Games Like Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition

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

Why similar: Historical 24.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, Military 8.6%, War 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is Napoleon’s closest sibling, using the same Total War campaign-and-battle structure while focusing on 18th-century musket warfare, artillery, and naval combat.

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 22.3%, Strategy 20.3%, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9%, War 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the same blend of turn-based empire building and real-time army command, just in a classical setting instead of the age of muskets.

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 21%, Strategy 17.3%, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, War 9.4%, RTS 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another classic historical Total War with a very similar strategic pace, army management flow, and emphasis on large, readable 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 23.8%, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Strategy 16.3%, War 12.8%, RTS 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a harsher, more logistics-driven version of the same grand-campaign-plus-real-time-battle formula that Napoleon players already know.

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 23.5% ★, Historical 17.9%, Strategy 14.1%, RTS 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes one of the foundational Total War games, preserving the same campaign map decision-making and tactical battle feel that Napoleon fans appreciate.

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 26.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, RTS 12.1%, War 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded historical focus, army positioning, and province management make it a closer fit for Napoleon fans than the more fantastical Total War entries.

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 27.2%, Strategy 16%, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, War 12.5%, RTS 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the strategic side of Total War with deeper diplomacy and character systems while still delivering 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 25% ★, Historical 19.5%, Strategy 19.2%, RTS 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a polished historical Total War with strong campaign depth, multiple cultures, and the same core loop of map-level planning into tactical engagements.

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: Historical 25%, Strategy 24.2%, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, RTS 7.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This standalone expansion keeps the same familiar Total War rhythm while offering more focused historical campaigns and faction-specific 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 23.5%, Grand Strategy 16.9% ★, Strategy 14.2%, War 13%, RTS 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although less grounded historically, it still plays like a focused Total War campaign with territory management, army movement, and cinematic battles.

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 23.7% ★, Historical 16.1%, RTS 14.1%, War 13.1%, Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: It preserves the classic historical Total War feel with detailed campaign management and real-time battles, even if its era is far from Napoleon’s.

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 41.3%, Historical 26.7%, Grand Strategy 12% ★, War 5.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original game is older and rougher, but it established the exact strategic-and-tactical formula that Napoleon later refined.

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: Historical 22.7%, Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, Strategy 17.5%, War 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the Napoleonic Wars, making it a strong pick if the era itself matters as much as the Total War format.

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: Historical 18.6%, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Strategy 15.6%, RTS 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its strategic layer feeding into real-time battles makes it one of the better modern options for players who like war campaigns with tactical execution.

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 26.8%, Historical 26%, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Military 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a direct Napoleonic-era strategy title built around commanding armies across the same historical context that makes Napoleon appealing.

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 20.9% ★, Historical 17.5%, War 13.7%, RTS 12.2%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same appeal of maneuvering large armies, managing formations, and winning battles through positioning, morale, and artillery timing.

Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail is a tactical wargame from the creators of the Ultimate General series set amidst the epic naval campaigns in the period of the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Why similar: Strategy 40.1%, Historical 32.1%, RTS 8.9%, Naval 8.3% ★, War 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of age-of-sail naval engagements and period land battles overlaps strongly with Napoleon’s artillery-and-formation-driven combat feel.

“he Who Fears Being Conquered Is Sure Of Defeat.”The war-game March of the Eagles focuses on the dramatic conflicts of Europe during 1805 to 1820. Explore one of the defining periods in European history with this experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy, Paradox Development Studio.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.9% ★, Strategy 30.2%, Historical 28.6%, Simulation 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the few grand strategy games set directly in the Napoleonic era, making it a natural thematic companion even without real-time battles.

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 27.4%, Strategy 24.9%, Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, RTS 11.1%, War 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This combines campaign-level movement, economy, and politics with real-time battlefield command in a way that echoes Napoleon’s hybrid structure.

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 35.5%, Strategy 22.1%, RTS 15.4%, War 9.6%, Tactical 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It drops the empire map but nails the feeling of commanding brigades in large historical battles where terrain, flanking, and timing matter.

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 36.1% ★, Historical 27.3%, Strategy 13.9%, War 6.7%, Military 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its 19th-century focus, geopolitical maneuvering, and nation management make it a good fit if you like Napoleon’s historical statecraft and expansion systems.

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.

Why similar: Strategy 22.9%, Historical 22.8%, RTS 19.7%, War 13.3%, Military 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the gunpowder-era setting and emphasizes musket lines, cavalry, and cannons, even though it uses a more traditional base-building RTS structure.

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

Why similar: Strategy 28.1%, RTS 25.5%, Historical 24%, War 10.6%, Multiplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying mix of territorial expansion, technological progression, and large-scale warfare that can appeal to players who enjoy broad military strategy.

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: Historical 32.1%, Grand Strategy 31.6% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Military 11.7%, Moddable 3.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: It covers the broader early-modern period around Napoleon and offers deep diplomacy, conquest, and state management for players who enjoy the campaign side most.

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 20.3% ★, Historical 19.9%, Strategy 16.1%, War 10.3%, Military 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more turn-based and less cinematic, it scratches a similar itch for historical empire building, army organization, and campaign planning.

For the first time in the series’ history, Strategic Command will be taking you to the 19th century battlefields of the American Civil War. You will control the armies, research, production and diplomatic policy of either the Union or the Confederacy during a time of innovation and dramatic battles.

Why similar: Historical 40.2%, Strategy 32.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.2%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a strong historical wargame choice for players who care more about operational planning and theater-wide campaigning than real-time battle control.

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 29.1%, Strategy 21.9%, RTS 19.4%, War 18.3%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its huge formations, musket-era combat, artillery duels, and large historical battles make it one of the closest RTS matches to Napoleon’s battlefield spectacle.

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 23.7% ★, Strategy 22.7%, RTS 14.4%, War 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%

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 24.9%, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, War 16%, RTS 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%

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 30.5%, Historical 25.2%, Grand Strategy 15.6% ★, RTS 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%

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 33.2%, Historical 27.5%, Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, RTS 9.1%

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 56.1%, RTS 13.5%, Historical 10.6%, War 6.4%, Military 4.5%

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 26.7% ★, Strategy 15.7%, RTS 15.3%, War 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%

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 41.5% ★, Historical 32.5%, Strategy 18.5%, War 2.4%, RTS 2.2%

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: Historical 16.2%, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Strategy 14.2%, RTS 14.1%, War 11.1%

Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. This legacy version also grants access to the latest version of COH, just called "Company of Heroes".

Why similar: RTS 23.4%, Strategy 23.1%, Historical 14.1%, Military 11%, War 10.4%

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 36.9% ★, Historical 24.7%, Strategy 16.5%, Military 7.5%, War 6.7%

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.

Why similar: Strategy 23.4%, War 16.7%, RTS 15.3%, Historical 13.3%, Military 9.5%

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 37.8% ★, Historical 28.2%, Strategy 22.9%, War 5.4%, Multiplayer 2.8%

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 30.8%, Historical 26%, RTS 11.9%, Grand Strategy 10.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 7%

Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.

Why similar: RTS 25.1%, Strategy 24.2%, War 16.3%, Historical 9.9%, Military 7.1%

Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.

Why similar: Strategy 30.3%, Historical 28.6%, RTS 23.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%, War 4.8%

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: Historical 22.8%, Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, War 12.1%, RTS 11.9%, Strategy 10.9%

The ultimate edition of Panzer Corps, containing hundreds of scenarios and all its expansions. Panzer Corps Gold is the culmination of the wargame that has enthralled millions of fans all around the globe, and now it’s your chance to fully experience a real classic.

Why similar: Strategy 27.4%, Historical 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Turn-Based 8.3%, Grand Strategy 7.1% ★

Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars sends the player into the heroic XIX century where they assume the role of a commander to take part in the massive historical battles for the supremacy over Europe.

Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Historical 32.6%, RTS 22.1%

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 35.7%, Strategy 28.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based 9.9%, Tactical 5.4%

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 56.1% ★, Historical 23.9%, Strategy 13%, Multiplayer 2.3%, RTS 2.2%

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner

Why similar: Historical 25.3%, Grand Strategy 25% ★, RTS 14.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Real Time Tactics 9.1%

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 30.8%, Strategy 28.9%, RTS 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, War 8.1%

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 39.1% ★, Historical 32.3%, Strategy 27.9%, Simulation 0.7%

Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ is the expansion to the Game of the Year winner and highest rated real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes®. Featuring new campaigns to overcome, units to command, and battlefields to conquer, Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ delivers evolved gameplay mechanics and 3 episodic adventures...

Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, RTS 26.3%, Military 12.7%, War 9.1%, Multiplayer 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 27.1%, War 15.6%, RTS 14%, Strategy 12.9%, Military 11.4%

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 24.1%, War 15.3%, Historical 13.3%, RTS 13.2%, Military 9.9%

The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.

Why similar: Strategy 28.2%, RTS 23.1%, Military 15.5%, War 10.6%, Real Time Tactics 6.8%

Strategy & Tactics: Wargame Collection is a set of three historical turn-based strategies, in which you are going to take command of the armies in the greatest Medieval wars as well as take control of countries and nations during World War II.

Why similar: Strategy 29.5%, Historical 21.1%, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, War 13.9%, Tactical 7.1%

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 27.7%, RTS 25.5%, Grand Strategy 12% ★, War 11.2%, Tactical 7.6%

Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.

Why similar: RTS 32.1%, Strategy 28%, War 15.5%, Military 8%, Multiplayer 6.8%