Games like Supreme Ruler Ultimate

The Squirrel's verdictSuperPower 2's defining feature is its per-country AI — the Evolutionary Human Emulator — where each nation develops its own priorities and reacts to your standing with it specifically, producing readable diplomatic cause-and-effect. The trade-off is a simplified economy where setting tax rates to 90% has no serious consequences, and combat reviewers call exploitable.

Not for you if you want deep economic modeling and large unit rosters rather than a simplified, occasionally exploitable economy and combat system.

The Squirrel's verdictSame idea: pick any nation, manage economy and military, wage war from WWII onward with alliances and trade deals. The difference is scale — fewer units, simpler systems, and reviewers call it more approachable than Hearts of Iron 3 or Supreme Ruler's dense economic layers. Fits players who want geopolitical strategy without a graduate-level learning curve.

Not for you if you want the massive unit counts and deep resource micromanagement that make Supreme Ruler dense in the first place.

The Squirrel's verdictProduction management is the core of Making History: The Second World War — reviewers highlight running war economies, patching together industrial output, and keeping campaigns moving as the main draw. Starting in 1936 with no historical lock on outcomes, it trades Supreme Ruler's full century of play for a single-war focus with median playtime around 121 hours.

Not for you if you want a post-WWII open-ended timeline, or need a thorough tutorial before the mechanics make sense.

The Squirrel's verdictSame total-control geopolitical simulation: pick any nation, manage tax rates and resources sector by sector, command large-scale military production, and play indefinitely past the historical endpoint. This entry runs 1936-2020 rather than into the 2030s and shares the same AI quirks around naval stalemates and unpredictable war declarations. For players who want the scope without waiting on later scenarios.

Not for you if you need the AI to actually resolve wars once units are built instead of stockpiling forces that never move.

The Squirrel's verdictSame pitch: play any nation, control its economy and military down to granular detail, wage war across a fully divided map. Making History narrows the scope to World War I specifically, trading Supreme Ruler's 1936-2020 sandbox for tighter historical focus. Reviewers flag balance issues favoring the Allies. Same audience, smaller timeframe, more period-accurate friction.

Not for you if you want the open-ended century-spanning sandbox rather than a fixed WWI scenario with reported Allied unit balance skewed in their favor.

The Squirrel's verdictSupreme Ruler 1936 runs the same engine as Ultimate — full economic management, huge unit counts, real-time-with-pause play across a global map — but focuses the starting point on 1936 with a deeper WWII-era tech tree extending to 2150. Reviewers praise the tech and logistics depth while flagging the absence of country-level supply chains: Germany can access oil instantly regardless of real-world constraints.

Not for you if country-level supply chain simulation matters to you, or you want a UI meaningfully different from the rest of the series.