Games Like Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition

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 24.7%, Grand Strategy 17%, Strategy 16.8%, Military 8.7%, War 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Empire’s direct successor refines the same campaign-and-real-time-battle formula around the Napoleonic Wars, with especially strong gunpowder warfare and naval combat.

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 20%, Grand Strategy 18.5%, Strategy 17.4%, War 8.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the classic Total War loop of province management, diplomacy, dynastic politics, and large real-time battles on a richly detailed campaign map.

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: Historical 22%, Strategy 21.4%, Grand Strategy 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, War 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Rome II expands the empire-management side of Total War while retaining large combined-arms battles, naval engagements, and diplomacy-driven conquest.

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: Grand Strategy 27.2%, Historical 17.8%, Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, RTS 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This modernized version of the original Rome campaign preserves its direct strategic map play and fast, decisive real-time battles.

Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

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: Its darker grand campaign emphasizes migration, survival, collapsing empires, and punishing tactical warfare within the familiar Total War framework.

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 25.5%, Strategy 16%, Grand Strategy 15.8%, War 11.2%, Military 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It adds deep character relationships and diplomacy to a campaign of regional conquest while keeping the series’ large-scale real-time warfare.

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 31.1%, Historical 30.9%, RTS 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, War 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the same broad age of revolution, it combines turn-based imperial expansion, diplomacy, and real-time land and sea battles in a very Empire-like structure.

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 27.6%, Strategy 19.4%, Historical 19%, RTS 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This historical campaign offers a huge Bronze Age map, dynastic politics, court systems, and varied real-time armies for players who enjoy managing an expanding state.

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 25.7%, Strategy 17.8%, Grand Strategy 16.9%, RTS 10.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact British Isles campaign provides a more concentrated Total War experience centered on kingdoms, settlements, recruitment, and tactical battles.

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 23.9%, Grand Strategy 20.1%, Strategy 15.5%, War 12.7%, RTS 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Troy retains the strategic campaign and tactical army control of Total War while presenting a distinctive Bronze Age setting and resource-based economy.

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 26.9%, Historical 15.7%, Strategy 12.6%, War 12.1%, RTS 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a detailed Bronze Age political campaign with weather, terrain, court intrigue, and methodical real-time battles.

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 27.4%, Strategy 23.5%, RTS 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, War 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its faction variety, global campaign scope, and tactical battles make it a strong mechanical alternative for players willing to trade history for fantasy.

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 31%, Strategy 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, RTS 13.2%, War 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although fantastical, it is one of the most feature-rich versions of Total War’s turn-based empire building and large real-time battle formula.

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 33.8%, Strategy 23.6%, RTS 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Tactical 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct entry point into Total War’s fantasy branch, retaining campaign conquest, diplomacy, army management, and battlefield tactics.

Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!

Why similar: Historical 27.1%, Strategy 26.5%, Grand Strategy 22.6%, War 10.3%, RTS 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This blends national economics, politics, recruitment, logistics, and command decisions with large real-time Civil War battles.

Lead powerful civilizations across the globe, master strategies and tactics, and relive history in co op battles—now remastered in stunning 4K and modernized gameplay.

Why similar: Strategy 23%, Military 21.9%, Historical 21.6%, RTS 16%, War 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers colonial-era expansion, trade, naval conflict, artillery-heavy warfare, and attractive historical RTS battles across multiple civilizations.

Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.4%, Historical 24.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Military 10.6%, War 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its 19th-century great-power simulation emphasizes industrialization, colonial competition, diplomacy, and steering a nation through an era close to Empire’s aftermath.

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 23.5%, Historical 17%, War 12.5%, Military 10.4%, RTS 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign links army organization, officer development, logistics, and historically styled real-time battles where casualties meaningfully carry forward.

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 37.5%, Strategy 26.6%, Historical 18.9%, RTS 14.1%, Multiplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines kingdom management, diplomacy, trade, espionage, and real-time army battles in a medieval grand-strategy format.

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 31.4%, Historical 27.4%, Military 19%, Strategy 13.2%, War 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its early-modern global map, colonial empires, naval trade routes, diplomacy, and wars make it an excellent alternative for Empire’s strategic side.

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 41.7%, Historical 26.9%, Strategy 23.3%, War 4.9%, Multiplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on managing populations, provinces, armies, diplomacy, and expansion across a large ancient-world grand-strategy map.

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 30.8%, Strategy 24.9%, War 18.6%, RTS 18%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its 17th- and 18th-century setting, huge musket-era armies, artillery, and naval warfare strongly match Empire’s battlefield atmosphere despite using pure RTS structure.

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: Strategy 29.7%, Historical 23.8%, RTS 22%, War 10%, Classic 6.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: It combines national expansion, technology progression, city management, territorial borders, and large real-time battles across broad historical eras.

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: Grand Strategy 21.5%, Historical 17.9%, Strategy 15.6%, Military 11.7%, War 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep turn-based ancient-era empire campaign built around provincial development, diplomacy, internal stability, and military expansion.

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 31.6%, Grand Strategy 25.6%, Strategy 24.6%, RTS 12.5%, Real Time Tactics 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its seamless strategic map and real-time battles emphasize supply lines, territorial control, formations, and the practical challenges of commanding an ancient army.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.3%, Historical 28.6%, Strategy 15.9%, Military 15.4%, Multiplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: For players most invested in Empire’s nation-building layer, it offers deep 19th-century politics, economics, diplomacy, colonization, and military modernization.

Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.4%, Military 17.6%, Historical 17.5%, Naval 12.1% ★, War 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its nation-level naval arms race, ship design, fleet deployments, and real-time sea battles will especially appeal to players who enjoyed Empire’s naval warfare.

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 26.2%, Military 20.6%, War 14.3%, Strategy 13.2%, RTS 11.7%

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 31.6%, Historical 24.3%, Grand Strategy 17%, RTS 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.5%

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 38.3%, Historical 22.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Military 12.6%, War 5.7%

Europa Universalis III Complete includes the original Europa Universalis III as well as the expansions In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 45.4%, Historical 30.5%, Strategy 18.7%, War 2.1%, RTS 1.8%

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 32.3%, Historical 26.2%, Grand Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, RTS 6.7%

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 35%, Historical 30.5%, War 15.3%, Strategy 14.8%, Multiplayer 3.7%

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: Strategy 21.4%, Historical 21.3%, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, War 7.9%

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 23.9%, Grand Strategy 17.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Military 15.7%, Turn-Based 8.1%

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 18.3%, Historical 17.3%, Strategy 15.7%, Military 12.8%, RTS 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 29%, Strategy 27.3%, Historical 18%, RTS 10.9%, War 9.3%

AGEod goes back to the Napoleonic era and delivers the most detailed and comprehensive strategy game ever created about a time of struggle and conquest that forged modern Europe.

Why similar: Strategy 25%, Historical 22.6%, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Military 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%

A one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game that allows players to bluff their enemies to lead their nation to victory. The Definitive Edition — includes all DLCs and Steam Deck support.

Why similar: Strategy 36.4%, Historical 22.6%, RTS 22.5%, War 11.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?

Why similar: Strategy 30.4%, RTS 23%, Grand Strategy 14.9%, War 11.3%, Tactical 7.6%

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 19.6%, Military 12.8%, War 10.5%, Strategy 9.9%

Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 60.4%, Historical 22.2%, Strategy 12.9%, RTS 1.8%, Multiplayer 1.7%

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 28.5%, Strategy 19%, Historical 13.3%, Military 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Historical 23%, Strategy 22%, Grand Strategy 12.5%, Turn-Based 9.2%

In American Conquest, Players set sail from Europe to discover new world and conquer its innumerable riches.

Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Historical 36.9%, RTS 21.2%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 34.8%, Strategy 23.3%, RTS 13.1%, Military 10.2%, War 9%

Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26%, Historical 20.1%, Military 15.5%, Strategy 15.1%, War 11.8%

Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.6%, Historical 21.6%, Military 13.4%, Strategy 11.1%, War 10.9%

Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.

Why similar: Strategy 25.7%, Military 18.5%, War 14.5%, Historical 13%, RTS 11.4%

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 34.8%, Strategy 30%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Turn-Based 10.6%, Tactical 5.1%

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 21.8%, Historical 18.9%, Military 13.9%, War 10.6%, Strategy 9.6%

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.7%, Historical 24%, Military 12.6%, RTS 11.6%, Strategy 11.3%

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: Historical 27%, Grand Strategy 25.1%, Strategy 16.8%, War 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%

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 42.4%, Historical 27%, Grand Strategy 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.1%, War 5.3%

Experience the ultimate WWII RTS platform with COH2 and its standalone expansions. This package includes the base game, which you can then upgrade by purchasing The Western Front Armies, Ardennes Assault and/or The British Forces. More info in the "About This Game" section below.

Why similar: Strategy 57.3%, RTS 11.3%, Historical 10.1%, Military 8.2%, War 5.9%