- #1 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
97% 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 24.6% ★, Wargame 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Historical 8.5%
- #2 Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars
96% 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 24.9% ★, Wargame 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Historical 9.5%
- #3 Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive
96% 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 23.1% ★, Wargame 17.4%, World War II 12% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Strategy 11.5%
- #4 SGS Battle of the Bulge
95% 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 23.9%, Grand Strategy 23.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Historical 9.2%
- #5 Industrial War
94% 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 29.3% ★, Wargame 15.7%, Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, World War II 8.1% ★
- #6 WarPlan
94% 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 19.9% ★, Wargame 15.1%, World War II 13.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Hex Grid 9.5% ★
- #7 SGS Operation Downfall
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Project Manhattan failed! Operation Downfall, the Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands is set in motion. Start with Operation Olympic to capture Kyushu, and move on with Coronet, the landing near Tokyo. Force Japan surrender with the largest amphibious operation in history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 12.2%, Wargame 11.2%, Historical 10.9%
- #8 Silesian Wars
92% 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 28.4% ★, Wargame 17%, Strategy 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Historical 8%
- #9 Gary Grigsby's War in the East
91% 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 28.7% ★, Wargame 20.6%, World War II 17.1% ★, Strategy 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%
- #10 SGS Battle For: Fort Donelson
91% 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 26.5% ★, Wargame 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Historical 8.8%
- #11 Schwerpunkt
90% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: Anonymoose Games
Windows
Schwerpunkt is a World War 2 military simulation game. Take control of hundreds of units over a large frontline, making daring manoeuvres to push your enemy back. Fight in one of the scenarios given or make your own in the map maker.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.4% ★, Wargame 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, World War II 11.1% ★, Strategy 9.3%
- #12 Panzer Corps 2
89% 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 17.4% ★, World War II 15.1% ★, Wargame 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Strategy 10.6%
- #13 战争与和平
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 我爱云云
Windows
不局限于经典沙盘战略框架的传统玩法:AI开始具备闪电战,大纵深战术的指挥能力;步炮/步坦等不同部队可以协同作战;海军可直接炮击沿岸陆军,空军战略轰炸机可以持续削弱未交战区;更真实的数值、多剧本随机事件驱动剧情等玩法下的大兵团即时战略游戏。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33% ★, Wargame 20.6%, Strategy 16.6%, World War II 15.2% ★, 2.5D 13.3%
- #14 Unity of Command II
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,200 reviews2019
Dev: 2x2 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, World War II 18.2% ★, Wargame 13.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%
- #15 SGS Okinawa
87% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
A standalone epic rendering of the 1945 bloody fighting on Okinawa, the last great battle of the Pacific War. The game is part of the Pacific D-Day collection. Both sides are playable, each with their own challenge.
Why similar: Wargame 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Strategy 15.6%, World War II 13.6% ★, Historical 10.1%
- #16 Pacific Fire
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wirraway Software
Windows
Pacific Fire is a turn-based strategic wargame set in the Pacific Theater of World War II using a node-based map, rather than hexes. Take command of US, Japanese, British, Australian, New Zealand, Chinese and Dutch forces in the Pacific and Southeast Asia from 1941-1945.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Wargame 16.7%, World War II 15.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Historical 9.7%
- #17 Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad
86% 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 30% ★, Wargame 18.2%, World War II 17.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 9.3%
- #18 Tank Operations: European Campaign
85% matchVery Positive82% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: Linked DimensionsPub: 2tainment GmbH
Windows
Tank Operation: European Campaign - is a turn-based, tactical war game with a dozen nerve-racking historical scenarios on the various battlefields of World War II. As an allied general you fight right on the frontline to defeat the Third Reich with all its destructive potential.
Why similar: Strategy 18.8%, World War II 16.9% ★, Wargame 12.8%, Grand Strategy 10.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #19 Destiny of the World
84% 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 29.3% ★, Wargame 23.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, World War II 9.1% ★, Strategy 7.7%
- #20 WarDoom ssp Wargame
84% 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 38% ★, Wargame 22.9%, Strategy 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, 2D 2.5%
- #21 逐鹿汉末:三国
82% 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 45.6% ★, Wargame 20.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Historical 12.4%, Military 4%
- #22 SGS Battle For: Madrid
82% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
With Battle for Madrid, relive the Nationalists most determined attempt to take the Republican capital of spain from November 1936 to February 1937.
Why similar: Wargame 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Strategy 16.8%, World War II 10.8% ★, Historical 10%
- #23 Desert War WWII
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Build your army and enter into combat with your enemy in the desert battles of WWII.
Why similar: Wargame 19.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, 2.5D 12.9%, World War II 10.3% ★
- #24 Frontline: World At War
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Frontline: Games Series
Windows
Victory awaits those who can adapt and seize the upper hand in this thrilling war game. Can you reshape history and lead your forces to glory?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32% ★, Strategy 14.9%, Wargame 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, 2.5D 9.5%
- #25 Countryballs at War
80% 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 31.4% ★, Wargame 17.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Military 7.4%
- #26 Strategic Bastion
81% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Teqao
Windows
A Challenging Single-Player Strategy Game This is a turn-based strategy simulation game with considerable difficulty, perfect for players seeking a real challenge! This game is a passion project inspired by a certain classic strategy game I loved as a child, reimagined with my own creative twists.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Wargame 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Historical 10.7%, 2.5D 10.2%
- #27 Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific
78% 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 22.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Strategy 15.4%, World War II 13.9% ★, Historical 10.9%
- #28 On War: Stalingrad
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panzer Division Games
Windows
The Eastern Front, finally made playable. Command divisions, manage logistics, and shape the battle for Stalingrad in a streamlined strategy game designed for clarity, not complexity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.1% ★, Wargame 17.2%, World War II 11.9% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Historical 9.1%
- #29 SGS Operation Hawaii
79% matchMixed52% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: The Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
On December 7th, 1941, the Empire of Japan struck a surprise blow against unsuspecting American forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaï. In the ensuing confusion and panic, the USA feared a Japanese invasion of Oahu island, but it fortunately did not materialize. But what would have happened if it had?
Why similar: Wargame 21.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Strategy 15.8%, World War II 12.1% ★, War 9.3%
- #30 Thirty Years War
76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
Fight on the battlefields of early 17th-century Europe in a tactical wargame of religious war, dynastic ambition, and emerging modern armies. Command Imperial, Catholic League, Swedish, Protestant, French, Spanish, Bavarian, and more across 80 scenarios and 2 campaigns spanning the Thirty Years War.
Why similar: Wargame 15.8%, Strategy 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Military 12.2%, Historical 11.1%
- #31 Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2
77% matchVery Positive91% of 466 reviews2021
Dev: 2by3 GamesPub: Matrix Games
Windows
War in the East 2 is the most comprehensive, most realistic, and most advanced wargame modeling Eastern Front warfare in World War Two.
Why similar: Wargame 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Strategy 15.5%, World War II 15.2% ★, War 7.2%
- #32 Cauldrons of War - Barbarossa
77% 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 22.7% ★, Wargame 17.2%, World War II 14.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Historical 8.1%
- #33 War of the Austrian Succession
76% match9 user reviews100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
Fight across Europe during the War of the Austrian Succession in a tactical wargame of dynastic conflict, continental campaigns, cavalry charges, and rebellions. Command Austrian, Prussian, French, British, Bavarian, Spanish, Sardinian, Jacobite and allied forces across 85 scenarios and 3 campaigns.
Why similar: Wargame 15.8%, Strategy 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Military 12.2%, Historical 11.1%
- #34 太平洋之嵐6 ~ 史上最大的激戰諾曼第攻防戰! Pacific Storm 6 - Battle for Normandy
78% matchMixed62% of 34 reviews2018
Dev: SystemSoft Alpha CooperationPub: 英特衛多媒體股份有限公司
Windows
" Pacific Storm” series is a war simulation game. It is a scene of historical facts, and it has been praised by many historical war fans.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Wargame 15.2%, Hex Grid 10.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%
- #35 SGS Avalanche
75% 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 26.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Strategy 18.5%, Historical 11.3%, War 7.5%
- #36 Great Northern War
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
Fight for mastery of the Baltic in a tactical wargame of aggressive Swedish assaults, Russian military reform, winter campaigns, and shifting alliances. Command Swedish, Russian, Danish-Norwegian, Saxon, Polish-Lithuanian, and allied forces across 89 scenarios, five campaigns, and the Scanian War.
Why similar: Wargame 15.8%, Strategy 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Military 12.2%, Historical 11.1%
- #37 SGS Fall Weiss
74% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The Second World War began with the invasion of Poland by German forces on 1 September 1939. It is represented in this strategy game, a fully-fledged turn-based wargame.
Why similar: Wargame 26.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Strategy 12.9%, World War II 12.2% ★, Historical 10.1%
- #38 American Revolutionary War
72% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
Fight through the American War of Independence in a tactical wargame of field battles, frontier warfare, fortified positions, and campaigns for control of the colonies. Command American, British, Loyalist, German, Native allied, and French forces across 148 scenarios and four campaigns.
Why similar: Wargame 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Military 11.9%, Hex Grid 11.8% ★, Strategy 11.3%
- #39 Maneuver Warfare 2: BTG
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Decisive Action Games
Windows · Mac
A simulation of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War where the player maneuvers battalion tactical groups on a map and controls assets such as aircraft, special forces teams, satellites, field hospitals, and repair facilities to support these. The player can play single battles or a campaign game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.8% ★, Wargame 26.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Military 14.9%, War 6.3%
- #40 Radio Commander: Battle of Britain ’40
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Serious SimPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Command the battle you cannot see. Take charge of RAF Fighter Command in a pausable RTS set during the Battle of Britain. Manage radar intelligence, delayed communications, and squadron deployments through the Dowding System to intercept Luftwaffe raids and defend Britain.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.5% ★, Wargame 19.4%, World War II 18.3% ★, Strategy 10.3%, War 8.5%
- #41 Ashen Destiny
71% match1 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Arrow & Blade Games
Windows
Invade rival provinces with your armies, command powerful generals, and unite a fractured ancient land through strategy and conquest.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.5% ★, Wargame 23.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Military 7.6%
- #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 32.3% ★, Wargame 22.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Historical 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%
- #43 Bomber Command
72% matchMixed45% of 29 reviews2023
Dev: Silent S Studios, LLC
Windows
Take command of what would become the greatest air armada in history! Build, plan, coordinate, and command your forces into a mighty aerial armada against a smart German economy that adapts to your attacks, researches tech, and smartly reacts to your moves. Take over the Bomber Command.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.4% ★, Wargame 15.9%, World War II 15.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Historical 9.1%
- #44 Making History: The Calm & the Storm
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 632 reviews2007
Dev: Muzzy LanePub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 36.5% ★, Strategy 21.9%, World War II 19.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Historical 7.3%
- #45 Sword & Siege Crusades: Book I
69% matchPositive100% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
Fight through the 1st and 2nd Crusades and the conflicts between them in Crusades: Book I, a tactical medieval wargame of sieges, field battles, and frontier warfare. Command Crusader armies or Islamic alliances across 74 scenarios and two branching campaigns.
Why similar: Wargame 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Military 12.3%, Hex Grid 11.4% ★
- #46 War of Resistance
70% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: chenjd
Windows
In this turn-based strategy game simulating the Second Sino-Japanese War, players will take on the role of the Communist forces, fighting against the Japanese army in the upcoming War of Resistance, and later, battling the Republic of China to win the Civil War.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.8% ★, Wargame 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Strategy 15.5%, World War II 10.1% ★
- #47 Revolution Under Siege Gold
71% 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: Grand Strategy 27% ★, Wargame 22.6%, Strategy 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Historical 11.3%
- #48 Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
71% 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: World War II 22.3% ★, Wargame 19.1%, Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Grand Strategy 9.5% ★
- #49 大戦略SSB
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Systemsoft beta, Inc.
Windows
"Daisenryaku SSB" is a simulation game in which you command and fight troops such as tanks and fighters on a battlefield separated by hexes. Since the birth of the "Daisenryaku" series, AI has been tough, and it has been evaluated as a simple game but deep game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Wargame 17.3%, Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Hex Grid 10.3% ★
- #50 逐鹿
69% 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: Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, Wargame 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Historical 10.4%, Military 9.6%
- #51 三国記II
69% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: lufy
Windows · Mac
《三国记II》是三国记系列的第2部作品,是一款正统的历史模拟策略游戏。以中国东汉末年的三国时期为总体背景,围绕着争夺大陆霸权,展开了一系列的故事。 《三国记II》采取直接在大地图上进行游戏和战斗,让玩家体验征战四方的快感。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.4% ★, Strategy 16%, Wargame 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Military 7.4%
- #52 Sword & Siege Age of Longbow: Volume I
67% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
Fight through the Hundred Years War in Age of Longbow: Volume I, a tactical medieval wargame of longbow battles, sieges, and shifting campaigns. Command English and French forces across 94 scenarios and an expansive campaign system spanning the war's major phases.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Strategy 15.6%, Wargame 15.4%, Military 13%, Historical 11.4%
- #53 Hearts of Iron III
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 6,079 reviews2009
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.4% ★, World War II 21.5% ★, Strategy 11.1%, Historical 10.2%, Military 6.9%
- #54 SGS Overlord
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The largest amphibious operation of WW2, and a two-month campaign in the hell of the Norman bocage. Will you manage to make the decisive breakthrough before the Germans recover? Or will you succeed, as Rommel wanted, in crushing the Allied landing as close to the beaches as possible?
Why similar: Wargame 27.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Strategy 18.5%, Historical 12.1%, War 9.3%
- #55 SGS Pacific D-Day
68% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
One game, five great battles where the US Marines gained even more glory, at the price of terrible losses. Relive bloody assaults on Saipan, Tinian, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Peleliu in this recreation of epic land battles of the Pacific War. Both sides are playable, each with their own challenge
Why similar: Wargame 21.2%, Strategy 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Historical 13.1%, World War II 10.8% ★
- #56 Pacific General
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Strategic SimulationsPub: SNEG
Windows
Pacific General explores the Pacific front of the Second World War. Taking control of Axis or Allied forces, you must strategically battle your way through the Eastern and Western front of the Pacific war, using a wide array of land, air and naval forces.
Why similar: Wargame 24%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Strategy 12.6%, World War II 11.5% ★, Historical 9%
- #57 Columbia Games' EastFront
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Foible GamesPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Columbia Game’s EastFront details the conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union during WWII, using the famous Columbia Games Blocks system.
Why similar: Wargame 26.5%, Strategy 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Historical 9.8%, War 9.1%
- #58 Clash of Command: Campaign of 1863
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mutant Entertainment Studios
Windows
There is no “taking turns” in war! Play with or against your friends, devise your tactics and watch your plans unfold simultaneously, but remember “No plan survives contact with the Enemy.” Enlist Today!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, Wargame 15.4%, Hex Grid 10.4% ★, Historical 10%, Military 9.4%
- #59 Sword & Siege Crusades: Book II
65% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
Continue the struggle for the Holy Land in Crusades: Book II, a tactical medieval wargame covering the Third and Fourth Crusades between 1149 and 1204. Command the Crusader Alliance or the Anti-Crusader Alliance across 102 historically accurate scenarios and four branching campaigns.
Why similar: Wargame 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Hex Grid 12.2% ★, Military 12%, Strategy 11.6%
- #60 Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
67% matchVery Positive90% of 2,097 reviews2011
Dev: Martin IvanovPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.7% ★, World War II 20.4% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Wargame 12.3%, Historical 9.9%