Games Like Total War: SHOGUN 2

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 30.2%, Historical 21.6%, RTS 15.9%, Grand Strategy 11.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest alternative by far, using SHOGUN 2’s core structure and battle feel while shifting the Sengoku-era formula into a gunpowder modernization conflict.

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 25.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, RTS 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same campaign-to-battle rhythm with a strong East Asian setting, clan politics, and some of the best diplomacy in the series.

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: Strategy 20.8%, Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, Historical 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, RTS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same blend of turn-based empire building and large real-time historical battles, just on a broader classical scale.

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 21.6%, Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, RTS 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign is more punishing and survival-focused, but it scratches the same itch for province management, army maneuvering, and decisive tactical battles.

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 24.2%, Strategy 18.3%, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, RTS 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: If you love SHOGUN 2’s disciplined formations and tactical clarity, Napoleon offers a similarly polished focus with line infantry and artillery warfare.

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 17.9%, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, Strategy 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, RTS 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is another fan-favorite historical Total War with faction management, siege warfare, and a similarly elegant balance between map strategy and battlefield tactics.

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

Why similar: Historical 22.9%, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, Strategy 19.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, RTS 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the same grand campaign plus real-time battle structure while expanding the scale to a global theater and naval warfare.

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 22.9%, Strategy 17.5%, RTS 16.8%, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its smaller campaign scale and emphasis on faction identity make it feel closer to SHOGUN 2’s focused design than the larger sandbox Total Wars.

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 26.3% ★, RTS 20.4%, Historical 14.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It preserves the classic Total War campaign-and-battle loop while emphasizing historical factions, terrain, and tactical positioning over fantasy spectacle.

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 21.6%, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, RTS 19%, Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Even with its mythic flavor, it still plays like a tightly scoped Total War built around province control, army composition, and real-time tactical engagements.

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 22.3% ★, RTS 14.4%, Historical 13.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick if you want an older, cleaner-style Total War experience where map expansion and battlefield tactics are front and center.

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 24.6% ★, Strategy 22.5%, RTS 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Real Time Tactics 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although fantasy-themed, its campaign structure and real-time army command are immediately familiar to anyone who likes SHOGUN 2’s battlefield flow.

Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun is a turn-based tactical and strategic game set during the Sengoku era; primarily focusing on the Japanese Warring States period and Japanese Invasion of Korea.

Why similar: Strategy 23.2%, Historical 22.6%, Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Military 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a highly focused samurai-era wargame that captures the same historical warfare flavor and clan-based conflict on a more hardcore tactical scale.

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 27.3% ★, RTS 20.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Strategy 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the same core Total War formula with strong faction variety and spectacular battles while keeping the campaign-to-combat loop intact.

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 22.5% ★, Historical 19.5%, RTS 16.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Diplomacy 10.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the best non-Total War options for Sengoku Japan, focusing on daimyo politics, territorial expansion, and historical clan strategy.

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.6% ★, Historical 20.9%, RTS 18.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another deep grand-strategy take on feudal Japan, making it a strong thematic match for players who especially loved SHOGUN 2’s setting.

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% ★, Strategy 23.7%, RTS 20.8%, Historical 14.6%, Medieval 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes kingdom management, diplomacy, war, and real-time battles in a way that will appeal to players who like SHOGUN 2’s campaign/battle split.

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 29.4%, Historical 26.5%, RTS 25.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Multiplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the closer non-Total War historical hybrids on Steam, combining a campaign map with real-time battles in a familiar structure.

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: Strategy 27.4%, Historical 25.6%, Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, RTS 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavier into simulation, but the mix of campaign planning and tactical engagements will still appeal to SHOGUN 2 players.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.4% ★, Historical 31.2%, Strategy 28.5%, Medieval 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: While it lacks Total War’s real-time battles, it is a solid grand-strategy alternative set in the same feudal Japanese period of shifting alliances and clan warfare.

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: Strategy 35.1%, Historical 23.4%, Medieval 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Moddable 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: It also combines a strategic world map with battles you directly command, creating a similar sense of building power and then proving it on the field.

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: RTS 17.9%, Grand Strategy 17.6% ★, Historical 16%, Strategy 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its strategic front-line layer paired with real-time combat makes it a worthwhile pick for players who mainly want another war game with a hybrid structure.

Conquer the ancient Greek world in Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, an epic strategy wargame that expands and refines the award-winning Hegemony: Philip of Macedon with brand new content and features.

Why similar: Historical 32.2%, Strategy 29.9%, RTS 20.5%, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers another historical hybrid of operational strategy and real-time warfare, with a strong emphasis on supply lines and battlefield control.

"Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi" is the 15th entry in the historical simulation game series Nobunaga's Ambition. Where a warrior's resolve exceeds their ambition. We offer the grandest warring states experience to all the fans out there!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, Historical 16.6%, RTS 16.3%, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on daimyo leadership, expansion, and Sengoku-era statecraft makes it an appealing companion for players drawn to SHOGUN 2’s theme and strategy layer.

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 26.7%, Strategy 22.5%, Grand Strategy 22.2% ★, RTS 19%, Real Time Tactics 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This hybrid strategy game links empire management and live army movement in a way that feels surprisingly close to Total War’s strategic flow.

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 24% ★, RTS 18.2%, Historical 16.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its battles reward positioning, morale management, and terrain use in the same way SHOGUN 2 rewards disciplined tactical command.

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: RTS 27.4%, Strategy 25.7%, Historical 23%, Tactical 8.1%, Medieval 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is more RTS-focused, but its unit-based medieval battles, flanking, and tactical pacing echo the battlefield side of SHOGUN 2.

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 56.2%, RTS 27.8%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%, Multiplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This classic historical RTS delivers formation-heavy tactical combat and terrain-aware army control that matches SHOGUN 2’s battlefield appeal.

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 26.6%, Strategy 21.1%, Grand Strategy 20.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Turn-Based 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the real-time clashes, but its historical Asian setting, territorial expansion, and strategic empire management make it a thematic fit.

Become an Emperor and guide your Legions to victory. Battle foreign armies and crush your enemies in a tactical real-time strategy game and show the whole Europe glory of the Roman Empire.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.3% ★, Historical 17.9%, RTS 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy 10.8%

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: Strategy 23.1%, Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Historical 20.3%, RTS 10%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%

Bellfortis is a strategy game from the early Middle Ages. Expand your kingdom, use politics and power. Strategic planning on the map alternates with realtime battles of armies. Play as a grand strategy or on smaller local maps, build, recruit armies and fight!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.7% ★, Historical 17.8%, RTS 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Strategy 10.1%

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 29.2%, Historical 20.4%, RTS 18.7%, Grand Strategy 15.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10%

Three Kingdoms Cavalry Charge is a game that combines the historical theme of the Three Kingdoms with strategic elements. The game features a connected large-scale map design, supporting national wars with up to ten thousand players on the same map.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.4% ★, RTS 20.5%, Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Historical 11.2%

Fight the campaigns and battles of Napoleon from the French Revolutionary Wars all the way to Waterloo’s muddy, crimson fields.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.2% ★, Historical 22.1%, Strategy 18.8%, RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 8.2%

Lead your clan through Japan's turbulent Sengoku period. Craft wise strategies to expand your domain and use cunning tactics to defeat your enemies on the battlefield. Emerge victorious, restore order, and claim the title of Shogun!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.7% ★, Historical 21%, Strategy 17.7%, RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 6.8%

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 27.6%, Historical 22.7%, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Military 8.3%

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 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.2%, Historical 19.6%, Grand Strategy 19.1% ★, Turn-Based 5%

无缝合全新超大沙盘大战略即时游戏 游戏第一个剧本为三国时代（不代表只结束于这一个时代和剧本） 游戏中包含1200多个据点，100多个家族，近百个势力。每个士兵代表1000人，千级士兵规模来还原百万军队。 游戏依托大量历史真实数据从补给中心，物资运输，战争机制，政治，经济，贸易等因素重新设计了新的游戏玩法。

Why similar: RTS 22.5%, Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, Historical 21%, Strategy 17.2%, Diplomacy 6.8% ★

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 30.9%, Historical 21.7%, Grand Strategy 13.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, RTS 11.5%

Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.9% ★, Strategy 24.2%, Historical 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Turn-Based 6.3%

A strategy board game set in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Combine various soldiers with generals and command your troops to aim for victory!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 25.2%, Historical 23.7%, Strategy 19.9%, Grand Strategy 14.8% ★, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 27.9% ★, Strategy 27.3%, RTS 18.4%, Historical 16.4%, Medieval 6.4%

You take the part of the military and political leadership, trying to lead your nation to victory, in the midst of some of the toughest operations of the Civil War. You will build, organize and command your armies over one of the largest maps of the USA ever made for a Civil War game.

Why similar: Historical 27.7%, Strategy 27.4%, Grand Strategy 22.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Turn-Based 3.5%

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 27.7% ★, Historical 25.5%, Strategy 23.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based 6.3%

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Historical 13.3%, RTS 7%

《三国群英传Ⅱ》是由奥汀科技运营研发的一款即时战略游戏。于1999年发行，为《三国群英传》系列游戏作品的第二部。游戏开创性地在此类游戏中引入了即时战略的时间概念、独特的内政和作战模式、动听的CD音轨以及华丽的背景地图。

Why similar: Strategy 24.7%, Historical 22.1%, RTS 16%, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%

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 26.2% ★, Strategy 19.1%, RTS 18.1%, Historical 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%

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

Why similar: Strategy 35.7%, RTS 33.5%, Historical 29.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Lead your country in one of the most difficult periods of post-war history. At this time, you will have to choose between the strong, or become a great power. To go west or east? It's up to you to decide.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.4% ★, Historical 18%, RTS 13.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Diplomacy 10.1% ★

Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.

Why similar: Strategy 30.3%, RTS 20.1%, Historical 17.7%, Tactical 9.5%, Real Time Tactics 8.9%

Perang Laut Maritime Warfare is a historical real time strategy set on early modern age(15th-18th century) in Indonesia archipelago. Lot of kingdoms rise as spices trading booming and this is your chance to establish your maritime power by use diplomacy, influence, and war!

Why similar: RTS 21.1%, Historical 21%, Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Diplomacy 8.6% ★

American Conquest: Fight Back is the sequel to American Conquest. The most significant events of that glorious time have found their way into this title.

Why similar: RTS 36.7%, Strategy 35.3%, Historical 27.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Command tactical battles with simultaneous turns in competitive multiplayer! Lines of Battle, set in the Napoleonic Wars, pits you against rivals in 1v1 or 4v4 matches. Use flanking and real tactics on historic and dynamic maps to win!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21% ★, Historical 17.3%, RTS 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe is a standalone add-on for "Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars" presenting new nations with the possibility to wage multiplayer battles.

Why similar: Strategy 46.9%, Historical 27.4%, RTS 25.7%

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 30.5% ★, Strategy 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.5%, Historical 16.2%, Military 5.6%

This is a classic historical simulation + real-time strategy game, where you will go back to the era of the Three Kingdoms and play as various renowned sovereigns.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, RTS 18.6%, Historical 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Strategy 10.5%

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 43.9%, RTS 29.3%, Historical 26.8%