Games Like Total War: Rome 2 (Emperor Edition) (2026)

Shared: Grand Strategy, Turn-Based Campaign, Siege Warfare

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, Moddable, Historical

Victorian-era grand strategy where your factory output and political factions matter more than troop formations. One of Paradox's deepest simulations, still thriving 15 years on.

Shared: Grand Strategy, Historical, Siege Warfare

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

The grand-strategy hybrid that Creative Assembly got exactly right: a turn-based campaign map of feudal Japan combined with real-time samurai battles, bundled with all clan, unit, and campaign DLC. Over 92% positive across 21,000+ Steam reviews, and the accolades still hold up.

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.