- #1 DICTOCRACY
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: A2B Games
Windows
Take charge as the President of a newly independent country, Adelphia. Build infrastructure, approve policies, juggle between conflicting priorities of the public, your ministers and other countries' leaders - All with only one action per turn and a different political landscape in each playthrough
Why similar: Political Sim 22% ★, 4X 18.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%
- #2 Jey's Empire
96% matchVery Positive88% of 85 reviews2019
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the shoes of J. Edgar Hoover and combat the Mafia, Communists, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, and more as you shape history with your every move. Download now and become the ultimate mastermind in this thrilling management RPG!
Why similar: Political Sim 25.2% ★, Grand Strategy 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Strategy RPG 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
- #3 Rise of the Successor
96% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Six
Windows
You wake up as North Korea’s Supreme Leader. Manage diplomacy, internal power struggles, and national survival. Balance nuclear ambition, public needs, and elite loyalty. One wrong move could cost you everything — will you rule or fall?
Why similar: Political Sim 35% ★, Strategy RPG 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Alternate History 8.6%
- #4 Last Emperor
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Puggers Games
Windows
Lead a waning Empire back to its former glory in this fictional Cold War text-based RPG. As emperor, choose who to trust and who to silence. Adapt to changing times or cling to tradition. Enact reforms to revive the economy, enforce law and order, and reinforce the Empire’s place under the Sun.
Why similar: Political Sim 27% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Strategy RPG 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 8%
- #5 Mandate 1600: The East
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RM GAME
Windows
At a turning point in history, decide the future of a nation. Mandate 1600: The East is a global historical grand strategy game. Govern lands and dynasty, secure your bloodline, grow through trade, and prevail in war. Rewrite history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.3%, Political Sim 24.2% ★, 4X 21.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Historical 10.3%
- #6 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
94% matchVery Positive86% of 770 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, Political Sim 21.8% ★, Grand Strategy 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Strategy RPG 8.8%
- #7 Choice of History
92% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: 凭雨听风
Windows · Linux
Choice of History is a deep historical sim where you rule as one of 673 real sovereigns across China, Rome, Britain, America, and Russia. Make monthly decisions through 60,000+ events, climb a 1,158-node tech tree, and balance rival factions. Your choices echo through history—no right answer.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Historical 11.6%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
- #8 Collapse: A Political Simulator
93% matchMixed66% of 201 reviews2021
Dev: Nostalgames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
is a grand strategy game that takes place in 1992-2004. You take lead of your own Party in the face of the total devastation of one of the fictional post-Soviet states in Europe. Try to realize your (or someone else's) political dreams in the shaky arena of this dilapidated situation.
Why similar: Political Sim 25% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Strategy RPG 12.1%, Alternate History 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #9 Ascendant Dawn
91% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Nikous Studio
Windows
Ascendant Dawn is a grand strategy game where you lead a nomadic tribe in a brutal bronze age world. Work your way up from a small clan to a great empire by founding cities and conquering your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Political Sim 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 22.4%, Alternate History 10.7%, Historical 10%
- #10 Twisted Three Kingdoms
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seasonbean Team
Windows
Amidst this chaotic era, shape your own destiny—whether as a loyal minister, a ruthless warlord, or an independent ruler. Every choice and battle writes your legend. Are you ready to rise from a commoner to claim the realm?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.5%, Political Sim 21.7% ★, 4X 18.6% ★, Historical 11.6%, Alternate History 9.4%
- #11 The Three Kingdoms of Shadows: Xuzhou
89% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: 鹏砚
Windows · Mac
Three Kingdoms of Shadows blends dark political intrigue with occult folklore. As Liu Bei, raised to rule Xuzhou as a pliable puppet, enact decrees, manage resources, and outmaneuver the factions behind your rise. Follow history—or pursue optional mysteries to unlock a path no chronicle recorded.
Why similar: Political Sim 30% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Strategy RPG 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #12 Suzerain
89% matchVery Positive92% of 11,925 reviews2020
Dev: Torpor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Why similar: Political Sim 26% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Strategy RPG 12.1%, Alternate History 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #13 Crisis in the Kremlin
90% matchVery Positive84% of 1,463 reviews2017
Dev: Nostalgames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
Why similar: Political Sim 50.1% ★, Grand Strategy 10.3%, Strategy 7.3%, Alternate History 7.1%, Historical 5.4%
- #14 The Iron and the Oath
88% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: FFire Studio
Windows
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Political Sim 17.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Alternate History 9.6%
- #15 Machiavelli the Prince
87% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Holistic Design, Inc.Pub: Holistic Design, inc.
Windows · Linux
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Why similar: Political Sim 27.3% ★, 4X 25.8% ★, Grand Strategy 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Historical 8.4%
- #16 Project: Story about
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: DRT Games
Windows
An RPG where you live life after life in a constantly evolving world, and your choices and relationships influence future cycles.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.6% ★, 4X 18.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Strategy RPG 10.9%, Exploration 5.8%
- #17 三国混战
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: YangGrass
Windows
In the world of the Three Kingdoms, where the warlords were vying for supremacy, different forces were chosen to rebuild the Great Han or establish a new heaven. Through event selection, a balance was achieved among the literati, Han, and people.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.4% ★, Grand Strategy 28.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Historical 8.9%
- #18 Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Imugi
Windows
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.
Why similar: Political Sim 21.6% ★, 4X 20.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Alternate History 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%
- #19 Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WoN
Windows
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
Why similar: 4X 32.5% ★, Grand Strategy 24.5%, Political Sim 21.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Strategy 8%
- #20 Three Kingdoms : Alias
82% matchVery Positive80% of 373 reviews2026
Dev: Plotrick
Windows
A world where officers hide their names and abilities. Can you spot Zhuge Liang? A hardcore turn-based strategy simulation for true Three Kingdoms devotees.
Why similar: Political Sim 23.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.7%, 4X 20.6% ★, Alternate History 10.9%, Historical 10.3%
- #21 Dawn Of Imperialism
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nitrid Game
Windows
Guide your state through a fictional industrial world where economic power becomes global influence. Use merchants, companies, politics, intelligence, and trade networks to control the flow of resources and decisions. Conquest is an option; true power lies in controlling the economy.
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Political Sim 28.2% ★, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Historical 5.9%
- #22 Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
83% matchVery Positive93% of 730 reviews2018
Dev: Nostalgames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The confrontation between the East and the West is coming to an end, but not between East and West Germany. The old party leaders are still sitting in their offices, not changing anything and waiting for exclamations from Moscow. But their end is close – Gorbachev and Kohl have already decided...
Why similar: Political Sim 27% ★, Grand Strategy 13.6%, Alternate History 12.6%, Strategy RPG 9%, Historical 8.8%
- #23 Geopolaris: Conquer & Dominate
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fenek Games
Windows
Navigate through interactions with competing powers to lead your nation to global domination in this 4X open sandbox geopolitical sim set in post-WW2 alt-history world. You have 251 years at your disposal to conquer and unify the planet or take your nation into space. Can you make it?
Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Political Sim 15.5% ★, Alternate History 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%
- #24 Crown & Coin: The Hundred Years
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MUZINA GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Survive the Hundred Years' War in this medieval ensemble sandbox. Play as 1,015 historical figures, from Joan of Arc to the imposter des Armoises. Gain glory as a knight, forge a new kingdom to crush England and France, or thrive as a bandit. Discover 22 tarot-based multiple endings!
Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9%, Alternate History 12.1%, Historical 7.7%
- #25 政通人和
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SuBaiism
Windows
"Peace and Prosperity" is a independently developed ink-wash style historical strategy game set in an alternate pre-Qin period of China. Starting from a small village of just a few hundred people, and conquer all sides to gradually build their own vassal state with millions of people.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Political Sim 24.3% ★, Strategy RPG 10.5%, Historical 7.1%
- #26 El Mequetrefe
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pudim Studios
Windows
Answer the people in your life, live with what stays in your feed, and turn each edition into tomorrow's front page. Keep the newspaper alive through debt, danger, family pressure, and the consequences you chose.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Lore-Rich 7.6%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #27 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 221 Games
Windows
《水浒豪》是一款回合制战略游戏,是《三国志》、《文明》、《欧陆风云》的粉丝们不容错过的作品。您扮演山寨之主,运筹帷幄,纵横捭阖。原著中528位好汉、116处据点、49个势力在游戏中登场。被奸臣谋害,魂断蓼儿洼?呸!洒家要清君侧!慢着……洒家要当皇帝!兀那赵老官!给洒家从宝座上爬下来!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.7%, 4X 23.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%, Historical 14.3%, Strategy 7.7%
- #28 Clan and Crown
78% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: alanchuPub: Wise Games
Windows
The game is a strategy simulation game where you start a family, raise children, infiltrate various industries in the city (13 industries, 70 professions), run for mayor to control the city's destiny, manufacture weapons to wage city wars, and ultimately establish your family empire.
Why similar: Political Sim 21.9% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Strategy RPG 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
- #29 Spirit of Europe - Enlightenment
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Predict Edumedia
Windows
Guide the Spirit of Europe in a turn-based historical grand strategy game. Expand across 23 cities, unlock great thinkers, inspire their works, and shape the Enlightenment through ideas, reform, and institutions.
Why similar: Political Sim 35% ★, 4X 28% ★, Grand Strategy 21.3%, Historical 7.2%, Strategy 5.7%
- #30 1992: Rasputie
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: A2B games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take a place of a politician in the post-Soviet space and immerse yourself in the struggle for power amid the ruins of the former empire. Your decisions will determine the path of the young state's development.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Alternate History 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Historical 10.4%
- #31 Vizier
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Verdigris
Windows
The king holds the power — but the words are yours. Advise a young ruler through intrigue, war, and betrayal in a turn-based court drama, where the right counsel shapes a realm and the wrong one ends you.
Why similar: Political Sim 41.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Historical 7.3%
- #32 Ruler of Empires
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mehmet Sefa KARATAŞPub: Pasha Interactive
Windows
Command a nation through the age of steel and empire. Ruler of Empires is a turn-based grand strategy game. Seize a nation, rewrite the century, and conquer province by province across lands. Save an empire doomed to fall, or bring the whole world under a single flag.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.9%, Strategy RPG 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Political Sim 11.3% ★, Historical 8.9%
- #33 Empire of Vice : Chicago
75% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Artifex Parvus
Windows
Live the rise and fall of a gangster in Prohibition-era Chicago. Strategic turn-based management meets gritty narrative in a city built on blood, booze, and betrayal.
Why similar: 4X 28.3% ★, Political Sim 23.8% ★, Grand Strategy 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Strategy 4.9%
- #34 The Helios Accord
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZOA LLC
Windows
The Helios Accord is a post-scarcity science-fiction grand strategy game. Govern by consent, set doctrine, negotiate with civilizations, and send Citizen Minds beyond known space. Then Serenity of Dawn disappears. No wreckage. No distress call. Only an impossible signal that changes when observed.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Grand Strategy 26.2%, Strategy RPG 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.6%, Choices Matter 5.3%
- #35 Fault Lines
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Andreas Müller
Windows · Linux
Geopolitics doesn't have to be complex. In this casual strategy game, you take control of one of four great powers and try to expand your influence across the globe. But beware: if you're too reckless, the game ends faster than you think...
Why similar: Political Sim 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 32.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Choices Matter 3.5%
- #36 Aye! My Liege
74% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Tappole Software
Windows · Mac
A grand strategy game set in an alternate history. Lead your noble house to power using a 4-tier command system that allows for granular management of every individual soldier. Master complex industrial chains, navigate tariffs, and balance diplomacy to shape the continent's ultimate fate.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.8%, Political Sim 24.6% ★, Strategy RPG 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Strategy 8.6%
- #37 Sinoepoch
75% matchMixed64% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: 迟到的南雨亭
Windows
Sinoepoch is a grand strategy game based on the historical fantasy of the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history. In the current version, players can create their character, "travel" to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty,create their family legends.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Alternate History 14.1%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Historical 8.1%
- #38 ROTRDS - Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon and Snake
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: haatcci
Windows · Mac
ROTRDS is a visual novel RPG inspired by traditional Korean mythology. Only half of the Twelve Zodiac guardians remain with fragmented memories. Gigi has less than a week to gather all the Oksae seals and save the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Strategy RPG 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #39 Civis: The Eternal City
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SwampRabbit Labs
Windows
A Roman political simulator set in the late Republic. Navigate the Senate, manage your household, build a dynasty, and watch the Republic you serve slowly become something unrecognizable.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Strategy RPG 13.8%, Historical 6%
- #40 Samhan: Where Korea Began
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CODEMAPO
Windows · Mac
Silla's thousand-year reign is crumbling, and Gyeon Hwon, Gung Ye and Wang Geon rise to claim the peninsula. Command 500+ historical figures across a 3D Korea in this turn-based grand strategy of statecraft, diplomacy and war—and reunite the Three Han.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.9%, Political Sim 25.8% ★, 4X 16.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Historical 11.7%
- #41 Fate Candle: Three Kingdoms - Chronicle Restored
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XIA WANWAN
Windows
The fire at Red Cliffs fractures history. Rise from one of 44 cities, govern your domain, befriend forgotten generals, and restore their memories. Develop your faction and deploy stratagems across ten-slot battles. Hold cities and awaken City Veins before the world unravels.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.2%, Political Sim 21.6% ★, Strategy RPG 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Alternate History 7.7%
- #42 Ichth.ys
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Steganographia Games
Windows
Ichth.ys is a visual novel with turn-based combat where your choices affect the story! You follow Fraser, a hacker who was recently expelled from university, in a tale of mystery, deception, censorship, freedom, and board game cafes!
Why similar: Political Sim 20.2% ★, Alternate History 12.3%, Cyberpunk 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #43 The King's Whisperer
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Demian Vrij Games
Windows
You are the Whisperer, hooded advisor to King Alric the Uncertain. Forty days. Twenty-five court crises. Four pillar-leaders pulling the realm in four directions. The King hears you last before every decision. Twenty-one endings. No correct path.
Why similar: Political Sim 33.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Lore-Rich 8.2%
- #44 SIM Election
70% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Rafael Lázaro
Windows
Take control of a political party and compete for power in this turn-based simulation. Manage strategy, face media pressure, debates and critical decisions, negotiate alliances, and lead your party to electoral victory.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Alternate History 10.5%
- #45 Headliner: NoviNews
72% matchVery Positive89% of 817 reviews2018
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Alternate History 6.3%
- #46 Kinjea
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tenikkan Games
Windows · Linux
Lead your people through all of human history on a spherical planet. Wage war and forge alliances as you guide your nation in this 4X grand strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, Political Sim 21% ★, Alternate History 11.7%, Historical 6.8%
- #47 HUMANKIND™ 2
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows
Build a civilization that spans the ages in this historical turn-based strategy game. Combine evolving cultures, raise cities, command armies and expand your empire as a changing climate reshapes the world and your path through history.
Why similar: 4X 33.3% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Alternate History 12%, Historical 11.8%
- #48 Successor To Your Throne
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Adam Avramov
Windows · Linux
In this short character-focused narrative experience you are a monarch of a small medieval kingdom and must name your successor before it is too late
Why similar: Political Sim 40.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 4.4%
- #49 Withering State
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ed V
Windows · Mac · Linux
Act as Premier Alexander Sants in a time of stagnation, division, and the falling of walls. Will you steer the brotherly nations of the People's Republic of Sudlivia toward the liberal West, reinforce the crumbling East, or forge a new path? Or even be ousted before becoming the General Secretary?
Why similar: Political Sim 17.4% ★, Strategy RPG 14.8%, Alternate History 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #50 Money Wars : Modern Ages
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EarthQuick
Windows · Mac · Linux
A country simulator built on strategy: 160 real nations, deep production chains, a live world market, diplomacy, intelligence and war. Win the world with economy, not armies.
Why similar: 4X 33.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.4%, Political Sim 23% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #51 Flight South: Northern Expedition
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 功达工作室
Windows
A clan-management and grand-strategy game set during the founding years of the Eastern Jin. Establish your house, settle your people, manage its manor, govern local territory, navigate court politics, and face Zu Ti's expedition and Wang Dun's rebellion.
Why similar: Political Sim 44.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Historical 14.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Multiple Endings 4.7%
- #52 The Prime Minister's Crest: Path to Power
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WAWELLC
Windows
A political simulation visual novel set in a severe post-bubble economic crisis. As newly elected governor Kazuma Oreki, allocate tight budgets to resolve economic, security, and welfare issues. Navigate complex factional politics and ultimately forge your path to the Prime Minister's seat.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Lore-Rich 10.6%
- #53 Rise and Fall: Bronze Age
68% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Ludwig LoreKhan
Windows
Rise & Fall: Bronze Age is a Grand Strategy game set in the Bronze Age between 3400BC and 1150BC. Expand your power by diplomacy and war and manage your troublesome elites. Feed your people, build temples for your gods and tombs for your rulers. How high can you rise before your empire falls ?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Political Sim 16% ★, Historical 14.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #54 崇祯模拟器
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZHANG HANLIANG
Windows
1644—the Ming Dynasty is collapsing. Rebels close on Beijing, Manchu armies at the gates, the treasury empty. As Chongzhen, China's last emperor, you command AI-driven ministers who flatter, scheme, and defy you. Rewrite history—or fall as the records say?
Why similar: Political Sim 26.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Strategy RPG 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Alternate History 9.8%
- #55 Cascade: Hindcast
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Herni Dedalvs
Windows · Mac
Cascade: Hindcast is an alternate-history grand strategy game where monthly political and military decisions reshape a living war map. Use hindsight, spend scarce political capital, and watch borders, armies, and consequences move in real time.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.9% ★, Grand Strategy 27%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Alternate History 11.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #56 Stellar Monarch 2
68% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: Silver Lemur Games
Windows
Stellar Monarch 2 is a feudal space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. Great noble houses, usurpers to the throne, rebels, assassins, court intrigues, disloyal admirals, incompetent governors and ever-present alien threat.
Why similar: 4X 43.3% ★, Grand Strategy 31.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Strategy 8%
- #57 明末:甲申年
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Zirbry StudioPub: HistAxis Games
Windows · Mac
Set during the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644, this historical grand-strategy narrative game lets you rule as the Chongzhen Emperor, fight for the Shun regime, lead another faction, or survive as a commoner. Govern, wage war, manage resources, and reshape history through AI-assisted court debates.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33%, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Strategy RPG 13.3%, Alternate History 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #58 Grand Strategy: The Three Kingdoms
65% matchPositive88% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Yiming
Windows
Based on the classic history of the Three countries, the 2D grand strategy game integrates deep strategy, resource management, diplomatic game and sand table, presenting a magnificent stage for players in the turbulent world.
Why similar: 4X 38.8% ★, Political Sim 25.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Historical 8.3%
- #59 Marcel Pagnol and the Secret Spring
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Playtouch
Windows
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Alternate History 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Historical 11.8%