Games Like Hearts of Iron IV: Trial of Allegiance (2026)

Shared: Grand Strategy, Alternate History

Over a decade old and still the benchmark for grand-strategy depth, EU4 rewards patience with hundreds of hours of alternate-history sandboxing, but the DLC catalog demands a plan before you open your wallet.

Shared: Grand Strategy, Political Simulation

Lead Rome - or its enemies - across centuries of ancient conquest in this sprawling grand-strategy/real-time-tactics hybrid with three extra campaign packs included.

Shared: Grand Strategy

Put 50 hours in before you see the cracks, and 500 before you stop caring about them. Stellaris is the deepest space grand strategy on PC, but the DLC wall and a shaky 4.0 patch make the entry point complicated right now.

Shared: Grand Strategy

Build legions, crush rivals, and micromanage an empire across one of the deepest turn-based/real-time hybrid strategy games set in antiquity. Rome wasn't built in a day, but you'll try anyway.

Shared: Grand Strategy

Three Kingdoms brings Romance of the Three Kingdoms fiction and hardcore grand-strategy together in one of Total War's most polished entries. Diplomacy finally has teeth.