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Games like Rome: Total War

2004USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable94 % positive

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.

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

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In short: Games like Rome: Total War

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Rome: Total War special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Total War: Shogun 2

99 %Match

2011USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable89 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Rome: Total War: a historical setting, economy and management as well as 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.

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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.

Medieval II: Total War

Deep systems to master

A turn-based grand campaign of diplomacy, city building and dynastic scheming across medieval Europe and the Middle East, paired with massive real-time battles involving thousands of troops. A landmark entry in the Total War series for anyone who wants to rewrite medieval history.

Empire: Total War

Deep systems to master

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.

Total War: Rome II

Deep systems to master

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.

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.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI

Turn-based combat

A classic 4X turn-based strategy game where you lead a civilization from the Stone Age to the Information Era, planning cities district by district across the map. Win through conquest, science, culture, religion or diplomacy, and get hooked on the famous 'one more turn' loop.

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