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An 18th-century grand strategy game: manage your empire on a turn-based campaign map, then fight real-time land battles and the series' first fully 3D naval battles with sailing ships and musket lines.
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The closest matches for Empire: Total War are Napoleon: Total War, Total War: Rome II and Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Empire: Total War special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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Napoleon: Total War combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles of the Napoleonic era. You lead campaigns from Italy to Waterloo or oppose him, winning wars through strategy and battlefield command.
96 % 29.99 €
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Combines a turn-based campaign map where you manage an ancient empire with huge real-time battles in which you tactically command entire armies. Diplomacy, economy and generalship all feed into one another.
95 % 19.99 €
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A strategy game set in 878 Britain that pairs a turn-based campaign map with large real-time battles. Anglo-Saxons, Gaels and Vikings fight for supremacy while you build your own kingdom.
94 % 9.99 €
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Combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles across medieval Europe. Diplomacy, trade, espionage and religion shape your dynasty's rise over four centuries.
92 % free
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A landmark strategy game that pairs turn-based empire management on a campaign map with massive real-time battles involving thousands of soldiers. Lead a Roman family or a rival power as you manage provinces, forge alliances and command legions in the field.
92 % free
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Combines a turn-based campaign map with huge real-time battles in Sengoku-era Japan. Diplomacy, intrigue, province building and agents like ninjas give strategic depth both on the map and on the battlefield.
91 % 19.99 €
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A Total War spin-off set in the Bronze Age Trojan War. You manage your realm on a turn-based campaign map and lead legendary heroes like Achilles or Hector into large real-time battles.
91 % 19.99 €
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A turn-based campaign map combined with massive real-time battles in Late Antiquity: you guide a people through Rome's fall, Hunnic invasion, plague and climate collapse. Managing economy, politics and armies to survive is a stern challenge.
90 % 19.99 €
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A turn-based grand campaign of diplomacy, city building and dynastic scheming across medieval Europe and the Middle East, paired with massive real-time battles involving thousands of troops. A landmark entry in the Total War series for anyone who wants to rewrite medieval history.
89 % 29.99 €
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The classic 4X strategy game: you guide a civilization across millennia, from its first settlement to the space age. Hex-based combat, city-states and multiple paths to victory create the famous "one more turn" pull.