- #1 Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
97% matchVery Positive91% of 37,985 reviews2009
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.8% ★, Historical 24.9%, Military 16.5%, Strategy 15.4%, War 9%
- #2 Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
96% matchVery Positive92% of 27,474 reviews2010
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Historical 27.5%, Strategy 15.2%, War 10.5%, Military 9.6%
- #3 Sengoku
96% matchMixed61% of 477 reviews2011
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Use your power as a Feudal Lord to unite the land of the Rising Sun under your iron fist.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45% ★, Historical 25.1%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 13%
- #4 March of the Eagles
95% matchMixed67% of 390 reviews2013
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
“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 48.3% ★, Historical 20.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 13.2%
- #5 Artillery Tycoon
94% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Awful Waffle Studio
Windows
Build and manage an artillery factory in the WWI era. Research authentic weapon components, engineer deadly firepower, test prototypes on your firing range, and compete for lucrative government contracts. From the French 75 to the German 7.7, your designs will decide the fate of nations.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, Historical 21.1%, Military 17%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 12.8%
- #6 历史模拟器:崇祯
94% matchNo user reviews51% of 2,735 reviews
Dev: 青干工作室
Windows
本作的初衷不在于让崇祯单纯地赢,而是编写一部属于你的王朝兴衰故事。虽然历史绝对不可改写,但在世界模型的推演下,你的每一次抉择都将引发蝴蝶效应,书写出全新的篇章。我们希望玩家在体验演义故事的疯狂与逻辑博弈的残酷时,能在直面王朝或崩塌或强盛的激荡中,悄悄生出对真实历史的敬畏。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.2% ★, Historical 21.6%, Military 11.2%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.4%
- #7 Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
93% matchVery Positive82% of 93,466 reviews2019
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 89.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 28.6%, Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Strategy 14.5%, War 14.4%, Military 9.9%
- #8 Pride of Nations
92% matchMixed49% of 137 reviews2011
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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 44.7% ★, Historical 20.3%, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Multiplayer 4.8%
- #9 Divided Empire: SENGOKU
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Composition GS
Windows
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 40.2% ★, Historical 21.7%, Strategy 13.5%, War 11.2%, Military 9%
- #10 Victoria II
91% matchVery Positive92% of 19,992 reviews2010
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 49.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 46.8% ★, Historical 19.6%, Strategy 8.7%, Military 8.3%, War 5.2%
- #11 Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 154 reviews2023
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
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: Grand Strategy 36% ★, Historical 20%, Military 13.5%, Strategy 13.2%, War 12.9%
- #12 Wars of Napoleon
90% matchMixed52% of 124 reviews2016
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
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: Grand Strategy 29.8% ★, Historical 24.4%, Strategy 21.8%, Military 18.6%, Multiplayer 5.4%
- #13 Countryballs Conquest
89% matchVery Positive86% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Indenial Games
Windows
Lead your country through the Victorian age, expand your empire as you go head to head with the great powers of the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40.8% ★, Military 15.6%, War 14.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.7%
- #14 Grand Tactician: Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815)
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
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 37.5% ★, Historical 24%, Strategy 14.7%, War 9.4%, Military 9.2%
- #15 Civil War II
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 351 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
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: Grand Strategy 33.2% ★, Historical 27.8%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Multiplayer 2.9%
- #16 Hearts of Iron III
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 6,079 reviews2009
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 48.3% ★, Historical 18%, Strategy 10.5%, Military 10.2%, War 5.3%
- #17 Crusader Kings II
86% matchVery Positive91% of 73,865 reviews2012
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 55.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 66.8% ★, Historical 15.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 4.9%, Moddable 2.8% ★
- #18 Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,287 reviews2006
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Grand Strategy 31.2% ★, Historical 21.8%, Strategy 15.5%, War 10.7%, Military 7.9%
- #19 Hearts of Iron IV
84% matchVery Positive90% of 374,673 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30.6 hrsMean: 298.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 36.3% ★, Historical 18.2%, Military 14%, War 12.2%, Strategy 11%
- #20 Roman Empire Wars
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emperor Games
Windows
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 33.2% ★, Historical 21.2%, Military 14.9%, War 13.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #21 太平洋之嵐6 ~ 史上最大的激戰諾曼第攻防戰! Pacific Storm 6 - Battle for Normandy
82% matchMixed62% of 34 reviews2018
Dev: SystemSoft Alpha CooperationPub: 英特衛多媒體股份有限公司
Windows
" Pacific Storm” series is a war simulation game. It is a scene of historical facts, and it has been praised by many historical war fans.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.7% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 16.5%, Historical 15.5%, Military 13.1%
- #22 Maneuver Warfare 2: BTG
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Decisive Action Games
Windows · Mac
A simulation of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War where the player maneuvers battalion tactical groups on a map and controls assets such as aircraft, special forces teams, satellites, field hospitals, and repair facilities to support these. The player can play single battles or a campaign game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.4% ★, Military 23.1%, Strategy 18.3%, War 8.8%, Simulation 6.4%
- #23 Crusader Kings Complete
82% matchMixed61% of 244 reviews2012
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Europe is in turmoil. The lands are fragmented into petty fiefs and the Emperor struggles with the Pope. At this very moment the Pope has declared that those who go to liberate the Holy Land will be freed of all sins. Gather prestige and piety and the world will whisper your name in awe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 58.4% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Historical 17%
- #24 中华三国志 the Three Kingdoms of China
81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,387 reviews2019
Dev: 中三之家
Windows
Three Kingdoms of China is a free, open-source single-machine strategy three-country game developed by the domestic folk team. The game does not have any commercial nature, hoping to create a dream of Three Kingdoms for the fans of the three kingdoms.
Why similar: Historical 24.7%, Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, Strategy 19.6%, War 13%, Military 12.7%
- #25 Strategeist
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Starfish, Inc.
Windows
Become a strategeist and lead one of hundreds of nations on the globe across centuries of conflict and diplomacy in this grand strategy game. Balance war, politics, and internal institutions to shape the fate of your empire, and secure your legacy in history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.1% ★, Historical 19.6%, Military 11.1%, War 7.8%, Moddable 7.7% ★
- #26 Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,393 reviews2021
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 97.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Grand Strategy 36.6% ★, Historical 28.3%, Strategy 22.4%, War 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #27 逐鹿汉末:三国
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 33 reviews2026
Dev: VOWZIN GAME
Windows
这款游戏邀请您来到精彩刺激且充满变革的东汉末年三国时代,以前所未见的自由、深度及历史真实性,进行称霸天下一统中原的征程。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 52.6% ★, Historical 25.5%, Strategy 20.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #28 Supremacy: 1914
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,330 reviews2019
Dev: Bytro Labs GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Take over the control of one of the mighty nations during the times of World War 1 in the biggest WW1 strategy game of all time. Conquer provinces, forge alliances and build up your economy in real-time on persistent maps. Build experimental weapons of World War 1 and become the one true superpower!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.1% ★, Historical 19%, Military 14.2%, War 14.2%, Strategy 11.9%
- #29 PicoBellum
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PicoBellum
Windows · Linux
The war between Humans and Orcs continues to ravage the world. Lead your faction into war, besiege castles, clash on open battlefields, and conquer enemy territory. End the conflict and claim the throne of the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.2% ★, War 17.4%, Strategy 17.3%, Military 13.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #30 Making History: The Great War
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 455 reviews2015
Dev: Muzzy Lane SoftwarePub: Factus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33% ★, Historical 15.4%, Military 11.1%, War 9.5%, Moddable 9.4% ★
- #31 Chronicle of the States: Qin Shi Huang
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 流风Game
Windows
This is a grand strategy game set in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States Period. Become an empire ruler or an ambitious noble, shaping your dynasty through politics and war. Face family conspiracies and minister betrayals, and write an immortal legend with your brilliant strategies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.6% ★, Historical 18.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Military 8.6%
- #32 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,689 reviews2022
Dev: Black Sea GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 49.2% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Historical 16%, Simulation 12.5%, Multiplayer 3.5%
- #33 Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
73% matchVery Positive87% of 21,726 reviews2026
Dev: UnfrozenPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.9% ★, Historical 16.2%, Military 12.4%, War 11.1%, Moddable 9.5% ★
- #34 Revolution Under Siege Gold
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 171 reviews2015
Dev: Sep RedsPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Make the Reds side triumph to save the Soviet Proletarian revolution, or, on the other side, lead the Whites side to victory in order to place the old regime back in power and protect the countries of Europe from the perils of the revolution. This is the biggest civil war game you will ever play!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.9% ★, Strategy 22%, Historical 21.2%, Simulation 17.4%, Multiplayer 3.7%
- #35 Silesian Wars
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: GenuiTX Bittner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule Silesia through a thousand years of history. Wage war, forge alliances and build duchies on a map of real provinces, against cunning historical AI leaders or your friends online — from pagan tribes to the modern day.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.2% ★, Historical 17.6%, Strategy 14.9%, Military 13.2%, War 9.4%
- #36 Europa Universalis: Rome - Gold Edition
76% matchMixed68% of 241 reviews2008
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 53% ★, Historical 24.3%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 4.5%
- #37 三国記II
74% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: lufy
Windows · Mac
《三国记II》是三国记系列的第2部作品,是一款正统的历史模拟策略游戏。以中国东汉末年的三国时期为总体背景,围绕着争夺大陆霸权,展开了一系列的故事。 《三国记II》采取直接在大地图上进行游戏和战斗,让玩家体验征战四方的快感。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 37.9% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 14.7%, Historical 13%, Military 11.5%
- #38 Alea Jacta Est
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
“ALEA JACTA EST” (The Die is Cast) is what Caesar said as he crossed the Rubicon River when he learned that the Senate had removed him from his command. Crossing that small Italian river was equivalent to disobeying Rome’s orders and entering into open rebellion in this historical turn-based strategy wargame .
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.9% ★, Historical 22.4%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 14.7%, Multiplayer 2.5%
- #39 SGS Operation Downfall
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Project Manhattan failed! Operation Downfall, the Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands is set in motion. Start with Operation Olympic to capture Kyushu, and move on with Coronet, the landing near Tokyo. Force Japan surrender with the largest amphibious operation in history.
Why similar: Historical 24.3%, Grand Strategy 23.3% ★, Military 19%, Strategy 14.4%, War 10.5%
- #40 Imperator: Rome
73% matchMixed66% of 26,873 reviews2019
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 37.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 47.7% ★, Historical 19.9%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 9.1%, War 4.1%
- #41 Age of History II
72% matchVery Positive90% of 49,930 reviews2018
Dev: Łukasz JakowskiPub: Łukasz Jakowski Games
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 62.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Grand Strategy 36.7% ★, Historical 25.6%, War 15.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 5.3%
- #42 Heroes of Science and Fiction
69% matchVery Positive90% of 920 reviews2026
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.3% ★, Historical 16.4%, Military 13.1%, War 10.8%, Moddable 10.6% ★
- #43 Industrial War
71% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Yocone
Windows · Mac
Explore the world In the 1920s, with more than 800 cities and 200 mines. Know your industrial chain and plan the role of each city; know your nation's unique polity structure and adjust your overall strategy. Resist the restlessness of your neighbors, acquire resources, and develop your industry.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45.8% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Historical 15.9%, Military 12.3%, War 8.6%
- #44 All Men Are Brothers / 水浒豪
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 221 Games
Windows
《水浒豪》是一款回合制战略游戏,是《三国志》、《文明》、《欧陆风云》的粉丝们不容错过的作品。您扮演山寨之主,运筹帷幄,纵横捭阖。原著中528位好汉、116处据点、49个势力在游戏中登场。被奸臣谋害,魂断蓼儿洼?呸!洒家要清君侧!慢着……洒家要当皇帝!兀那赵老官!给洒家从宝座上爬下来!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 46.4% ★, Historical 25%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #45 Victoria I Complete
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 268 reviews2010
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion, colonization and social upheaval, to emerge as one of the great world powers by the dawn of the 20th century in Victoria Complete.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 57.9% ★, Strategy 23.4%, Historical 18.7%
- #46 Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
71% matchVery Positive90% of 2,097 reviews2011
Dev: Martin IvanovPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45.2% ★, Historical 18.7%, Strategy 13%, Military 7.8%, Simulation 5.2%
- #47 Total Victory: World Conflict 1939-1945
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Kraken Studios
Windows
The ultimate turn-based World War 2 grand strategy game wargamers have been yearning for decades. The best ideas born from players and from wargames so huge they overtook your dining room table, and your wife’s patience. From the developer of the WarPlan series.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.2% ★, Historical 15.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Military 12.3%, War 8.7%
- #48 Crusader Kings III
68% matchVery Positive90% of 142,670 reviews2020
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 29.0 hrsMean: 149.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.4% ★, Historical 20.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 8.6%, War 8.5%
- #49 Steel Covenant 钢铁盟约
69% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: 金戈兄
Windows
"Steel Covenant" is a 3D real-time strategy game. The game is set against the backdrop of World War II. Players can transform into Allied or German commanders, commanding multiple units to participate in battles
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.6% ★, Historical 21.7%, Military 17.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.5%
- #50 ΠΟΛΙΣ — Athens
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Ginkgo
Windows
Govern classical Athens across 272 unbroken years (594–322 BC). Steer family factions, the favour of the gods, and shifting alliances through 332 historical events — as the tide of history carries your city, inexorably, toward 322 BC.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.6% ★, Historical 26.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 14.9%, 3D 1.3%
- #51 Making History II: The War of the World
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 399 reviews2010
Dev: Muzzy Lane SoftwarePub: Factus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 50.1% ★, Strategy 16.7%, Historical 16.3%, Simulation 13%, Multiplayer 3.2%
- #52 Europa Universalis IV
69% matchVery Positive88% of 137,153 reviews2013
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 281.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.5% ★, Historical 18.3%, Military 12.6%, Moddable 9.5% ★, Strategy 7.2%
- #53 Supreme Ruler 1936
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 308 reviews2014
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Real-Time Strategy Game. Guide your nation through the most violent era in modern history. Play massive campaigns as one of the principal nations, set-piece scenarios of famous battles, or set your own victory condition and play as any nation in the world in Sandbox mode.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 31.8% ★, Historical 17.5%, Military 12.6%, War 10.5%, Strategy 7.8%
- #54 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
67% matchVery Positive86% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
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 39.9% ★, Historical 20%, Strategy 17.1%, Military 10.5%, War 9.7%
- #55 Total War: ATTILA
68% matchVery Positive82% of 37,613 reviews2015
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.5 hrsMean: 81.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Grand Strategy 34.6% ★, Historical 27.2%, Strategy 16.2%, War 15.9%, Multiplayer 3.9%
- #56 Bellfortis
66% matchVery Positive91% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: Rake in Grass
Windows
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 40.9% ★, Historical 20.9%, Military 13.1%, War 10.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #57 Oriental Empires
67% matchVery Positive81% of 2,995 reviews2017
Dev: Shining Pixel StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Grand Strategy 26.5% ★, Historical 23.5%, Military 15.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 10.9%
- #58 Countryballs: Power Protocol
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: KNK DEVELOP
Windows · Mac
Play as a Countryball and conquer the world—through force, cunning deals, or clever tricks. Grow your economy, build your army, forge alliances or rivalries, and rule all 195 countries. Global domination, rounder and funnier.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 44.5% ★, Military 18.2%, War 14.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%
- #59 A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 14,856 reviews2018
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Grand Strategy 30.4% ★, Historical 30.3%, Strategy 17%, War 11.7%, Military 4.9%