Games Like Master of Command

Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.

Why similar: RTS 14.6%, Wargame 14.6%, War 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 14.3%, Historical 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game mirrors the seed's focus on unit experience, customization, and the brutal reality of managing limited replacements during a long campaign.

Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!

Why similar: Historical 24.3%, RTS 18.3%, War 15.9%, Strategy 15.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep simulation of logistics, supply management, and tactical battlefield command that aligns with the seed's strategic depth.

The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.

Why similar: RTS 20.7%, Real Time Tactics 18.6%, Historical 15.8%, War 13.4%, Wargame 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the 'unit preservation' aspect, where keeping your specific soldiers alive and upgraded is more critical than any single battle.

A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.

Why similar: Historical 22.8%, RTS 18.4%, Wargame 14.4%, Tactical 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on pure tactical real-time combat where positioning and unit management determine the outcome of historical engagements.

Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release

Why similar: Historical 27.4%, War 15.7%, RTS 14.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Military 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title perfectly captures the 18th and early 19th-century line infantry tactics and grand-scale warfare central to the seed game.

Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.

Why similar: Historical 26.1%, Military 20.7%, War 14.3%, Strategy 13.3%, RTS 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an expansive 18th-century setting with a focus on global strategy, supply lines, and tactical regiment-based combat.

Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.

Why similar: Wargame 16.7%, RTS 16.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.4%, War 13.3%, Military 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strong tactical wargame that emphasizes unit management and real-time maneuvers without the overwhelming complexity of traditional grand strategy.

Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.

Why similar: Military 16.5%, Wargame 16%, RTS 15.7%, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, War 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modern tactical wargame that shares the seed's focus on real-time tactical maneuvers and military realism.

Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Why similar: RTS 20.9%, Military 17.7%, War 14.5%, Historical 12.8%, Wargame 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a complex supply and tactical system that rewards careful planning and the preservation of veteran units over time.

Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

Why similar: War 24.2%, Historical 23.9%, Military 23.6%, Open World 9.8%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a different era, it is the gold standard for managing a persistent, customizable group of soldiers through dangerous, procedural campaigns.

Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?

Why similar: RTS 19.5%, Wargame 17.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.6%, Historical 12%, Military 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game balances tactical real-time combat with a broader campaign layer that requires careful management of your forces.

It's WWII. You're a general sitting in a tent. All you have is a map, and a radio. Can you win the battle? Radio General is a unique strategy game where you interact with your units over the radio using speech recognition. Test your mettle and relive famous battles as a WWII general.

Why similar: RTS 18%, War 16.8%, Military 14.1%, Historical 13.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique command perspective that emphasizes the difficulty of managing battles through communication and tactical oversight.

Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.

Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Military 17.3%, War 15.7%, Historical 14.9%, Strategy 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: It highlights the importance of supply lines and logistics, which are critical components of the campaign experience in the seed game.

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.

Why similar: RTS 19.3%, War 18.6%, Military 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides deep, granular control over individual units and equipment, mirroring the tactical customization found in the seed game.

Real Time Strategy with a high degree of realism. The game is based on a true story.

Why similar: RTS 16.9%, Real Time Tactics 15.7%, Military 15.7%, Wargame 13.8%, Historical 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the importance of keeping your veteran units alive across a series of challenging, realistic tactical missions.

Command: Modern Operations is the next generation in cross-domain modern wargaming. It enables you to simulate every military engagement from post World War II to the present day and beyond. The scale is primarily tactical/operational, although strategic scale operations are also possible.

Why similar: Military 33.5%, Wargame 20%, RTS 18.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more modern, it offers the ultimate simulation of military command, logistics, and tactical decision-making.

Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!

Why similar: Historical 22.9%, RTS 18.9%, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Wargame 15%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a heavy emphasis on logistics and supply chains, which are essential for maintaining a successful military campaign.

The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.

Why similar: RTS 19.8%, Historical 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Military 13.1%, War 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines turn-based strategic planning with real-time tactical battles, capturing the attrition-heavy feel of historical warfare.

Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.

Why similar: Wargame 21%, RTS 19.6%, Real Time Tactics 16.7%, War 14.2%, Tactical 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A modern tactical wargame that shares the seed's focus on unit customization and high-stakes real-time combat.

Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg (CMFB) follows the Western Allies through the battles along Germany's border and into the heart of the Reich itself.

Why similar: RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Wargame 13.5%, Historical 12.5%, Military 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A highly realistic tactical simulation that rewards careful unit placement and preservation in a brutal combat environment.

Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.

Why similar: Historical 21.2%, War 18.4%, Military 16.5%, Wargame 12.8%, Tactical 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep historical strategy experience that focuses on the long-term management of a nation's military and resources.

Blitzkrieg 3 is a WW2 RTS made for true admirers of strategic mastery! Challenge your tactical skills in historical campaigns and defeat powerful Neural Network AI in competitive matches.

Why similar: RTS 18%, Military 16.9%, War 15.5%, Historical 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on tactical real-time combat and unit management, providing a streamlined experience for fans of the genre.

Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.

Why similar: RTS 26.5%, Military 18%, War 12.3%, Tactical 8.9%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a rigorous tactical experience where unit composition and battlefield positioning are paramount to success.

Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.

Why similar: Military 16.4%, War 15.8%, Historical 15.6%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy RPG 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed's focus on tactical depth and the high cost of losing valuable, customized units in battle.

War Room is a realistic strategy, taking you straight into the heat of the war in Afghanistan.

Why similar: RTS 17.7%, Military 17%, War 15%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Tactical 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy strategy game that focuses on the command and control aspects of military operations.

Men of War is a stunning Real-Time Strategy game that takes place during the height of World War II. Intense battles span Europe and North Africa as gamers play as Soviet, Allied or German forces across 19 massive single-player missions.

Why similar: RTS 22%, Strategy 15.1%, Military 14.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, War 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original title in the series that established the deep tactical unit control and environmental interaction found in the seed game.

Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.

Why similar: RTS 16.9%, Wargame 15.1%, Real Time Tactics 15%, Historical 14.5%, War 14.1%

Command a platoon of Sherman tanks over the most famous theaters of WWII. Take the commander’s seat and give specific orders to your crew, or open the tactical map to coordinate your actions with accompanying units.

Why similar: Historical 15.3%, Military 15.2%, RTS 14.7%, War 13.3%, Wargame 13%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the tactical and vehicular aspects of military command, providing a grounded experience for history enthusiasts.

Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

Why similar: RTS 39.8%, Historical 24.9%, Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends grand strategy with real-time tactical combat, requiring players to manage their military and kingdom resources carefully.

Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes – is a real-time strategy game with a high degree of realism. Relive the Battle of Kiev (2022), a turning point in the Ukrainian conflict. Witness the Untold Story of 2022 Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought.

Why similar: RTS 17.5%, Wargame 16.9%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Historical 12.8%, Military 11.9%

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: Historical 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Wargame 13.9%, RTS 13.9%, War 12%

Modern-warfare RTS/sandbox game inspired by the real conflicts in the Middle East. Fight a counter-insurgency war, protect the civilian population, casevac your wounded and decide how the world sees your struggle. And remember - no one gets left behind.

Why similar: Military 22.2%, RTS 16.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Wargame 12.2%, War 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a tactical military experience that emphasizes the challenges of managing forces in a hostile, procedural environment.

Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Wargame 12.9%, RTS 12.8%, Military 12.7%, War 12%

Sudden Strike 5 delivers real-time tactics in epic WWII battles. A host of tactical options and more than 300 playable units open-up multiple approaches to reach your objectives in a 25 mission campaign on historical battlefields in Europe and North Africa.

Why similar: RTS 20.3%, Historical 14.7%, Military 14%, Wargame 13.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.3%

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: Historical 13.9%, Military 11.8%, RTS 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Wargame 11.2%

King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.

Why similar: Military 16.7%, War 13.1%, RTS 13%, Historical 12.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%

Can you lead? Burden of Command is an emotionally authentic tactical leadership RPG. You’re a company Captain in the historical Cottonbalers. Fighting psychology as much as bullets, you must build respect, trust, and battlefield experience to bring your brothers safely home.

Why similar: Historical 22.5%, War 20.7%, Strategy RPG 18.6%, Wargame 17.5%, Tactical 13.7%

Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.

Why similar: War 17.9%, RTS 17.4%, Military 15.8%, Tactical 12.3%, Strategy 12.3%

Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 20.2%, Historical 17.7%, Military 16.7%, War 14.5%, Combat 8%

Combat Mission Fortress Italy brings wargamers to the "soft underbelly of Europe", a place that was anything but.

Why similar: Wargame 18%, RTS 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Historical 10.7%, Military 10.1%

Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.

Why similar: RTS 18.1%, War 17.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Historical 13.4%

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Why similar: RTS 28.8%, Military 17.8%, War 15.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Tactical 11%

Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

Why similar: Historical 16.9%, Military 16.9%, RTS 16.5%, Wargame 16%, War 10.8%

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: RTS 17.9%, Historical 17.1%, Military 15.5%, Wargame 15.4%, War 14.1%

Battlefield Commander WWII is a real-time tactical game where you lead the soldiers and vehicles that battled across the globe during this time in history. Play hundreds of unique units across multiple game modes.

Why similar: RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Wargame 14.3%, Historical 13.8%, Military 12.1%

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: RTS 21.9%, Wargame 18.7%, Military 10.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Historical 10.1%

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner

Why similar: Wargame 18.5%, RTS 17.7%, Historical 17.1%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Military 10.7%

Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles. Lead any countryball nation, expand your territory through conquest or diplomacy, and rise as the ultimate superpower.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 20.3%, Wargame 18.6%, Military 14.3%, War 12.8%, Historical 12.7%

Lead your nation through the trials of the first world war in history! Play huge campaigns with 5 playable nations or fight historic realtime battles. Beside of beating the enemy on the battlefield you now have to set up a working economy to supply your troops and your people!

Why similar: RTS 31%, War 29.1%, Historical 22.1%, Strategy 17.8%

Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

Why similar: RTS 17.8%, War 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 15%, Wargame 14.8%, Military 13.7%

Your quest for the true immersive Civil War battle experience ends here. Voted in PC Gamers list of Best 100 Games of All Time, Take Command is an RTCS "Real-Time Combat Simulator" and you've never played anything like it!

Why similar: Wargame 16.9%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, War 16.1%, RTS 16.1%, Historical 12.9%

Lead your country through the Victorian age, expand your empire as you go head to head with the great powers of the world.

Why similar: War 19.9%, Military 17%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, RTS 8.9%, Historical 7.8%

Rise to power as any modern day country in a realistic military, political and economic simulation. Command your country's diplomacy, espionage, and resource management to strengthen your position. Use real-time tactical control of your military to fortify your place as the Supreme Ruler.

Why similar: War 16.7%, RTS 16.6%, Military 15%, Wargame 14.7%, Tactical 11%

January, 1915. The Race to the Sea is over. The Great War has just begun. You are the commander of a single division in the meat grinder that is the Western Front. Lead your men over the top as you attempt to break the stalemate that is to claim the lives of millions over the course of years.

Why similar: War 16%, Historical 15.3%, Wargame 14.2%, Military 13.1%, Strategy 12.5%

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Why similar: Historical 29.3%, Wargame 25.7%, War 25.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 6.2%

NovaMundi is an open world exploration game with tactical combat. Lead your party into the dangerous lands of the Andes. Recruit people in towns, explore caverns filled with dangerous spirits to gain the blessings of the land, and unite the people to stand against the invaders.

Why similar: Historical 16.6%, RTS 15.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Tactical 9.9%, Strategy RPG 9.7%

Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front - tactical battalion level combat simulation. Action takes place in the summer of 1943 at Mius river and Saur-Mogila tumulus area of over 140 sq. km. Four large-scale operations for the Red Army and Wehrmacht.

Why similar: Wargame 20.5%, RTS 14.5%, Military 12.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Historical 10.3%

March into the real-time strategy legend, Blitzkrieg, and prepare for war. This legendary WWII RTS blends unprecedented realism and accuracy to form immersive 3D backgrounds and a game where brute force often takes a back seat to strategy and wits.

Why similar: RTS 20.5%, Military 16%, War 15.4%, Historical 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: Historical 22.9%, War 21.5%, Military 18.9%, Tactical 14.4%, Management 7.8%

Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!

Why similar: RTS 19.7%, Military 19.4%, Wargame 17.2%, Tactical 12.9%, War 11.1%