Statecraft
Lead your nation, balance the interests of factions, manage the economy and diplomacy, and guide your country through crises to stay in power.
33% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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Victoria II
Guide a nation from 1836 to the brink of World War II: industrialise, reform, colonise and fight your way into the ranks of the great powers. Over 200 playable countries, a living world economy and a population that votes, strikes and revolts. Every run rewrites history differently.
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87% of 17,293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 540$19.99How Empires Work: Incremental Strategy
An incremental grand strategy game where a small click grows into an empire. Tax, trade, conquer and colonise, then turn your repeated chores into institutions that run themselves for centuries. All under the firm, perfectly reasonable guidance of Her Imperial Majesty, who expects results.
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92% of 38 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 125$8.99Eon Empires
Create and lead your civilization from the Stone Age to a futuristic era. Shape history on customizable maps through war, diplomacy, culture, trade, science, and religion.
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50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Nations
Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion. In Nations you can rule your people for centuries – from ancient times to the modern day and beyond. You shape your state, history and map of the world.
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90% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Europa Universalis III Complete
Take any of more than 250 real nations and guide it through three centuries of exploration, trade, war and diplomacy. Start on any date between 1453 and 1820, reshape history your way, and watch one more turn become one more century. A deep, replayable grand strategy classic that still runs on almost anything.
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80% of 1,458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 72$14.99Civitas: World Simulator
A historical fantasy world that never sits still. Lead any nation from 3000BC into the far future while peoples argue, ideologies clash and empires wobble on shaky foundations. Rewrite borders, invent rulers, and watch the whole planet react to every choice you make.
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88% of 59 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 102$10.87Statecraft
Lead your nation, balance the interests of factions, manage the economy and diplomacy, and guide your country through crises to stay in power.
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33% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99The Emperor and State
The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.
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55% of 322 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$14.99Choice of History
Choice of History is a deep historical sim where you rule as one of 765 real sovereigns across China, Rome, Britain, America, Russia and more. Make monthly decisions through 76,000+ events, climb a 1,158-node tech tree, and balance rival factions. Your choices echo through history—no right answer.
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75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Secret Government
Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.
Replayable
52% of 250 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Imperial Wager: The Shattered Crown of Augustus
Rule a fractured realm in this minimalist political sim where statecraft is an abstract game of chance. Wager your treasury to awaken dormant relics, mold a Ruling Will to set the house in motion, and steer shifting borders. Set the stakes, delegate power, and gamble to reforge the name of Augustus.
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0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!
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38% of 260 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
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Choice of History
Choice of History is a deep historical sim where you rule as one of 765 real sovereigns across China, Rome, Britain, America, Russia and more.
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
NationWar:Annals
This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.
92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Your Majesty
Enter your name and start your own dynasty. Rule your empire and choose between developing technology or culture, governing diligently or lazily.
0% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Reign: Conflict of Nations
Reign: Conflict of Nations allows players to have a well thought-out and historically accurate system of building and assigning labor forces in…
49% of 93 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
Sultan's Decree
A card-based strategy game across 623 years of Ottoman history.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Countryballs Conquest
Lead your country through the Victorian age, expand your empire as you go head to head with the great powers of the world.
86% of 90 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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.
89% of 48,334 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 949$5.99
Rename the History
Lead your country in one of the most difficult periods of post-war history.
38% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Rogue State
Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution.
75% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Doodle Empires
Sketch kingdoms onto a blank map, deal out their fates card by card, and see which empires rise, fracture or fade.
92% of 1,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 74$6.99
Collapse: A Political Simulator
Collapse is a grand strategy game that takes place in 1992-2004.
65% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
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Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion.
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Geoplanetical
A geopolitical simulation that starts on January 1, 2026, with the world exactly as it stood that day.
78% of 499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 602$24.99
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Lead any of 450 medieval nations from 1054 onward and turn it into a kingdom that outlasts you.
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Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
Grow your cities, craft their goods and guide your people through history while every rival moves alongside you.
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Suzerain
Steer Sordland through crisis as its president, where every choice shapes the country and your own fate across nine endings.
92% of 10,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 211$19.99
Rogue State Revolution
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji.
75% of 486 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Millennia
Lead a nation across 10,000 years, from the first cities to futures that never were, and shape an economy that feeds your wars and your people.
66% of 2,990 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$39.99
Field of Glory: Empires
A turn-based grand strategy game set in the Classical Mediterranean, where you grow a civilization from tribe to empire.
81% of 739 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$39.99
Making History: The First World War
A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles.
66% of 108 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
World Warfare & Economics
Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and…
57% of 647 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Victoria 3
Build your ideal 19th-century society, from 1836 to 1936, by balancing factories, trade, laws and rival empires.
65% of 45,969 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10,393$49.99
Rogue State
Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution.
75% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Guide a country from ancient times to the far future, juggling war, diplomacy and politics in a sandbox that reacts to every decision.
88% of 59 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 102$10.87
How Empires Work: Incremental Strategy
Tax, trade and conquer as a small kingdom grows into a self-running empire, at your own pace.
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Geoplanetical
A geopolitical simulation that starts on January 1, 2026, with the world exactly as it stood that day.
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EQUILIBRIUM
Govern by typing: cut taxes, nationalize energy, declare a state of emergency. Every order becomes real economic and political consequences.
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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Command a World War II nation's armies, economy and diplomacy in a grand strategy wargame that fits a full match into one session.
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Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
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Lead any nation in a deep, turn-based grand strategy and political sim.
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Aye! My Liege
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Fall of an Empire
In a crumbling realm, hold back collapse in this grand strategy epic.
69% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Nations
Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion.
90% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Doodle Empires
Sketch kingdoms onto a blank map, deal out their fates card by card, and see which empires rise, fracture or fade.
92% of 1,340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 74$6.99
Observe
Watch nations rise and fall on their own, redraw the map as a god, or take command of any country in a world you can build from scratch.
92% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$7.99