242, is a realistic real-time strategy game based on authentic historic events.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #30 Great Big War Game
79% matchVery Positive93% of 75 reviews2012
Dev: Rubicon Development
Windows
Join 2.5 million gamers in this award-winning, BAFTA-Nominated turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #31 Wellington's Victory
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
At dawn on June 18th, the torrential rain which had soaked the Belgium countryside the previous day began tapering off.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #32 Twilight's Last Gleaming
76% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Twilights Last Gleaming recreates some of the pivotal battles of the War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #33 Aggression: Europe Under Fire
78% matchMixed56% of 121 reviews2014
Dev: Lesta StudioPub: ESDigital Games
Windows
Aggression is a military real-time strategy game set within a historic context featuring role-playing elements. Play the role of a political leader of Russia, Great Britain, France or Germany. It is up to you to take firm decisions at the crucial period of the European history – the World Wars ages covering 1914 – 1945.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #34 Perimeter: Emperor's Testament
77% matchMixed67% of 51 reviews2014
Dev: K-D LabPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
The game expands the story of the original Perimeter in a vast singleplayer campaign.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #35 March to Glory
75% matchMixed57% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: Shenandoah StudioPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
March to Glory is a turn-based strategy game that takes you through the Napoleonic wars with a new strategic and challenging gameplay, full of interesting mechanics combined with thrilling combat.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #36 Wars and Battles: Normandy
75% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Battle FactoryPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Wars and Battles: Normandy is a turn-based wargame that simulates historical battles and campaigns around the battle for Normandy in June and July 1944.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #37 Darkwinds
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MEGO GamesPub: Mego Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this new online card game, you must sail the dangerous seas of Thard, infested with ferocious pirates, dark spells and terrible creatures that will seek to sink you into the depths of oblivion. To survive, you must choose your crew wisely and create a powerful deck to defeat your opponents in order to become the most respected pirate...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #38 The Kings' Crusade
78% matchMostly Negative39% of 175 reviews2010
Dev: NeoCoreGames
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
The crowned heads of Europe launch a military campaign to conquer the Holy Land. The time has come to assemble your armies and take back the land!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #39 ASCII Wars
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: James Oliver
Windows
Protect the servers. Locate the vulnerabilities. Exterminate the viruses. This fast paced strategy game lets you enter terminal commands from a VR interface to defeat the viruses before you become overrun.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #40 The market trader
74% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: AB SOFT
Windows
This is a trading and city building strategy game. You control a trader who develop a village.You earn money by trading the produced products myself or others to other villages. For example crap,cloth,wood,milk,book,sword,shield,shell,gem Let's develop the economy with your hands.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #41 Empire - Wargame of new Century
73% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2018
Dev: Artur PodzorskiPub: Linkart Artur Podzorski
Windows
Empire - remake of the 80' bestseller "Empire - Wargame of the century".
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #42 Wars and Battles: October War
72% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Battle FactoryPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Wars and Battles: October War is a platform of turn-based wargames that simulate historical battles and campaigns over several centuries and continents.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #43 Hexaverse
72% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Stefan Elsen
Windows
Hexaverse is a turn based, multiplayer strategy game. You'll strive to conquer volumetric planets against an AI or other players. Players are free to expand any way around the globe. Use your terraformers to build walls and bridges, excavate tunnels, or submerge your bases beneath mountains.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #44 Astro4x
71% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: MrGrak
Windows
A Single Player Turn-Based 4X Strategy Indie Game. It's like Chess in Space.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #45 Perimeter 2: New Earth
77% matchMostly Negative25% of 76 reviews2009
Dev: KDV GamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Perimeter 2: New Earth is the long-awaited sequel of the critically acclaimed RTS Perimeter . Ideas of territorial gameplay and landscape modification, introduced in the original game, are now realized on a new concept & technology level.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #46 MoonStrike
71% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: Big Dorks Entertainment
Windows
Colossal, deep space, fleet scale conquest… in miniature! MoonStrike is a boiled down realtime strategy game, built for both Vive and Oculus Touch controllers (controllers required). Take over planets as fast as possible, build ships, and take over the galaxy!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Clash of Magic
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Narvalous Inc
Windows
On the United Island of Magic, there is an Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Students with magic powers, regardless of their ethnicity and background, can apply to this university. The acceptance rate is lower than Harvard.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #48 Heart in the Cell: Rebirth
57% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Team Gingerbread Man
Windows
“Heart in the Cell: Rebirth” is a real-time strategy (RTS) game which integrates the UI itself into the combat system. Players will act as rebels and explore the secrets beneath the vast wings of Oniros Corporation in a world Of highly advanced artificial intelligence.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #49 Physica-E
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Electro Maniac
Windows
Escape is the one thing you know. Craft, defend, and survive in this unique horror.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #50 Strategic Command Classic: Global Conflict
70% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
The Matrix version is the Gold Edition of the original and includes the the two DLCs "Assault on Communism" and "Assault on Democracy". Players will be able to wage World War II across the massive expanse of the entire planet.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #51 Vincere Totus Astrum
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: GamesarePub: Clickteam
Windows
Blending galaxy conquering with quick and easy gameplay. Pick one of five races and set out to expand your one world into a vast empire. Research new techs, build colony ships, and begin to spread out, but be careful you aren't the only race on the rise.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #52 Essence Defenders
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Other Side Worlds
Windows
The Void has come to devour the world - and only Essence can stop it. Command a fleet to protect remaining islands from Demons of the Void who come to deplete the Essence Source.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #53 Cyborg Tower Defense
70% matchMixed60% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Big Fun Games
Windows
Futuristic 3D Tower Defense Game where evil Cyborgs try to take over the space ship Andromeda deck by deck. Zoom right into the action and glide over the surface to see the spectacular weapons and explosions at your disposal. Kill 'em all!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #54 Medieval Battle: Europe
68% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Fight various battles across Europe throughout the medieval ages.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #55 Tank Battle: Blitzkrieg
69% matchMixed68% of 34 reviews2016
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
‘Tank Battle: Blitzkrieg!’ recreates the first battles of World War II. On 1st September 1939 the German army marched into Poland, two weeks later the Soviets also invaded and the Polish army was crushed by 6th October. Over the coming months the Germans expanded their grip on Europe with further invasions of Denmark and Norway.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #56 Civil War: 1864
68% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Civil War: 1864 is the latest addition to our Civil War strategy series, bringing you the ferocious battles from 1864. Experience the American Civil War like never before with with over 40 missions; including 20 detailed historical battles.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #57 Shields Up! VR
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LesInk Productions
Windows
Shields Up! is a real-time mining construction VR strategy game. Shields Up! is a tower defense-style challenge where you land, build, mine, defend, and get out with your valuable cargo while fending off the hazards of space debris and the impending war machine.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #58 Holodeck Arena
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yan Hildebrand
Windows
Compete for supremacy in this fast-paced cyberspace-RTS with exotic units and supply chains of your own making.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #59 Monkeys Ahoy
67% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Fishing CactusPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Join two young pirate chimps on their quest to make the Ultimate Friendship Smoothie through this bright and lively monkey world
Why similar: Strategy 100%