- #1 Crimson Banner: War of Liberation
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 赤旗制作组
Windows · Mac
Are you ready, comrades? You will command the People's Liberation Army, strike a heavy blow against the aggressive Nationalist reactionaries in the War of Liberation, and win the liberation of all of China!
Why similar: Cold War 24.6% ★, Wargame 15.4%, Military 12.7%, War 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%
- #2 Taking The Cross
96% match7 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: RangerStudios
Windows
Taking the Cross allows you to control Christian Armies fighting for the holy land, inflict crushing defeats on your enemies and win glory for the faith!
Why similar: Wargame 20.5%, Auto Battler 19.2%, Historical 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Military 10.7%
- #3 SGS Korean War
95% matchVery Positive84% of 129 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The first intense conflict of the Cold War, this war is very often forgotten, its very rapid and dynamic but unknown aspect obliterated by months of stagnation following the first year of operations in Korea. Can you make it remembered?
Why similar: Cold War 23.7% ★, Wargame 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, War 11.5%, Military 10.3%
- #4 SGS Battle For: Stalingrad
94% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The terrible "rat fights" (Rattenkrieg) fought out in the urban area of Stalingrad end of 1942, on a battalion scale and two days per turn scales. Relive one of the fiercest and deadliest battles in history, a ‘Hell in a Small Place’.
Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Card Battler 19%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Historical 10.7%
- #5 No Retreat! The Russian Front
94% matchVery Positive82% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Cyril JarnotPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
This game is a Strategic game on the Eastern Front of World War II.It is a digital port from the famous and eponym boardgame, No Retreat!, designed by Carl Paradis.
Why similar: Wargame 23.2%, War 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Historical 13.6%, Military 13.5%
- #6 SanGuos3
93% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: 陈文龙
Windows
SanGuos3 is a Three Kingdoms themed chess game with simple graphics and easy operation. Players can control multiple forces to compete with each other, capture cities and territories. Players can also freely modify the characters, maps and terrain in the scripts
Why similar: Wargame 21.7%, Military 17.5%, War 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Historical 10.5%
- #7 Cold War Battles
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kudos Games
Windows
Lead Cold War formations in quick, turn based, hex‑and‑counter battles spanning real and hypothetical conflicts from 1945–1990. With over 200 units and varied theatres - from Norway’s Arctic front to the Golan Heights, Cold War Battles await.
Why similar: Wargame 21.4%, Cold War 19.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Historical 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%
- #8 英雄竞起:三国
91% matchMixed61% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: 自在工作室
Windows
The world is in chaos, heroes are rising, and the public is a high-ranking official. We must take the collection of heroes as our heart, and we can help the Han dynasty and save the people.
Why similar: Wargame 22.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%, Military 13.7%, Historical 11.2%
- #9 VIETNAM WAR PLATOON 越战排 (AI WAR Game)
91% match6 user reviews71% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Two Thousand and one entertainment studios
Windows
This game is a new concept card and flag game with the theme of Vietnam War. It is a light snack game prepared for the leisure transition of players who are tired of playing large-scale games like me and hand injured players. 2020.8.10
Why similar: Cold War 19.8% ★, Auto Battler 15.7%, Military 15.1%, Wargame 14.1%, Card Battler 11.7%
- #10 War On Paper
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Carrot studio
Windows
Large map turn based mobile, arrange troops, occupy favorable resource points, and buy troops. The encounter of the two armies will trigger the battle scene. Each team has five kinds of forces. Choosing the appropriate strategy to annihilate the opponent can win.
Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Auto Battler 18.7%, Military 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, War 11.8%
- #11 SGS Avalanche
89% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the whole Italian campaign of World War II, from Husky landings of July 1943 till the final capitulation of 1945. Struggle your way up the boot as the Allies, or defend every inch of the peninsula as the Axis.
Why similar: Wargame 27.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, War 15.7%, Military 13.9%, Historical 13.4%
- #12 Desert Armor
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LizardScript
Windows
Desert Armor is a turn-based strategy wargame. Move your armored vehicles across the arid landscape of the Gulf War and engage enemy vehicles over thousands of meters in battles against a friend, artificial intelligence, or yourself.
Why similar: Cold War 22.1% ★, Wargame 12.8%, Military 12.2%, War 11.7%, Historical 9.8%
- #13 SGS Sealion
88% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game SudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Operation Sealion is Germany's code name for the planned invasion of Britain in 1940. It could have happened after a victory of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. Find out in this game how in could have unfolded.
Why similar: Wargame 25.1%, War 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Military 13.7%, Historical 13%
- #14 纸上谈兵模拟器
87% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: 犟游社
Windows
一款简单易上手的兵团战争游戏。 扮演战国七雄,搭配自己的将领,统一天下。
Why similar: Wargame 22.4%, Military 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%, Historical 12.6%
- #15 Frontline: Afrika Korps
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frontline: Games Series
Windows
Lead iconic WWII forces across stunning desert battlefields. Command, customize, and conquer in thrilling, historically rich campaigns. Outsmart foes with cunning tactics. The sands of Africa await!
Why similar: Cold War 25.1% ★, Wargame 18.2%, Military 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, War 10.6%
- #16 General Command
86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Sweet Apple Games
Windows
General Command is a turn-based Napoleonic war game. Create custom battles and lead your army against enemy generals who set their strategy based on aggression and confidence. In the age of muskets, cavalry charges, and cannon fire, use bold battlefield maneuvers to seize victory.
Why similar: Wargame 19.1%, War 14.8%, Military 13.1%, Historical 11.9%, Tabletop 10.4%
- #17 SGS Okinawa
85% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
A standalone epic rendering of the 1945 bloody fighting on Okinawa, the last great battle of the Pacific War. The game is part of the Pacific D-Day collection. Both sides are playable, each with their own challenge.
Why similar: Wargame 24.9%, War 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Military 13.9%, Historical 13.2%
- #18 Twilight Struggle: Red Sea
84% 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 31.3% ★, Wargame 18.8%, Military 15.4%, War 13.8%, Historical 7.1%
- #19 Wargame Construction Set
84% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Strategic SimulationsPub: SNEG
Windows
Ever dreamed of crafting your own wargames, from maps to soldiers? Design simple or complex battles, from man-to-man combat to large-scale campaigns. Build maps, customize units, and choose from historical, modern, fantasy, or sci-fi settings. Play ready-to-go games or unleash your creativity.
Why similar: Wargame 21.8%, Military 14.5%, Historical 13.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%
- #20 Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific
82% matchVery Positive88% of 113 reviews2024
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific is a turn-based strategy game. It offers a comprehensive experience of the Pacific Theater, challenging you to achieve victory in one of history's greatest conflicts.
Why similar: Wargame 24.9%, Historical 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Military 14.1%, War 12.7%
- #21 Combat Mission Cold War
83% matchMixed67% of 229 reviews2021
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
CM Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today.
Why similar: Wargame 22.4%, Military 15.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, War 12.2%
- #22 SGS Overlord
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The largest amphibious operation of WW2, and a two-month campaign in the hell of the Norman bocage. Will you manage to make the decisive breakthrough before the Germans recover? Or will you succeed, as Rommel wanted, in crushing the Allied landing as close to the beaches as possible?
Why similar: Wargame 27.3%, War 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Historical 14.5%, Strategy 9.6%
- #23 WARNO
80% matchVery Positive81% of 14,911 reviews2024
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.
Why similar: Cold War 27.4% ★, Wargame 19.6%, Military 16.3%, War 12.7%, Historical 10%
- #24 Combat Mission Black Sea
81% matchVery Positive84% of 558 reviews2021
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
Why similar: Wargame 24%, Military 16.8%, War 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%
- #25 Valor and Glory: Napoleonic Wars
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zeuta Caffe
Windows
Take on the campaign and lead one of 5 factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the enemies.
Why similar: Wargame 20.7%, Military 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, War 13.4%
- #26 Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 144 reviews2023
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Napoleon's Eagles is the classic board game War & Peace for computer. Be Napoleon – or stand against him – in a series of short scenarios that cover the epic battles of the age, or in a multiplayer-only grand campaign that may – or may not – end on the field of Waterloo.
Why similar: Wargame 26.4%, War 18%, Historical 16.2%, Military 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%
- #27 Angola '86
79% 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 35.5% ★, Wargame 23.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%, Strategy 8%
- #28 Britannia
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Avalon DigitalPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac
Relive over a thousand years of Great Britain's history in this epic game of conquest and domination. From Roman legions to the Norman Conquest led by William the Conqueror, explore the fate of numerous nations and fight to become king.
Why similar: Wargame 24.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, War 14.4%, Military 12.8%, Historical 12.7%
- #29 Korean War
77% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: 丁近恒
Windows
3D full-terrain strategy game. Based on historical records of the Korean War, authentically restore war scenes, campaign units, equipment systems, and AI strategies. Players will command the Chinese military and engage in over 60 battles from October 24, 1950, to August 13, 1953.
Why similar: Military 24.4%, Wargame 23.9%, War 21.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%
- #30 Pacific General
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 48 reviews2021
Dev: Strategic SimulationsPub: SNEG
Windows
Pacific General explores the Pacific front of the Second World War. Taking control of Axis or Allied forces, you must strategically battle your way through the Eastern and Western front of the Pacific war, using a wide array of land, air and naval forces.
Why similar: Wargame 26.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.7%, Historical 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Military 12.5%
- #31 SGS Battle For: Dien Bien Phu
77% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
The emblematic siege battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French rule over Indochina in 1954. Fight for the defense of the fortified camp or try to storm it, in order to reach the upcoming Geneva Peace Conference in a position of force.
Why similar: Wargame 28.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, War 16.5%, Historical 14.6%, Strategy 10.1%
- #32 SGS Battle For: Madrid
76% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
With Battle for Madrid, relive the Nationalists most determined attempt to take the Republican capital of spain from November 1936 to February 1937.
Why similar: Wargame 27.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, War 15.3%, Military 13.5%, Historical 13%
- #33 Banality Wars Carridin
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andrew Zuo
Windows
Discover the secrets of Project Carridin in this deep tactical turn based strategy game inspired by Advanced Wars Days Of Ruin.
Why similar: Wargame 24.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, War 15.5%, Military 14.9%
- #34 SGS Battle For: Shanghai
74% matchVery Positive86% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Fight the ‘Stalingrad on the Yangze’, as was sometimes called the Battle for Shanghai in 1937. Play as the Chinese willing to reclaim the whole city or as the Imperial Japanese forces in their counter-attack.
Why similar: Wargame 23.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, War 13.9%, Historical 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%
- #35 SGS Operation Hawaii
75% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: The Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
On December 7th, 1941, the Empire of Japan struck a surprise blow against unsuspecting American forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaï. In the ensuing confusion and panic, the USA feared a Japanese invasion of Oahu island, but it fortunately did not materialize. But what would have happened if it had?
Why similar: Wargame 25.2%, War 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Military 14.1%, Historical 13.4%
- #36 Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,032 reviews2019
Dev: Serious SimPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.
Why similar: Cold War 27.3% ★, Wargame 17%, Military 13.4%, War 12.6%, Historical 10.9%
- #37 Chariots of War
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Chariots of War is an operational real-time game where you can play one of 58 different nations on a huge historically accurate and beautiful map covering the entire Middle East! Build up your cities and keep their inhabitants happy.
Why similar: Wargame 32.5%, Historical 22.9%, War 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Strategy 11.3%
- #38 1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact
73% matchMixed48% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Wastelands InteractivePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Cold War turns hot in 1953: massive hex strategy with nukes, supply, and sabotage.
Why similar: Cold War 29.6% ★, Wargame 21.1%, Military 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, War 10.9%
- #39 Liberators' Chronicles
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digi Learnnials
Windows
Liberators' Chronicles is an exciting turn-based strategy game that will take you to the South American independence campaigns. Liberate half a continent from the yoke of the Spanish crown as you command brave revolutionary leaders and their armies.
Why similar: Wargame 18.3%, Historical 15.8%, Military 15.6%, War 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%
- #40 March, March! European Warfare
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: Baroque Design
Windows
A minimalistic, turn-based wargame without randomness that puts emphasis on outmanouvering and striking the enemy with diverse unit types. Fight in the field, besiege forts or hunt down enemy king in local or streamed PvP. Illustrated with digitized, centuries-old copperplates.
Why similar: Wargame 17.8%, Military 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, War 13.5%
- #41 SGS NATO's Nightmare
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 112 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
What if the Warsaw Pact had attacked NATO in the mid-1980s. Or the other way around? Study this titanic conflict, within its most emblematic theater, Germany and Central Europe. Will you be able to achieve your goals without escalating into an uncontrollable nuclear conflict?
Why similar: Wargame 27.1%, Cold War 25.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Historical 10%, Military 8.4%
- #42 Wartime Glory
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buldogo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wartime Glory is a turn-based strategy war game that is a perfect mix of classic board games like Risk with special cards that give it a new dimension of strategy and tactics. Have fun while you take over the world, one country at a time!
Why similar: War 17.3%, Wargame 15.7%, Cold War 12.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Tabletop 12.4%
- #43 Rules of War
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Endeavour Games
Windows
Take command in this 4X-lite strategy game with fast-paced tactical combat and missile warfare. Build your economy, deploy land, sea, and air units, expand borders, advance technology, and navigate deceitful diplomacy. In a world of collapsing nuclear powers, can you lead your nation to victory?
Why similar: Cold War 30.7% ★, Wargame 15.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, War 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%
- #44 Hegemonism: Cold War
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: M1835
Windows
《Hegemonism: Cold War》,A turn-based card strategy indie game where you take on the role of a Cold War superpower. Build your unique deck from an extensive card collection and employ strategic gameplay to outmaneuver your opponent across the globe—by any means necessary.
Why similar: Cold War 34.9% ★, Card Battler 18.3%, Historical 14.4%, Wargame 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%
- #45 Möbius Front '83
71% matchMixed69% of 496 reviews2020
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Defend America from an alternate-universe America using state-of-the-art 1980s military hardware in this intricate and tactical turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Cold War 29.7% ★, Wargame 17.4%, Military 15.9%, War 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%
- #46 Pacific Fire
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wirraway Software
Windows
Pacific Fire is a turn-based strategic wargame set in the Pacific Theater of World War II using a node-based map, rather than hexes. Take command of US, Japanese, British, Australian, New Zealand, Chinese and Dutch forces in the Pacific and Southeast Asia from 1941-1945.
Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Military 16%, Historical 15.8%, War 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%
- #47 Wars of Cards: ROMA
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Commander BasePub: Beijing tactics game Culture Co., Ltd
Windows
Wars of Cards: ROMA is a multiplayer strategy game. Compared with the high-fidelity, brain-burning strategy game masterpieces, Wars of Cards: ROMA adopts a minimalist gameplay of maps and cards, which can easily satisfy the desire of strategy lovers to color the map.
Why similar: Wargame 25.2%, Card Battler 21.4%, Historical 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Military 10.7%
- #48 Reconquista
69% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: team_pf
Windows
Reconquista is a large-scale battle strategy game with the rules of a deck-building board game with a mood of late Medieval. Carefully refine your strategy, build the best deck, and to win the battles.
Why similar: Wargame 24.5%, Auto Battler 21.9%, Card Battler 20.7%, Tabletop 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%
- #49 Chess Nuke
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Duwit
Windows
A Chess Roguelike where you combine your pieces to build a NUKE and annihilate the enemy Boss.
Why similar: Cold War 20.9% ★, Military 19.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, eSports 10.9% ★
- #50 Simple Sanguo
69% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: clip_on
Windows · Mac
连角色头像都没有,谁会想玩吗?你别说,汉字就是有这样的魔力。有的人,你只要看到了他的姓名,就愿意舍命追随!恰好,刘备就是这样的人!如果你也厌倦了武力、智力的争吵,简易三国志同样是你不该错过的游戏!在《刘备篇》里跟随刘备纵横天下,然后在无尽挑战中验证自己的操作吧!!
Why similar: Wargame 20.7%, Historical 17.3%, War 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%
- #51 Warfront Command
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: crazzy tapir
Windows
Warfront_Command is a turn-based strategy game where you lead a team of soldiers into battle, using clever tactics and explosive combat to outsmart your opponents. Engage in fast-paced, action-packed battles with strategic depth.
Why similar: Wargame 26.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, War 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.8%, Military 12.4%
- #52 Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm Player's Edition
69% matchVery Positive88% of 255 reviews2014
Dev: On Target SimulationsPub: Matrix Games
Windows
You are the commander of either NATO or Soviet forces locked in battle on the ground in 1980’s Central Europe. As commander, it is your task to provide the battle plan orders to your units. You need to know your mission objectives, strength and weakness of both your forces and you enemy, lay of the land, weather, and time of day in order...
Why similar: Cold War 41.1% ★, Wargame 31.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.4%
- #53 Small Wars: Mohicans
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Avalon Digital
Windows
Small Wars: Mohicans offers you a quick and fun to play experience of the French & Indian War (1754-1760) in the vast wilderness of 18th century North America. Play the French and their Indigenous Allies or Britain troops and colonials and gain control of the new world.
Why similar: Wargame 35.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Historical 13.8%, Military 12.1%, War 10.5%
- #54 Sword & Siege Crusades: Book I
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
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.
Why similar: Military 20.4%, Wargame 18.5%, Historical 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, War 12.7%
- #55 Armchair Commander
66% matchVery Positive89% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: Zack SimaPub: Indie War Games
Windows · Mac
A turn-based strategy game where you can experience WWII campaigns and explore alternate history scenarios made by the community.
Why similar: Cold War 24.2% ★, Wargame 15.5%, Auto Battler 14.2%, Military 12%, Historical 11.7%
- #56 Sword & Siege Crusades: Book II
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wargame Design Studio
Windows
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.
Why similar: Military 19.8%, Wargame 19.7%, Historical 16.3%, War 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%
- #57 Twilight Struggle
67% matchVery Positive87% of 2,936 reviews2016
Dev: Playdek, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.
Why similar: Cold War 32.6% ★, Wargame 19%, Historical 13.8%, Tabletop 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%
- #58 Hijong Park's Defender Patrol
64% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Hijong ParkPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Hijong Park's Defender Patrol is a small, low-poly helicopter combat flight simulator featuring simple but fully interactable cockpit system, playable in both the monitor and Virtual-reality.
Why similar: Cold War 38% ★, Wargame 23.8%, Military 17.2%, War 15.5%, Simulation 3.9%
- #59 Vietnam ‘65
67% matchVery Positive83% of 433 reviews2015
Dev: Every Single Soldier
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It is 1965 and the US ground war in Vietnam is in full swing. As a US Army commander, wage a counter-insurgency (COIN) war to secure the Ia Drang valley, on the border with Cambodia.
Why similar: Historical 23.4%, Wargame 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Cold War 16.1% ★, Strategy 11.4%