- #1 STATO
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scassius Systems
Windows
Shape a nation in a procedural grand strategy sandbox where geography, industry, diplomacy, and war drive emergent history. Build your state, secure resources, manage instability, and survive a world of rival powers.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.2% ★, Grand Strategy 28.1% ★, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Historical 8%
- #2 三国混战
96% 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: Grand Strategy 32.3% ★, Political Sim 25.1% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Historical 6.7%
- #3 Legacy of Six Generations
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 疯狗工作室
Windows
《Legacy of Six Generations》 is a hardcore grand strategy game set during the Warring States period.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.5% ★, Political Sim 26% ★, RTS 15.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Historical 5.9%
- #4 A World To Win
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leafbug Labs
Windows
A Cold War real-time grand strategy game. Players lead a country through the revolutions and superpower conflicts of the late 20th century, competing in the space race and nuclear arms race, destabilizing and overthrowing rival powers to expand their spheres of influence.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.4% ★, Political Sim 24.9% ★, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 16.4%, Historical 5.6%
- #5 Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
94% matchVery Positive82% of 93,466 reviews2019
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 89.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Unite Ancient China under your rule through a thrilling blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles. Use the Guanxi System and diplomacy to forge alliances, and build powerful armies with hundreds of unique infantry, cavalry and war machine units.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Strategy 17.7%, RTS 15.2%, Historical 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%
- #6 Antiyoy
94% matchPositive85% of 41 reviews2024
Dev: yiotro
Windows
Turn-based strategy with simple rules
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31% ★, Political Sim 23.9% ★, Strategy 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Historical 6.6%
- #7 Total War: SHOGUN 2
92% matchVery Positive92% of 67,526 reviews2011
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, RTS 17.9%, Strategy 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Historical 11.1%
- #8 Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
91% matchVery Positive92% of 27,474 reviews2010
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Grand Strategy 26.5% ★, Strategy 19.3%, Historical 14.5%, RTS 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
- #9 Invaders
90% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: GodSGameStudio
Windows
Invaders — a modern RTS of deep strategy and realism. Command your nation, manage supply lines, research technologies, and conquer a dynamic hex-based world with land, air, and naval forces. Every decision shapes your country's survival and dominance.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.6% ★, Political Sim 24.2% ★, RTS 20.5%, Strategy 16.4%, Tactical 4.3%
- #10 A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI
91% matchMixed70% of 1,699 reviews2012
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.
Why similar: Strategy 29.5%, RTS 19.4%, Grand Strategy 15.3% ★, Historical 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%
- #11 Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
89% matchVery Positive91% of 37,985 reviews2009
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, Strategy 19.8%, Historical 13.3%, RTS 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%
- #12 A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 14,856 reviews2018
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.8% ★, RTS 21.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Historical 13.2%
- #13 Total War: PHARAOH
88% matchMixed63% of 5,407 reviews2023
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.4% ★, RTS 22.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, War 8%
- #14 Rise and Fall: Bronze Age
87% 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 37.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Strategy 13.3%, Political Sim 12.9% ★, Historical 10.5%
- #15 Tempest of Nations
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Faustian Ambitions LLC
Windows
Tempest of Nations is a real-time, historical grand strategy game set during the Industrial Revolution. Lead your nation through one of the most transformative eras of history as you manage diplomacy, economics, and politics.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40.9% ★, Political Sim 27.7% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Historical 11%, Management 2.9%
- #16 Cavalry Charge·Three Kingdoms
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Chengdu Liudao Wuyu Technology Co., Ltd
Windows
Three Kingdoms Cavalry Charge is a game that combines the historical theme of the Three Kingdoms with strategic elements. The game features a connected large-scale map design, supporting national wars with up to ten thousand players on the same map.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, RTS 23.3%, Strategy 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Historical 5.7%
- #17 Flames in Modern Europe
85% matchMixed69% of 36 reviews2025
Dev: Volodymyr Marsenko
Windows · Mac
A real-time global strategy game about the Old Continent! You are the leader of the state, and you must discover new technologies, build a powerful economy, armed forces and even nuclear weapons! But remember - the opposition will always be breathing down your neck...
Why similar: Political Sim 26.6% ★, Grand Strategy 26.6% ★, RTS 18.4%, Strategy 8%, Historical 7.1%
- #18 三国記II
84% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: lufy
Windows · Mac
《三国记II》是三国记系列的第2部作品,是一款正统的历史模拟策略游戏。以中国东汉末年的三国时期为总体背景,围绕着争夺大陆霸权,展开了一系列的故事。 《三国记II》采取直接在大地图上进行游戏和战斗,让玩家体验征战四方的快感。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Political Sim 20.1% ★, Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Historical 6%
- #19 Cascade: Hindcast
84% 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: Grand Strategy 30% ★, Political Sim 24.5% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Historical 5.5%
- #20 Crowns of Medieval Europe
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: plausegame7
Windows
Lead one of ten medieval kingdoms in this turn-based grand strategy game. Expand your territory, develop your economy, strengthen your army, and shape the future of Europe through diplomacy, war, and strategic decisions.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.6% ★, Political Sim 21.7% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Military 3.8%
- #21 Divided Empire: SENGOKU
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Composition GS
Windows
Lead your clan through Japan's turbulent Sengoku period. Craft wise strategies to expand your domain and use cunning tactics to defeat your enemies on the battlefield. Emerge victorious, restore order, and claim the title of Shogun!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.1% ★, RTS 19.8%, Strategy 16.4%, Historical 11%, War 7.3%
- #22 PixelRulers
82% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Soulful Workshop
Windows
PixelRulers is a fun, pixel-styled 2D real-time strategy game with simple yet engaging multiplayer gameplay for up to 96 players. Designed with simplicity as a core principle, PixelRulers focuses on easy-to-understand mechanics without sacrificing depth.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40.2% ★, RTS 22.2%, Political Sim 16.5% ★, Strategy 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%
- #23 Total War: ATTILA
81% matchVery Positive82% of 37,613 reviews2015
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.5 hrsMean: 81.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.8% ★, Strategy 17.5%, RTS 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Historical 12.3%
- #24 Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows
Experience the brutal fusion of galactic strategy and grimdark warfare in Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000. Take command of iconic factions, customise your war machine, and engage in devastating battles as you carve a bloody warpath across the stars.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.3% ★, RTS 24.8%, Strategy 18%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, War 5.8%
- #25 PicoBellum
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PicoBellum
Windows · Linux
The war between Humans and Orcs continues to ravage the world. Lead your faction into war, besiege castles, clash on open battlefields, and conquer enemy territory. End the conflict and claim the throne of the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.3% ★, RTS 21.9%, Strategy 19.7%, War 10.6%, Military 4.6%
- #26 Victoria II
79% matchVery Positive92% of 19,992 reviews2010
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 49.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Why similar: Grand Strategy 41% ★, Political Sim 23.7% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Historical 10%, RTS 6.5%
- #27 Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
78% matchMixed50% of 286 reviews2025
Dev: Eversim
Windows · Mac
The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.9% ★, Political Sim 26.9% ★, RTS 18.4%, Strategy 13.4%, War 3.9%
- #28 Total War: WARHAMMER II
78% matchVery Positive93% of 121,433 reviews2017
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 40.5 hrsMean: 178.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.9% ★, RTS 22.5%, Strategy 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, War 7.2%
- #29 Europa Universalis III Complete
79% matchVery Positive83% of 1,999 reviews2009
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Europa Universalis III Complete includes the original Europa Universalis III as well as the expansions In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.4% ★, Political Sim 28.6% ★, Strategy 13%, Historical 10.9%, RTS 2.7%
- #30 State of Command
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Layth Issam El Zaim
Windows · Linux
A modern grand strategy game where you act as head of state, managing military forces, economic development, and diplomacy while directing large-scale operations on dynamic frontlines.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.1% ★, Political Sim 27.2% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Historical 6.5%, Top-Down 3.8%
- #31 政通人和
77% 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: Grand Strategy 31.5% ★, Political Sim 22.2% ★, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Historical 5.9%
- #32 Nations
75% matchVery Positive89% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Krzysztof SteinerPub: Krzysztof Steiner Games
Windows
Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion. In Nations you can rule your people for centuries – from ancient times to the modern day and beyond. You shape your state, history and map of the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.8% ★, RTS 20.2%, Political Sim 19.3% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Historical 12.3%
- #33 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 36.4% ★, Strategy 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Political Sim 10.1% ★, Historical 7.3%
- #34 Roman Empire Wars
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emperor Games
Windows
Become an Emperor and guide your Legions to victory. Battle foreign armies and crush your enemies in a tactical real-time strategy game and show the whole Europe glory of the Roman Empire.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.1% ★, RTS 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Strategy 11%, Historical 10.4%
- #35 History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms
73% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: Uncle GoodBen
Windows
Set in the Three Kingdoms period of late Eastern Han China, the game History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms aims for players to choose from various competing warlords, unify the divided world, survive, and become the ultimate victor.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.4% ★, RTS 24.6%, Strategy 20.6%, Historical 7.7%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #36 Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,287 reviews2006
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.9% ★, Strategy 18.7%, RTS 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Historical 10.9%
- #37 Crusader Kings II
74% matchVery Positive91% of 73,865 reviews2012
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 55.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 58.4% ★, Political Sim 21.5% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Historical 8%, RTS 2.7%
- #38 Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,393 reviews2021
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 97.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Grand Strategy 31.1% ★, Strategy 26.6%, RTS 20.3%, Historical 14%, War 7.8%
- #39 Aye! My Liege
72% match7 user reviews71% of 7 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 31.7% ★, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Strategy 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Top-Down 3.9%
- #40 Grand Tactician: Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815)
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
Fight the campaigns and battles of Napoleon from the French Revolutionary Wars all the way to Waterloo’s muddy, crimson fields.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.6% ★, RTS 21%, Strategy 18.4%, Historical 12.5%, War 6.3%
- #41 Geo-Political Simulator 5
73% matchMostly Negative33% of 712 reviews2024
Dev: Eversim
Windows
The new 5th edition of the hyperrealistic global simulator game where you play as the Head of State or as the opposition or the president of a large multinational company, with a completely redesigned interface, a new ultra-detailed map, complete control of companies and new scenarios for 2024.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Political Sim 25.9% ★, RTS 19%, Strategy 10.4%, War 5%
- #42 King's Orders
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 268 reviews2024
Dev: AFTERLIFE👻Pub: Games Operators
Windows
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: Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Political Sim 19.9% ★, RTS 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Strategy 7.2%
- #43 Bellfortis
71% matchVery Positive91% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: Rake in Grass
Windows
Bellfortis is a strategy game from the early Middle Ages. Expand your kingdom, use politics and power. Strategic planning on the map alternates with realtime battles of armies. Play as a grand strategy or on smaller local maps, build, recruit armies and fight!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.4% ★, RTS 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Strategy 10%, Historical 9.9%
- #44 Age of History II
71% matchVery Positive90% of 49,930 reviews2018
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 62.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master.Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it.Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.9% ★, Political Sim 18.9% ★, Strategy 15.1%, Historical 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%
- #45 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
70% matchVery Positive84% of 312 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: Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, Political Sim 19.8% ★, RTS 19.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Historical 9.2%
- #46 Theo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Theo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The player is the architect of the world, plays for one of the world forces and achieves its dominance in the world with the help of tools and through indirect influence on countries and key figures. The story-driven game takes place through key historical events that have impacted the modern world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.7% ★, Political Sim 30.2% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Historical 6.4%, War 6.1%
- #47 Anno 1602 History Edition
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 281 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Relive the beginnings of the Anno® series with Anno® 1602 History Edition, updated and optimized for current computers.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28% ★, Political Sim 20.4% ★, RTS 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Strategy 10.9%
- #48 Age of Resistance
67% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Luis Humberto
Windows
Age of Resistance is a modern grand strategy set in South America. Manage your economy, internal stability, political ideologies, and regional conflicts in real-time with pause. Will you be able to dominate the continent?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32% ★, RTS 20.2%, Political Sim 17.5% ★, Strategy 15.2%, War 6%
- #49 War, the Game
70% matchMixed69% of 465 reviews2015
Dev: GabberGames.com
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
'War, the Game' is a RTS for pc in realistic present day setting.The controls are intuitive, the game rules are simple and transparent.The game focuses on strategy and the use of ones brain to complete the scenarios.The map is a spherical version of earth. That's new.
Why similar: Strategy 35.5%, Grand Strategy 30.5% ★, RTS 24%, War 9.9%
- #50 Anno 1701 History Edition
68% matchVery Positive86% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.2% ★, Political Sim 20.3% ★, RTS 18%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Strategy 10.6%
- #51 Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
69% matchVery Positive88% of 87,981 reviews2013
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 24.8 hrsMean: 114.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30% ★, Strategy 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Historical 11.6%, RTS 10.6%
- #52 Rome: Total War™ - Alexander
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 922 reviews2007
Dev: The Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Rome: Total War - Alexander is the second official expansion pack to Rome: Total War. An entirely new campaign map that stretches from Macedonia to Greece and into the heart of the ancient Persian Empire New campaign game that tasks players with matching the exploits of Alexander the Great as he swept across Central Asia and dominated...
Why similar: Strategy 30.1%, RTS 24.3%, Grand Strategy 22.9% ★, Historical 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%
- #53 Red Button
68% matchVery Positive87% of 198 reviews2021
Dev: Токуров Егор (WZRDQQ)
Windows
Get ready to take part in the world war! It depends only on your choice who you will be - a winner or a loser! It's time to press the red button!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.3% ★, Political Sim 23.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Strategy 10.4%, War 6.4%
- #54 Machiavelli the Prince
67% 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 27.7% ★, Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Historical 7.8%
- #55 Fall of Bali
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sengkala DevPub: CRX Entertainment
Windows
Fall of Bali is a historical strategy set in Bali set around 19th century. Divided in many kingdoms after fall of Bali Empire, Bali has fall in warring era for nearly 2 centuries and now the threat of imperialism come. With all your kingdom potential, can you survive and win this era?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.3% ★, Political Sim 27.2% ★, Strategy 10.3%, RTS 9.7%, Historical 8%
- #56 Anno 1503 History Edition
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, Political Sim 20.7% ★, RTS 18%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Strategy 9.8%
- #57 Rename the History
67% match9 user reviews40% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Codime Dev
Windows
Lead your country in one of the most difficult periods of post-war history. At this time, you will have to choose between the strong, or become a great power. To go west or east? It's up to you to decide.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.6% ★, RTS 15.3%, Political Sim 12.5% ★, Strategy 10.5%, Historical 9.2%
- #58 Cults and Daggers
69% matchMixed63% of 54 reviews2015
Dev: Chaphat
Windows
Cults and Daggers is a strategy game set in the time between the death of the Buddha and the birth of Christ. You create your own religion and fight a secret war for the soul of the world. The game includes, spies, assassinations, double dealing, occult forces, martyrs, prophets and blasphemers.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40.7% ★, Strategy 39.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%
- #59 Trumpets of War
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xblur
Windows
Trumpets of War is a grand-scale historical strategy game where armies clash and empires rise. Command vast forces across dynamic battlefields, orchestrate campaigns with precision, and experience the drama of war through an innovative system that blends tactical combat with strategic mastery.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.3% ★, RTS 20.3%, Strategy 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Historical 6.4%