Games Like Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition (2026)

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

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: Mod-Friendly, Turn-Based Campaign, 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: Historical 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: Mod-Friendly, Turn-Based Campaign

Five radically asymmetric factions, a turn-based campaign map, and real-time battles where steam tanks fight alongside vampire-raised dead, if this doesn't already sound like your thing, no strategy game will convert you faster.

Shared: Real-Time Battles, Mod-Friendly

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.