Games like The Emperor and State
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The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.
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-50%$19.99Terra Invicta
Jan 5 · Pavonis Interactive
Both: Grand Strategy · Historical · Turn-Based Strategy
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
StrategyGrand StrategySimulation4XEconomyWarHistoricalTurn-Based StrategyTacticalManagement👍 9,064
-50%$24.99ENDLESS Legend™ 2
3 days ago · AMPLITUDE Studios
Both: Grand Strategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Historical
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
StrategySimulationGrand Strategy4XTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerHistoricalWarTacticalManagement👍 2,699
$39.99Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Apr 30 · Unfrozen
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy
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.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerGrand StrategySimulation4XTacticalTurn-Based TacticsWar👍 19,290
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: Grand Strategy · Historical
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementBuildingSandboxEconomy👍 2,093
-15%$8.49Three Kingdoms Born
2 days ago · Project Dragon
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
A character-driven Three Kingdoms strategy game. Recruit legendary officers, build your realm, and command real-time battles through preparation, tactics, and decisive intervention. Shape Guandu, Red Cliffs, and the anti-hegemon war, challenge Duel Mode, and climb global rankings.
StrategyTurn-Based StrategyManagementMilitaryWarSingleplayerEarly Access
$14.99The Conquest of Go
Dec 10 · Wolfey Studios
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
Turn-BasedStrategyBoard GameTabletop2DTop-DownTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyEducationTutorial👍 581
$59.99Geo-Political Simulator 2026 Edition
Nov 27 · Eversim
Both: Grand Strategy · Wargame
The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.
SimulationStrategyPolitical SimGrand StrategyRTSWargameReal Time Tactics3DTop-DownCapitalism👍 253
-30%$20.99HEART of CROWN Online
Dec 18 · illuCalab, FLIPFLOPs, quziralab.
The great emperor's untimely death... Seven princesses are candidates for his succession! Who will save the empire from chaos? An online deck-growing card game where you grow your deck and fight for the Princess.
DeckbuildingCard GameBoard GameStrategyIndieTabletopCard BattlerCuteTurn-Based TacticsFantasy👍 412
$29.99Heroes of Science and Fiction
Mar 17 · Oxymoron Games
Both: Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy
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.
StrategySimulationRPGMultiplayerTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyFantasyTacticalWar4X👍 852
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: Grand Strategy · Historical
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementHistoricalBuildingSandboxColony Sim👍 2,011
-37%$9.44Crimson Oath
Apr 29 · Parry Frames Studio
Both: Alternate History
Long may the sun shine! Prepare to suffer! Souls-like combat adventure in a unique world. Learn to fight... then fight to realize your belief.A warrior gradually grows and uncovers the ultimate truth of world change.
Souls-likeActionAlternate HistoryFaithMedievalCombatAction-AdventureFantasySingleplayerAdventure👍 752
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: Grand Strategy · Historical
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalSandbox👍 3,278
$39.99Xenonauts 2
Apr 2 · Goldhawk Interactive
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategySci-fiTurn-Based CombatTacticalTurn-BasedPvECharacter Customization👍 4,857
$17.99Microcivilization
Jan 22 · Ondrej Homola
Both: Historical
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
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3 days ago · Ashborne Games
Both: Strategy RPG
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