The Best Grand-strategy Games - Page 4

Update : Kaiserpunk added at rank #40.
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Raiders! Forsaken Earth (2020)

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PC Windows

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...


  • grand-strategy
  • rpg
  • base-building
  • 2.5d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • strategy
  • building
  • isometric
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • top-down
  • old-school
  • management
  • open-world
  • economy

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Field of Glory: Empires (2019)

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PC Windows

Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.


  • grand-strategy
  • turn-based
  • rome
  • tactical
  • 4x
  • historical
  • empire
  • strategy
  • resource-management
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • military
  • battlefields
  • wargame
  • management

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Victoria 3 (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Take over as leader of one of the 200 nations with a centralized industry, back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, it's your job to improve the lives of your citizenry, manage their economy, and keep them happy. Politics plays a huge part in this game and you must form relationships with other countries to succeed.

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What we like:
  • Nested tooltips provide detailed information on concepts
  • Excellent GUI
  • Lots of events
  • Detailed population groups with their own needs
  • Deep economic system
What could be improved:
  • War mechanic not so great

  • grand-strategy
  • economy
  • political
  • politics
  • simulation
  • historical
  • military
  • strategy
  • war

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Knights of Honor II: Sovereign (2022)

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PC Windows

Knights of Honor II: Sovereign is a real-time grand strategy game set in medieval Europe, developed by Black Sea Games and published by THQ Nordic. Players can choose to start their playthrough in either 1110, 1224, or 1360 AD from a range of different European and African kingdoms. It features a suite of competing interests to manage across your empire - mercantile, religious, peasantry, diplomacy and military - with each having their own priorities and influencing your reputation.


What we like:
  • Real-Time Control map for warfare
  • Realistic visuals
  • Soothing soundtrack
  • Accessible interface
  • Plenty of strategic depth
What could be improved:
  • Game is complicated for beginners
  • RTS mini-game shallow compared to other games in genre
  • Limited items included with purchase

  • grand-strategy
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • medieval
  • battle
  • empire
  • simulation
  • war
  • military

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Xenonauts 2 (2023)

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early access PC Windows

Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.


  • turn-based
  • grand-strategy
  • tactical
  • strategy
  • city-building
  • war
  • diplomacy
  • 4x
  • moddable
  • simulation

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Norland (2024)

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early access PC Windows Android

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.


  • colony
  • simulation
  • moddable
  • grand-strategy
  • base-building
  • 4x
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • medieval
  • management
  • strategy
  • historical
  • economy
  • sandbox

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake (2024)

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Theater of war, infinite drama. A masterpiece of historical simulation "ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8" is revived after 20 years. Enjoy the greatest military drama in the Three Kingdoms series, with the largest number of officers and scenarios!


  • turn-based
  • historical
  • diplomacy
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • grand-strategy
  • wargame
  • military
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • character
  • remake
  • real-time
  • rpg
  • period

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Terra Invicta (2022)

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early access PC Windows

From the creators of Long War, an alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • simulation
  • turn-based
  • military
  • 4x
  • diplomacy
  • city-building
  • economy
  • war
  • moddable
  • sandbox
  • political
  • sci-fi

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Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner!


  • historical
  • grand-strategy
  • real-time
  • wargame
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • military
  • alternate

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Kaiserpunk (2025)

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PC Windows

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with the world conquest of strategy games in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

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  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • i
  • resource-management
  • management
  • colony
  • alternate
  • war
  • historical
  • world-war-2
  • diplomacy
  • simulation
  • military
  • economy
  • base-building

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