Games Like Total War: ATTILA

Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.

Why similar: Rome 17.6% ★, Historical 15.9%, Grand Strategy 15.8%, Strategy 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the closest broad Roman-era Total War campaign-and-battle formula, including politics, empire management, and massive combined-arms engagements.

From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?

Why similar: Historical 21.8%, Grand Strategy 14.7%, Strategy 14.5%, RTS 12.9%, War 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its intimate post-Roman setting, faction politics, settlements, and warfare make it an especially natural follow-up to ATTILA's age of migrations.

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

Why similar: Historical 17.7%, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Strategy 14.9%, War 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This classic retains the same turn-based realm management and real-time army battles while moving the historical focus into medieval Europe.

Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire.

Why similar: Rome 19.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Historical 12.1%, RTS 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The polished remaster preserves Rome's highly readable strategic map and classic real-time battles, with improved usability over the original.

Unite Ancient China under your rule through a thrilling blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles. Use the Guanxi System and diplomacy to forge alliances, and build powerful armies with hundreds of unique infantry, cavalry and war machine units.

Why similar: Historical 24%, War 17%, Grand Strategy 15.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the Total War formula with deeper character politics, diplomacy, and strategic maneuvering alongside large real-time battles.

Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.9%, Historical 14.7%, Strategy 14.4%, RTS 12.4%, Rome 10.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its Bronze Age collapse setting, factional survival pressures, court systems, and detailed battles strongly echo ATTILA's crisis-driven empire management.

Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.

Why similar: Historical 23.7%, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Strategy 17.3%, War 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although set later, it provides the same expansive empire campaign, diplomacy, technological development, and real-time land and naval warfare.

Inspired by The Iliad and brought to life through the award-winning strategy game series, A Total War Saga: TROY brings a blend of grand, turn-based empire management and spectacular real-time battles to the heart of the Trojan War.

Why similar: Historical 19.5%, Grand Strategy 16.7%, War 16.6%, RTS 14%, Strategy 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It condenses the Total War campaign-and-battle structure into a Bronze Age conflict centered on heroes, resources, and competing kingdoms.

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 24.1%, Grand Strategy 17%, Strategy 15.8%, War 12.9%, RTS 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This focused historical campaign keeps Total War's strategic map and tactical battles while emphasizing maneuver, artillery, and closely structured wars.

The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.9%, Strategy 18.4%, RTS 15.4%, War 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the familiar Total War strategic and battle framework into a fantasy setting with dramatically varied factions and units.

The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.7%, RTS 15.6%, War 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Strategy 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its huge strategic campaigns and spectacular real-time battles are an excellent mechanical fit if fantasy armies are acceptable.

The Old World is yours to command. Lead Legendary Lords in a combination of turn-based campaign and magically charged, strategic real-time battles, and decide the fate of your chosen race in a fight against Chaos.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.3%, Strategy 18.5%, RTS 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: The first Warhammer entry retains the core province-building, diplomacy, recruitment, and battle loop in a more fantastical world.

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 29.8%, Rome 26.4% ★, Historical 18.8%, Strategy 15.6%, War 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a deep ancient-world grand strategy game focused on populations, politics, armies, territorial expansion, and the pressures of ruling a vast state.

Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.

Why similar: Rome 20.1% ★, Grand Strategy 18.6%, Historical 15.1%, Strategy 12.7%, War 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed ancient-era empire-building campaign with internal stability, culture, diplomacy, and warfare across the classical world.

Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.4%, Strategy 21.5%, RTS 17.9%, Historical 15.9%, Medieval 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines medieval kingdom management, dynastic diplomacy, province development, and real-time battles on a continent-scale map.

Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where Julius Caesar wages a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes. Hegemony Rome will immerse you in the history like no other real time strategy game ever before, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and rapidly...

Why similar: Strategy 25.9%, Rome 24.9% ★, Historical 21.9%, RTS 13.9%, Grand Strategy 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its continuous real-time campaign map, supply lines, army movement, and Roman conquest give it a grounded alternative to Total War's campaign layer.

A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

Why similar: War 35.1%, Strategy 20.9%, Historical 15.7%, Medieval 13.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly blends medieval faction warfare and conquest with a more personal, action-oriented approach to commanding troops in battles and sieges.

Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!

Why similar: Historical 22%, Rome 20.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, Strategy 16.4%, RTS 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This ancient Mediterranean strategy game combines real-time conquest, logistics, settlement control, and field warfare across a seamless map.

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: Grand Strategy 22.3%, Historical 19.2%, War 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical 4X campaign adds dynasties, court politics, character events, and consequential ancient-era expansion to traditional empire management.

Field of Glory II is a turn-based tactical game set during the Rise of Rome from 280 BC to 25 BC.

Why similar: Historical 21.4%, Strategy 21.4%, Rome 18.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, War 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based ancient tactical battles reward careful use of Roman-era formations, terrain, morale, and historical army composition.

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 28%, Historical 22.1%, Strategy 15.3%, War 13%, RTS 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces direct battlefield command with much deeper character-driven medieval politics, succession crises, diplomacy, and realm-building.

Ancestors Legacy is a squad-based real time strategy with a strong focus on tactics. Inspired by medieval European history, it brings to life four different nations and their conflicts, usually solved by war.

Why similar: Historical 21.7%, RTS 21.3%, Strategy 21.2%, War 13.5%, Medieval 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its squad-based RTS battles and historically inspired medieval factions provide a more tactical, ground-level alternative to Total War warfare.

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.2%, Historical 23.1%, War 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Strategy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This ancient grand strategy game centers on governing city-states and kingdoms through diplomacy, expansion, economy, and turn-based military campaigns.

It is a time of war in Europe. Driven by new ideas of Enlightenment, the hearts of men and women across the continent are inflamed with dreams of freedom and glory. This is the moment for a military genius to forge himself a name to be remembered throughout all eternity. This is your moment.

Why similar: Historical 26.5%, Strategy 25.6%, RTS 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, War 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines an eighteenth-century turn-based imperial campaign with real-time land and naval battles in a directly Total War-like structure.

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: Grand Strategy 21.6%, War 18%, Historical 15.2%, RTS 13.7%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign management and highly tactical real-time battles emphasize army organization, terrain, morale, and attritional warfare.

Relive the celebrated real-time strategy classic Praetorians, re-imagined in high definition. Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire.

Why similar: Strategy 46.5%, RTS 21.5%, Rome 18% ★, Real Time Tactics 9.1%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This Roman-era RTS focuses on terrain, formations, unit counters, and scenario-based tactical command rather than a grand campaign.

MEDIEVAL: Total War™ - Collection Edition is the compilation of the critically-acclaimed Medieval: Total War and its official expansion pack - Viking Invasion.

Why similar: Strategy 28.5%, Historical 24%, Grand Strategy 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, RTS 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its age, it remains a direct predecessor to ATTILA's blend of dynasty management, territorial conquest, and historical military strategy.

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: Rome 21.6% ★, Historical 16.8%, War 13%, RTS 11.4%, Strategy 9.7%

In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4%, War 15.1%, RTS 13.9%, Historical 12.2%, Strategy 9.4%

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: Historical 34%, Strategy 28.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Turn-Based 8.2%, Tactical 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This historical turn-based wargame offers detailed formation-based tactical combat and linked campaigns for players who enjoy deliberate battle planning.

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 23.7%, Historical 19%, Rome 16.4% ★, RTS 14.2%, Grand Strategy 13.6%

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: Historical 19.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Grand Strategy 18.2%, War 11.4%

Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!

Why similar: Historical 24.1%, War 23.4%, RTS 21.3%, Strategy 18.7%, Multiplayer 5.8%

In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

Why similar: Medieval 27.2%, Strategy 26.7%, Historical 23.7%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 6.4%

As King, it is your duty to lead your people in their struggle to raise your kingdom from its humble beginnings to a position of power and prestige. War, diplomacy and a burgeoning economy are the means by which you increase your power and expand your influence.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.4%, Strategy 22.4%, Historical 15.4%, RTS 14.1%, War 12.7%

Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Why similar: RTS 17.4%, Grand Strategy 16.6%, War 15.8%, Historical 15%, Strategy 13.6%

Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.

Why similar: Historical 25.4%, War 22.3%, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Tactical 9.7%

The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.8%, Historical 16.4%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%

A mix of deep gameplay and rich historical flavor, Aggressors: Ancient Rome lets you relive history as the ruler of one of the mighty civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Choose one of twenty available factions and conquer the world.

Why similar: Rome 24.3% ★, Historical 20.1%, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.1%

Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire. You will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the combat theaters of Gaul and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy in the crusade to become Emperor.

Why similar: Rome 32.3% ★, Strategy 23.3%, RTS 17.8%, Historical 15.1%, War 11.5%

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 33.9%, Historical 23.4%, Rome 21.5% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 0.4%

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 26.2%, Grand Strategy 19.7%, Strategy 18.4%, War 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%

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: Rome 27.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2%, War 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Historical 11.1%

Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?

Why similar: Rome 37.3% ★, Historical 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Tactical 7%

"The ultimate depiction of the Three Kingdom. A heroic drama of a gathering of Legends. "With this as the concept behind Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13, we have compiled an experience that will immerse you even deeper into the world of the Three Kingdoms, with "human drama," seen through the interactions of the...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.3%, Historical 18.9%, War 18.3%, RTS 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%

Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.

Why similar: War 20%, Grand Strategy 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 11.3%

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.

Why similar: RTS 25.5%, War 22.2%, Strategy 21.3%, Historical 16.9%, Medieval 5.8%

Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.6%, RTS 19.6%, War 18.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Real Time Tactics 9.8%

Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.3%, Strategy 20.7%, RTS 15%, War 13.3%, Historical 12.7%

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.1%, Historical 28.1%, RTS 19.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Open World 2.4%

Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.1%, Historical 18.7%, War 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 9.1%

Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.4%, Historical 16.9%, Rome 13.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, War 11.7%

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: Historical 33.1%, Strategy 21.3%, RTS 18.8%, War 13.7%, Tactical 9.8%

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 32%, Historical 27.2%, War 22%, Strategy 12.7%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.2%, Historical 30.7%, Strategy 14.2%, War 11.6%, Multiplayer 3.1%