Games Like Total War: SHOGUN 2

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 17.3%, Grand Strategy 16.9%, RTS 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its character-driven Chinese campaign, diplomacy, espionage, and massive real-time armies make it one of the closest modern historical Total War experiences.

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 21.8%, Grand Strategy 19.1%, Strategy 17.2%, RTS 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It uses the same strategic-campaign and real-time-battle foundation but adds harsher survival pressures, migration, and destructive warfare.

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 20.6%, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Historical 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, RTS 8%

Why You'll Like It: Rome II offers an enormous historical campaign map, faction management, naval warfare, and the same large-scale combined-arms 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 17.9%, Grand Strategy 17.7%, Strategy 17%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, RTS 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This classic Total War delivers dynasty management, religious politics, sieges, and memorable medieval real-time battles on a broad 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 24.3%, Strategy 17.9%, Grand Strategy 17.8%, RTS 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Napoleon refines the Empire-era formula with focused campaigns and especially strong line-infantry, artillery, and siege warfare.

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

Why similar: Historical 23%, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, RTS 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its global eighteenth-century campaign and land-and-sea real-time battles are ideal for players who enjoy Shogun 2's deliberate unit maneuvering.

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 22.8%, Strategy 17.1%, RTS 16.6%, Grand Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This more concentrated Total War emphasizes post-Viking Britain, faction identity, settlement management, and grounded medieval 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 26.4%, Strategy 18.9%, RTS 17.6%, Historical 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed Bronze Age sandbox with dynastic politics, regional crises, weather, terrain effects, and classic Total War 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 21.7%, Grand Strategy 19.4%, RTS 19.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: TROY combines a compact Bronze Age campaign with hero-led battles, myth-inspired units, and familiar Total War flanking tactics.

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 22.6%, RTS 14.4%, Historical 13.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This refreshed classic captures the clean strategic map and highly readable real-time battles that made early Total War so compelling.

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 25.2%, Strategy 21.9%, RTS 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Real Time Tactics 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its faction asymmetry and polished strategic campaigns make it a superb alternative for players who want the Total War loop in a fantastical setting.

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 27.6%, RTS 20.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although fantasy-themed, it retains the exact campaign-and-battle structure while adding exceptional faction variety, magic, and spectacle.

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 24.3%, Historical 22.5%, Strategy 18.4%, RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This ambitious hybrid lets you run a Napoleonic nation at the strategic level before commanding historically grounded armies in real time.

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 22.7%, Historical 19.5%, RTS 16.4%, Strategy 10.8%, Diplomacy 10.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: It is a deep Japanese daimyo simulator centered on territorial expansion, officer management, diplomacy, and period-authentic warfare.

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.8%, Historical 21%, RTS 18.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This Sengoku unification strategy game shares Shogun 2's feudal Japanese setting, clan politics, castle expansion, and military maneuvering.

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 27.1%, Historical 25.6%, Grand Strategy 22.8%, RTS 16.7%, Real Time Tactics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines high-level national management, logistics, recruitment, and diplomacy with real-time Civil War field and siege battles.

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 26.9%, RTS 20.1%, Strategy 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: The first Warhammer entry brings the familiar empire-building and battlefield tactics to a darker fantasy world with distinctive armies.

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: Samurai 23.1% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Historical 17.4%, Grand Strategy 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This detailed wargame is set in the same Sengoku period and rewards careful army composition, terrain use, and historical clan warfare.

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 32.1%, Strategy 23.1%, RTS 21%, Historical 15.2%, Medieval 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its medieval kingdom management, diplomacy, espionage, and real-time battles offer a more character-driven take on grand strategy.

"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 21.4%, Historical 16.7%, RTS 16.4%, Diplomacy 13% ★, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Taishi offers another richly detailed Sengoku campaign focused on daimyo relationships, castle networks, logistics, and strategic conquest.

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 20.6%, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Strategy 14.8%, Historical 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its Army General campaigns combine turn-based operational planning with enormous real-time World War II battles where positioning and unit composition matter greatly.

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%, Historical 23.3%, Medieval 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Moddable 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Bannerlord similarly lets you build a medieval realm and lead armies, but places you directly inside its large real-time battles.

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 24.2%, RTS 18.2%, Historical 16.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs a persistent Civil War campaign with large real-time battles built around formations, morale, terrain, supply, and casualty preservation.

An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

Why similar: RTS 39.6%, Strategy 23.5%, Real Time Tactics 18.2%, Moddable 11.6%, Medieval 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This hybrid blends a persistent grand-strategy world map with hands-on real-time medieval battles, castle construction, and sieges.

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 27.7%, Strategy 25.2%, Historical 23%, Tactical 8%, Medieval 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers squad-based historical RTS battles with flanking, morale, cover, destructible environments, and cinematic medieval scenarios.

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 55.9%, RTS 28.1%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Multiplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This historical RTS emphasizes terrain, formations, ambushes, and unit roles in a way that recalls the battlefield side of Total War.

Politics, religion, war. They are nothing without a legacy that can stand the test of time. Lead any nation, and turn it into a mighty kingdom in one of the most compelling grand strategy games ever created.

Why similar: Strategy 37.8%, Historical 37.3%, Grand Strategy 12.6%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based grand-strategy layer provides deep ancient and medieval empire management, warfare, diplomacy, and internal politics.

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Why similar: RTS 25.2%, Historical 24.1%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Strategy 15.4%, Military 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its East Asian setting, castle economies, siege warfare, and real-time troop management make it a focused tactical complement to Shogun 2.

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 43.4%, Historical 26.3%, Strategy 24.6%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Moddable 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: While its battles are more abstract, its empire management, provincial development, diplomacy, and historical Roman-era scope strongly suit grand-strategy fans.

Conquer the fractured lands of Hinomoto. Blend deep turn-based empire management with thrilling real-time tactical battles in this 2D strategy game. Build your cities, research vital technologies, and lead your samurai armies to become the undisputed Shogun of the Sengoku era!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.4%, RTS 17.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Historical 11.2%

Unite Japan and become Shogun in the updated, enhanced and complete edition of Total War: SHOGUN 2. Build alliances, sabotage your enemies and outsmart your rival clans in a seamless blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.9%, Strategy 20.2%, RTS 18.2%, Historical 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%

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 19.5%, Historical 18%, RTS 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Strategy 10.6%

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 24.1%, Historical 17.8%, RTS 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Strategy 9.9%

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%, Historical 20.6%, RTS 19%, Grand Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%

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 29.2%, Historical 26.8%, RTS 25.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Multiplayer 3.3%

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 23.6%, RTS 20.6%, Strategy 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Historical 11.2%

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 26.9%, Historical 21%, Strategy 17.4%, 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 27.3%, Historical 22.8%, Grand Strategy 19.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Military 8.4%

Trumpets of War is a grand-scale historical strategy game where armies clash and empires rise. Command vast forces across dynamic battlefields, orchestrate campaigns with precision, and experience the drama of war through an innovative system that blends tactical combat with strategic mastery.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.4%, Strategy 17.1%, RTS 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Historical 11.6%

Real-time Three Kingdoms strategy. No turns. No waiting. Domestic affairs, diplomacy, court politics, war — all of it runs at once. Up to 8 players in one world. Bring your friends. Lose the night. Write a new history of the Three Kingdoms.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.7%, RTS 17.9%, Historical 17.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Diplomacy 10.2% ★

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 26.5%, RTS 20.4%, Historical 14.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

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 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.8%, Historical 19.6%, Grand Strategy 19.4%, Turn-Based 5.2%

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 31.3%, Strategy 23.9%, Historical 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based 6.5%

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%, Historical 22.5%, Grand Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, RTS 10.7%

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

Why similar: RTS 18%, Grand Strategy 17.9%, Historical 15.9%, Strategy 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%

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 27.9%, Strategy 27.2%, Grand Strategy 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based 3.7%

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 28.2%, Strategy 26.9%, RTS 18.4%, Historical 16.4%, Medieval 6.4%

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 24.9%, Historical 24%, Strategy 19.9%, Grand Strategy 15.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 27.9%, Historical 25.6%, Strategy 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Turn-Based 6.5%

Command your empire across a hexagonal battlefield. Conquer cities, raise armies of soldiers, artillery, and tanks, and crush 3 rival factions. Fast-paced turn-based strategy — solo or online multiplayer for up to 4 players.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.4%, Strategy 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Historical 17.1%, Multiplayer 3.3%

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

Why similar: Strategy 33.6%, RTS 32.2%, Historical 30.1%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

KIT Three Kingdoms: Heroes at War is a strategy game about unifying China. Choose a faction in the AD 189 sandbox, govern cities, manage armies and supplies, then command formations, tactics, sieges and duels in real time. No Early Access; planned for October 2026 as a complete single-player game.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.8%, Historical 20.1%, RTS 16.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%

Lead Admiral Yi Sun-sin in a large-scale real-time strategy game set during the Imjin War. Command fleets, capture cities, defeat invading armies, and save Joseon—or rewrite history through your own strategy.

Why similar: Historical 25%, Grand Strategy 21.4%, Strategy 16.4%, RTS 13.7%, Samurai 13.3% ★

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 22.6%, Historical 18.1%, RTS 13.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Diplomacy 10.1% ★

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Strategy 18%, Historical 13.4%, RTS 7%