Games like Empire: Total War
Closest overall match: Napoleon: Total War (★ 3.7). Highest rated: Sid Meier's Civilization V at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: Sid Meier's Civilization IV at about 1 hours.
We compared Empire: Total War against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Historical, Grand Strategy and Military. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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93%
1. Napoleon: Total War
Shares Naval, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Military and 11 more tags; same developer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 10
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80%
2. Total War: SHOGUN 2
Shares Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Military and Historical and 9 more tags; same developer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 10
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72%
3. Rome: Total War - Collection
Shares Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Historical, Turn-Based Strategy and RTS and 6 more tags; same developer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 92
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 10
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72%
4. Medieval II: Total War
Shares Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Military, Historical and Turn-Based Strategy and 7 more tags; same developer; rated 0.3 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 10
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70%
5. Company of Heroes 2
Shares Military, Historical, RTS, War and Tactical and 5 more tags; same developer; rated 0.7 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 10
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67%
6. Men of War: Assault Squad
Shares Real Time Tactics, Military, Historical, RTS and War and 3 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 10
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67%
7. Wargame: Red Dragon
Shares Naval, Real Time Tactics, Military, RTS and War and 3 more tags.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 33%
- Shared genres
- 10
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66%
8. Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Shares Grand Strategy, Historical, Turn-Based Strategy, War and Turn-Based and 3 more tags; rated 0.3 higher.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 94
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 10
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65%
9. Europa Universalis III Complete
Shares Grand Strategy, Historical, RTS, War and steam-trading-cards and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 10
-
64%
10. Worms Reloaded
Shares Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based, Tactical, stats and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 37%
- Shared genres
- 10
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64%
11. Sid Meier's Civilization V
Shares Grand Strategy, Historical, Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based and Tactical and 4 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; about 23h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 27h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 10
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64%
12. Company of Heroes
Shares Military, Historical, RTS, War and Tactical and 2 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 93
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 58%
- Shared genres
- 10
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Empire: Total War?
On our similarity model, Napoleon: Total War is the closest match to Empire: Total War — shares Naval, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Military and 11 more tags; same developer; released within 1 year.
Which game like Empire: Total War is rated highest?
Sid Meier's Civilization V holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 2,033 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Empire: Total War on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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