Games Like Making History: The Calm & the Storm (2026)

Shared: Moddable, Resource Management

Ninety-six out of a hundred on Metacritic, and it still sits at 96% positive on Steam after nearly 30 years. That number either means something or it doesn't.

Shared: Grand Strategy

A Metacritic 86 strategy trilogy closer with over 60 factions in its Immortal Empires mega-campaign - but the stock Realm of Chaos campaign has a structural flaw that will frustrate anyone who loves a clean late-game payoff.

Shared: Grand Strategy

Hundreds of hours of asymmetric grand strategy backed by an 87 Metacritic score - pick your race, pick your Legendary Lord, and watch your carefully planned campaign spiral into glorious chaos by turn 40.

Shared: Moddable

Hundreds of hours in and I still haven't seen everything RimWorld can throw at a colony, that alone tells you whether this one deserves a slot on your drive.

Shared: Resource Management

Wrangle, feed, and crossbreed slimes on an alien ranch in this endlessly cheerful first-person sim that somehow makes spreadsheet farming feel like a vacation.