- #1 Ironclads: American Civil War
96% 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%
- #2 Ironclads: Chincha Islands War 1866
96% matchMostly Negative30% of 20 reviews2011
Dev: Totem GamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Spain tried to restore by force its influence on its former colonies, Chile and Peru. This strong Spanish squadron occupied the Chincha Islands, very important to the economy of Peru. Peru received support from neighboring Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #3 Ironclads: High Seas
95% 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%
- #4 Ironclads: Anglo Russian War 1866
94% 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%
- #5 Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades
94% 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%
- #6 Reign: Conflict of Nations
93% matchMixed50% of 127 reviews2010
Dev: Lesta StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.2 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%
- #7 Massive Assault
92% 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%
- #8 A Game of Thrones - Genesis
91% matchMostly Negative35% of 713 reviews2011
Dev: Cyanide StudiosPub: 1C-SoftClub
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Immerse yourself into the battles and intrigues between the Houses that shaped the Kingdom of Westeros and keep your spot on the Iron Throne by any means.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #9 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%
- #10 Ironclads: Schleswig War 1864
89% 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%
- #11 XIII Century – Gold Edition
89% matchMixed56% of 192 reviews2009
Dev: Unicorn Games StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 6.6 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%
- #12 BC Kings
88% 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%
- #13 Kingdom Elemental
86% matchMixed55% of 33 reviews2014
Dev: Scott ThuneliusPub: Chronic Logic
Windows
Kingdom Elemental takes core game play elements from real-time strategy, tactics, and role-playing games and combines them into a game that is easy to pick up and play. It is designed to be lighthearted and humorous with fun, re-playable game play. Try out the Destiny Mode and challenge levels for more variety.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #14 Swords and Soldiers HD
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,054 reviews2010
Dev: Ronimo GamesPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #15 Perimeter 2: New Earth
87% 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%
- #16 Strategic Command Classic: WWII
83% matchPositive83% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
The Matrix version is the Gold Edition of the Original Strategic Command: Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare combined. It also contains the Pacific Theatre and Patton Drives East DLCs
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #17 Essence Defenders
76% 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%
- #18 Archon Classic
84% matchVery Positive81% of 192 reviews2010
Dev: React Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Inspired by chess, but adding combat that YOU control, Archon was the original Battle Chess. You must try to outmaneuver your opponent using teams of fantasy creatures or monsters in this epic struggle of Light and Dark.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #19 The Kings' Crusade
85% 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%
- #20 Physica-E
73% 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%
- #21 Rush on Rome
82% 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%
- #22 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%
- #23 Spaceforce Constellations
82% matchNegative10% of 20 reviews2013
Dev: Dreamatrix
Windows
An action-packed strategy game of galactic conquest! Welcome to a new experience in gameplay and battle your way through a series of devastating space feuds, for supremacy across the universe. Unleash your firepower and launch an arsenal of special attacks to destroy the enemy.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #24 Novus Campis
69% 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%
- #25 Omnipresent
79% matchMixed55% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Starkey Industries
Windows
What would you do if you had the power of a self-aware AI? Take control of S.E.N.T.I.E.N.T and see what choices you would make. Connect to the Internet and hack into corporations, governments, websites and more...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #26 Shields Up! VR
69% 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%
- #27 Franchise Wars
77% 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%
- #28 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%
- #29 Real Warfare 1242
80% matchMixed55% of 94 reviews2011
Dev: Unicorn Games StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Real Warfare: 1242, is a realistic real-time strategy game based on authentic historic events.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #30 Shattered Union
81% matchMixed53% of 168 reviews2006
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Following a great increase in terrorism, internal strife and ultimately, the nuclear destruction of Washington, D.C., the United States shatters into a half-dozen nation-states that descend into war. Take the helm of one of these newfound sovereignties (or the 'peacekeeping' European Expeditionary Force) and struggle to reunify America...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #31 Coffee Pot Terrarium
78% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Brothers Flint
Windows · Mac · Linux
Created by two brothers, Coffee Pot Terrarium is a turn-based puzzle game of tile manipulation. Raise new pathways to traverse the map, drop tiles to eliminate the enemy. Stop and smell the cherry blossoms.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #32 Widgets and Gidgets
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Dwarf Haven Games
Windows
You are a lowly gnome, making parts, earning shinnies, building (and repairing) machines on a quest to earn 1 million shinnies.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #33 Peninsular War Battles
77% matchMixed48% of 31 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Peninsular War Battles places you at the forefront of Napoleon’s campaign to conquer Portugal and Spain. Play is possible as the British, French or Spanish across 5 campaigns with a total of 40 missions.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #34 Tank Battle: Pacific
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 31 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...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #35 Akabeth Tactics
74% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Daisu Games
Windows
Akabeth Tactics is a turn-based tactical puzzle game where you play as the vampire Liel, trying to infiltrate into King Cassius' castle and usurpe the throne. Solve challenging positioning puzzles through fixed levels, in a gothic tone.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #36 Holodeck Arena
65% 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%
- #37 Heart in the Cell: Rebirth
62% 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%
- #38 Isomer
78% matchVery Negative17% of 75 reviews2014
Dev: Ionising Software
Windows
Isomer is an isometric strategy game inspired by classic turn based games from the 90s and many other more recent survival titles. It's open ended, sandbox and each world is procedurally generated leading to an almost unlimited number of different worlds to explore, mine, loot and conquer.
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 Aoki Ookami to Shiroki Mejika
74% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
Aoki Ookami to Shiroki Mejika was first released in 1985. Players become Temujin, who has just become 20, and fight to unify the Mongolian plains. After uniting the plains, you are renamed Genghis Khan and proceed to conquer Eurasia. Grow rich and conquer all you come across.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #41 Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
75% matchMixed53% of 114 reviews2014
Dev: Accolade, Inc.Pub: Atari
Windows
Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #42 Cyborg Tower Defense
73% 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%
- #43 Nemesis of the Roman Empire
71% matchVery Positive92% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Haemimont Games
Windows
A real-time strategy game featuring 2 Massive Single Player Campaigns.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #44 Worlds Collide
70% 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.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #45 Medieval Battle: Europe
70% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Fight various battles across Europe throughout the medieval ages.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #46 Hold the Line: The American Revolution
71% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows · Mac
Hold the Line covers battles fought during the American Revolution. This game is a careful conversion of the board game of the same name developed by Worthington Publishing. Jump in and take command of the American or British forces during this pivotal moment in the history of nations!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance
73% matchPositive90% of 48 reviews2009
Dev: Wargaming.net
Windows
Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance is the sequel to highly acclaimed turn-based strategy game Massive Assault. Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance features a renewed global conflict between the Free Nations Union and Phantom League in distant space colonies.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #48 Pirates vs Corsairs: Davy Jones's Gold
72% 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%
- #49 Civil War: 1862
71% 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%
- #50 Civil War: 1864
70% 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%
- #51 Darkwinds
57% 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%
- #52 Battle for Enlor
69% matchMostly Negative26% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Sonera Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Battle for Enlor is a turn-based tactical combat game. Demons, Undead and the most terrifying creatures are taking over the kingdom and is up to you to assemble a party to defeat them! Join forces with over 8 unique characters and battle the most powerful foes you have ever faced!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #53 Clash of Magic: Spectator Only
55% 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%
- #54 Clash of Magic
55% 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%