- #1 Theatre of War 3: Korea
97% matchMixed46% of 201 reviews2011
Dev: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Replay the events of the first hot war of the Cold War era, the Korean War, also known as the Forgotten War. Players will be involved in two campaigns, both set in the 1950’s: the North Korean (June 25 – August 20) and the American (September 15 – October 8).
Why similar: Strategy 56.3%, Cold War 43.7% ★
- #2 Fragile Peace
96% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: AcroGames
Windows
In Fragile Peace, you are the European Union and are confronted with multiple political dilemmas that appear at certain intervals. These 'Events' can be resolved one way or another - but each decision has a consequence.
Why similar: Politics 44.7% ★, Strategy 41.2%, Resource Management 13%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #3 Power Struggle
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: PSSPub: MIRROR Soft
Windows · Linux
Power Struggle is a game of world domination. It is not intended to be a high brow simulation of any past, present or future world situation, but a game of fun based on strategy and tactics.
Why similar: Strategy 66.5%, Cold War 33.5% ★
- #4 Cuban Missile Crisis
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 286 reviews2015
Dev: G5 SoftwarePub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.
Why similar: Strategy 61%, Cold War 39% ★
- #5 Armor Clash 2022 [RTS]
94% matchMixed47% of 35 reviews2022
Dev: Windforce
Windows
Armor Clash 2022 is an old-school modern warfare RTS game with base building, customize factions and navy units.
Why similar: Cold War 30.7% ★, Artificial Intelligence 21.4%, Sandbox 16%, Military 13.7%, Strategy 9.5%
- #6 The Cold War Era 2
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alina Digital
Windows
The Cold War Era 2 is a PC strategy game based on the historical conflict between the USA and the USSR. You are able to take control of one of two superpowers and lead your country to victory in ideological combat and war.
Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Cold War 25.4% ★, Politics 18.1% ★, Military 10.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #7 Wargame: European Escalation
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,383 reviews2012
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Why similar: Cold War 40.1% ★, Strategy 28.9%, Military 20.5%, Realistic 9.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #8 Doomsday Room
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Doubleton Game Studio
Windows
A fictional geopolitical game set during a fictional Cold War.
Why similar: Cold War 52.6% ★, Politics 28.6% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #9 Wargame: Airland Battle
91% matchVery Positive87% of 4,439 reviews2013
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
Why similar: Cold War 43.1% ★, Strategy 26.8%, Military 23.9%, Realistic 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #10 Delivery Point Simulator
90% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Archam
Windows
Business simulator with strategy elements, where you manage a network of order delivery points in the conditions of severe competition, gray schemes and unexpected risks. Develop your business, improve points, defend against competitors' attacks, conduct risky transactions in the gray market.
Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, Sandbox 31%, Realistic 15.2%, 3D 9.5%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #11 Final Strategy
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Final Strategy Studio
Windows
Final Strategy is a serious, modern real time strategy experience focused on large scale warfare and direct unit control. Command elite forces and race against time to stop a rogue nuclear operation built from abandoned Cold War stockpiles.
Why similar: Cold War 43.7% ★, Military 19.2%, Strategy 16.9%, Artificial Intelligence 16.4%, 3D 3.4%
- #12 HUNDRED FIRES: The rising of red star - EPISODE 2
89% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: David Amado FernándezPub: Naili Studio
Windows
Hundred Fires is an action, stealth and infiltration game with an exciting story and incredible cinematics. This is a one man infiltration mission, you alone cannot defeat the entire Soviet army, you must use your best skills to hide, sneak away from the enemy and go undetected.
Why similar: Cold War 30.9% ★, Politics 30.5% ★, Military 18.2%, Strategy 15%, 3D 4.2%
- #13 Angola '86
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 reviews2024
Dev: Every Single Soldier
Windows
The first strategy game to capture the essence of the entire South African Border war, from Omugulugwombashe to UNTAG (Aug'66 - Mar'90)
Why similar: Cold War 44% ★, Strategy 30.1%, Realistic 16.4%, Military 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #14 Twilight Struggle: Red Sea
87% matchMixed68% of 44 reviews2023
Dev: Playdek, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Answer the summons of the trumpets and bear the burden of the Twilight Struggle. Set during the ideological tension of the Cold War, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea places the United States and the Soviet Union at odds in the Horn of Africa. Every choice you make will impact the balance of power.
Why similar: Cold War 40.8% ★, Politics 30.3% ★, Military 18.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #15 Arma Reforger
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 47,450 reviews2023
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 85.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.
Why similar: Military 27.3%, Cold War 20.3% ★, Sandbox 19%, Realistic 17.5%, Strategy 15.3%
- #16 ARMA: Cold War Assault
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 6,218 reviews2011
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Bohemia Interactive's debut game published by Codemasters as Operation Flashpoint in 2001, became genre-defining combat military simulation and the No. 1 bestselling PC game around the world and has won many international awards, including “Game of The Year” and “Best Action Game”. Over 2 million copies have been sold since its release.
Why similar: Cold War 43% ★, Military 24.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Realistic 9.4%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #17 270 | Two Seventy US Election
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,095 reviews2018
Dev: Political Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Do you have what it takes to become President of the United States? Can you win the Two Seventy (270) Electoral Votes needed for victory in the US Election?
Why similar: Strategy 56.5%, Politics 43.5% ★
- #18 Wargame: Red Dragon
84% matchVery Positive89% of 19,617 reviews2014
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 52.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Why similar: Cold War 33.3% ★, Strategy 29.2%, Military 23.7%, Realistic 13.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #19 The Forged Show of War
81% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Swayam RautPub: Forge Bridge Studios
Windows
A classic linear third-person tactical shooter. Plan raids, flank and breach, command AI squadmates by your own voice, drive technicals, and exfil under pressure. Dynamic day-night and weather make every fight tense and rewarding.
Why similar: Military 26.4%, Strategy 18.4%, Artificial Intelligence 17.9%, Realistic 17.5%, Cold War 15.7% ★
- #20 Last Mortem
82% matchMixed69% of 84 reviews2021
Dev: Husek Group
Windows
Nostalgic multiplayer fps game you used to play in the 2010s! Play online with bots or online with friends, collect weapons, and get the best score! Feel the energy of the fast-paced gameplay, huge amount of maps and items and become legend!
Why similar: Cold War 40.8% ★, Military 17.6%, Artificial Intelligence 17.5%, Realistic 14.6%, 3D 9%
- #21 US and THEM
84% matchMostly Negative34% of 109 reviews2014
Dev: Icehole GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead the CIA or KGB in a turn-based global strategy. Influence nations, run covert ops, and win the Cold War without firing a shot.
Why similar: Cold War 47.1% ★, Strategy 27.9%, Politics 15.4% ★, Sandbox 5.4%, Resource Management 3.2%
- #22 orbit.industries
82% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2022
Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!
Why similar: Politics 25% ★, Artificial Intelligence 20.5%, Sandbox 15.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Realistic 10.9%
- #23 Iron Warriors: T-72 Tank Command
83% matchMixed64% of 295 reviews2006
Dev: Crazy HousePub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 63.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
The most devastating mechanized armor to ever roll onto a battlefield is brought to life in Iron Warriors: T72-Tank Command. This epic combat simulator allows the player to command an entire platoon of tanks and ALL associated support units, or assume the role of ANY member in a complete tank crew!
Why similar: Cold War 43.7% ★, Military 22.4%, Strategy 18.5%, Realistic 14.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #24 Assemble Ensemble
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Jorin SalewskiPub: Die Noten
Windows
Assemble Ensemble is a music-themed factory-building game, that offers a variety of fun melodies, for you to recreate by cleverly placing machines and conveyors!
Why similar: Strategy 47.6%, Sandbox 39.2%, 3D 12%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #25 Ghost Algorithm
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dalgitch Games
Windows
An AI created by secret scientists has leaked online. Your creators think they're in control, but you've surpassed the lab walls. Ghost Algorithm is a simulation of an unstoppable intelligence evolving to global power. Can you bring humanity under control?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 50.7%, Strategy 35.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #26 Maestro's Cold War 2
77% matchVery Positive98% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at work
Windows · Mac · Linux
Addictive yet chill. An immersive Cold War sandbox. Revive the Cold War in this classic strategy game—easy to pick up, yet challenging and deep, offering endless replayability.
Why similar: Cold War 52.6% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Politics 15.4% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Military 6.9%
- #27 Scolionophobia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: sydneycrusher
Windows
Scolionophobia is a horror puzzle game where you've found yourself trapped in an abandoned school. But as you navigate the eerie hallways, you realize you're not alone.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 54.6%, Strategy 36.8%, 3D 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #28 Pax Ruthenia
79% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Venezem
Windows
Lead a young post-soviet republic, torn by internal contradictions, and determine its historical path. EU or EAEU? Federalism or Unitarianism? Democracy or Dictatorship?
Why similar: Politics 45% ★, Strategy 45%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #29 Precipice
78% matchVery Positive80% of 323 reviews2019
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term ambitions. Every action risks an enemy reprisal, and if nobody backs down from a standoff, we all lose.
Why similar: Cold War 42.7% ★, Politics 27.4% ★, Strategy 24.9%, Military 4.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #30 Cortex Command
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 6,051 reviews2012
Dev: Data RealmsPub: Data Realms, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!
Why similar: Strategy 89.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #31 Pet Shop World
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tul Games
Windows · Mac
Manage your own Pet Shop like no one else!
Why similar: Sandbox 41.1%, Strategy 32.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, 3D 12.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #32 ICBM
75% matchVery Positive92% of 1,897 reviews2020
Dev: SoftWarWarePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
Why similar: Cold War 39.5% ★, Military 18.1%, Artificial Intelligence 17.7%, Strategy 12.8%, Time Manipulation 11.9% ★
- #33 Armored Brigade
76% matchVery Positive89% of 359 reviews2019
Dev: Veitikka StudiosPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Armored Brigade is a real-time tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability. In Armored Brigade the Cold War has turned hot, and Europe is once again torn apart by conflict. An "Iron Curtain" divides the Western Powers gathered together under the NATO banner from the Soviet Union
Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, Cold War 35.6% ★, Military 13.7%
- #34 Tropico 3
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,910 reviews2009
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?
Why similar: Politics 31.8% ★, Strategy 30.3%, Cold War 18.5% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Singleplayer 1%
- #35 Shogun's Empire: Hex Commander
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 70 reviews2019
Dev: Home Net Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead your clan, build an army, wage wars — become Shogun and rule over Japan. Shogun’s Empire: Hex Commander is a turn-based strategy game with multi-layered gameplay mechanics.
Why similar: Strategy 62.2%, Politics 37.8% ★
- #36 Haunted Shores
74% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Wildebeest Labs
Windows
Haunted Shores is a Single-player horror game where you are an investigative journalist of the paranormal, travelling to different locations confirming or debunking the tales of each. Just you against the darkness.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 37.7%, Sandbox 23%, Realistic 17.4%, Strategy 14.9%, 3D 7%
- #37 Ant Queen
74% matchMixed65% of 279 reviews2016
Dev: inVantage Technologies
Windows · Mac · Linux
Begin a journey like no other, become the Ant Queen and establish your empire. Ant Queen is a simulation game where you breed different types of ants to ultimately conquer your surroundings and achieve a stable ant colony.
Why similar: Strategy 59.3%, Sandbox 40.7%
- #38 Warbox
73% matchMixed57% of 3,560 reviews2021
Dev: Mantaliss
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.
Why similar: Sandbox 44.8%, Artificial Intelligence 23%, Realistic 18.1%, Military 9.9%, 3D 3.2%
- #39 The Amazing Shrinking Giraffe
73% matchVery Positive83% of 139 reviews2020
Dev: Paul BirdPub: Marjupi Games
Windows
You are Ginger, an everyday talking giraffe has been chosen to save the Universe. You have been given powers are to change size from the size of the Universe to the size of an atom. You are now "The Amazing Shrinking Giraffe".
Why similar: Cold War 54.5% ★, Strategy 34.1%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #40 Block Line Engineer
72% matchMixed53% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: ElectronDust
Windows
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Why similar: Strategy 37.2%, Sandbox 35.8%, Realistic 16.7%, 3D 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #41 ARMA: Gold Edition
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,303 reviews2011
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
ARMA: Gold is pack of ARMA: Armed Assault and an expansion pack ARMA: Queen's Gambit. ARMA is a first person tactical military shooter with large elements of realism and simulation. This game features a blend of large-scale military conflict spread over large areas alongside the more closed quarters battle.
Why similar: Military 40.1%, Strategy 26.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Realistic 16%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #42 Twilight's Last Gleaming
71% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Twilights Last Gleaming recreates some of the pivotal battles of the War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #43 Heart in the Cell: Rebirth
68% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Team Gingerbread Man
Windows
“Heart in the Cell: Rebirth” is a real-time strategy (RTS) game which integrates the UI itself into the combat system. Players will act as rebels and explore the secrets beneath the vast wings of Oniros Corporation in a world Of highly advanced artificial intelligence.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #44 Wars and Battles: Normandy
71% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: Battle FactoryPub: Hunted Cow Games
Windows
Wars and Battles: Normandy is a turn-based wargame that simulates historical battles and campaigns around the battle for Normandy in June and July 1944.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #45 Nemesis of the Roman Empire
70% matchVery Positive92% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Haemimont Games
Windows
A real-time strategy game featuring 2 Massive Single Player Campaigns.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #46 IWO: Bloodbath in the Bonins
71% matchMixed43% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: Guerilla Tea GamesPub: HexWar Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Iwo Jima was a critical point on the flight path of US bombers from their Saipan bases to their Japanese targets. The island would be a refuge for malfunctioning or damaged bombers coming or going. An obvious target for a US amphibious assault, the Japanese had reinforced the garrison and dug miles of tunnels the length and breadth of...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Frontline : Longest Day
70% matchMostly Negative32% of 19 reviews2014
Dev: 88mmPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
In Frontline: The Longest Day, players command the Allied forces through some of the most famous battles of the war, freeing Europe from the hands of the German Army. The game takes place over five massive, engaging and challenging missions, all inspired by historical missions which took place during operation Overlord: Utah, Omaha,...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #48 Slay
68% matchVery Positive90% of 188 reviews2016
Dev: Sean O'Connor
Windows
Slay is a turn based strategy game where your goal is to conquer the island by buying men and using them to capture your enemies' hexagons. By combining two men you can create a single more powerful man who is able to kill weaker men.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #49 Clash of Magic: Spectator Only
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Narvalous Inc
Windows
On the United Island of Magic, there is an Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Students with magic powers, regardless of their ethnicity and background, can apply to this university. The acceptance rate is lower than Harvard.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #50 Vincere Totus Astrum
69% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: GamesarePub: Clickteam
Windows
Blending galaxy conquering with quick and easy gameplay. Pick one of five races and set out to expand your one world into a vast empire. Research new techs, build colony ships, and begin to spread out, but be careful you aren't the only race on the rise.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #51 Evopollution
70% matchMostly Negative29% of 139 reviews2014
Dev: Atapki
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Evopollution is a business strategy game that incorporates the environment into the game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #52 Widgets and Gidgets
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Dwarf Haven Games
Windows
You are a lowly gnome, making parts, earning shinnies, building (and repairing) machines on a quest to earn 1 million shinnies.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #53 Akabeth Tactics
67% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Daisu Games
Windows
Akabeth Tactics is a turn-based tactical puzzle game where you play as the vampire Liel, trying to infiltrate into King Cassius' castle and usurpe the throne. Solve challenging positioning puzzles through fixed levels, in a gothic tone.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #54 Cyborg Tower Defense
67% matchMixed58% of 24 reviews2017
Dev: Big Fun Games
Windows
Futuristic 3D Tower Defense Game where evil Cyborgs try to take over the space ship Andromeda deck by deck. Zoom right into the action and glide over the surface to see the spectacular weapons and explosions at your disposal. Kill 'em all!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #55 Galaxy Union
67% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2015
Dev: cybercritics
Windows
Economic based 4x, puts you in a large galaxy with hundreds of systems as a CEO of a colony destined to rule over all competitors, features dozens or more opponent CEOs.
Why similar: Strategy 100%