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2009PCSteam Deck playable89 % positive19.99 €

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.

  • Historical setting
  • Economy and management
  • Deep systems to master
  • Tactical depth

The closest matches for Empire: Total War are Napoleon: Total War, Total War: Rome II and Medieval: Total War. 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

100 %Match

2010PC91 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Empire: Total War: a historical setting, complex systems to tinker with as well as economy and management.

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.

Total War: Rome II

Historical setting

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.

Rome: Total War

Historical setting

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.

Total War: Shogun 2

Historical setting

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.

Shogun: Total War

Tactical depth

As a daimyo in Sengoku-era Japan, you conquer the country on a turn-based strategy map and fight your battles in real time with large armies. Its appeal lies in historical authenticity and tactical terrain and unit management.

Medieval II: Total War

Historical setting

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.

Europa Universalis IV

Historical setting

A deep grand strategy sandbox where you guide any of hundreds of nations from the late Middle Ages to the Napoleonic era through diplomacy, trade, colonization and war. Its complexity is daunting at first, but crafting your own alternate world history is endlessly absorbing.

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