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Games Like Hostage: Rescue Mission

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Special Alert: Terrorists have invaded our embassy and seized an undetermined number of hostages...Lives hang in the balance as high ranking diplomats are held at gunpoint...Their safety requires immediate action... prepare to infiltrate the embassy, neutralize the terrorists, and rescue the…

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Special Alert: Terrorists have invaded our embassy and seized an undetermined number of hostages...Lives hang in the balance as high ranking diplomats are held at gunpoint...Their safety requires immediate action... prepare to infiltrate the embassy, neutralize the terrorists, and rescue the hostages, or die trying.

Reviews: Mostly Negative — 29% — of 24 reviews
Released: 2018-02-08
Developer: Infogrames
Publisher: Atari
Genres: Action, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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  2. #2 Central Intelligence
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    Central Intelligence is the ultimate test of your strategic skills. In this CIA-style mission you can operate in three areas, Propaganda, Military, and Political, to achieve your objectives.

    Why similar: Strategy 64.1%, Action 35.9%

  3. #3 Tank Battle: Normandy
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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    95% matchMostly Positive72% of 29 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    94% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    94% matchMixed70% of 33 reviews2016
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

    ‘Tank Battle: Blitzkrieg!’ recreates the first battles of World War II. On 1st September 1939 the German army marched into Poland, two weeks later the Soviets also invaded and the Polish army was crushed by 6th October. Over the coming months the Germans expanded their grip on Europe with further invasions of Denmark and Norway.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    93% matchMixed55% of 22 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

    The end is near for the Third Reich, masters of Europe for too long! In Tank Battle: 1945 you will fight some missions as the German Army, in its last efforts to prevent the Allied advance.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    92% matchMixed56% of 36 reviews2016
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    91% matchMixed48% of 25 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

    Bull Run recreates the first major battle of the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate armies. Take command of an Union army of Northeast Virginia or the Confederate army of Potomac and Shenandoah and engage in the largest battle fought on American soil to date.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    91% matchMixed62% of 26 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

    Civil War: 1864 is the latest addition to our Civil War strategy series, bringing you the ferocious battles from 1864. Experience the American Civil War like never before with with over 40 missions; including 20 detailed historical battles.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    90% matchMostly Positive71% of 42 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

    The Battle of Gettysburg was fought from 1st to 3rd July 1863, in Pennsylvania. The battle resulted the largest number of casualties in any battle of the entire war, and was the turning point of the American Civil War. Over three days General George Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeated the Confederate army of General Robert E.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

  12. #12 Civil War: 1865
    89% matchMixed52% of 23 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows · Mac

    After Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina, fell to the Union, in early 1865, Jefferson Davis belatedly handed over the supreme command or the army to General Lee. This could not stop the Union armies pressing on through North Carolina, capturing Fayetteville, Bentonville, Goldsboro and Raleigh by mid-April.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

  13. #13 OboStar
    89% matchMostly Negative30% of 10 reviews2018
    Dev: Josh Tam UniversePub: OtakuMaker SARL
    Windows

    Obostar is a unique skill puzzle game. Pilot your ship and touch the colored orbs to collect them.

    Why similar: Strategy 63.2%, Action 36.8%

  14. #14 Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy
    87% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2016
    Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
    Windows

    After a century of bloody galactic battle, a horde of intelligent bloodthirsty aliens, known as the Kri’iSara, threaten to exterminate all human life. New Alliance Command is counting on you to destroy the alien menace.

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    86% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2016
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    CHEXS is an evolution of chess, a new take on the old classic. It is a strategy game played on a hexagonal board where both sides move all of its pieces within a single turn, then all movements are solved simultaneusly.

    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    86% matchMixed41% of 64 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 11%

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    85% matchMixed44% of 18 reviews2018
    Dev: SalsawiPub: Salsawi Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, Action 39.1%

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    84% matchMixed60% of 30 reviews2017
    Dev: HexWar GamesPub: Hunted Cow Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    84% matchMixed56% of 55 reviews2015
    Dev: Frostcloud Studios
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 24%

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    Why similar: Strategy 62.2%, Action 37.8%

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    82% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2017
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    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    81% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2018
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 100%

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    Windows

    To attack! Deploy your troops and destroy the enemy castle!

    Why similar: Strategy 63.9%, Action 36.1%

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    Dev: TOMATOVR
    Windows

    The Lost is ultimate FPS VR game. You must defend yourself from enemies with various guns. The Lost is only available in single mode, and you can gradually clear the stages according to the difficulty. Take over best teleport spots and choose proper guns strategically to defeat enemies!

    Why similar: Strategy 61.6%, Action 38.4%

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    Dev: The 3DO CompanyPub: 2K
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 61.2%, Action 38.8%

  30. #30 Traffic Cop
    77% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2018
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    Windows

    It's the 1950s in a city like no other. You're on duty as the local Traffic Cop smack dab in the middle of a busy intersection. Direct traffic, dodge flying food, & unlock bonus rounds to disintegrate aliens, and hunt birds!

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    78% matchNo user reviews2020
    Dev: OuroborOs_
    Windows

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    76% matchVery Positive84% of 113 reviews2016
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    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%

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    75% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
    Dev: oneIMMERSPub: YJM GAMES
    Windows

    Destroy waves of monsters with your powerful magic crossbow and alchemical traps. Freeze, blow, trample, even burn your enemies with various traps available. From extreme difficulty which can only be experienced through multiplayer to various stages of difficulties for single player.

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    76% matchMixed56% of 96 reviews2015
    Dev: FallenMaster
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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  35. #35 Maze Madness
    74% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
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    73% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2016
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  37. #37 DwarVRs
    72% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
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    Windows

    Experience a unique combination of the strategic elements of a tower defense game mixed with action-packed, first person perspective gameplay, built specifically for VR. Use multiple different towers, and your own skills to defeat hordes of greedy dwarves, before they run away with all your wealth.

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    70% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
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    73% matchNo user reviews2018
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  40. #40 March Of Soldiers
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    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%

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    69% matchMixed66% of 149 reviews2017
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    Windows

    Army Men II, the sequel to the best-selling title Army Men, takes plastic toy soldier warfare into the kitchen, bedroom, front yard, and garage. Once again Sarge will lead his heroic Green forces into head-melting, plastic-body-part-exploding, combat mayhem; only this time the battle is for control of the kitchen sink!

    Why similar: Strategy 65%, Action 35%

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    71% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac

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  45. #45 Salvaged
    71% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2016
    Dev: Opposable Games
    Windows

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    Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 20%

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    65% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2021
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    70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2016
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    57% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: lonewolfdesign
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 62.4%, Action 37.6%

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    69% matchMixed40% of 25 reviews2018
    Dev: Krylov ViktorPub: SA Industry
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 63.9%, Action 36.1%

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    57% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 62.4%, Action 37.6%

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    67% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2017
    Dev: Virtual World Arcade
    Windows

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    Why similar: Strategy 63.2%, Action 36.8%

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    52% matchMostly Positive77% of 177 reviews2024
    Dev: Bluedrake42Pub: Drakeling Labs
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 816.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%

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    Why similar: Strategy 63.3%, Action 36.7%

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    51% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2024
    Dev: Piao Jingfu
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%

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    Why similar: Strategy 64.2%, Action 35.8%

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