Games like Arete

If the replayable and competitive rhythm of Arete stuck with you, this helps. Browse these games for your next favorite.

Ancient Battle: Alexander
Ancient Battle: Alexander delivers a unique wargaming experience on PC and Mac.
Competitive, Retro
71% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Battles of the Ancient World
The ‘Battles of the Ancient World’ game system is a tactical simulation of some of the greatest and most important battles from 1457 B.C. to 378 A.D.. Each scenario features one of these great battles and players may play as either side. The game has been designed to ensure maximum playability and historical accuracy, in that order.
Competitive, Retro
76% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
Conquer the ancient Greek world in Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, an epic strategy wargame that expands and refines the award-winning Hegemony: Philip of Macedon with brand new content and features.
Replayable, Competitive
94% of 192 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Strategos
Strategos is a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. Simulate large-scale battles with over 120 factions, and 250+ units, from the ancient world. Create custom battles, or take command of historical ones.
Replayable, Competitive
85% of 243 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
AlexanderBall: A Countryball Tale
Ascend to the Macedonian throne as Alexander the Great and relive his conquests! Fighting alongside redoubtable and quirky commanders, recruit numerous types of balls for your army, construct countless cities named Alexandria, and build an empire that stretches to the ends of the known world!
Replayable, Competitive
90% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$9.09
Field of Glory II
A turn-based tactical wargame set during the Rise of Rome, 280 BC to 25 BC. Command legionaries, phalanxes, elephants and horse archers in historical battles, what-if matchups and campaigns, against a sharp AI or a human opponent. Easy to start, hard to master, endlessly replayable.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
87% of 705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$8.99
Wars Across The World
WAW is a unique historical strategy turn-based game, in a boardgame spirit, which aims at simulating in one single system ALL kind of wars and conflicts throughout the world (and beyond) from Prehistoric times to nowadays, on the operational or strategic levels.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
81% of 193 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Rome: Total War™ - Alexander
Lead Macedon against the Persian Empire in this Rome: Total War expansion. A new campaign map from Greece to Central Asia, over 25 new units, six historical battles and a 100-turn clock that makes every march count. Alexander's story, told with booming Brian Blessed voiceovers and battles you direct yourself.
75% of 807 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27
Imperiums: Greek Wars
A turn-based 4X and grand strategy set in 359 BC, when Philip II takes the Macedonian throne. Pick one of 30 factions, from Sparta and Athens to Persia, manage food, slaves and gold, trade, scheme and fight tile by tile until Greece is yours.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
83% of 458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Hex of Steel
A turn-based WWII wargame on hexes, covering Europe, Africa and the Pacific. Command one of 45 nations against a fair, aggressive AI or a friend in cross-platform multiplayer, with campaigns, huge scenarios and editors that keep every war different.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
95% of 891 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$24.99
Gates of Troy
Designed by wargaming world champion Iain McNeil, Gates Of Troy™ is the Slitherine's critically acclaimed series of historically-detailed strategy games. Gates Of Troy™ offers both strategic campaigns and tactical battles.
Replayable, Competitive, Retro
88% of 32 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
A whole empire in one sitting. Ozymandias strips the 4X genre down to its sharpest moves: expand across hex maps, found cities, and pick one opportunity per turn. With 52 empires, 8 handmade Bronze Age maps and multiplayer with simultaneous turns, a full game takes about an hour, and the next one is already tempting.
Replayable, Competitive
89% of 1,324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99

Cheaper than Arete

AlexanderBall: A Countryball Tale

Ascend to the Macedonian throne as Alexander the Great and relive his conquests!

$9.09

Field of Glory II

Lead legions, phalanxes and elephants through turn-based historical battles against a sharp AI or a friend.

$8.99

Athena Crisis

Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game that places you in command of 40+ units in your journey across the multiverse.

$5.99

Great Big War Game

Join 2.5 million gamers in this award-winning, BAFTA-Nominated turn-based strategy game.

$6.99

Nations At War Digital Core Game

Nations At War series is a dynamic platoon-level combat computer game based on the award-winning board games of the same series name.

$4.99

Epic Little War Game

The lighter side of turn-based war gaming. Take your time to plan good strategies, deploy your troops in the right places, try not to laugh whilst…

$4.99

Warrior Kings: Battles

Warrior Kings: Battles maintains the excitement that made Warrior Kings a leading RTS.

$8.99

BattleLore: Command

BattleLore: Command is based on the board game BattleLore Second Edition from Fantasy Flight Games.

$6.99

Age of History II

Guide a civilization from ancient times to the far future, deciding when to build, negotiate or send armies across the map.

$5.99

Field of Glory II: Medieval

Outmaneuver knights and horse archers across 29 nations, in turn-based battles where every decision on the grid can swing the day.

$8.99

Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game

Lock 'n Load Tactical is fast and Furious tactical combat that is fast to learn.

$4.99

Marble Age

Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the…

$1.49

Hidden gems like Arete

Strategos

Strategos is a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity.

$24.99

Scourge Of War - Remastered

Command brigades to armies in real-time Napoleonic battles where orders travel by courier and timing matters.

$18.99

Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim

Lead a Bronze Age civilization across hex maps, founding cities and choosing one move per turn, alone or against rivals in multiplayer.

$14.99

Athena Crisis

Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game that places you in command of 40+ units in your journey across the multiverse.

$5.99

Hex of Steel

A turn-based WWII wargame on hexes, covering Europe, Africa and the Pacific.

$24.99

Attack at Dawn: North Africa

Attack at Dawn is a WWII strategy game that mixes the ease of real-time action with the depth of operational gameplay, all on beautifully crafted…

$29.99

Shieldwall

Shieldwall puts you on the battlefield as a Roman squad leader who also commands the formation.

$17.99

Warside

Command tanks, warships and aircraft in fast, grid-based battles across a 30-mission campaign and online play.

$24.99

Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleon's Eagles is the classic board game War & Peace for computer.

$34.99

Imperiums: Greek Wars

A turn-based 4X and grand strategy set in 359 BC, when Philip II takes the Macedonian throne.

$29.99

Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition

Build every soldier by hand, from weapon to shield, then lead Spartans, Persians or Romans into land and naval war against rivals.

$19.99

Imperivm RTC - HD Edition "Great Battles of Rome"

Lead ancient armies into fast PvP wars, where heroes like Hannibal fight at the front and every rematch plays out differently.

$9.99

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