The Best 33 Total War Alternatives

  • Civilization icon

    Civilization

    Civilization is a turn-based strategy game that comes to life in a beautifully detailed, living world. Civilization offers various ways to play and win, extensive modding capabilities, and intensely competitive multiplayer options.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone iPad

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    FreeCiv

    Freeciv is an open-source, turn-based strategy game based on Civilization II. Inspired by the history of human civilization, the game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Web

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    Widelands

    Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Stronghold icon

    Stronghold

    Stronghold Crusader is a RTS game from the series from Stronghold. In Stronghold Crusader the player can play as either the legendary Richard the Lionheart or the formidable Saladin.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Wine

  • UniWar icon

    UniWar

    UniWar is a turn-based strategy game where players battle it out on the field with units of differents races, building bases and using the terrain to overcome their opponents towards victory.

    Freemium Android iPhone iPad Blackberry S60

    Team work Multiplayer Single player
  • FreeCol icon

    FreeCol

    FreeCol is a 4X video game, a clone of Sid Meier's Colonization. While remaining faithful to the original in terms of mechanics and gameplay, FreeCol sports a new set of redesigned graphics.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    Empire Earth

    Empire Earth, also known as EE, is a real-time strategy video game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released on November 23, 2001. It is the first game in the Empire Earth series: Empire Earth, Empire Earth II, Empire Earth III.

    Commercial Windows Java Mobile

  • CaesarIA icon

    CaesarIA

    CaesarIA is an open source remake of Caesar III game released by Impressions Games in 1998, it aims to expand the possibilities of the classical city-building simulators and to add new features showing the city life.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Steam

    Multiplayer Medieval
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    C-evo

    C-evo is a freeware empire building game for Windows With a time scope of several thousand years, it covers aspects of exploration and expansion, industry and agriculture, warfare and diplomacy, science and administration.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • TripleA icon

    TripleA

    TripleA is a free (under GPL) turn based strategy game based on Axis & Allies board game. A wide variety of map scenarios have been developed for TripleA (World War II, Punic Wars, Napoleonic wars, etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Java Mobile

  • Great Little War Game icon

    Great Little War Game

    Great Little War Game is a 3D turn based strategy game from Rubicon. Take charge of your army and defend your strongholds against enemy attack.

    Commercial Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad PlayBook

  • Europa Universalis icon

    Europa Universalis

    Europa Universalis IV gives you control of a nation to guide through the years in order to create a dominant global empire.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Steam

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    Advanced Strategic Command

    Advanced Strategic Command is a free, turn based strategy game. It is designed in the tradition of the Battle Isle series from Bluebyte. ASC can be played both against...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    Ikariam

    Ikariam is a browser based massively multiplayer online game of the strategy genre produced and maintained by Gameforge AG. The game is set in the era of classical...

    Freemium Web

    Dark theme Multiplayer
  • Tropico icon

    Tropico

    Tropico is a series of construction and management simulation computer games developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001. Feral Interactive has developed and published a number of the games.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Bos Wars icon

    Bos Wars

    Bos Wars (formerly known as Battle of Survival) is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    SpellForce

    pellForce: The Order of Dawn is a real-time strategy and role-playing video game developed by German game studio Phenomic Game Development and released on 11 November...

    Commercial Windows Linux Steam

    Multiplayer Medieval
  • Imperial Domination icon

    Imperial Domination

    Imperial Domination II is a turn-based strategy game, set after the conquests of Alexander the Great and before the rise of the Romans. Expand your empire by trade...

    Free Windows