Games Like Medieval II: Total War (2026)

Shared: Grand Strategy, Real-Time Tactics, Historical

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, Real-Time Tactics, Turn-Based Campaign

Three campaigns and one absurd sandbox map, but budget forty hours of tuition before the empire management stops feeling like homework. Worth it if you enjoy losing first.

Shared: Grand Strategy, Turn-Based Campaign, Real-Time Tactics

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: Grand Strategy, Turn-Based Campaign, Real-Time Battles

Feudal Japan grand strategy with turn-based clan management and brutally tactical real-time battles. Metacritic 90 and still the benchmark for the Total War formula.

Shared: Turn-Based Campaign, Real-Time Tactics, Siege Warfare

The tightest Total War ever made, and the one that turns on you: conquer half of Japan and the other half declares war in a single turn. Newcomer-friendly, if you plan for the ambush.