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A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2018

Should you play it?

From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?

What works

  • Immersive historical setting
  • Engaging tactical battles and sieges
  • Deep political and campaign management
  • Unique recruitment and supply mechanics
  • Strong modding community enhancing gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited faction and unit variety
  • Some ui and campaign management complexity
  • Ai can be simplistic or erratic
  • Minor settlements lack garrisons
  • Replayability limited by smaller scope

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Fire & Maneuver

  • American Conquest: Fight Back

  • Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

  • Oriental Empires

  • Sudden Strike 5

  • Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES

More fantastical

Games that feels like A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA but with more imaginative fiction

  • Total War: WARHAMMER

  • Command & Conquer™ Tiberian Sun™ and Firestorm™

  • ENDLESS Legend™

  • Age of Wonders III

  • Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

  • A Total War Saga: TROY

More intimate

Games that feels like A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA but with more focus on close relationships

  • Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition

  • Medieval Kingdom Wars

  • Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition

  • Total War: SHOGUN 2

  • Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

  • Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - Enhanced Edition

More dominating

Games that feels like A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA but with more domination over others

  • Civilization IV®: Warlords

  • Total War: ROME REMASTERED

  • Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition

  • Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

  • Cossacks: European Wars

  • Imperial Glory

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A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 10/08/2026