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2002USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable70 % positive9.99 €

Combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles across medieval Europe. Diplomacy, trade, espionage and religion shape your dynasty's rise over four centuries.

  • Historical setting
  • Economy and management
  • Deep systems to master
  • Tactical depth

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In short: Games like Medieval: Total War

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Empire: Total War

100 %Match

2009USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable89 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Medieval: Total War: a historical setting, economy and management as well as complex systems to tinker with.

An 18th-century grand strategy game: manage your empire on a turn-based campaign map, then fight real-time land battles and the series' first fully 3D naval battles with sailing ships and musket lines.

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Shogun: Total War

Tactical depth

As a daimyo in Sengoku-era Japan, you conquer the country on a turn-based strategy map and fight your battles in real time with large armies. Its appeal lies in historical authenticity and tactical terrain and unit management.

Napoleon: Total War

Tactical depth

Napoleon: Total War combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles of the Napoleonic era. You lead campaigns from Italy to Waterloo or oppose him, winning wars through strategy and battlefield command.

Total War: Shogun 2

Tactical depth

Combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles in Sengoku-era Japan. Diplomacy, intrigue, province building and agents like ninjas give strategic depth both on the map and on the battlefield.

Total War: Rome II

Historical setting

Combines a turn-based campaign map where you manage an ancient empire with huge real-time battles in which you tactically command entire armies. Diplomacy, economy and generalship all feed into one another.

Rome: Total War

Tactical depth

A landmark strategy game that pairs turn-based empire management on a campaign map with massive real-time battles involving thousands of soldiers. Lead a Roman family or a rival power as you manage provinces, forge alliances and command legions in the field.

Lords of the Realm II

Historical setting

Medieval strategy set in a struggle for the English throne: you manage land, peasants and economy on a turn-based map, then lead your armies in real-time sieges and battles against rival nobles.

Total War: Pharaoh

Historical setting

A Bronze Age strategy game where you lead dynasties across Egypt and the Near East on a turn-based campaign map, fight real-time battles and manage cities, diplomacy and food supplies as the old powers collapse.

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