- #1 三国混战
97% 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 34.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.6%, Strategy 13.8%, Political Sim 12.3% ★, Historical 11.4%
- #2 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
96% 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 38%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.5%, Historical 18.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 7%
- #3 Hexagon Imperium
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: L33t Pro Studio
Windows
Command your empire across a hexagonal battlefield. Conquer cities, raise armies of soldiers, artillery, and tanks, and crush 3 rival factions. Fast-paced turn-based strategy — solo or online multiplayer for up to 4 players.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Historical 13.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.1%
- #4 Fault Lines
95% 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 40.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.3%, Political Sim 14.6% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Choices Matter 5%
- #5 Ruler of Empires
94% 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 37.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Strategy 12.7%, Historical 11.9%, Management 7.8%
- #6 Tempest of Nations
94% 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 45.2%, Historical 19.2%, Political Sim 13.9% ★, Strategy 13%, Management 8.2%
- #7 Region at War: The Shogun's Tale of War
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: ngotak game studio
Windows
Conquer the fractured lands of Hinomoto. Blend deep turn-based empire management with thrilling real-time tactical battles in this 2D strategy game. Build your cities, research vital technologies, and lead your samurai armies to become the undisputed Shogun of the Sengoku era!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Strategy 13.2%, Political Sim 12.8% ★, Historical 10.6%
- #8 Three Kingdoms: Rival Mandates
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TEVROK
Windows · Mac
Choose your ruler, recruit officers, develop your cities, and win the war. Three Kingdoms: Rival Mandates is a strategy game set in the Three Kingdoms era. Grow your power through domestic affairs and diplomacy, and use your officers’ abilities and special skills in turn-based battles.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 26.2%, Strategy 12%, Historical 9.8%, Management 6.4%
- #9 Industrial War
91% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Yocone
Windows · Mac
Explore the world In the 1920s, with more than 800 cities and 200 mines. Know your industrial chain and plan the role of each city; know your nation's unique polity structure and adjust your overall strategy. Resist the restlessness of your neighbors, acquire resources, and develop your industry.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Historical 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.9%
- #10 Antiyoy
91% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: yiotro
Windows
Turn-based strategy with simple rules
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Political Sim 12.8% ★, Historical 12.3%
- #11 Countryballs at War
90% matchVery Positive88% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: SHN Games
Windows
Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles. Lead any countryball nation, expand your territory through conquest or diplomacy, and rise as the ultimate superpower.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Historical 10.7%, Management 6.7%
- #12 Mandate 1600: The East
89% 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 36.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Historical 16.3%, Political Sim 12.1% ★, Strategy 7.5%
- #13 ΠΟΛΙΣ — Athens
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Ginkgo
Windows
Govern classical Athens across 272 unbroken years (594–322 BC). Steer family factions, the favour of the gods, and shifting alliances through 405 historical events — as the tide of history carries your city, inexorably, toward 322 BC.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.2%, Historical 21.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Resource Management 7.8%
- #14 Cascade: Hindcast
87% 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 34.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Political Sim 12.9% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Historical 10%
- #15 SGS Battle For: Fort Donelson
86% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the first decisive battle of the U.S. Civil War. Lead the Union force as General Grant to seize the key forts on the Cumberland, or play the Confederate defenders to maintain the gate to the South closed.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.4%, Historical 15.8%, Strategy 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.3%
- #16 Pride of Nations
88% matchMixed49% of 137 reviews2011
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 46.1%, Historical 19.2%, Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #17 Silesian Wars
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: GenuiTX Bittner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule Silesia through a thousand years of history. Wage war, forge alliances and build duchies on a map of real provinces, against cunning historical AI leaders or your friends online — from pagan tribes to the modern day.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Historical 14.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 5%
- #18 Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition
85% 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 44.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Historical 18.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #19 Shadow Rulers: World Order
84% 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 36.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Strategy 15.8%, Political Sim 15.4% ★, Management 13.7%
- #20 Fate Candle: Three Kingdoms - Chronicle Restored
84% 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 33.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Historical 10.2%, Political Sim 9.6% ★
- #21 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
83% matchVery Positive86% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the ‘Stalingrad on the Yangze’, as was sometimes called the Battle for Shanghai in 1937. Play as the Chinese willing to reclaim the whole city or as the Imperial Japanese forces in their counter-attack.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Historical 16.4%, Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%
- #22 逐鹿汉末:三国
82% 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 57.9%, Historical 20.9%, Strategy 12%, Political Sim 6.6% ★, 2D 1.7%
- #23 历史模拟器:崇祯
81% matchNo user reviews50% of 3,188 reviews
Dev: 青干工作室
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
本作的初衷不在于让崇祯单纯地赢,而是编写一部属于你的王朝兴衰故事。虽然历史绝对不可改写,但在世界模型的推演下,你的每一次抉择都将引发蝴蝶效应,书写出全新的篇章。我们希望玩家在体验演义故事的疯狂与逻辑博弈的残酷时,能在直面王朝或崩塌或强盛的激荡中,悄悄生出对真实历史的敬畏。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45.5%, Historical 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 8.3%
- #24 三国記II
82% 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 35.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Historical 11.1%, Political Sim 10.8% ★
- #25 Terria Tactics
81% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: TactiGame Limited
Windows · Mac
An indie-developed retro turn-base strategy game. It delivers the Fast-Paced-Strategy-Game experience. Grow your cities and troops. Recruit and manage your warriors to lead the troops to siege opponents' cities. Ultimately your goal is to conquer the whole land of Terria!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Political Sim 12.9% ★, Management 10.4%, Strategy 7.2%
- #26 Machiavelli the Prince
79% 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: Grand Strategy 29.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Political Sim 13.6% ★, Historical 13.2%, Strategy 7.8%
- #27 Here to Stay
80% matchMixed42% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: Jakub KuceraPub: Powerup Company
Windows · Mac
Join the race for power in the new political strategy game. Build a strong political party, win the regional elections and have a majority in parliament. As the head of state, you are in charge of running the state, managing the state budget and diplomacy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Political Sim 13.2% ★, Historical 11.6%, Strategy 7.8%
- #28 1992: Rasputie
79% 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: Grand Strategy 26.9%, Historical 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Political Sim 14.2% ★, Management 7.6%
- #29 American Dream
77% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: BretPub: American Dream Studios
Windows
Start with a rundown duplex and build a real portfolio across America. Buy and finance properties, hire agencies to run your holdings, expand into hotels and businesses, and grow your wealth one disciplined decision at a time.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 56.2%, Strategy 15.5%, Management 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%, 2D 5.4%
- #30 Visigothic Kingdom: Conquest of Hispania
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MMF Games
Windows
Forge the Visigothic Kingdom, unite Hispania, and face the Muslim invasion in this historical strategy game combining kingdom management, conquest, and tactical battles.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Historical 11.4%, Management 8.8%
- #31 Cults and Daggers
78% 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 44.6%, Strategy 30.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.2%
- #32 Crusader Kings II
77% 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 66.9%, Historical 14.5%, Political Sim 11.2% ★, Strategy 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #33 Rhodesia '72
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Every Single Soldier
Windows
The first strategy game to capture the essence of the entire Rhodesian Bush War, from Llewellyn Barracks to BMAT (Jul '64 - Dec '79)
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 30.1%, Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #34 Argebe
75% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Exotainment
Windows
A deliberately simplistic strategy game about equal opportunities and outplaying your opponents with stone cold logic
Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 10.4%
- #35 WarDoom ssp Wargame
76% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Mark AinsworthPub: (Mark Ainsworth)
Windows
2D Hard core, Hex & Chit, Turn Based Wargame with A.I. or Hotseat. Move units or stacks around, attack using all the info from live database and unit breakdowns. set your battle objectives in the battle report. A detailed Editor effect live game systems
Why similar: Grand Strategy 50.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.8%, Strategy 19.7%, 2D 4.7%
- #36 Civil War II
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 355 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
You take the part of the military and political leadership, trying to lead your nation to victory, in the midst of some of the toughest operations of the Civil War. You will build, organize and command your armies over one of the largest maps of the USA ever made for a Civil War game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.9%, Historical 26%, Strategy 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #37 Samhan: Where Korea Began
73% 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 39.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Historical 17.5%, Political Sim 12.1% ★, Strategy 8.4%
- #38 Making History: The Calm & the Storm
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 633 reviews2007
Dev: Muzzy LanePub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 46.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.9%, Strategy 20.6%, Historical 12.3%
- #39 Europa Universalis III Complete
74% 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 52.4%, Historical 20.9%, Political Sim 15.7% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #40 High Strategy: Oradros
72% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Iron Boar Labs Ltd.
Windows
High Strategy: Oradros is a minimalist grand strategy game set in an original, low-fantasy world of hoplites and dinosaurs. There is no micromanagement, only decisions. All 40 playable realms have distinct starting conditions and goals.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Resource Management 6.5%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #41 The Mandate
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SyntiaGames
Windows
Hold office in a living political simulation. Pass laws, build coalitions, manage staff, face the press, raise money, and fight for reelection while your allies and rivals pursue plans of their own.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.8%, Management 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #42 Rise of Prussia Gold
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 46 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Rise of Prussia Gold is the new and improved version of AGEODs Seven Years War (1757-1763) game set in Europe. This hugely detailed strategy game was initially released by AGEOD in 2010 and the Gold version adds numerous improvements and additional scenarios that take the game to the next level.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.5%, Historical 24%, Strategy 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #43 Crowns of Medieval Europe
71% 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 38.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Political Sim 12.3% ★, Strategy 12.2%, Historical 7.3%
- #44 Oraiah
73% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: PageBoy
Windows
Become the King of your own nation and restore the ancient empire of Oraiah. Claim the imperial throne by submitting your enemies by strength or by shining so much that it will force the other pretenders to the throne to submit to you. What will you do, my Lord?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.7%, Management 18.5%, Strategy 17%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #45 Across The Globe
71% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Righteous Sword
Windows
A nation simulator set in 19th-century. Acquire resources, research technologies, build infrastructure, conquer foes. Experience dynamic population, realistic economy and great power diplomacy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45.6%, Historical 19%, Strategy 16.3%, Political Sim 9.4% ★, Resource Management 9.1%
- #46 Governor
69% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2026
Dev: Daniling
Windows
An economic strategy game where you run the central bank. Built on the IS–PC–MR macroeconomic model. The policy rate, unemployment, inflation, the trade balance. Can you keep the economy clear of overheating and slumps?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.1%, Historical 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 9.8%
- #47 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 39.3%, Historical 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Political Sim 11.6% ★, Strategy 11%
- #48 SANGOKU XIANGQI
70% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: IDH Co.,Ltd.
Windows · Mac
A strategy board game set in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Combine various soldiers with generals and command your troops to aim for victory!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 32.5%, Historical 22.7%, Grand Strategy 22.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.5%
- #49 Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
69% matchVery Positive86% of 379,637 reviews2016
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 101.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.1%, Historical 19.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Management 5.3%
- #50 Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
70% 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 35%, Historical 30.2%, Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 1.7%
- #51 Crusader Kings Complete
71% matchMixed58% of 256 reviews2012
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Europe is in turmoil. The lands are fragmented into petty fiefs and the Emperor struggles with the Pope. At this very moment the Pope has declared that those who go to liberate the Holy Land will be freed of all sins. Gather prestige and piety and the world will whisper your name in awe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 59.8%, Strategy 24.2%, Historical 15.9%
- #52 Imperator: Rome
68% matchMixed66% of 26,916 reviews2019
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 37.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 47.6%, Historical 18.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Political Sim 13.3% ★, Management 6.3%
- #53 Ludus Manager
67% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: WARSONG ENTERTAINMENT
Windows · Mac · Linux
Found your Ludus. Train your gladiator, set up your camp, and dominate fights across different cities in the Roman Empire. Shape your story based on the character you choose. Make different choices in dialogues to determine your path.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.8%, Strategy 14.8%, Management 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 6%
- #54 Age of History II
67% 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 36.8%, Historical 23.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Political Sim 10.2% ★
- #55 Political Mastery
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Powehi Games
Windows · Mac
Every decision reshapes the nation’s future. Manage powerful lobbies, control the media narrative, balance swing states, and turn crises into opportunity. In Political Mastery, power hangs by a thread of strategy and reputation. The White House won’t wait for you — you must claim it.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.5%, Strategy 14%, Management 11.4%, Resource Management 7.5%, Political Sim 7.5% ★
- #56 Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
68% 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 37.1%, Historical 27.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 1.4%
- #57 Jey's Empire
68% 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: Grand Strategy 29.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Historical 15%, Political Sim 14.9% ★, Management 13.3%
- #58 Sengoku
69% matchMixed57% of 508 reviews2011
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Use your power as a Feudal Lord to unite the land of the Rising Sun under your iron fist.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 53.4%, Historical 27.3%, Strategy 19.3%
- #59 Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 156 reviews2023
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Napoleon's Eagles is the classic board game War & Peace for computer. Be Napoleon – or stand against him – in a series of short scenarios that cover the epic battles of the age, or in a multiplayer-only grand campaign that may – or may not – end on the field of Waterloo.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 23%, Historical 20%, Strategy 13.8%, 2D 3.6%
- #60 Demockracy
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SKLC Games
Windows
Build a political party in a fictional country and play for one thing: win power and keep it. Recruit politicians, conquer regions, win elections. There are clean paths and dirty games. Everyone has a price. What's yours?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.7%, Political Sim 19.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Management 7.2%