12 Best Napoleonic Era Strategy Games Every History Buff Should Play

by Fernando Diaz / Articles, Lists / 09 Oct 2024

Huge-scale battles & epic strategy your thing? Well, pure Napoleonic action awaits you!! The Napoleonic period is one of those eras replete with actionᅳfrom massive campaigns that engulfed Europe to the most dramatic moments in history. Of course, few experiences can beat commanding an army during Napoleon’s time, whether launching a cavalry charge or executing a slick infantry maneuver. Luckily for us, there are plenty of games through which we can live this experience! We’ve compiled a list of the 12 great Napoleonic-era games, from the classic Total War: Napoleon right down to exciting upcoming titles such as Bonaparte – A Mechanized Revolution. From big strategy games in which you run entire nations down to minute, intense real time battles where every musket shot matters, we’ll cover it all.

Whether you are an experienced commander or just someone intrigued by this fascinating era you’ll certainly find something to your liking here. Alright, strap yourselves in for a very wild historic ride full of battle action! If that does sound like your cup of tea, then you are in the right placeᅳwe’ve got you covered with this list. Time to dust off that two-cornered hat and start planning your moves!

List of Games

Check out these awesome games in the video above. (Click on the game titles to go to their Steam pages and learn more.)

Holdfast: Nations At War – Napoleon’s Rise

Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution

Scourge of War: Remastered

March of the Eagles

Mount & Blade: Warband – Napoleonic Wars

Total War: Napoleon Definitive Edition

Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail

Wars of Napoleon

Combat Directive: Napoleonic Wars

Imperial Glory

Napoleon’s Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars

Anno 1800

Fernando Diaz

Fernando is doing what he always did, sharing his honest opinions about games whenever he can. The difference is now he is writing and not talking about it.
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