Games Like Medieval II: Total War (2026)

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

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, 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, 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: Faction Variety, Real-Time Battles, Turn-Based Campaign

A redemption arc a decade in the making: Rome II's Emperor Edition is the patched, politics-deepened grand strategy that the 2013 launch should have been, and it still draws a crowd for a reason.

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.