- #1 Ironclads: Anglo Russian War 1866
97% matchMostly Negative35% of 34 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 Negative33% of 33 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.
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- #4 Command HQ
94% matchVery Positive91% of 87 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!
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- #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 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%
- #9 Frontline : Longest Day
91% matchMostly Negative32% of 19 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,...
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- #10 Warlock: Tower Defence
90% 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%
- #11 Prison Tycoon 3™: Lockdown
92% matchMostly Negative22% of 123 reviews2008
Dev: GamebryoPub: Cosmi Valusoft
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.0 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%
- #12 Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 89 reviews2015
Dev: G5 SoftwarePub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 12.0 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.
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- #13 Imperium Galactica
86% matchVery Positive93% of 154 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 Aggression: Europe Under Fire
88% matchMixed55% of 118 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.
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- #15 The Kings' Crusade
89% matchMostly Negative39% of 173 reviews2010
Dev: NeoCoreGames
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.4 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%
- #16 Pirates vs Corsairs: Davy Jones's Gold
87% 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%
- #17 Highland Warriors
86% matchMixed67% of 86 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%
- #18 Tank Battle: East Front
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 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%
- #19 Elven Legacy: Magic
84% matchMixed64% of 33 reviews2009
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 8.5 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.
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- #20 Essence Defenders
73% 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%
- #21 Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
82% matchMixed52% of 112 reviews2014
Dev: Accolade, Inc.Pub: Atari
Windows
Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #22 Armada 2526
83% 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%
- #23 Perimeter 2: New Earth
84% matchMostly Negative25% of 75 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%
- #24 BC Kings
82% matchMixed64% of 215 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.
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- #25 Massive Assault
81% matchPositive94% of 34 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%
- #26 Civil War: 1862
79% 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%
- #27 Mosby's Confederacy
81% matchMixed64% of 39 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
As John Singleton Mosby, one of the Civil War's most interesting and dynamic leaders, you are charged, not with leading vast armies into battle, but with commanding small bands of skirmishers, scouts, and guerilla fighters on opportunistic missions to scout, ambush, steal supplies, and harass a larger and better-armed force of Union soldi
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- #28 Rush on Rome
78% match7 user reviews43% of 7 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%
- #29 Darkwinds
67% 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...
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- #30 Tank Battle: 1945
78% matchMixed55% of 22 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.
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- #31 Reign: Conflict of Nations
80% matchMixed49% of 124 reviews2010
Dev: Lesta StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.0 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
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- #32 Near Impact
79% 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%
- #33 SleepWalker
75% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: ExelweissPub: Erbe Software
Windows
A classic of Spanish developer Exelweiss.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #34 Franchise Wars
74% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Jolly Crouton Media Ltd.
Windows
Franchise Wars is a turn-based isometric puzzle strategy game, or puzzegy game. Play as Frog Pop, one of the last remaining fast food restaurants, on a campaign to destroy arch-rival Munch Point. Control various units, each with a unique mechanic, as you set out to best the food service industry.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #35 Great Big War Game
77% matchVery Positive93% of 74 reviews2012
Dev: Rubicon Development
Windows
Join 2.5 million gamers in this award-winning, BAFTA-Nominated turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #36 Real Warfare 1242
77% matchMixed55% of 92 reviews2011
Dev: Unicorn Games StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Real Warfare: 1242, is a realistic real-time strategy game based on authentic historic events.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #37 ASCII Wars
64% 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%
- #38 Perimeter: Emperor's Testament
76% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2014
Dev: K-D LabPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
The game expands the story of the original Perimeter in a vast singleplayer campaign.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #39 Elven Legacy: Siege
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 32 reviews2009
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Several months have passed since the return of the Order of Marcus from exile to the continent and their founding of the kingdom of New Tixus in this, the second official Expansion to the epic Fantasy Strategy game Elven Legacy.
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- #40 Clash of Magic: Spectator Only
63% 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%
- #41 Tank Battle: Pacific
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Capture the experience of being a tank commander in the Pacific Theatre in World War Two. Fight battles between Japan, France, China, Russia, British Commonwealth and The United States of America. The game has a wide range of features from the tank battles of Northern Manchuria to the battlefields of Burma and the landings on the Pacific...
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- #42 Heart in the Cell: Rebirth
58% 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.
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- #43 Onimod Land
72% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Astralax
Windows
Onimod Land is real-time strategy game. The premise of the game centers around a conflict between inhabiting aboriginals and settlers from space as they both try to colonize a planet. Each race has a unique set of skills (technologies or magic spells). Network game supports up to 8 players.
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- #44 Worlds Collide
71% matchMixed62% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: otter otter game
Windows
Worlds Collide is a real-time strategy game.In the game of Worlds Collide, you will play as a king of your empire, to build a city, expand its territory, gather enough resources, set up more production lines, eventually form your army and conquer others.
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- #45 XIII Century – Gold Edition
75% matchMixed56% of 187 reviews2009
Dev: Unicorn Games StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 32%
XIII Century Gold Edition combines the highly successful strategy game XIII Century: Death or Glory with the follow-up sequel, XIII Century: Blood of Europe.XIII Century: Death or Glory is an RTS game which immerses players in the Middle Ages.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #46 Genghis Khan
73% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
"Aoki Okami to Shiroki Mejika: Genghis Khan" was released in 1987, the second in the series. This was also the first title in the series to be released outside of Japan under the title "Genghis Khan." The game includes 2 scenarios.
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- #47 Fire and Fury: English Civil War
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Fight the various battles of the English Civil War between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #48 ComPet - Epic Beast Battles
72% matchMixed60% of 80 reviews2016
Dev: MindArk PE AB
Windows
Welcome to ComPet, where ruthless nobles battle their pets to win untold wealth and everlasting glory!Seize victory by cleverly training your pets, stealthily raiding your enemies and bravely defending your village!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #49 Lords of the Realm
71% matchVery Positive82% of 116 reviews2015
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Rebellion
Windows
The year is 1268 and the English throne lies empty. Fight for the right to be King in this classic blend of turn-based and real-time strategy.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #50 Holodeck Arena
59% 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%
- #51 Novus Campis
59% 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%
- #52 Shields Up! VR
59% 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%
- #53 Realms of Darkness
68% matchMixed52% of 21 reviews2020
Dev: PG GamesPub: K&K Interactive
Windows
Mix of realtime Strategy and MOBA in grimdark setting.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #54 IWO: Bloodbath in the Bonins
71% matchMixed43% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: Guerilla Tea GamesPub: HexWar Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Iwo Jima was a critical point on the flight path of US bombers from their Saipan bases to their Japanese targets. The island would be a refuge for malfunctioning or damaged bombers coming or going. An obvious target for a US amphibious assault, the Japanese had reinforced the garrison and dug miles of tunnels the length and breadth of...
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- #55 Bandit Kings of Ancient China
69% matchPositive81% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
"Suikoden: Tenmei no Chikai" was released in Japan in 1988 and later in the US as "Bandit Kings of Ancient China." It is a simulation game based on the novel "Suikoden" or "Water Margin," a Chinese classic. Players play as a bandit being pursued by imperial officers.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #56 Vincere Totus Astrum
70% 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%
- #57 Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf
69% matchMixed44% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
"Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf" was released in 1992, the third in the series and the second to be released outside Japan. The wolves of the Great Plains become the rulers of the world. Engage in culturally rich battles using fighters, horsemen, elephant riders and more.
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- #58 Tank Battle: Blitzkrieg
69% matchMixed70% of 33 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%