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 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, Historical 15.7%, Strategy 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is ATTILA’s closest sibling, offering the same turn-based empire management and real-time legion battles in the Roman world just before the collapse that defines ATTILA.

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%, Strategy 15%, Grand Strategy 14.6% ★, RTS 12.8%, War 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Built on ATTILA’s foundation, it delivers a very similar campaign feel of fractured kingdoms, post-Roman instability, and hard-fought historical battles.

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 17.5%, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Strategy 15.4%, War 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the classic Total War formula of province management, diplomacy, religion, and large tactical battles with a similarly strong historical warfare focus.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.

Why similar: Historical 23.9%, War 16.9%, Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deeper campaign layer with court politics, character management, and large-scale historical warfare while retaining the familiar Total War rhythm.

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% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Historical 12%, RTS 10.1%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: This modernized version of the original Rome keeps the same conquest-driven grand strategy and real-time army command that ATTILA fans usually want more of.

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 21.8% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Historical 14.1%, RTS 12.5%, Rome 11.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its collapsing-civilization atmosphere, dynastic struggles, and survival-focused grand campaign make it one of the few Total War games with an ATTILA-like sense of pressure.

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

Why similar: Historical 23.4%, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, Strategy 17.8%, War 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It trades antiquity for gunpowder but still delivers the same mix of turn-based expansion, diplomacy, and massive historical battles across a huge campaign map.

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 23.8%, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Strategy 16.3%, War 12.8%, RTS 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a tighter, war-focused Total War with strong battlefield tactics and campaign maneuvering, especially if ATTILA’s military side is what hooked you.

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 19.3%, Grand Strategy 16.7% ★, War 16.4%, RTS 13.7%, Strategy 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its resource pressures, faction asymmetry, and fast tactical battles give it some of the same survival-and-conquest tension as ATTILA, even with a mythic edge.

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%, RTS 13.7%, Historical 12.1%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Before DYNASTIES expanded it, PHARAOH already offered a historical collapse setting, internal strife, and campaign systems built around surviving a turbulent era.

Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.

Why similar: Strategy 28.9%, Historical 22.8%, RTS 13.5%, Grand Strategy 11.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It preserves the classic Total War structure while emphasizing modernization, factional conflict, and intense real-time battles in a more contained 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 29.2%, Historical 22.7%, Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, RTS 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This older entry has the same core appeal of managing a historical realm on the grand map and then fighting its wars directly on the battlefield.

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 30.2% ★, Rome 26.1% ★, Historical 18.7%, Strategy 16.2%, War 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It matches ATTILA’s love of ancient politics, culture, provincial management, and imperial overstretch, just without the real-time battle layer.

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 22.2% ★, Historical 18.9%, War 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical setting, dynastic management, political tradeoffs, and empire-scale decision making scratch a similar strategic itch even though combat is fully turn-based.

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 19.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.5% ★, Historical 15.1%, Strategy 13%, War 12%

Why You'll Like It: This delivers a strong ancient-world grand strategy experience centered on expansion, regional control, and the long-term rise and decline of states.

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 32.5% ★, Strategy 22.4%, RTS 17.5%, Historical 15.2%, Medieval 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends real-time realm management, warfare, diplomacy, and kingdom-building in a way that feels close to a lighter, more continuous Total War-style campaign.

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 34.9%, Strategy 21.3%, Historical 15.7%, Medieval 13.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares ATTILA’s thrill of building a faction, maneuvering armies across a living map, and personally directing large medieval battles from a campaign layer.

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 27.7% ★, Historical 22%, Strategy 15.7%, War 13%, RTS 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into dynasty and politics, but it captures the same pleasure of steering a fragile historical realm through succession, war, and instability.

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 26.6%, Rome 24.6% ★, Historical 21.7%, RTS 13.7%, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its seamless campaign map, supply-line warfare, and Roman-era focus make it a strong match for players who enjoy ATTILA’s operational side as much as its battles.

Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.

Why similar: Strategy 20.9%, War 19.3%, Grand Strategy 18.1% ★, RTS 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Even with a fantasy setting, it keeps the exact campaign-and-battle structure of Total War and has some of ATTILA’s darker, end-times atmosphere.

Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.7% ★, Strategy 19.3%, RTS 14.9%, War 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is less historically grounded but still a very close mechanical match if what you really want is more faction-based conquest and spectacular real-time Total War battles.

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 40.7% ★, Historical 34.4%, Strategy 16.5%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Co-op 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: If ATTILA’s appeal for you is guiding a historical state through crisis, war, religion, and diplomacy, EU4 is one of the deepest alternatives on the grand-strategy side.

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 24.6% ★, RTS 15.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, War 14.6%, Strategy 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the most system-heavy fantasy Total War, making it a worthwhile lower-priority pick for ATTILA players who want the same basic loop with more asymmetry and spectacle.

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 21.5% ★, War 18.1%, Historical 15%, RTS 13.5%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: While it lacks a grand empire map, its large-scale tactical battles, attrition, morale play, and army continuity appeal to the same commander mindset as ATTILA.

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 22.1%, Rome 20.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9% ★, Strategy 16.9%, RTS 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a continuous ancient-world strategy experience where logistics, territorial control, and battlefield positioning matter as much as raw expansion.

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% ★, Historical 19.9%, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a turn-based 4X take on classical conquest that echoes ATTILA’s Roman-era setting, territorial growth, and military-heavy empire management.

Field of Glory II Medieval is a turn-based tactical game set in the High Middle Ages from 1040 AD to 1270 AD. Developed by legendary designer Richard Bodley Scott it brings the best from the tabletop world into the best digital framework.

Why similar: War 29.4%, Strategy 24.6%, Tactical 15.3%, Historical 11.8%, Medieval 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed historical tactics and army composition depth make it a good recommendation for players who care most about ATTILA’s battlecraft.

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: Strategy 21.9%, Historical 21.6%, RTS 20.8%, War 13.3%, Medieval 7.9%

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 21.4% ★, Historical 16.8%, War 12.7%, RTS 11.1%, Strategy 10%

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 24.2%, Historical 18.7%, Rome 16.1% ★, Grand Strategy 14% ★, RTS 13.9%

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 18.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Grand Strategy 18% ★, War 11.2%

Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms is the official expansion to last year's award-winning Medieval II: Total War, presenting players with all-new territories to explore, troops to command, and enemies to conquer.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Strategy 21.5%, Historical 20.8%, RTS 8.3%, Medieval 7.8%

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

Why similar: Strategy 22.1%, Historical 21.3%, Rome 17.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, War 10.6%

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 16.8%, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, War 15.7%, Historical 14.9%, Strategy 13.9%

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: Strategy 26.2%, Historical 26.2%, RTS 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, War 10.5%

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 25.3% ★, Strategy 22.9%, Historical 15.2%, RTS 13.8%, War 12.7%

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: Strategy 27.4%, Medieval 26.9%, Historical 23.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Open World 6.1%

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%, War 23.2%, RTS 20.8%, Strategy 19.3%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Roma Invicta combines action packed real-time battles with turn-based strategy on a big campaign map. Supply your legions and conquer ancient Gaul turn by turn. Fight by yourself or hand over your soldiers to the AI ​​and enjoy the spectacle.

Why similar: Rome 25.5% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Historical 14.8%, War 10.3%, RTS 9.9%

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 17.6% ★, Historical 16.4%, RTS 14.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%

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 36.4% ★, Historical 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Strategy 14.8%, Tactical 7.1%

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 25.1%, War 22.2%, Strategy 21.6%, Historical 17%, Medieval 5.7%

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 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 18.2% ★, War 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Historical 11.1%

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 26.1%, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, Strategy 18.7%, War 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%

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 32.5% ★, Strategy 24.2%, RTS 17.4%, Historical 14.7%, War 11.2%

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 33.8% ★, Historical 23.2%, Strategy 21.4%, Rome 21.2% ★, Simulation 0.4%

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%, War 22.2%, RTS 16.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Tactical 9.9%

"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 22.2% ★, Historical 18.7%, War 18.2%, RTS 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%

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

Why similar: War 19.9%, Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Strategy 13.9%, Historical 11.2%

SHOGUN: Total War™ is the first, original title in a 15 year series of award-winning strategy games. This Collection Edition also includes the Mongol Invasion Expansion Pack.

Why similar: Strategy 39.2%, Historical 23.8%, Grand Strategy 12.8% ★, War 8.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%

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 31.7% ★, RTS 19.2%, War 18.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 9.9%

Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?

Why similar: RTS 19.3%, Historical 17.4%, Strategy 15.9%, War 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%

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 37.9% ★, Historical 26.5%, War 15%, Strategy 13.5%, Multiplayer 5.5%

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 21.2%, RTS 14.7%, War 13.2%, Historical 12.6%

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 16.8%, Rome 13.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, War 11.6%

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 32.8%, Strategy 21.8%, RTS 18.5%, War 13.6%, Tactical 9.9%

Use your power as a Feudal Lord to unite the land of the Rising Sun under your iron fist.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.9% ★, Historical 31.7%, Strategy 26.2%, Medieval 2.5%, Simulation 1.7%