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Games like Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Games like Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Games like Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Looking for games like Advance Wars: Days of Ruin? Here are top turn-based strategy recommendations with a warfare focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Bunker Wars, Shadow Empire or Pandora: First Contact.

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  1. Bunker Wars: Drone Control Strategy is a game made for Major Jam: Isolation with the additional limitation of "no living beings". Brainstorming lead to an Advance Wars-style game (Days of Ruin in particular) with drone units and electronic warfare. Controls Only a Keyboard Required. Arrow Keys - Move Cursor / Navigate MenuZ - ConfirmX - CancelA - Toggle Map ZoomS - Cycle to next UnitSpacebar - En… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bunker Wars.

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  2. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding
    83% User Score Based on 1,602 reviews
    Critic Score 78%Based on 1 reviews

    Shadow Empire is an immersive and rather complex turn-based wargame with a unique mix of military focus, 4X elements, procedural generation and role-playing features. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shadow Empire.

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  3. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, grinding
    63% User Score Based on 506 reviews

    The ancient Messari return to Pandora with all their might, deploying portals and terrifying ion storms. From these portals come forces never before seen by mankind, and an infestation spreads across Pandora. The strongest factions are the ones that have to fear them most, but they will spare no one.About the GamePandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetar… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pandora: First Contact.

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  4. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story
    85% User Score Based on 594 reviews

    Strategic Command WWII: World At War is your chance to re-fight the 20th century’s greatest conflict, from Poland to China, Normandy to the Pacific, on a map encompassing the globe. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Strategic Command WWII: World at War.

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  5. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    75% User Score Based on 552 reviews

    The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Making History: The Great War.

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  6. Sacred Light: Pyre of Hubris is a strategy RPG inspired by the Ogre Battle series. Develop, organize, then take command of your units, sending them into real-time battles and discover a rich, dangerous world full of political intrigue, black magic, and ancient powers. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sacred Light: Pyre of Hubris.

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  7. Build a Galaxy and Witness Civilizations Rise and FallThe Stars Are Never Still is a 2D sandbox game about observing civilizations across the cosmos. Instead of playing as a single empire, you take the role of a cosmic observer—creating a galaxy and watching its civilizations develop, expand, form alliances, trade, wage war, and ultimately rise to prosperity, fracture, or disappear. You can quick… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Stars Are Never Still.

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  8. 14%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    21% User Score Based on 19 reviews

    In Empire Earth III you create history.New to the series, the World Domination mode offers a campaign that not only spans time, but also the entire globe. Earth is divided into provinces that you can conquer in any order, as you forge your path to total supremacy. Take your empire from fledgling kingdom to dominant superpower as you battle over a realistically rendered planet Earth. World Domina… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Empire Earth III.

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  10. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 21 reviews

    Go where no strategy gamer has gone before - beyond all-previous award-winning 5-star series. Star General is light-years ahead of its proud ancestors and proposes a two-level combat system that accommodates space combat and surface combat. Resource management - conquer enemy planets and develop them for your needs. See the beauty of over 90 fully rendered 3D starships. 100+ ground units and mult… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star General.

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    88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    88% User Score Based on 836 reviews

    Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers! Rule the Waves 3 is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970 and will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age. Rule the Waves 3 will let you design and build the … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rule the Waves 3.

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  12. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics
    83% User Score Based on 188 reviews

    Based on the War in the East engine with years of additional major features and improvements, Gary Grigsby’s War in the West 1943-45 is the most ambitious and detailed computer wargame on the Western Front of World War II ever made. Starting with the Summer 1943 invasions of Sicily and Italy and proceeding through the invasions of France and the drive into Germany, War in the West brings you all t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gary Grigsby's War in the West.

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  13. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics
    74% User Score Based on 226 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game for Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on April 24, 2001. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and units. Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cossacks: European Wars.

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  14. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    96% User Score Based on 1,078 reviews

    The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sid Meier's Colonization.

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  15. 94%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    94% User Score Based on 161 reviews

    Empire Deluxe: Combined Edition is the latest in the classic Empire Series of games, which has spanned almost five decades. Empire Deluxe is a game about taking cities. Starting with just one, the city enables a commander to produce units. These units in turn can directly attack or support the attack of more cities. Your imperialistic desires are not satisfied until you have taken every city on t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Empire Deluxe Combined Edition.

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  16. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    64% User Score Based on 326 reviews

    Nuclear war simulator is a detailed realistic simulation and visualization of large-scale nuclear conflicts with a focus on humanitarian consequences. It lets you design conflict scenarios and estimate the consequences using a population density map and realistic weapons effects. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nuclear War Simulator.

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  17. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    68% User Score Based on 100 reviews

    Inspired by the World War Z novel from Max Brooks, Z-Collapse takes you on a global zombie apocalypse. As the head of the government of your choice, make sure that your country survives! Dramatic decisions await you. How will you handle them? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Z-Collapse.

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  18. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    69% User Score Based on 167 reviews

    Combat Mission Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today. Combat Mission Cold War simulates several “what if” conflict scenarios between US and Soviet for… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Combat Mission Cold War.

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  19. 86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    90% User Score Based on 381 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    Gary Grigsby’s War in the East consists in a truly epic representation of the Second World War on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in its scale, detail, and ambition. This game is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gary Grigsby's War in the East.

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    69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability
    69% User Score Based on 52 reviews

    Clash II is a turn-based strategy game, where player will get the chance to immerse himself as a commander of one of quareled fractions. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Clash II.

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  21. War in Asia is a grand strategy game built around systemic simulation. Its goal is to deeply and comprehensively simulate the East Asian theater of World War II from 1937 to 1945 through three major pillars: military operations, economy, and logistics networks. Command and CampaignsWar in Asia features its own distinctive wargame-style operational system. Chinese forces are represented primarily … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to War in Asia.

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  22. Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War.

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  23. Secret Government is a grand strategy game about a secret society. Remaining unseen, they have been ruling mankind for hundreds of years. Your role will not be just to lead a particular country or region, but the Brotherhood — a centuries-old organization that works in the shadows and manipulates the entire world. Pull the strings of fate as you influence the present and future on a global scale, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Secret Government.

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  24. 42%Game Brain Score
    42% User Score Based on 3 reviews

    Navigate through interactions with competing powers to lead your nation to global domination in this 4X open sandbox geopolitical sim set in post-WW2 alt-history world. You have 251 years at your disposal to conquer and unify the planet or take your nation into space. Can you make it? Unleash your geopolitical prowess on a global scale. Create your own history by playing a time period comme… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Geopolaris: Conquer & Dominate.

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  25. Year 1442, Unified Calendar The world has been plunged into a devastating state of chaos, as two mighty powers wage war for supremacy. The Vollcross Empire, a brutal fascist regime, has launched a surprise invasion of the Kazanov Union, intent on eradicating the perceived communist threat. In the early days of the war, the Empire's forces were unstoppable, crushing opposition with ruthless eff… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Khaligrad.

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  26. A civilization builder from ancient times to the future, with 36 scenarios, space colonization, crusades, religious revolts, nuclear winter, climate change, dynamic world wars and extensive record keeping If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kingdoms Test Of Time.

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  27. 72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    100% User Score Based on 23 reviews

    Fight through the American War of Independence in a tactical wargame of field battles, frontier warfare, fortified positions, and campaigns for control of the colonies. Command American, British, Loyalist, German, Native allied, and French forces across 148 scenarios and four campaigns. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to American Revolutionary War.

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  28. 50%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story
    74% User Score Based on 19 reviews

    A realistic real-time strategy military game with direct control over your army vehicles, no build times, and stunning 3D graphics set in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are scarce and Europe has turned into a war zone. Your goal is to build up your power or join forces with a team and form a formidable alliance to defend your home territory in PVP combat against other players. Launch… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rogue Assault.

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  29. Hold the Line is a strategic tower defense game set during World War I, in the heart of the Belgian trenches. The enemy advances. The lines are collapsing. You play as an officer tasked with defending a key sector of the front with limited resources and exhausted soldiers. GameplayEach soldier has individual statistics: Range Fire rate Experience Fatigue A hungry, thirsty, or exhausted… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hold the Line.

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  30. In a constantly shifting starfield where borders are redrawn and alliances crumble overnight, you are neither a general nor a soldier — but a profit-driven Stellar Industrialist. The fiercer the battles, the faster your factories flourish; peace is nothing but shutdowns and losses. Venture to the frontlines, scour the battlefields for wreckage and salvage, then reinvest those spoils to expand your… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Industrialist.

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  31. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    82% User Score Based on 7,158 reviews

    An extraterrestrial probe is detected approaching Earth. Unknown to humanity, an alien force has arrived in the far reaches of the icy Kuiper Belt and has begun mining a dwarf planet to prepare for an invasion. With Earth’s nations unable to unite to address the alien arrival, transnational groups of like-minded political, military, and scientific leaders develop covert channels to coordinate a r… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Terra Invicta.

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  32. TACTICAL CARD BATTLES ACROSS THE ASTRALIS SYSTEMLoopweavers: Dimensional Alliances is a deep sci-fi tactical card game where positioning, resources, and planetary environments shape the battle. DEEP STRATEGIC CARD GAMELoopweavers: Dimensional Alliances is a deep strategic card game where players build custom decks and deploy creatures and constructs across a tactical grid-based battlefield. F… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Loopweavers: Dimensional Alliances.

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  33. 99%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics
    99% User Score Based on 117 reviews

    Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War is a grand tactical combat simulation on the Cold War battlefield. As the force Commander, you will plan and then issue orders and Standard Operating Procedures to your battalion, brigade, or regimental forces, shaping the fight by maneuver and your intent. Your forces will engage the enemy in rendered real-world map locations. Each hex is 500m of militarily signific… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War.

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  34. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    83% User Score Based on 29 reviews

    Welcome to the Echo Cluster, a dense cluster of star systems, rich in resources and native life. Over three hundred years ago the 11 races arrived marking the start of a complex and brutal history which is still unfolding today. They brought with them a dangerous and powerful technology, which has allowed elite members of society to skip through time by accelerating close to the speed of ligh… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to VGA Planets Nu.

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    84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    83% User Score Based on 11,790 reviews
    Critic Score 90%Based on 2 reviews

    Warno: Gold Edition includes: - Base Game - Expansion Pass - Digital Guides - Reinforcement Packs #1-7 If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to WARNO.

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  36. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    73% User Score Based on 1,550 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 8 reviews

    Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Oriental Empires.

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  37. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    81% User Score Based on 760 reviews

    Centuries before Caesar, Alexander and Philip, the forested hills and rocky coasts of ancient Italy draw cultures from across the Mediterranean with promises of wealth and prosperity. Bronze-clad hoplites from the powerful Greek city-states set sail across the Adriatic to carve out bridgeheads of Hellenic culture amongst the native Italic hill tribes, while aggressive bands of Gallic skirmishers m… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients.

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    77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    77% User Score Based on 458 reviews

    Civil War II is a historical operational grand strategy game with a simultaneous turn-based engine that places players at the head of the USA or CSA during the American Civil War. It is a turn based regional game with an emphasis on playability and historical accuracy. Each turn lasts 2 weeks and you must issue your orders in advance, planning on where the enemy will be, not where they are now. O… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Civil War II.

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  39. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    78% User Score Based on 348 reviews

    Headquarters World War II is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game where your battlefield tactics are as important as your army management skills. Experience both sides of the war, battling in Europe as the USA, the UK, or Germany. Storm bunkers, occupy houses, win tank duels. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Headquarters World War II.

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  40. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, optimization
    93% User Score Based on 357 reviews

    Strategic Command: World War I is a new chapter in the Strategic Command Franchise. Relive this momentous conflict from the opening shots of 1914 to the final offensives. Strategic Command: World War I covers all the main aspects and theatres of the war. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Strategic Command: World War I.

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  41. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    89% User Score Based on 316 reviews

    Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe is a deeply immersive turn based strategy game covering the greatest conflict in modern history! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe.

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  42. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    79% User Score Based on 102 reviews

    Combat Mission Red Thunder focuses on the hard fought Eastern Front battles of Bagration and Poland, from the swamps of Belarus to the gates of Warsaw during the summer of 1944. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Combat Mission: Red Thunder.

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  43. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    93% User Score Based on 1,486 reviews

    A strategy game in which you attempt to bring about the apocalypse, by moving covert agents through a complex fantasy world to accomplish a wide range of schemes, plots and rituals. You start the game by bribing guards and infiltrating minor farming communities and slowly build up your forces until you are bringing about ice ages, eradicating entire nations with plague, summoning volcanoes and com… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shadows of Forbidden Gods.

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  45. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    73% User Score Based on 83 reviews

    Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cuban Missile Crisis.

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  46. 53%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    52% User Score Based on 143 reviews
    Critic Score 55%Based on 2 reviews

    Experience first-hand the challenges of leading one of 16 different races into unequalled galactic supremacy and face a universe of decisions. Set policies, explore, build, declare war, negotiate - put all these elements into motion to guarantee your place in the annals of space and time. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Master of Orion 3.

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  47. 41%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    41% User Score Based on 85 reviews

    1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact is a strategic game about potential Cold War conflict just after the Stalin’s death. When the cruel tyrant has gone, Soviet warmongers has been finally able to start war with rotten West. With the nuclear power in the hands of both sides there is a huge possibility to end the world as we know it. How this ends, depend only on the action taken by both sides. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact.

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  48. 42%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    42% User Score Based on 53 reviews

    Set during the early events of World War 2, Fall Weiss is a new successor to the Panzer General If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Campaign Series: Fall Weiss.

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    90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    93% User Score Based on 2,148 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ICBM.

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  50. 59%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    58% User Score Based on 780 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Become the ruler of any country in the modern world in Realpolitiks, a streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, and your military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination! Become the ruler of any contemporary country in this streamlined r… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Realpolitiks.

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