- #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 31.1% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2%, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 8.4%, 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 32.4%, Political Sim 25% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Historical 6.7%
- #3 Legacy of Six Generations
95% 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 34.6%, Political Sim 25.9% ★, RTS 15.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Historical 6%
- #4 Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows
Unite Japan and become Shogun in the updated, enhanced and complete edition of Total War: SHOGUN 2. Build alliances, sabotage your enemies and outsmart your rival clans in a seamless blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36%, RTS 21.7%, Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Historical 9.6%
- #5 A World To Win
94% 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 31.6%, Political Sim 24.8% ★, RTS 19.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Historical 5.6%
- #6 Fault Lines
93% 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: Grand Strategy 36%, Political Sim 28.5% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, 2D 2.4%
- #7 Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
93% matchVery Positive82% of 93,808 reviews2019
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 21.3 hrsMean: 90.0 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 24%, Strategy 17.6%, RTS 15.2%, Historical 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%
- #8 Antiyoy
92% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: yiotro
Windows
Turn-based strategy with simple rules
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.1%, Political Sim 23.8% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Historical 6.6%
- #9 Total War: SHOGUN 2
91% matchVery Positive92% of 68,021 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 25.4%, RTS 17.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Historical 11.2%
- #10 Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
90% matchVery Positive92% of 27,685 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 26.7%, Strategy 19.1%, Historical 14.6%, RTS 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
- #11 Invaders
88% 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 32.8%, Political Sim 24.1% ★, RTS 20.6%, Strategy 16.3%, Tactical 4.3%
- #12 Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
88% matchVery Positive91% of 38,185 reviews2009
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.5%, Strategy 19.6%, Historical 13.4%, RTS 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%
- #13 A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 14,910 reviews2018
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 32.0 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 23.1%, RTS 21.4%, Strategy 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Historical 13.2%
- #14 Total War: PHARAOH
86% matchMixed63% of 5,421 reviews2023
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 32.5%, RTS 22.3%, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, War 8%
- #15 Rise and Fall: Bronze Age
86% 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 38.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Strategy 13.2%, Political Sim 12.8% ★, Historical 10.6%
- #16 Tempest of Nations
85% 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 41.1%, Political Sim 27.6% ★, Strategy 17%, Historical 11%, Management 2.8%
- #17 Cavalry Charge·Three Kingdoms
84% 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 30%, RTS 23.3%, Strategy 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Historical 5.7%
- #18 Flames in Modern Europe
84% matchMixed68% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Volodymyr Marsenko
Windows · Mac
Global real-time strategy on a highly detailed map! You are the leader of a state — build a powerful economy and army, research technologies and even nuclear weapons! But remember: the aggressor will always breathe down your neck. Use your political courses to achieve your great goal!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.7%, Political Sim 26.5% ★, RTS 18.4%, Strategy 8%, Historical 7.1%
- #19 三国記II
83% 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 30.1%, Political Sim 20% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Historical 6%
- #20 Cascade: Hindcast
82% 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 30.1%, Political Sim 24.4% ★, Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Historical 5.5%
- #21 Crowns of Medieval Europe
82% 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 30.7%, Political Sim 21.6% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Military 3.8%
- #22 Divided Empire: SENGOKU
81% 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 35.2%, RTS 19.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Historical 11%, War 7.3%
- #23 Total War: ATTILA
81% matchVery Positive82% of 37,810 reviews2015
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.6 hrsMean: 81.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.9%, Strategy 17.4%, RTS 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Historical 12.3%
- #24 Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
79% matchMixed48% of 317 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 29.1%, Political Sim 27.3% ★, RTS 18.2%, Strategy 13.3%, War 3.8%
- #25 PixelRulers
80% 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 40.3%, RTS 22.3%, Political Sim 16.4% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%
- #26 PicoBellum
79% matchNo user reviews
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 35.4%, RTS 22%, Strategy 19.6%, War 10.6%, Military 4.6%
- #27 Victoria II
78% matchVery Positive88% of 20,842 reviews2010
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 49.8 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 41.2%, Political Sim 23.5% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Historical 10%, RTS 6.6%
- #28 Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000
77% 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 38.1%, RTS 24.5%, Strategy 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, War 6.2%
- #29 Total War: WARHAMMER II
77% matchVery Positive93% of 121,473 reviews2017
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 178.6 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 32%, RTS 22.6%, Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, War 7.2%
- #30 Europa Universalis III Complete
78% matchVery Positive78% of 2,141 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 43.6%, Political Sim 28.4% ★, Strategy 13%, Historical 11%, RTS 2.7%
- #31 Shadow Rulers: World Order
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MWZ Studio
Windows · Mac
Rule the world from the shadows. Command powerful Lords, exploit the military, economic, cyber, media, and political weaknesses of nations, expand your influence across the globe, and outmaneuver rival powers fighting to establish their own World Order.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.9%, Political Sim 29.5% ★, Strategy 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Management 4.6%
- #32 State of Command
76% 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 33.2%, Political Sim 27% ★, Strategy 15.8%, Historical 6.5%, Top-Down 3.8%
- #33 政通人和
75% 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 31.6%, Political Sim 22% ★, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Historical 6%
- #34 Nations
74% matchVery Positive90% of 148 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 27.9%, RTS 20.2%, Political Sim 19.1% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Historical 12.3%
- #35 Roman Empire Wars
75% 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%
- #36 Ruler of Empires
74% 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 36.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Political Sim 10.1% ★, Historical 7.4%
- #37 History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms
72% matchPositive82% of 28 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 39.6%, RTS 24.7%, Strategy 20.5%, Historical 7.7%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #38 Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,538 reviews2006
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 37.5 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 27%, Strategy 18.5%, RTS 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Historical 11%
- #39 Crusader Kings II
73% matchVery Positive91% of 73,960 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 58.6%, Political Sim 21.3% ★, Strategy 9.1%, Historical 8.1%, RTS 2.7%
- #40 Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,413 reviews2021
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 96.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 31.2%, Strategy 26.4%, RTS 20.3%, Historical 14%, War 7.8%
- #41 逐鹿汉末:三国
71% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: CXC STUDIO
Windows
这款游戏邀请您来到精彩刺激且充满变革的东汉末年三国时代,以前所未见的自由、深度及历史真实性,进行称霸天下一统中原的征程。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 52.4%, Strategy 15.6%, Political Sim 13% ★, Historical 12%, War 2.9%
- #42 Grand Tactician: Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815)
72% 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 33.7%, RTS 21%, Strategy 18.2%, Historical 12.5%, War 6.3%
- #43 Aye! My Liege
71% 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 31.9%, Political Sim 22.3% ★, Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Top-Down 3.9%
- #44 Geo-Political Simulator 5
71% matchMostly Negative33% of 715 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 29.3%, Political Sim 25.9% ★, RTS 19%, Strategy 10.3%, War 5%
- #45 Twisted Three Kingdoms
70% 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 33.4%, Political Sim 21.6% ★, Strategy 13.4%, Historical 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%
- #46 King's Orders
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 273 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 21.7%, Political Sim 19.8% ★, RTS 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Strategy 7.1%
- #47 Guard of Rho
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alfonso
Windows · Mac · Linux
God wants you erased, and has chosen it's executioners. You will face the Immortali, reborn eternally through lightning strikes. The Guard is under your command. They would rather give up their lives than let Rho, their sin, fall into enemy hands. Guard of Rho is an Open World, Strategy, War Game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.5%, RTS 25.6%, Strategy 11.6%, War 8.2%, Tactical 7.4%
- #48 Bellfortis
68% matchVery Positive91% of 151 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 33.5%, RTS 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Historical 9.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #49 Age of History II
69% matchVery Positive90% of 50,416 reviews2018
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 60.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 31.1%, Political Sim 18.8% ★, Strategy 15%, Historical 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%
- #50 Theo
69% 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 34.9%, Political Sim 30.1% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Historical 6.4%, War 6.1%
- #51 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
67% matchVery Positive85% of 343 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 29.5%, Political Sim 19.7% ★, RTS 19.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Historical 9.3%
- #52 Flight South: Northern Expedition
68% 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 39.4% ★, Strategy 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Historical 11.8%, 2D 3.2%
- #53 Fate Candle: Three Kingdoms - Chronicle Restored
68% 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 31%, Political Sim 19.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Historical 6%
- #54 Samhan: Where Korea Began
67% 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 34.4%, Political Sim 23.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Historical 9.7%
- #55 War, the Game
69% 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 35.3%, Grand Strategy 30.7%, RTS 24.1%, War 9.9%
- #56 Anno 1602 History Edition
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 289 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 28.2%, Political Sim 20.3% ★, RTS 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Strategy 10.8%
- #57 Mandate 1600: The East
67% 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 34.5%, Political Sim 25.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Historical 9.8%
- #58 Age of Resistance
64% matchPositive87% of 15 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 32.1%, RTS 20.3%, Political Sim 17.4% ★, Strategy 15.1%, War 6%