- #1 Manor Lords
97% matchVery Positive84% of 90,512 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Historical 13.9%, Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Medieval 9.1%
- #2 Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty
96% matchMixed69% of 2,094 reviews2023
Dev: 不秋草游戏工作室(Bamboo Games)Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty is a wargame demonstrating ancient warfare in China and combining elements of Big Strategy, RTS and RPG. You can learn little-known stories of heroes in ancient China by experiencing battles accommodating thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: Wargame 17.1%, Historical 15.6%, Military 14%, Grand Strategy 12.7% ★, War 10.4%
- #3 Eastern Era
95% matchMixed65% of 3,155 reviews2026
Dev: FunYoo Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 17%, Building 13.3%, Management 11.7%, 4X 11.5% ★
- #4 春秋
96% matchMixed61% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: weiqian
Windows
此为以春秋时代为背景,历史战略类即时制游戏。两千多年前华夏大地锦绣山河一眼尽收,可在其间建造城郭,构筑关隘,修筑长城,农商、车船、战阵行走其间。礼崩乐坏,百家兴起、诸侯争霸、异族入侵、合纵连横,列国之伐兵、伐交、伐谋就此展开。磅礴壮丽的春秋画卷待君前来指点江山!
Why similar: RTS 15.5%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Wargame 11%, Building 10.2%
- #5 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
94% matchVery Positive84% of 319 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: RTS 14%, Wargame 13.9%, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, Historical 12.8%, Military 10.5%
- #6 Primitive Society Simulator
94% matchVery Positive84% of 753 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Wargame 14.9%, Historical 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.7%
- #7 City States: Medieval
93% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are the leader of a city-state in high medieval Europe. Expand your city through deep city-building systems, build a trade empire across the known world, and lead men to war to defend trade routes in a high-stakes struggle of global strategy and brutal warfare.
Why similar: City Builder 15.2%, RTS 11.9%, Wargame 11.9%, Grand Strategy 11% ★, Historical 8.4%
- #8 Norland
92% matchVery Positive82% of 10,349 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Grand Strategy 11.1% ★, Historical 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.5%
- #9 KAISERPUNK
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 921 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Wargame 11.5%, Military 11%, Grand Strategy 10.3% ★, Historical 9.4%
- #10 Kai Yuan
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: Crown Game
Windows
This is a city building game with the historical background of the Tang Dynasty of China in the 7-8th century. In the game, you will build a prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty of China.
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 9.5%
- #11 Huaxia: Warring States
90% matchMixed64% of 752 reviews2026
Dev: 秦川汉渚
Windows
Forge your epic in Huaxia: Warring States. Form your clan, conquer the lands, and build an empire. The fate of heaven & earth lies within you hands.
Why similar: Military 16.9%, Grand Strategy 15.5% ★, Historical 14.9%, War 10.3%, 4X 10% ★
- #12 Foundation
88% matchVery Positive87% of 24,128 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Medieval 10.1%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.5%, Management 6.8%
- #13 Knights of the Crusades
89% matchMixed70% of 181 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, RTS 13.8%, Wargame 13.2%, Grand Strategy 13.1% ★, Base Building 8.6%
- #14 Stronghold: Warlords
89% matchMixed65% of 5,310 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Military 11.1%, RTS 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #15 JIANGHU CHRONICLES
87% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,410 reviews2025
Dev: 一品阁Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
JIANGHU CHRONICLES is a Wuxia-themed clan simulator, which focuses on simulating Jianghu clans and experiencing realistic battle. Set up a clan of your own, recruit disciples, complete missions... And eventually make your clan second to none by improving its power and reputation.
Why similar: Base Building 44.4%, Historical 40.3%, Simulation 12.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #16 Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms
86% matchVery Positive89% of 8,077 reviews2025
Dev: Free Wing
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
"Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms" is a single-player RPG where you shape the Three Kingdoms era. Choose to be a ruler, a loyal advisor, or a cunning mercenary. Marry, build homes, or train in martial arts. Restore peace through diplomacy or conquer with mighty armies.
Why similar: Wargame 20.1%, Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, Military 14.3%, Historical 13.2%, Building 8.9%
- #17 Whiskerwood
84% matchVery Positive92% of 3,269 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Grand Strategy 11.9% ★, Historical 11.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.4%
- #18 Nova Roma
84% matchVery Positive94% of 2,244 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Grand Strategy 11.9% ★, Historical 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.3%
- #19 Builders of Greece
86% matchMixed56% of 592 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Historical 12.6%, RTS 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 8.1%
- #20 Oriental Empires
85% matchVery Positive80% of 2,998 reviews2017
Dev: Shining Pixel StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
Why similar: Historical 20%, Military 16.6%, 4X 13.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13.1% ★, Strategy 11.9%
- #21 Heavyarms Assemble: WWII
83% matchMixed66% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: XR Studio
Windows
This is a strategy game with the theme of WWII. As a battlefield commander, maintaining your army's motivation and satisfaction, promoting your generals, managing your own economy, dealing with your friends' armies, and real time grand battle. What kind of commander will you become in the process?
Why similar: Wargame 13.9%, Historical 12.9%, Military 11.6%, RTS 10.9%, Grand Strategy 10% ★
- #22 Empires of the Undergrowth
79% matchVery Positive94% of 18,736 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Grand Strategy 12% ★, Historical 11.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.4%
- #23 Kingdoms and Castles
81% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, RTS 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.4%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #24 Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Romulus
Windows
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.4%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #25 Empire Architect
82% matchMixed65% of 171 reviews2017
Dev: Batholith Entertainment
Windows
Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Building 10.3%, RTS 8.8%, Historical 8.4%, Base Building 8.1%
- #26 Ground of Aces
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,524 reviews2025
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11%, RTS 10.3%, Military 10.2%, Historical 9.1%
- #27 Thriving City: Song
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,369 reviews2024
Dev: White Star Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Historical 16.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #28 Builders of Egypt
81% matchMostly Negative33% of 505 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Labs
Windows
Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Historical 14.6%, Building 11.3%, RTS 9.6%, Base Building 8.2%
- #29 Celestial Empire: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive86% of 416 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Historical 13.8%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11%, RTS 10.2%
- #30 Amazing Cultivation Simulator
78% matchVery Positive86% of 23,604 reviews2020
Dev: GSQ Games
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.
Why similar: Simulation 22%, Sandbox 21.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Management 10.5%
- #31 NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传
80% matchMixed69% of 444 reviews2019
Dev: Yiming
Windows
This is a sandbox game that is deeply rooted in the rich historical information of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The story of the game unfolds slowly in the eighth century BC on the vast and mysterious land of China.
Why similar: RTS 13.7%, Historical 13.5%, Grand Strategy 13.1% ★, Military 12.1%, Wargame 12%
- #32 Anno 117: Pax Romana
76% matchMixed70% of 12,661 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, RTS 14.9%, Historical 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #33 Eyes of War
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!
Why similar: Wargame 18.9%, RTS 16.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Military 8.8%
- #34 Territory: Farming and Warfare
75% matchVery Positive85% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Military 10.3%, RTS 10.3%, Building 8.2%
- #35 Celestial Empire
74% matchVery Positive90% of 718 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, RTS 15.8%, Historical 14.5%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #36 Builders of Greece: Prologue
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 622 reviews2023
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try your hand as a ruler of an ancient Greek city-state, practice your management skills, and learn basic game mechanics.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, RTS 14.5%, Historical 11.2%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7%
- #37 Master of Command
73% matchVery Positive92% of 3,925 reviews2025
Dev: Armchair Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.
Why similar: Historical 16.9%, Military 16.9%, RTS 16.5%, Wargame 16%, War 10.8%
- #38 Citadelum
74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,066 reviews2024
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Military 14%, Historical 13.4%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 10.6%
- #39 DSS 2: War Industry
73% matchVery Positive84% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows · Linux
In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy. Establish automated supply routes within your territory to streamline production. Fortify your defenses and brace for intense battles. Can you lead your empire to dominance?
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Wargame 21.5%, RTS 15.9%, Grand Strategy 14.4% ★, Medieval 10%
- #40 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
73% matchVery Positive83% of 185 reviews2026
Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Historical 12.1%, RTS 11.9%, Grand Strategy 11% ★, Military 10.2%
- #41 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
72% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★, Historical 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.7%
- #42 House of Legacy
71% matchVery Positive83% of 3,942 reviews2025
Dev: S3 StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Management 13.5%, Historical 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #43 From Village to Empire
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 57 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: Historical 18.4%, Strategy 17.6%, 4X 14.4% ★, Building 13.6%, War 12%
- #44 Royal Lord - 王权领主
71% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.3%, RTS 11.5%, Grand Strategy 10.4% ★, Military 10%
- #45 Cataclismo
69% matchVery Positive89% of 4,300 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Grand Strategy 10.8% ★, Historical 10.7%, RTS 10%, Base Building 9.6%
- #46 Medieval Kingdom Wars
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,615 reviews2019
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…
Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Wargame 13.4%, RTS 13.1%, Grand Strategy 12.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%
- #47 Polismos
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: Composition GS
Windows
Polismos is a city builder set in ancient Greece. To ensure your city's prosperity you will need to care for your people, trade valuable resources, enact wise policies, and maybe even dominate other cities.
Why similar: Historical 26.5%, Base Building 20.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 8.6%, RTS 7.9%
- #48 Kingdoms Reborn
70% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 8.9%, RTS 8.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #49 Strategos
68% matchVery Positive86% of 249 reviews2026
Dev: Strategos GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Strategos is a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. Simulate large-scale battles with over 120 factions, and 250+ units, from the ancient world. Create custom battles, or take command of historical ones.
Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Historical 16.5%, RTS 15.9%, Military 14%, Medieval 9.6%
- #50 Three Kingdoms: Innovatory
70% 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: Wargame 22.4%, RTS 18.2%, Grand Strategy 15.2% ★, Historical 12.6%, 4X 11% ★
- #51 War Hospital
70% matchMixed61% of 1,272 reviews2024
Dev: Brave Lamb Studio S.A.Pub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front, and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, you are the last bastion of humanity.
Why similar: City Builder 14.7%, Wargame 12.8%, Military 11.7%, RTS 10.7%, Historical 10.7%
- #52 Humanica
67% matchVery Positive93% of 175 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Historical 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.5%
- #53 Blacksmith Master
66% matchVery Positive83% of 2,724 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Medieval 10.1%
- #54 Sumerians
67% matchVery Positive88% of 326 reviews2023
Dev: Decumanus Games
Windows
Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Historical 14.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 9.4%
- #55 ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV
69% matchMixed63% of 15,920 reviews2020
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 107.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!
Why similar: Wargame 22.4%, Military 18.7%, Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Historical 15.9%, War 10.9%
- #56 Songs of Syx
66% matchVery Positive94% of 9,164 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Grand Strategy 14.6% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.4%, 4X 9.8% ★
- #57 Open The Gates!
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: Robin van der Horst
Windows
Build, manage and defend your medieval castle in this crazy sidescroller RTS game. Build walls, towers and traps to protect your fortress from enemy sieges before launching your own. Command powerful siege weapons and design the perfect strategy to take back the empire.
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, RTS 15.6%, Military 14.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.2%
- #58 NationWar:Annals
69% matchMixed68% of 169 reviews2021
Dev: Yiming
Windows
This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.
Why similar: Wargame 14.5%, RTS 13.9%, Grand Strategy 11.9% ★, Military 11.1%, Historical 9.8%
- #59 The Emperor and State
68% matchMixed58% of 339 reviews2024
Dev: 涂途Pub: Hawthorn Games
Windows
The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.
Why similar: Wargame 21.4%, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, Historical 18.4%, Management 10.3%, War 10.3%
- #60 Settlement Survival
66% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Building 15.9%, Management 11%, Base Building 8.8%, Resource Management 7.3%