- #1 WARNO
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 16,164 reviews2024
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 72.6 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 40% ★, Wargame 37%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Strategy 9.1%
- #2 Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm Player's Edition
97% matchVery Positive88% of 259 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 38.5% ★, Wargame 37.5%, Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #3 Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm
96% matchVery Positive88% of 116 reviews2023
Dev: On Target SimulationsPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm is a grand tactical wargame set at the height of the Cold War, with the action centered on the year 1989.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 30.7%, Strategy 26.5%, Cold War 21.9% ★, Wargame 20%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #4 ICBM: Escalation
94% matchVery Positive86% of 1,459 reviews2024
Dev: SoftWarWarePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.
Why similar: Wargame 44.5%, Cold War 36.1% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Top-Down 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #5 Combat Mission Cold War
95% matchMixed67% of 240 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 41.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Cold War 14.3% ★, Turn-Based Combat 6.7%
- #6 Regiments
94% matchVery Positive88% of 2,949 reviews2022
Dev: Bird's Eye GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.
Why similar: Cold War 48% ★, Wargame 39.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #7 Wargame: Red Dragon
93% matchVery Positive89% of 19,766 reviews2014
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 51.8 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 41.4% ★, Wargame 36.2%, Strategy 22%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #8 Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2
92% matchVery Positive91% of 474 reviews2021
Dev: 2by3 GamesPub: Matrix Games
Windows
War in the East 2 is the most comprehensive, most realistic, and most advanced wargame modeling Eastern Front warfare in World War Two.
Why similar: Wargame 43.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Strategy 18.5%, Turn-Based Combat 9%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #9 Command: Modern Operations
91% matchVery Positive85% of 1,645 reviews2019
Dev: Command Development TeamPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Command: Modern Operations is the next generation in cross-domain modern wargaming. It enables you to simulate every military engagement from post World War II to the present day and beyond. The scale is primarily tactical/operational, although strategic scale operations are also possible.
Why similar: Wargame 73.4%, Strategy 25.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #10 Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,072 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 45% ★, Wargame 36%, Strategy 9.4%, Top-Down 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #11 Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age
89% matchVery Positive91% of 6,818 reviews2024
Dev: Triassic GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 51.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.
Why similar: Cold War 73.5% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Wargame 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #12 Twilight Struggle
90% matchVery Positive86% of 2,993 reviews2016
Dev: Playdek, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 35.8% ★, Wargame 26.6%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 16.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 8%
- #13 Steel Division 2
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,602 reviews2019
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 52.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
Why similar: Wargame 48.2%, Strategy 27.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #14 Armored Brigade II
87% matchVery Positive89% of 252 reviews2025
Dev: Veitikka StudiosPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Armored Brigade II revolutionizes real-time tactical warfare in 3D, focusing on the intense combined arms combat of the Cold War era, from 1965 to 1991. Boasting a meticulously researched database and huge real-world terrain maps, this game offers an unparalleled combat simulation experience.
Why similar: Wargame 45.4%, Cold War 38.7% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #15 1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact
88% matchMixed49% of 194 reviews2025
Dev: Wastelands InteractivePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Cold War turns hot in 1953: massive hex strategy with nukes, supply, and sabotage.
Why similar: Cold War 34.9% ★, Wargame 31.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Strategy 10%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #16 Master of Command
85% matchVery Positive92% of 4,017 reviews2025
Dev: Armchair Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.
Why similar: Wargame 69.3%, Strategy 27.9%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #17 Combat Mission Shock Force 2
86% matchVery Positive81% of 870 reviews2020
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army. Play either on WeGo or Real Time in an incredibly detailed and realistic 1:1 tactical simulation.
Why similar: Wargame 48.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.6%, Strategy 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 10.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #18 Armored Brigade
86% matchVery Positive89% of 363 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: Wargame 37.4%, Cold War 34.5% ★, Strategy 28%
- #19 Combat Mission Black Sea
84% matchVery Positive83% of 576 reviews2021
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 35.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 48.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.9%, Strategy 15.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #20 Panzer Corps 2
84% matchVery Positive85% of 4,207 reviews2020
Dev: Flashback GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 59.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
Why similar: Wargame 40%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.2%, Strategy 22.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #21 NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
82% matchVery Positive81% of 4,440 reviews2022
Dev: Eridanus IndustriesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.
Why similar: Strategy 90.2%, Singleplayer 9.8%
- #22 Terminal Conflict
83% matchMixed67% of 72 reviews2020
Dev: Strategy Mill
Windows · Mac · Linux
Touch the world with your fingertips! Your retro terminal awaits your command, for the balance of power, in this definitive Cold War strategy game. Here you belong; assert your leadership through turn based strategic tit-for-tat, on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Don't let it slip away!
Why similar: Cold War 45.9% ★, Wargame 27.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #23 Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 270 reviews2023
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy faithfully recreates the experience of tactical land warfare in Western France during World War Two.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 50.8%, Strategy 47.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #24 Pike and Shot : Campaigns
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 403 reviews2015
Dev: Byzantine GamesPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate wargame set in the age of Pike and Shot is back. You are now in full charge of your nation’s armies, throughout a long campaign in the struggle for dominance.
Why similar: Wargame 50.2%, Strategy 26.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #25 Gary Grigsby's War in the East
80% matchVery Positive90% of 586 reviews2015
Dev: 2by3 GamesPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 49.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!
Why similar: Wargame 54.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.3%, Strategy 22%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #26 Broken Arrow
77% matchMixed54% of 35,985 reviews2025
Dev: Steel BalalaikaPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 36.8 hrsMean: 96.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
Why similar: Wargame 74.7%, Strategy 24.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #27 Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
79% matchVery Positive88% of 250 reviews2016
Dev: VR DesignsPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Command a true operational structure. Can you balance and prioritize three different Theatres in order to achieve your objective?
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 34.7%, Strategy 34.7%, Wargame 29.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #28 Möbius Front '83
78% matchMixed69% of 516 reviews2020
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.1 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 41.9% ★, Wargame 31.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Combat 7.9%, Strategy 6.5%
- #29 Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,020 reviews2012
Dev: 2x2 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.
Why similar: Wargame 45%, Turn-Based Strategy 29.3%, Strategy 25.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #30 Ultimate General: Gettysburg
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,709 reviews2014
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
Why similar: Wargame 62.1%, Strategy 36.9%, Singleplayer 1%
- #31 The Great War: Western Front™
75% matchMixed66% of 3,308 reviews2023
Dev: PetroglyphPub: Frontier Foundry
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.
Why similar: Wargame 38.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 30.6%, Strategy 29.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #32 Civil War II
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 355 reviews2014
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
You take the part of the military and political leadership, trying to lead your nation to victory, in the midst of some of the toughest operations of the Civil War. You will build, organize and command your armies over one of the largest maps of the USA ever made for a Civil War game.
Why similar: Wargame 36.7%, Strategy 35.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #33 Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,413 reviews2021
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 96.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!
Why similar: Strategy 54.9%, Wargame 44.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #34 Atlantic Fleet
74% matchVery Positive86% of 1,574 reviews2016
Dev: Killerfish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Turn based tactical and strategic naval combat. Atlantic Fleet puts you in command of the Allies or Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the longest military campaign of WWII, The Battle of the Atlantic.Take command of surface ships, submarines as well as carrier and land based aircraft in the deadly struggle for control of Atlantic shipping...
Why similar: Strategy 95.4%, Singleplayer 4.6%
- #35 Battle of the Bulge
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 reviews2015
Dev: Shenandoah StudioPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Battle of the Bulge is a fast-paced WW2 game where precise movement and detailed planning make the difference between a vain attempt and a brave operation.
Why similar: Wargame 32.6%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 25% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.2%, Strategy 19.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #36 Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Cold War
77% matchMostly Negative26% of 1,287 reviews2019
Dev: DigitalmindsoftPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
The legendary Men of War RTS series has reached the cold war era. Take command of U.S. or Soviet soldiers, controlling vast armies with the military decisions down to you. Claim victory in dynamic singleplayer and co-op campaigns or challenge fellow strategists in online multiplayer!
Why similar: Cold War 56.2% ★, Strategy 43.8%
- #37 Strategic Command WWII: World at War
73% matchVery Positive84% of 620 reviews2018
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
Strategic Command WWII: World At War is your chance to re-fight the 20th century’s greatest conflict, from Poland to China, Normandy to the Pacific, on a map encompassing the globe.
Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, Wargame 44.4%
- #38 Cold Waters
73% matchVery Positive87% of 4,746 reviews2017
Dev: Killerfish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.
Why similar: Cold War 79.6% ★, Strategy 19.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #39 Carrier Command 2
72% matchVery Positive82% of 3,781 reviews2021
Dev: GeometaPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!
Why similar: Wargame 73.7%, Strategy 26.3%
- #40 Maestro's Cold War 2
68% matchVery Positive93% of 180 reviews2026
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 37.9% ★, Wargame 30.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #41 Theatre of War
75% matchMixed61% of 377 reviews2010
Dev: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Command a special task force composed of different kinds of units, including tanks, APCs, field guns, mortars, various infantry regiments and will also have an opportunity to call for artillery and air support.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #42 Supreme Ruler Ultimate
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,255 reviews2014
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 51.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!
Why similar: Wargame 51.3%, Cold War 34.4% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #43 Steel Division: Normandy 44
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 6,323 reviews2017
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
Why similar: Wargame 50.5%, Strategy 47.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #44 Combat Mission Fortress Italy
70% matchVery Positive86% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Combat Mission Fortress Italy brings wargamers to the "soft underbelly of Europe", a place that was anything but.
Why similar: Wargame 50.6%, Strategy 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Turn-Based Combat 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #45 WarPlan
71% matchVery Positive82% of 232 reviews2020
Dev: Kraken Studios
Windows
WarPlan is an incredibly accurate World War II simulation engine. It is a balance of realism and playability incorporating the best from 50 years of World War II board wargaming. Play a recreated World War II in every detail, thanks to the engine flexibility and database
Why similar: Wargame 53.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #46 Field of Glory: Empires
71% matchVery Positive82% of 869 reviews2019
Dev: AgeodPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.
Why similar: Wargame 34.7%, Strategy 28.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.2%, Turn-Based Combat 12.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #47 Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
68% matchVery Positive85% of 34,499 reviews2021
Dev: Barbedwire StudiosPub: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 78.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?
Why similar: Strategy 90.9%, Singleplayer 9.1%
- #48 Wargame: Airland Battle
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,456 reviews2013
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
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 51.9% ★, Wargame 28%, Strategy 19.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #49 Combat Mission: Red Thunder
69% matchVery Positive79% of 152 reviews2023
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Combat Mission Red Thunder focuses on the hard fought Eastern Front battles of Bagration and Poland, from the swamps of Belarus to the gates of Warsaw during the summer of 1944.
Why similar: Wargame 45.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.1%, Strategy 25.3%, Singleplayer 1%
- #50 Blitzkrieg 3
71% matchMixed54% of 7,326 reviews2017
Dev: Nival
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Blitzkrieg 3 is a WW2 RTS made for true admirers of strategic mastery! Challenge your tactical skills in historical campaigns and defeat powerful Neural Network AI in competitive matches.
Why similar: Strategy 92.3%, Singleplayer 7.7%
- #51 Armchair Commander
67% matchVery Positive88% of 112 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 39.3% ★, Wargame 32.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Strategy 10.4%
- #52 Arma Reforger
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 58,413 reviews2023
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 95.4 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: Cold War 68.4% ★, Strategy 29.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #53 Strategic Command WWII: War in the Pacific
66% matchVery Positive89% of 122 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 49.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.1%, Strategy 22.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #54 Fleet Command
70% matchVery Positive88% of 480 reviews2006
Dev: SonalystsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
International waterways become theaters of war when the world's most formidable maritime powers exchange their fatal blows. With entire fleets at your command, you must strategically deploy vessels from every class - frigate to aircraft to nuclear submarine - to maintain the precarious balance of naval power and gain position for the...
Why similar: Wargame 85.1%, Strategy 14.9%
- #55 Vietnam ‘65
69% matchVery Positive82% of 436 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: Wargame 29.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 26.5%, Strategy 24.3%, Cold War 18.8% ★, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #56 Strategic Command: American Civil War
67% matchVery Positive85% of 255 reviews2022
Dev: Fury SoftwarePub: Matrix Games
Windows
For the first time in the series’ history, Strategic Command will be taking you to the 19th century battlefields of the American Civil War. You will control the armies, research, production and diplomatic policy of either the Union or the Confederacy during a time of innovation and dramatic battles.
Why similar: Wargame 47%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.4%, Strategy 23.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #57 Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 226 reviews2020
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism is a (hi)story-driven turn-based strategy set in the WW2 period. It offers refined wargame mechanics, story-rich gameplay, and modern 3D graphics. Lead the USSR Armed forces staging the world Communist revolution. For Stalin! For the Motherland!
Why similar: Wargame 52.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.7%, Turn-Based Combat 13.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #58 Combat Mission: Final Blitzkrieg
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: BattlefrontPub: Matrix Games
Windows
Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg (CMFB) follows the Western Allies through the battles along Germany's border and into the heart of the Reich itself.
Why similar: Wargame 48.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 4.7%
- #59 Command Ops 2 Core Game
68% matchVery Positive83% of 423 reviews2017
Dev: Panther Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Command Ops 2 is a wargame engine that lets you assess, plan, order and react at the operational level just like a real Corps, Division and Brigade commander. What sets Command Ops 2 apart from the competition is the most advanced and realistic model of command decision-making.
Why similar: Wargame 68.5%, Strategy 31.5%