- #1 Civil War II
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 352 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: Historical 21.8%, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, Strategy 21.6%, Wargame 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%
- #2 Wars of Napoleon
96% matchMixed52% of 124 reviews2016
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
AGEod goes back to the Napoleonic era and delivers the most detailed and comprehensive strategy game ever created about a time of struggle and conquest that forged modern Europe.
Why similar: Strategy 26.3%, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Historical 21.7%, Turn-Based 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #3 Revolution Under Siege Gold
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 171 reviews2015
Dev: Sep RedsPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Make the Reds side triumph to save the Soviet Proletarian revolution, or, on the other side, lead the Whites side to victory in order to place the old regime back in power and protect the countries of Europe from the perils of the revolution. This is the biggest civil war game you will ever play!
Why similar: Strategy 21.6%, Wargame 21.2%, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Historical 15.4%, Turn-Based 10.4%
- #4 Pride of Nations
95% matchMixed49% of 137 reviews2011
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 9.0 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 32.1% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Historical 17.7%, Turn-Based 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%
- #5 Pike and Shot : Campaigns
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 402 reviews2015
Dev: Byzantine GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate wargame set in the age of Pike and Shot is back. You are now in full charge of your nation’s armies, throughout a long campaign in the struggle for dominance.
Why similar: Wargame 24.8%, Historical 21.7%, Strategy 20.5%, Turn-Based 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%
- #6 Battle Academy
94% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2014
Dev: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
A turn-based strategy game like no other has landed on Steam. Approachable, absorbing and visually impressive yet detailed, Battle Academy aims to revolutionise the strategy games market with a blend of intuitive design and compelling gameplay.
Why similar: Wargame 30.2%, Turn-Based 25.8%, Strategy 23.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Multiplayer 3%
- #7 Alea Jacta Est
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
“ALEA JACTA EST” (The Die is Cast) is what Caesar said as he crossed the Rubicon River when he learned that the Senate had removed him from his command. Crossing that small Italian river was equivalent to disobeying Rome’s orders and entering into open rebellion in this historical turn-based strategy wargame .
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.7% ★, Strategy 31.8%, Historical 26.3%, Multiplayer 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #8 Advanced Tactics Gold
92% matchVery Positive84% of 177 reviews2014
Dev: VR DesignsPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Advanced Tactics: Gold offers a unique and infinitely replayable wargaming experience for any strategy fan. Building off of the enormous success of Advanced Tactics: World War II, the Gold edition gives players a more powerful game editor, much improved random game engine, many new features and abilities, and more.
Why similar: Wargame 35.3%, Strategy 24.8%, Turn-Based 23.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Multiplayer 3.2%
- #9 WarPlan
91% matchVery Positive82% of 230 reviews2020
Dev: Kraken Studios
Windows
WarPlan is an incredibly accurate World War II simulation engine. It is a balance of realism and playability incorporating the best from 50 years of World War II board wargaming. Play a recreated World War II in every detail, thanks to the engine flexibility and database
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Wargame 22.1%, Historical 16.9%, Turn-Based 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%
- #10 Legions of Steel
91% matchMixed52% of 46 reviews2015
Dev: Studio NyxPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
The Empire of the Machines is threatening the entire universe. The other factions have banded together to defend the galaxy from the invader. Battles are raging in the corridors of the Machines underground production facilities!
Why similar: Strategy 32.8%, Wargame 28.1%, Turn-Based 27.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.4%, Multiplayer 3.4%
- #11 Europa Universalis: Rome - Gold Edition
90% matchMixed68% of 241 reviews2008
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Europa Universalis Rome Gold combines the epic strategy title Europa Universalis Rome with the expansion pack Vae Victis. Experience one of the most defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 47.2% ★, Strategy 26.6%, Historical 26.2%
- #12 Victory and Glory: Napoleon
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 155 reviews2016
Dev: Electric GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
From acclaimed boardgame designer Glenn Drover, a grand strategy game where you take the role of Napoleon Bonaparte and attempt to dominate the entire continent of Europe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Wargame 21.2%, Historical 17.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based 13%
- #13 Hearts of Iron 2 Complete
89% matchVery Positive87% of 665 reviews2009
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Includes Hearts of Iron II plus the two expansions, Doomsday and Armageddon When Germany is defeated in 1945, the Allies and the new Soviet alliance fight for supremacy. World War III is drawing closer. Play as the ruler of one of 175 countries through World Wars II and III.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 46.5% ★, Strategy 30.1%, Historical 23.4%
- #14 Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game
88% matchVery Positive84% of 393 reviews2010
Dev: BL-LogicPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Taking place from 1936-64, Arsenal of Democracy lets you play as any nation during the era of WW2, complete with detailed models for economics, diplomacy, research, and intelligence. Warfare is also fully represented with all three branches of operations: land, sea, and air.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 55.3% ★, Strategy 44.7%
- #15 Colonial Conquest
87% matchMixed62% of 264 reviews2015
Dev: Argonauts InteractivePub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Colonial Conquest is a conquest simulation set in the Victorian age of warfare and expansion of the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Why similar: Wargame 24.8%, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, Historical 19.1%, Turn-Based 17.9%, Strategy 14.4%
- #16 Vietnam ‘65
86% matchVery Positive82% of 436 reviews2015
Dev: Every Single Soldier
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It is 1965 and the US ground war in Vietnam is in full swing. As a US Army commander, wage a counter-insurgency (COIN) war to secure the Ia Drang valley, on the border with Cambodia.
Why similar: Historical 23.7%, Strategy 23%, Turn-Based 19.9%, Wargame 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%
- #17 SGS Battle of the Bulge
85% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
On 16 December 1944, under appalling weather conditions, the Germans launch their last major offensive in the West. Their goal: cut off the Allies from their sources of supply by taking Antwerp. To do so, they must break through the Ardennes salient, starting the battle of the Bulge…
Why similar: Wargame 29.5%, Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Historical 16.4%, Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%
- #18 SGS Battle For: Fort Donelson
84% 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 25.8% ★, Wargame 24.9%, Strategy 18.7%, Historical 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%
- #19 Lightning: D-Day
86% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2017
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows · Mac
This 1 on 1 card game recreates the drama of the day Allied soldiers went ashore in occupied France, 6 June 1944.
Why similar: Strategy 31.4%, Historical 19.8%, Wargame 18.2%, Turn-Based 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%
- #20 Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 154 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 26.1% ★, Wargame 25.7%, Historical 17.5%, Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%
- #21 逐鹿汉末:三国
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2026
Dev: VOWZIN GAME
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 41.8% ★, Wargame 22.5%, Historical 19.9%, Strategy 14.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #22 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
82% matchVery Positive86% of 91 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 26.1% ★, Wargame 24.5%, Strategy 18.3%, Historical 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%
- #23 Strategic Command: American Civil War
81% matchVery Positive85% of 249 reviews2022
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
For the first time in the series’ history, Strategic Command will be taking you to the 19th century battlefields of the American Civil War. You will control the armies, research, production and diplomatic policy of either the Union or the Confederacy during a time of innovation and dramatic battles.
Why similar: Wargame 29.9%, Historical 24.8%, Strategy 23.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Multiplayer 4.8%
- #24 March of the Eagles
81% matchMixed67% of 390 reviews2013
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
“he Who Fears Being Conquered Is Sure Of Defeat.”The war-game March of the Eagles focuses on the dramatic conflicts of Europe during 1805 to 1820. Explore one of the defining periods in European history with this experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy, Paradox Development Studio.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 47.1% ★, Strategy 28.9%, Historical 24%
- #25 WarDoom ssp Wargame
82% 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 36.2% ★, Wargame 26.4%, Strategy 23.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%
- #26 Gary Grigsby's War in the East
79% matchVery Positive90% of 583 reviews2015
Dev: 2by3 GamesPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 49.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Wargame 26%, Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Turn-Based 8.7%
- #27 RBM Studio's Baetis Campaign
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hexes of War
Windows · Mac · Linux
A historical hexagonal turn-based strategy wargame using markers to represent units designed by John Fournie and originally published in C3i magazine. Throwback to the great hex-based wargames of the 70's and 80's. Solo and online multiplayer modes are supported.
Why similar: Wargame 31%, Strategy 25.9%, Historical 21.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Multiplayer 4.1%
- #28 Silesian Wars
77% 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 31.3% ★, Wargame 22.7%, Strategy 17.7%, Historical 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%
- #29 Commander: The Great War
78% matchVery Positive80% of 296 reviews2014
Dev: The Lordz Games StudioPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Take Command and Secure Victory in the Great War! Commander – The Great War features a Grand Campaign covering the whole war from the invasion of Belgium on August 5, 1914 to the Armistice on the 11th of November 1918 in addition to 16 different unit types including Infantry, Cavalry, Armoured Cars and Tanks, Artillery, and much more!
Why similar: Strategy 23.5%, Wargame 22.1%, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Historical 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%
- #30 Industrial War
78% 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 32.7% ★, Wargame 21.2%, Strategy 19.7%, Historical 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%
- #31 To End All Wars
79% matchMixed63% of 191 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Ageod’s To End All Wars is a grand strategy game set during World War One. Players will take control over one of the major powers that so desperately fought for control over Europe and to end all wars.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.3% ★, Strategy 34.8%, Wargame 26.9%
- #32 Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive
76% matchVery Positive92% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: VR DesignsPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive is the fourth wargame in the Decisive Campaign series. Covering the battles in the Ardennes between December 1944 and January 1945, it brings to life Operational wargaming by lowering the scale to just above tactical level.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26% ★, Wargame 23.8%, Strategy 16.4%, Historical 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%
- #33 Rebel Fury
75% matchPositive90% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: Hexes of WarPub: GMT Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rebel Fury is a digital implementation of the wargame published by GMT Games and designed by Mark Herman.
Why similar: Wargame 30.4%, Strategy 25.5%, Historical 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Multiplayer 3.8%
- #34 Field of Glory: Kingdoms
75% matchVery Positive83% of 342 reviews2024
Dev: AGEODPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Politics, religion, war. They are nothing without a legacy that can stand the test of time. Lead any nation, and turn it into a mighty kingdom in one of the most compelling grand strategy games ever created.
Why similar: Wargame 30.9%, Strategy 27.1%, Historical 26.3%, Grand Strategy 10.7% ★, Multiplayer 5%
- #35 Sengoku
77% matchMixed61% of 477 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 43.7% ★, Historical 29.4%, Strategy 26.9%
- #36 中华三国志 the Three Kingdoms of China
74% matchVery Positive86% of 1,388 reviews2019
Dev: 中三之家
Windows
Three Kingdoms of China is a free, open-source single-machine strategy three-country game developed by the domestic folk team. The game does not have any commercial nature, hoping to create a dream of Three Kingdoms for the fans of the three kingdoms.
Why similar: Strategy 24.5%, Historical 22.8%, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Wargame 14.3%, Turn-Based 13.5%
- #37 Tempest of Nations
76% 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 38.3% ★, Historical 21.4%, Wargame 20.8%, Strategy 18.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #38 Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
72% matchVery Positive86% of 378,177 reviews2016
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 101.2 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 22.8% ★, Strategy 21.2%, Historical 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based 14.7%
- #39 Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,019 reviews2012
Dev: 2x2 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.
Why similar: Wargame 23.6%, Strategy 20.6%, Turn-Based 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Historical 13%
- #40 Destiny of the World
73% matchPositive80% of 45 reviews2022
Dev: Fiddlyware
Windows · Linux
WWII grand strategy game where planning and logistics are foundations of successful campaigns: simultaneous weekly turns, convoy warfare, production, trade, research, espionage and command from 1939 to 1945. Control a single major power, or the entire Axis or Allied command.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.9% ★, Wargame 30.2%, Historical 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Strategy 10.3%
- #41 Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
72% matchVery Positive92% of 27,520 reviews2010
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 32.3 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: Historical 30.3%, Grand Strategy 26.6% ★, Strategy 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based 7.3%
- #42 Visigothic Kingdom: Conquest of Hispania
73% 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 30.9% ★, Wargame 23.6%, Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Historical 12%
- #43 Rome: Total War™ - Alexander
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 927 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 32.8%, Historical 23%, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Turn-Based 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%
- #44 History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms
70% 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 36.4% ★, Wargame 25.6%, Strategy 22.4%, Historical 14.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #45 Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,396 reviews2021
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 97.6 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: Strategy 28.9%, Grand Strategy 28.7% ★, Historical 26.9%, Wargame 15%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #46 Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
70% matchVery Positive91% of 38,025 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 28.7% ★, Historical 28%, Strategy 23.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Turn-Based 7.2%
- #47 Countryballs at War
68% matchVery Positive92% of 83 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 33.3% ★, Wargame 22.5%, Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Historical 12.2%
- #48 Total Victory: World Conflict 1939-1945
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Kraken Studios
Windows
The ultimate turn-based World War 2 grand strategy game wargamers have been yearning for decades. The best ideas born from players and from wargames so huge they overtook your dining room table, and your wife’s patience. From the developer of the WarPlan series.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.3% ★, Wargame 22.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Historical 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%
- #49 Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad
69% matchVery Positive90% of 141 reviews2021
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac
Cauldrons of War Stalingrad is the turn-based strategic wargame you will launch whenever you want your WW2 shot but don't have time for a monster strategy game.From May 1942 to November 1942 play the USSR or the Axis forces in some of the largest and bloodiest operations in history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9% ★, Wargame 24.3%, Historical 16.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%
- #50 SGS Battle For: Hue
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The battle of Hué is an epic fight during the audacious 1968 Tết offensive launched by the Communists during the Vietnam War. Relive one of the longest, bloodiest battles the Americans would fight against VC in that emblematic conflict.
Why similar: Wargame 34%, Strategy 24.4%, Historical 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Multiplayer 2.7%
- #51 Caracol - Wars of Religion in the 17th Century
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emanuele Romagnoli
Windows
Lead your nation through the chaos of the Thirty Years’ War. Recruit historical generals, manage pike-and-shot armies, and keep faith and gold in balance.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.1% ★, Wargame 29.3%, Historical 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Strategy 10.8%
- #52 Age of History II
67% matchVery Positive90% of 49,951 reviews2018
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 62.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 30.1% ★, Historical 25.4%, Strategy 17.3%, Turn-Based 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%
- #53 SGS Battle For: Dien Bien Phu
68% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The emblematic siege battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French rule over Indochina in 1954. Fight for the defense of the fortified camp or try to storm it, in order to reach the upcoming Geneva Peace Conference in a position of force.
Why similar: Wargame 34.3%, Strategy 24.2%, Historical 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Multiplayer 2.2%
- #54 SGS Avalanche
66% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the whole Italian campaign of World War II, from Husky landings of July 1943 till the final capitulation of 1945. Struggle your way up the boot as the Allies, or defend every inch of the peninsula as the Axis.
Why similar: Wargame 34.3%, Strategy 24.6%, Historical 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Multiplayer 2.4%
- #55 Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
67% matchVery Positive87% of 1,572 reviews2008
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players will lead a European...
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.2%, Strategy 25.4%, Historical 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Grand Strategy 6.5% ★
- #56 Cauldrons of War - Barbarossa
67% matchVery Positive90% of 185 reviews2020
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cauldrons of War Barbarossa is the turn-based strategic wargame you will launch whenever you want your WW2 shot but don't have time for a monster strategy game.From June 1941 until the Battle of Moscow, play the USSR or the Axis forces in one of the largest and bloodiest operations in history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.1% ★, Wargame 22.1%, Historical 15.1%, Turn-Based 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%
- #57 Crusader Kings Complete
69% matchMixed61% of 245 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 49% ★, Strategy 33.8%, Historical 17.2%
- #58 Panzer Corps 2
66% matchVery Positive85% of 4,186 reviews2020
Dev: Flashback GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 59.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21% ★, Wargame 18.7%, Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based 15.9%, Historical 13.8%