Games Like Total War: Rome II (Enemy At the Gates Edition) (2026)

Shared: Grand Strategy, Real-Time Tactics, 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, Political Simulation, 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: Real-Time Tactics, Siege Warfare, Mod Support

The bleakest campaign layer Total War has ever built, and its first hour is designed to make you feel like you are already losing. Push through and it is the series at its most tactical.

Shared: Grand Strategy, Real-Time Tactics, Mod Support

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: 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.