- #1 Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
97% matchVery Positive87% of 763 reviews2023
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at Work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Why similar: Political Sim 32.1% ★, Wargame 24%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Historical 9.4%, Strategy 7.1%
- #2 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
96% 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: Wargame 36.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Historical 12.4%, Military 5%
- #3 Three Kingdoms Classic
96% matchVery Positive89% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: SEEAT
Windows · Mac
Lead a Three Kingdoms warlord in a turn-based grand strategy simulation focused on logistics, diplomacy, officer management, and large-scale warfare.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.2% ★, Wargame 28.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Military 7.3%, Historical 6.4%
- #4 Revolution Under Siege Gold
95% 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: Wargame 43.1%, Strategy 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Historical 16.4%, Multiplayer 1.9%
- #5 Civil War II
94% 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: Wargame 30.1%, Historical 23.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 23%, Strategy 21%, Multiplayer 1.7%
- #6 SGS NATO's Nightmare
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
What if the Warsaw Pact had attacked NATO in the mid-1980s. Or the other way around? Study this titanic conflict, within its most emblematic theater, Germany and Central Europe. Will you be able to achieve your goals without escalating into an uncontrollable nuclear conflict?
Why similar: Wargame 35.1%, Political Sim 28.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Historical 6.4%, Strategy 6%
- #7 Rebel Inc: Escalation
93% matchVery Positive82% of 7,522 reviews2021
Dev: Ndemic CreationsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.
Why similar: Historical 35.5%, Military 21.2%, War 17.8%, Strategy 17.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #8 Oriental Empires
92% matchVery Positive80% of 2,998 reviews2017
Dev: Shining Pixel StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
Why similar: Historical 32%, Strategy 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Military 16%, War 9.5%
- #9 Millennia
91% matchMixed67% of 3,777 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 34.9%, Historical 23.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Military 12.6%, War 11.3%
- #10 Civil War: Battle of Petersburg
91% matchVery Positive82% of 244 reviews2017
Dev: Cult Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Crush the Confederates near Petersburg and Richmond in 1864. Bring peace to a nation divided.
Why similar: Wargame 44.2%, Historical 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Strategy 9.8%, War 9.5%
- #11 SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
89% matchVery Positive84% of 319 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: Political Sim 31.7% ★, Wargame 30.1%, Historical 15.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Military 7.6%
- #12 Ultimate General: Civil War
90% matchVery Positive89% of 8,579 reviews2017
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 45.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
Why similar: Wargame 45%, Historical 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, War 9.8%, Strategy 8.5%
- #13 Strategic Command: American Civil War
89% 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 39.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.9%, Historical 17.4%, Strategy 14.6%, Multiplayer 2.7%
- #14 Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty
88% matchMixed69% of 2,094 reviews2023
Dev: 不秋草游戏工作室(Bamboo Games)Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty is a wargame demonstrating ancient warfare in China and combining elements of Big Strategy, RTS and RPG. You can learn little-known stories of heroes in ancient China by experiencing battles accommodating thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: Wargame 28.9%, Political Sim 24.6% ★, Historical 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Military 7.9%
- #15 逐鹿
87% matchMixed57% of 538 reviews2023
Dev: TKG Inc
Windows · Mac
A stand-alone turn-based war chess game with the theme of Chinese history. The core gameplay is territorial competition, and diplomacy, construction, combat and other gameplay will also revolve around territorial competition.
Why similar: Wargame 32%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.4%, Historical 17.1%, Military 10.1%, War 8.6%
- #16 Countryballs at War
85% 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: Wargame 35.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Historical 10.1%, Military 7.3%
- #17 Warring States
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: polynation games ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Warring States : Tactics is a turn-based battle strategy game set during the Warring States period of Ancient China. The Warring States period is one of turmoil in China, where various feudal states struggle for control of all of China.
Why similar: Wargame 34.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.2%, Historical 19.9%, Strategy 15.1%, War 7.3%
- #18 Ultimate General: Gettysburg
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,709 reviews2014
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
Why similar: Wargame 41.2%, Historical 27.1%, Strategy 17.7%, War 6.3%, Military 6%
- #19 Twilight Struggle
84% matchVery Positive86% of 2,980 reviews2016
Dev: Playdek, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.
Why similar: Wargame 28.8%, Political Sim 25.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Historical 12.2%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 8.2% ★
- #20 Three Kingdoms The Last Warlord
84% matchMixed69% of 3,953 reviews2021
Dev: LongYou Game StudioPub: LongYou Tech Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Last Warlord is a Turn-based strategy game. The game is based on the famous Chinese historical novel. The Three Kingdoms (A.D. 190 – 280) was the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.
Why similar: Wargame 32.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 21%, Historical 16.3%, Military 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%
- #21 Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars
83% 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: Wargame 37.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.7%, Historical 13.5%, Strategy 10.7%, Military 7%
- #22 NationWar2:Chronicle
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 427 reviews2024
Dev: Yiming
Windows
NationWar 2.0 is a big strategy game based on the theme of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period. There are more than 60 countries to choose from in the game. Map 1: 1 restores the mountainous landscapes and rivers of China.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.2% ★, Wargame 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Historical 10.6%, Military 7.2%
- #23 SGS Korean War
82% matchVery Positive83% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The first intense conflict of the Cold War, this war is very often forgotten, its very rapid and dynamic but unknown aspect obliterated by months of stagnation following the first year of operations in Korea. Can you make it remembered?
Why similar: Wargame 28.9%, Political Sim 24.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Historical 9.1%
- #24 Age of History 3
79% matchVery Positive85% of 18,617 reviews2024
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 37.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Grand strategy wargame where the destiny of Civilizations rests in your hands - will they stand united under your leadership or fall divided in conflict? Journey through the entire saga of human civilization, from its earliest days to the futuristic era, crafting your legacy age by age.
Why similar: Wargame 69.5%, Strategy 14%, War 9.1%, 2D 4.4%, Multiplayer 2.2%
- #25 Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific
81% matchVery Positive88% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific is a turn-based strategy game. It offers a comprehensive experience of the Pacific Theater, challenging you to achieve victory in one of history's greatest conflicts.
Why similar: Wargame 36.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.7%, Historical 13.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Military 6.9%
- #26 ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV
81% matchMixed63% of 15,920 reviews2020
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 107.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!
Why similar: Wargame 38.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.5%, Historical 15.2%, Military 10.8%, War 8.1%
- #27 Old World
79% matchVery Positive82% of 6,828 reviews2022
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.7%, Historical 25.2%, Military 13.3%, Strategy 12.6%, War 12.4%
- #28 Age of History II
78% 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: Political Sim 32% ★, Historical 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Strategy 13.4%, War 10.3%
- #29 Reiner Knizia Yellow & Yangtze
80% matchVery Positive91% of 120 reviews2019
Dev: Dire Wolf
Windows · Mac
Lead your dynasty to victory in the new digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game!
Why similar: Political Sim 29.4% ★, Wargame 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Historical 9.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #30 Nations
75% matchVery Positive90% of 141 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: Wargame 31.5%, Political Sim 30.2% ★, Historical 20%, Strategy 12.2%, War 4.4%
- #31 SGS Afrika Korps
77% matchVery Positive82% of 88 reviews2020
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The game recreates the campaigns and battles of Erwin ‘Desert Fox’ Rommel’s legendary Afrika Korps, in Libya between 1941 and 1942. Play the Axis forces to conquer the most valuable prize of all: the Suez Canal. Or command the 8th Army soldiers, the famous Desert Rats, to repel the invaders.
Why similar: Wargame 43.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.3%, Historical 16.9%, Strategy 11.3%, 2D 3.1%
- #32 Making History: The Great War
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 455 reviews2015
Dev: Muzzy Lane SoftwarePub: Factus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 27.5%, Historical 24.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Military 13.5%, War 11.9%
- #33 World Empire 2027
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: iGindisGames
Windows · Mac
Lead your empire in turn based strategy war game. Select your country and start to play.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.1% ★, Wargame 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, War 7.7%, Strategy 6.9%
- #34 Wars Across The World
76% matchVery Positive82% of 221 reviews2017
Dev: StrategiaePub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
WAW is a unique historical strategy turn-based game, in a boardgame spirit, which aims at simulating in one single system ALL kind of wars and conflicts throughout the world (and beyond) from Prehistoric times to nowadays, on the operational or strategic levels.
Why similar: Wargame 32.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.4%, Strategy 23%, Historical 19%, 2D 2.3%
- #35 Britannia
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Avalon DigitalPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac
Relive over a thousand years of Great Britain's history in this epic game of conquest and domination. From Roman legions to the Norman Conquest led by William the Conqueror, explore the fate of numerous nations and fight to become king.
Why similar: Wargame 37.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.7%, Strategy 12.9%, Historical 11%, Military 6.3%
- #36 Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs
73% matchVery Positive85% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: Object SoftwarePub: Strategy First
Windows
An epic real-time strategy game set in chaotic Ancient China. Control the kingdoms of Liu Bei, Sun Quan, or Cao Cao, warlords who played a pivotal role in Ancient China. Lead your kingdom, innovate tech, forge alliances, build a formidable army to unite the nation.
Why similar: Historical 46.8%, War 24.2%, Strategy 20.2%, 2D 8.9%
- #37 American Patriots: Boston Tea Party
75% matchVery Positive88% of 109 reviews2017
Dev: Cult Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Take Boston or die for freedom!
Why similar: Wargame 35.3%, Historical 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, War 9.8%, Strategy 8.2%
- #38 Colonial Conquest
76% 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 53.7%, Historical 21.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #39 逆乱封神之武王伐纣
72% matchVery Positive91% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: 赚大钱工作室
Windows
A turn based battle chess game called Fengshen Bang
Why similar: Wargame 37.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.1%, Historical 11.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Military 8.4%
- #40 魔塔三国之群雄争霸
73% matchVery Positive87% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: 赚大钱工作室
Windows
Players play one of the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, conquer other forces and unify the world
Why similar: Wargame 54.6%, Strategy 21%, Military 11.3%, War 8.1%, 2D 4.5%
- #41 Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Imugi
Windows
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.2% ★, Wargame 24.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Historical 12.1%, Military 6%
- #42 Blocks!: Julius Caesar
74% matchMixed53% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Blocks!: Julius Caesar is an epic two-player wargame that brings the drama of the Roman Civil War (49-45 BC) to life. Take control of the legions of Caesar or Pompey against AI or in online Multiplayer. Fight to determine the future of Rome: Republic or Empire.
Why similar: Wargame 36.8%, Strategy 26.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Historical 16.4%
- #43 Pike and Shot : Campaigns
73% 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 42.2%, Historical 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Strategy 16.4%, Multiplayer 2.5%
- #44 Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
70% matchMixed69% of 2,291 reviews2024
Dev: Oxide GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a nation starting at any point in human history and compete for supremacy in this epic turn-based strategy game. Engage in diplomacy, fight wars, and go head-to-head with other leaders from history.
Why similar: Historical 38.4%, Strategy 23.7%, Military 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Multiplayer 2.5%
- #45 Iron Order 1919
71% matchMixed69% of 454 reviews2022
Dev: Bytro Labs GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An unique long-term strategy game with week-long matches with up to 101 players, set in the alternate reality of 1919.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.8% ★, Wargame 28.5%, Historical 10.6%, War 7.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #46 Strategos
68% matchVery Positive86% of 249 reviews2026
Dev: Strategos GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Strategos is a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. Simulate large-scale battles with over 120 factions, and 250+ units, from the ancient world. Create custom battles, or take command of historical ones.
Why similar: Wargame 37.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Historical 16.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Military 8.4%
- #47 Sanguo's Ambition 4 :Three Kingdoms
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 119 reviews2026
Dev: Youshen Interactive
Windows · Mac
A real-time strategy+team competition game, in 189, the Han Dynasty launched a mutual attack and expansion of territories, operating their own forces, and seizing generals and resources until the world was unified.
Why similar: Wargame 59.2%, Historical 14.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Military 9.1%, Multiplayer 3.9%
- #48 大三国时代
67% matchVery Positive94% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: 大三国时代项目组
Windows
三国策略攻城游戏《大三国时代》火爆来袭,通过指令操作部队作战,让你体验运筹帷幄,决胜千里的感觉,全尺寸大地图,自由攻城掠地,策略兵种搭配,多样武将选择,快来和兄弟们一起开创属于你们的大三国时代!
Why similar: Historical 45%, Strategy 25%, War 23.4%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #49 Blocks!: Richard III
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Richard the Third is an epic two-player wargame that recreates the bloody dynastic struggle in the 15th century between the royal houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England.
Why similar: Wargame 39.8%, Strategy 26.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Historical 16.5%
- #50 Civil War: 1863
72% matchMixed59% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Relive iconic battles of the American Civil War. Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces in this exciting turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Wargame 50.4%, Strategy 30.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%
- #51 The Emperor and State
70% matchMixed58% of 339 reviews2024
Dev: 涂途Pub: Hawthorn Games
Windows
The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.
Why similar: Wargame 38.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.7%, Historical 18.5%, Strategy 8.8%, War 8.1%
- #52 Warplan Pacific
69% matchVery Positive88% of 100 reviews2022
Dev: Kraken StudiosPub: Matrix Games
Windows
WarPlan Pacific is an operational level wargame which covers all the nations at war in the Pacific theatre from December 1941 to 1945 on a massive game scale.
Why similar: Wargame 34.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 26%, Historical 13.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Military 8.3%
- #53 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
67% matchVery Positive81% of 380 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Lordy
Windows
In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords,develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements
Why similar: Political Sim 38.1% ★, Wargame 24.4%, Historical 18.8%, Strategy 10.3%, War 5.8%
- #54 Making History: The First World War
70% matchMixed66% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: Factus Games
Windows · Linux
A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles. Join the global conflict between the Great Powers of the age and forge a new world order for freedom or tyranny.
Why similar: Wargame 40.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.9%, Historical 17.3%, Strategy 10%, Military 6.4%
- #55 1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact
69% matchMixed49% of 194 reviews2025
Dev: Wastelands InteractivePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Cold War turns hot in 1953: massive hex strategy with nukes, supply, and sabotage.
Why similar: Wargame 41.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Military 9.1%, Historical 6.7%
- #56 China: Mao's legacy
68% matchVery Positive91% of 1,048 reviews2019
Dev: Nostalgames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...
Why similar: Political Sim 63.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Strategy 10.9%, Story Rich 3.9%, 2D 2.9%
- #57 Three Kingdoms Mushouden
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,146 reviews2025
Dev: NanBei StudioPub: Paleo
Windows
Set on the eve of the Yellow Turban Rebellion (AD 182), you can play as an original character or a historical warlord, building forces and forging alliances. Whether you choose to be a lone wanderer or rally famous generals, use your knowledge and wisdom to reshape history!
Why similar: Wargame 44.5%, Historical 18.7%, Military 12.4%, Strategy 10.3%, War 9.3%
- #58 Kingdom's Life
68% matchMixed63% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Strudio Company
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Why similar: Political Sim 37.3% ★, Wargame 32.5%, Historical 12.2%, Strategy 8.5%, War 6.4%
- #59 Grand War: Rome
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Joynow Studio
Windows
A turn-based strategy war chess game. You will play a commander in the Roman period, and command the generals and troops to complete the specified mission objectives and occupy important strongholds in the level. Rome, Samnite, Epirus, Carthage. Different choices will open different histories!
Why similar: Wargame 42%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Military 11.3%, Historical 9.5%, War 8.3%
- #60 RIOT: Civil Unrest
67% matchMixed68% of 1,942 reviews2019
Dev: Leonard MenchiariPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world’s most fractious disputes.
Why similar: Political Sim 66.8% ★, Strategy 18.2%, Historical 10.2%, 2D 2.9%, Multiplayer 1.7%