- #1 Squad
97% matchVery Positive81% of 244,492 reviews2020
Dev: Offworld
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 114.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Squad is a tactical FPS that provides authentic combat experiences through teamwork, communication, and realistic combat. It bridges the gap between arcade shooter and military realism with 100-player battles, combined-arms warfare, and base building.
Why similar: Military 19.7%, Wargame 15.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Team-Based 11.2%, War 9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes communication-heavy teamwork, player-built forward bases, logistics runs, and organized infantry-and-vehicle warfare.
- #2 WWII Online
96% matchMixed51% of 3,804 reviews2023
Dev: Cornered Rat SoftwarePub: Playnet, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
WWII Online is a massive, persistent free-to-play MMO FPS driven entirely by players. Fight as Army, Air, or Naval forces and earn Victory Points to access more units. One global server. No scripts. Real outcomes. No zones. Huge world (300,000 km²). ENLIST NOW!
Why similar: World War II 26.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.4%, Wargame 13.5%, Military 11.9%, Shooter 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent World War II campaign, player-run supply system, capturable towns, and combined infantry, armor, and air warfare make it one of the closest large-scale alternatives.
- #3 Arma Reforger
96% 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: Military 30.2%, War 14.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Tactical 9.3%, Shooter 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer conflict modes and modded servers support open-ended military operations with supply, construction, reconnaissance, and combined arms.
- #4 PlanetSide 2
95% matchVery Positive80% of 74,900 reviews2012
Dev: Rogue Planet GamesPub: Daybreak Game Company
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 54.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 34.6%, Team-Based 13.2%, War 10%, Open World 9.9%, Shooter 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A continuous three-faction war across large continents gives it Foxhole-like frontline shifts, base captures, logistics support roles, and coordinated combined-arms battles.
- #5 Hell Let Loose
94% matchVery Positive82% of 149,942 reviews2021
Dev: Expression GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Join the ever expanding experience of Hell Let Loose - a hardcore World War Two first person shooter with epic battles of 100 players with infantry, tanks, artillery, a dynamically shifting front line and a unique resource based RTS-inspired meta-game.
Why similar: World War II 28.6% ★, Military 15.8%, War 14.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Tactical 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This World War II shooter makes supplies, garrisons, resource nodes, commanders, and squad coordination central to winning territory.
- #6 Squad 44
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 25,440 reviews2018
Dev: Offworld
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Team up and join the frontline in Squad 44, the most authentic tactical WW2 shooter. Experience ruthless realism with an immense arsenal of faithfully recreated weapons and vehicles across massive WW2 battlefields.
Why similar: World War II 29.5% ★, Military 16.4%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, War 10.1%, Team-Based 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It brings deliberate World War II infantry combat together with deployables, logistics, armor, and coordinated objective warfare.
- #7 Arma 3
93% matchVery Positive90% of 295,705 reviews2013
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 257.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Why similar: Military 27.2%, War 12.7%, Tactical 9.7%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its huge sandbox maps and extensive multiplayer scenarios allow groups to create the kind of long-form, logistics-heavy military operations Foxhole players enjoy.
- #8 Holdfast: Nations At War
92% matchVery Positive90% of 29,606 reviews2020
Dev: Anvil Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 29.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!
Why similar: Wargame 19.9%, Military 19.7%, War 16.3%, Team-Based 10.6%, Tactical 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Large historical battles with player officers, engineers, artillery crews, builders, and line infantry capture Foxhole's social war-game chaos.
- #9 RUNNING WITH RIFLES
91% matchVery Positive88% of 16,777 reviews2015
Dev: Osumia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.
Why similar: Wargame 18.5%, Military 16.8%, Top-Down Shooter 13.2%, Tactical 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down perspective, AI-supported warfare, vehicles, squad commands, and territory-focused battles are especially close to Foxhole's moment-to-moment feel.
- #10 Operation: Harsh Doorstop
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 20,807 reviews2023
Dev: Drakeling Labs
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Operation: Harsh Doorstop is the ultimate, free to play, tactical shooter sandbox. Play singleplayer, multiplayer, or co-op modes and explore thousands of community-created maps, weapons, and vehicles via the Steam Workshop. Created by developers of the cancelled Project Reality 2 project.
Why similar: Military 27.9%, War 13.9%, World War II 13% ★, Wargame 12.5%, Tactical 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This free military sandbox supports large community-made combined-arms battles with vehicles, construction, modding, and tactical teamwork.
- #11 BattleBit Remastered
90% matchVery Positive82% of 146,385 reviews2023
Dev: SgtOkiDoki
Windows
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
BattleBit Remastered is a low-poly, massive multiplayer FPS, supporting 254 players per server. Battle on a near-fully destructible map with various vehicles!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 20.6%, Military 20%, War 14%, Team-Based 12.4%, Tactical 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Large-scale, teamwork-oriented battles feature destructible cover, squad roles, vehicles, revives, and a more approachable version of organized military combat.
- #12 Enlisted
89% matchVery Positive80% of 48,227 reviews2024
Dev: Darkflow SoftwarePub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Enlisted, you are not only commanding a single soldier, but an entire squad! This MMO squad based shooter recreates the key battles of the bloodiest war of the 20th century, with hundreds of soldiers, tanks and aircraft taking part in each battle.
Why similar: World War II 34.4% ★, War 12.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.5%, Team-Based 12.5%, PvP 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its World War II battles cover infantry, tanks, aircraft, engineers, fortifications, and objectives, making it a good choice for Foxhole players wanting more direct shooting.
- #13 Myth of Empires
88% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: War 19.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Sandbox 16.8%, Open World 14.6%, Co-op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer servers center on guild warfare, constructed fortresses, resource gathering, crafting, siege weapons, and territorial control.
- #14 Empires Mod
89% matchVery Positive87% of 1,067 reviews2008
Dev: Empires
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Unique strategy/first person shooter mix: One commander on each team plays from above, choosing research, placing buildings and giving orders. The rest fill the role of soldiers on the ground, with four distinct classes to choose from and customizable vehicles to drive.
Why similar: Team-Based 24.6%, Base Building 22.5%, PvP 13.5%, Top-Down 11.3%, Shooter 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Players fight in an FPS while commanders manage resources, research, vehicle production, and base construction in an RTS layer.
- #15 Silica
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,938 reviews2023
Dev: Martin 'Dram' MelichárekPub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?
Why similar: PvP 26%, Multiplayer 21%, Shooter 19.1%, Co-op 14.9%, Strategy 14.6%
Why You'll Like It: This FPS-RTS hybrid lets players either command an entire force or personally fight, harvest resources, and build bases on the battlefield.
- #16 Last Oasis
87% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 41.9%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, PvP 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Clan-based survival warfare combines mobile player-built bases, resource logistics, territorial fights, and large group combat in a persistent online world.
- #17 Albion Online
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 94,048 reviews2018
Dev: Sandbox Interactive GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 85.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 34.4%, Open World 19.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 9.5%, PvP 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its player economy, faction warfare, guild territory struggles, crafting, hauling, and full-loot conflicts offer a fantasy counterpart to Foxhole's player-driven war machine.
- #18 War Selection
85% matchVery Positive85% of 23,654 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
Why similar: Base Building 25.3%, Military 18.2%, Massively Multiplayer 15.8%, War 13.3%, Strategy 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer matches revolve around gathering resources, constructing settlements, researching technology, and coordinating armies through escalating eras of warfare.
- #19 Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
83% 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: World War II 34.8% ★, Military 16.7%, War 14.7%, Top-Down Shooter 11%, PvP 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its detailed World War II real-time tactics and direct unit control reward the same appreciation for armor, fortifications, positioning, and battlefield logistics.
- #20 Steel Division 2
84% 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: World War II 27.9% ★, Military 17.4%, Wargame 14.6%, War 11.9%, Tactical 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its expansive World War II operations emphasize realistic unit composition, supply, reconnaissance, artillery, and coordinated control of an evolving front.
- #21 EVE Online
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 39,560 reviews2010
Dev: Fenris Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 139.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 33.4%, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, PvP 12.8%, Co-op 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Although set in space, its single persistent universe of player-run industry, logistics, alliances, territorial wars, and consequential losses strongly echoes Foxhole's macro war effort.
- #22 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
81% matchVery Positive88% of 298,242 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 62.4 hrsMean: 156.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Why similar: War 30.5%, Open World 22.6%, Sandbox 18.7%, Multiplayer 11%, Strategy 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox warfare, sieges, supply concerns, faction conflicts, and ability to lead troops appeal to players who enjoy Foxhole's battlefield-to-strategy overlap.
- #23 Conqueror's Blade
82% matchMixed67% of 39,120 reviews2020
Dev: Booming TechPub: Poros Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 73.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Conqueror's Blade gives you a chance to be a true warlord. Commanding medieval troops in epic 15 vs. 15 siege battles, conquering cities with allies in the open world or fighting against players from all over the world – it's you who make the choice.
Why similar: Wargame 19.4%, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, War 11.8%, Team-Based 11.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes persistent faction progression and resource-driven world activity with large siege battles where players command troops and assault player-held objectives.
- #24 WARNO
81% 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: Wargame 26.5%, Military 21.6%, War 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%, Tactical 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This Cold War wargame focuses on combined-arms formations, supply management, reconnaissance, and control of key sectors in large tactical battles.
- #25 Battlefield™ 2042
82% matchMixed47% of 325,775 reviews2021
Dev: DICEPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 65.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.
Why similar: Military 29.4%, War 21.3%, Team-Based 18.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Shooter 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers large objective-based combined-arms battles where infantry, armor, aircraft, revives, resupplies, and squad pushes all contribute to the frontline.
- #26 WARDOGS
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 96,877 reviews2026
Dev: BULKHEADPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 30.4 hrsMean: 43.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
WARDOGS is a TACTICAL ALL OUT WARFARE FPS where one hundred players split across three teams fight over the control zone. Set in the derelict industrial mountains of Eastern Europe on a destructible battlefield where teamwork pays and cash is king.
Why similar: Wargame 17.8%, Massively Multiplayer 17.3%, Military 16.3%, Team-Based 12.8%, Tactical 9.1%
- #27 Angels Fall First
78% matchVery Positive81% of 4,091 reviews2026
Dev: Strangely Interactive Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
From commanding the battle standing on the bridge of your flagship all the way down to tactical infantry firefights - AFF brings together all the combat you ever loved in a rich science fiction setting. Boarding, pilotable capital ships, deep weapon customization and full Bot support included!
Why similar: Military 23.3%, War 19.4%, Tactical 15.1%, Co-op 11%, PvP 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines infantry combat, vehicles, space fighters, capital ships, and a strategic campaign layer that connects individual battles to a larger war.
- #28 Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
80% matchVery Positive87% of 59,270 reviews2017
Dev: Antimatter GamesPub: Tripwire Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Red Orchestra Series' take on Vietnam: 64-player MP matches; 20+ maps; US Army & Marines, PAVN/NVA, NLF/VC; Australians and ARVN forces; 50+ weapons; 4 flyable helicopters; mines, traps and tunnels; Brutal. Authentic. Gritty. Character customization. And napalm in the morning.
Why similar: Wargame 20%, Massively Multiplayer 18.8%, Military 16.7%, War 13.1%, Team-Based 12%
Why You'll Like It: Teamwork, squad leadership, asymmetrical objectives, aerial support, and brutal large-player-count combat make each match feel like a focused military operation.
- #29 Total Conflict: Resistance
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 5,368 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Total Conflict: Resistance is a unique symbiosis of global strategy, tactics and first-person action. Realistic mass battles, many types of armored vehicles, weapons, uniforms, unique mechanics, immersive free gameplay. Lead any state and bring it to greatness!
Why similar: Wargame 26.2%, Military 21.8%, War 19.4%, Tactical 12.8%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This hybrid lets players manage territory, armies, construction, and resources strategically before entering battles directly as a soldier or commander.
- #30 Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
79% matchVery Positive93% of 38,136 reviews2011
Dev: Tripwire Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Contains full Rising Storm content as well!
Why similar: World War II 34.9% ★, Wargame 16.4%, Team-Based 11.6%, War 10.6%, Military 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving World War II combat rewards coordinated squads, specialized roles, armor support, and careful objective assaults.
- #31 Over The Top: WWI
76% matchVery Positive83% of 7,626 reviews2026
Dev: Flying Squirrel EntertainmentPub: GG Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Join massive multiplayer battles in Over The Top: WWI - an intense shooter set in the gritty backdrop of World War I. Pick your class, choose from a vast arsenal, including rifles, artillery, airplanes, and powerful tanks, and experience the chaos of fully destructible battlefields.
Why similar: War 23.3%, Team-Based 21.9%, Tactical 16.3%, PvP 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.2%
- #32 Eximius: Seize the Frontline
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 740 reviews2021
Dev: Ammobox Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.
Why similar: Military 21.1%, Team-Based 21%, Base Building 17.3%, War 16.4%, PvP 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: One player manages base building, technology, and unit production as an RTS commander while teammates fight the battle in first person.
- #33 Hell Let Loose: Vietnam
75% matchMixed62% of 12,572 reviews2026
Dev: Expression GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Step into the explosive fury of war with Hell Let Loose: Vietnam. Play a decisive role in one of the most iconic conflicts in history with expansive 50v50 player battles, where teamwork, tactics and an arsenal of destructive weapons combine to shape the battlefield in your favour.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.5%, Military 22.7%, War 17.1%, Shooter 8.4%, Tactical 7.1%
- #34 Verdun
76% matchVery Positive86% of 37,714 reviews2015
Dev: BlackMill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Merciless trench warfare immerses you and your squad in intense battles of attack and defense. Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in an authentic World War One setting offering a rarely seen battlefield experience.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19%, Wargame 15.6%, Military 12.7%, War 10.4%, PvP 10%
- #35 Isonzo
74% matchVery Positive83% of 17,283 reviews2022
Dev: BlackMill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ferocious Alpine warfare will test your tactical skills in this authentic WW1 FPS. Battle among the scenic peaks, rugged valleys and idyllic towns of northern Italy. The Great War on the Italian Front is brought to life and elevated to unexpected heights!
Why similar: Wargame 19.6%, Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Military 16.7%, Team-Based 14.9%, War 9.6%
- #36 Easy Red 2
74% matchVery Positive90% of 15,222 reviews2022
Dev: Marco AmadeiPub: Corvostudio di Amadei Marco
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience massive battles with infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on large destructible open-world maps. Equip yourself, coordinate with your squad, and fight through World War II in singleplayer, co-op, or multiplayer!
Why similar: World War II 24.4% ★, Military 15.3%, Team-Based 13.2%, War 11.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #37 Day of Infamy
75% matchVery Positive82% of 22,115 reviews2017
Dev: New World Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Experience close-quarters battles in iconic WWII settings. Defend the line, storm the beach, torch the enemy, or use a radio to call in fire support. Day of Infamy is a teamwork-oriented shooter that will keep you on your toes and coming back for more with its diverse game modes and authentic arsenal.
Why similar: World War II 42.5% ★, Military 15.5%, War 15.2%, Tactical 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #38 Beyond The Wire
73% matchMixed63% of 7,540 reviews2022
Dev: Redstone InteractivePub: Offworld
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Set in the muddy trenches of WW1, Beyond The Wire is a 50v50 multiplayer FPS that immerses players in the desperate & brutal circumstances of the Great War. Featuring an arsenal of historic weapons, ten massive maps, ten playable factions, era-specific tanks, & a brutal melee combat system.
Why similar: Military 24.3%, War 19.9%, Massively Multiplayer 16.9%, PvP 10.9%, Tactical 8.7%
- #39 Steel Division: Normandy 44
73% 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: World War II 41.7% ★, Military 17.5%, War 9.9%, Wargame 9.7%, Tactical 7.4%
- #40 Mortal Online 2
72% matchMixed60% of 13,925 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 151.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.5%, Sandbox 18.7%, Open World 17.4%, PvP 15.1%, Crafting 12.4%
- #41 War of Rights
71% matchVery Positive88% of 15,127 reviews2018
Dev: Campfire Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 91.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.
Why similar: War 28.3%, Military 25.6%, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Shooter 5.5%
- #42 BattleRush
73% matchMixed69% of 2,878 reviews2018
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Free-to-play multiplayer action game in the entourage of the Second World War with total destructibility of the environment. Enjoy full freedom, build a defense, create your army, crush the enemy.
Why similar: World War II 44.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 22.5%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 8.4%, Shooter 7%
- #43 Life is Feudal: Arden
71% matchMixed41% of 899 reviews2025
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!
Why similar: Sandbox 18.8%, Base Building 15%, Massively Multiplayer 14.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Team-Based 10.1%
- #44 Operation Valor
70% matchVery Positive93% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: One Dawn Studios, LLC.
Windows
Operation Valor is a tactical top-down multiplayer shooter that provides large scale combined-arms combat through base building and teamwork.
Why similar: Military 17.3%, War 14.2%, Top-Down Shooter 14%, Team-Based 10.9%, Tactical 10.8%
- #45 Men of War II
70% matchMixed60% of 7,482 reviews2024
Dev: Best WayPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.
Why similar: World War II 26.5% ★, Wargame 19.4%, Military 14.9%, Tactical 8.1%, Co-op 7.8%
- #46 Ashes of Creation
69% matchMostly Negative36% of 19,083 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 76.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.
Why similar: Base Building 30.5%, Crafting 29.6%, Co-op 13.5%, Strategy 11.5%, RPG 9.3%
- #47 From the Depths
68% matchVery Positive89% of 12,853 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Military 27.6%, War 22.7%, Sandbox 18.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #48 Life is Feudal: Your Own
70% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World 23.6%, Sandbox 21.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #49 Starbase
69% matchMixed55% of 6,768 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 91.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 42.4%, Open World 20.1%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #50 Fog of War
71% matchMixed48% of 799 reviews2018
Dev: Monkeys Lab.Pub: Neokosmos Technologies Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Tactical Multiplayer FPS shooter with a story based on the events of the World War II. Strategic battles with a variety of vehicles, including artillery. Multiple game modes. Ranks, titles, awards, career.
Why similar: World War II 29.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 20.7%, Military 14.1%, War 10.5%, Tactical 7.5%
- #51 Thunder Tier One
68% matchMixed69% of 5,758 reviews2021
Dev: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Thunder Tier One is a realistic top-down shooter where you join an elite special operations team tasked with stopping a dangerous terrorist organization wreaking havoc across the fictional Eastern European country of Salobia.
Why similar: Military 20.2%, Top-Down Shooter 15.2%, Team-Based 13.6%, Tactical 12.4%, PvP 8.1%
- #52 Gallipoli
64% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,376 reviews2026
Dev: BlackMill Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Land on the beaches of Gallipoli and fight intense 50-player objective-based battles on the Ottoman Fronts! Experience WW1 trench warfare and desert expeditions as one of 10 historic classes, armed with authentic weaponry. Gallipoli brings the most immersive WW1 FPS battles yet.
Why similar: Military 18.3%, Massively Multiplayer 17.6%, Wargame 12.8%, War 11.2%, Team-Based 10.6%
- #53 Gray Zone Warfare
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 79,211 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.
Why similar: Military 21.8%, Massively Multiplayer 17.5%, Tactical 13.4%, War 12.8%, Open World 11.6%
- #54 OpenFront
63% matchVery Positive88% of 904 reviews2026
Dev: OpenFront Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game pitting hundreds of players against one another. Over one million nuke each other every month.
Why similar: Wargame 20.6%, Military 15.8%, War 14.8%, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Tactical 10.3%
- #55 Renown
66% matchMixed58% of 1,591 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%
- #56 Battle Cry of Freedom
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,519 reviews2022
Dev: Flying Squirrel Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 20.7%, Military 19.6%, War 14.1%, Team-Based 13.7%, Shooter 9.3%