Games like Great Northern War
If Great Northern War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thirty Years War, Unity of Command II and Panzer Corps 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Great Northern War: Fight for mastery of the Baltic in a tactical wargame of aggressive Swedish assaults, Russian military reform, winter campaigns, and shifting alliances. Command Swedish, Russian, Danish-Norwegian, Saxon, Polish-Lithuanian, and allied forces across 89 scenarios, five campaigns, and the Scanian War.
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Thirty Years War
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Top pick for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Fight on the battlefields of early 17th-century Europe in a tactical wargame of religious war, dynastic ambition, and emerging modern armies. Command Imperial, Catholic League, Swedish, Protestant, French, Spanish, Bavarian, and more across 80 scenarios and 2 campaigns spanning the Thirty Years War.
Unity of Command II
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Second-strongest match for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Panzer Corps 2
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Third-strongest match for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Great Northern War.
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI
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Ranked #4 for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Great Northern War.
Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
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Ranked #5 for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Great Northern War.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
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Ranked #6 for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Great Northern War.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Ranked #7 for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
Shadow Empire
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Ranked #8 for Great Northern War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Great Northern War.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Great Northern War.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Great Northern War.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Great Northern War.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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More from Wargame Design Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Wargame Design Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sword & Siege Crusades: Book I
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Another title from Wargame Design Studio, the studio behind Great Northern War. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Fight through the 1st and 2nd Crusades and the conflicts between them in Crusades: Book I, a tactical medieval wargame of sieges, field battles, and frontier warfare. Command Crusader armies or Islamic alliances across 74 scenarios and two branching campaigns.
Sword & Siege Crusades: Book II
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Another title from Wargame Design Studio, the studio behind Great Northern War. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Continue the struggle for the Holy Land in Crusades: Book II, a tactical medieval wargame covering the Third and Fourth Crusades between 1149 and 1204. Command the Crusader Alliance or the Anti-Crusader Alliance across 102 historically accurate scenarios and four branching campaigns.
Sword & Siege Age of Longbow: Volume I
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Another title from Wargame Design Studio, the studio behind Great Northern War. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Fight through the Hundred Years War in Age of Longbow: Volume I, a tactical medieval wargame of longbow battles, sieges, and shifting campaigns. Command English and French forces across 94 scenarios and an expansive campaign system spanning the war's major phases.
American Revolutionary War
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Another title from Wargame Design Studio, the studio behind Great Northern War. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
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.
War of the Austrian Succession
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Another title from Wargame Design Studio, the studio behind Great Northern War. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Fight across Europe during the War of the Austrian Succession in a tactical wargame of dynastic conflict, continental campaigns, cavalry charges, and rebellions. Command Austrian, Prussian, French, British, Bavarian, Spanish, Sardinian, Jacobite and allied forces across 85 scenarios and 3 campaigns.
Thirty Years War
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Another title from Wargame Design Studio, the studio behind Great Northern War. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Great Northern War.
Fight on the battlefields of early 17th-century Europe in a tactical wargame of religious war, dynastic ambition, and emerging modern armies. Command Imperial, Catholic League, Swedish, Protestant, French, Spanish, Bavarian, and more across 80 scenarios and 2 campaigns spanning the Thirty Years War.
Frequently asked about Great Northern War
- Does Great Northern War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Great Northern War supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Great Northern War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Great Northern War are Thirty Years War, Unity of Command II, Panzer Corps 2.
- Who developed Great Northern War?
- Great Northern War was developed by Wargame Design Studio.
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