Games Like Making History: The Great War (2026)

Shared: Scenario Editor

Wipe out humanity one mutation at a time. Plague Inc: Evolved is a deceptively deep strategy sim where you build the perfect pathogen and outsmart global health responses.

Shared: 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: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: tier:indie

Closer to Dwarf Fortress in a wuxia robe than anything you'd find on a typical RPG shelf - deep, opaque, and rewarding only if you commit to learning its dense systems.

Shared: Economic Simulation

Paradox's most ambitious society-builder finally earned its 'Mostly Positive' badge after years of post-launch patching. If your brain runs on supply chains and political theory, this is the deep end of the pool.