60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, War, Simulation, Singleplayer.
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS. Scheme your way through a highly replayable campaign, or conduct some "diplomacy" on your "friends" in multiplayer.
First Strike
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Why similar: Cold War 22.3% ★, Diplomacy 20.6% ★, Wargame 15.1%, RTS 15%, Tactical 6.7%
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
Why similar: Cold War 24% ★, Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, Diplomacy 18.8% ★, Political Sim 10.8% ★, 1980s 9.6%
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 25.7% ★, Wargame 23.8%, RTS 18.9%, 1980s 7.4%, Tactical 6.8%
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 27.6% ★, Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Wargame 16.5%, Political Sim 10% ★, Retro 7.2%
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Diplomacy 24.4% ★, Cold War 23.1% ★, Wargame 16.1%, RTS 14.3%, Tactical 12.5%
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: Grand Strategy 26.3% ★, Wargame 24%, RTS 19.9%, Cold War 19.6% ★, Military 3.9%
A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term ambitions. Every action risks an enemy reprisal, and if nobody backs down from a standoff, we all lose.
Why similar: Cold War 29.4% ★, Diplomacy 26.4% ★, Political Sim 12.7% ★, Tactical 7.9%, Wargame 7.1%
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 27.6% ★, Wargame 22%, RTS 17.4%, 1980s 9.7%, Tactical 8.8%
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.
Why similar: Diplomacy 30.5% ★, Grand Strategy 28.2% ★, RTS 16.7%, Military 6.3%, Political Sim 6.1% ★
Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your empire. A political dystopia packed with satire and humor!
Why similar: Diplomacy 34.4% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Dystopian 13%, 1980s 12.1%, Simulation 5.5%
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: Grand Strategy 23.6% ★, Wargame 17.6%, RTS 16.2%, Cold War 11.8% ★, Tactical 9.3%
Cold War turns hot in 1953: massive hex strategy with nukes, supply, and sabotage.
Why similar: Cold War 25.1% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, Wargame 22.7%, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, Military 4.9%
As the leader of a nation, dispatch and control your team of characters all around the world to destabilize your enemies and establish your supremacy. All methods are fair game: hacking, sabotage, political interference, military strikes, corruption, treachery, assassinations, data theft…
Why similar: Diplomacy 29.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, Wargame 18.1%, RTS 16.9%, Political Sim 8.5% ★
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
Why similar: Cold War 41.1% ★, RTS 27.8%, Tactical 12%, Military 8.7%, Strategy 5.3%
Arms Race - TCWE is PC strategy game based on the historical conflict between the USA and the USSR
Why similar: Cold War 25.7% ★, Diplomacy 21.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Political Sim 14.2% ★, Strategy 6.9%
Lead the CIA or KGB in a turn-based global strategy. Influence nations, run covert ops, and win the Cold War without firing a shot.
Why similar: Cold War 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Diplomacy 17.2% ★, Wargame 13.2%, Strategy 7.9%
Become the leader of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination!
Why similar: Diplomacy 45.3% ★, Grand Strategy 27.3% ★, Political Sim 14.4% ★, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 2.8%
AfterWar is a simple yet feature-rich strategy game for everyone.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24.6% ★, RTS 16.8%, Political Sim 11.1% ★, Tactical 6.9%
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 23.6%, Cold War 21.9% ★, Simulation 14.5%, RTS 14.5%, Strategy 11.6%
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 26.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, Wargame 21.3%, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Military 6.4%
Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.
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 31.4%, Grand Strategy 23.1% ★, Cold War 20% ★, Political Sim 12.3% ★, Strategy 4.9%
Grand strategy wargame where the destiny of Civilizations rests in your hands - will they stand united under your leadership or fall divided in conflict? Journey through the entire saga of human civilization, from its earliest days to the futuristic era, crafting your legacy age by age.
Why similar: Diplomacy 25.4% ★, Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, Wargame 21.2%, RTS 15.1%, Tactical 7.1%
3 Days War is a unique multiplayer strategy war game. Integrating the mechanics of RTS+4X, it allows dozens of players to engage in a three-day real-time strategy competitionon. Commanders, use your skills, strategies, games and even deception to become the ultimate winner!
Why similar: Cold War 24.5% ★, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Wargame 17.4%, RTS 17.2%, Political Sim 9.7% ★
A love letter to old-school browser-based RTS MMOs – with charming nostalgic pixel graphics, a dash of political satire, and tonnes of strategic tension. Build your empire, face off against other players, and take what’s yours in true British imperial style: by dominating the map.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.5% ★, Wargame 22.1%, RTS 18.7%, Diplomacy 18.4% ★, Political Sim 9% ★
Easy to learn, hard to master. A simple & free RTS game.
Why similar: RTS 32.8%, Wargame 31.8%, Strategy 12%, Tactical 10%, Military 7.1%
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 33.5% ★, Wargame 24.7%, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, Political Sim 10.6% ★, Tactical 5.9%
Rise to power as any modern day country in a realistic military, political and economic simulation. Command your country's diplomacy, espionage, and resource management to strengthen your position. Use real-time tactical control of your military to fortify your place as the Supreme Ruler.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Wargame 16.3%, RTS 14.8%, Tactical 8.7%
Master grand tactical combat as a Cold War force commander in this data-rich simulation. Plan and issue orders in asynchronous WEGO turns, leveraging real-world maps and complex features like Electronic Warfare and Air Assaults to outthink your enemy.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.6% ★, Wargame 18.3%, Cold War 12.1% ★, RTS 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
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: RTS 28.8%, Cold War 22.7% ★, Wargame 19.8%, Tactical 8.1%, Strategy 7.9%
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
Why similar: Political Sim 29.4% ★, Diplomacy 21% ★, Cold War 20.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Strategy 9.6%
Politon: A turn-based strategy game that will push your strategic and management skills to the limit! Expand your territory, strengthen your economy, and outsmart your enemies by planning your strategy carefully.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.6% ★, Wargame 36.9%, Tactical 12.7%, Strategy 9%, 2D 2.9%
A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.9% ★, Diplomacy 26.6% ★, Political Sim 19.5% ★, Tactical 9.7%, Strategy 4.7%
Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion. In Nations you can rule your people for centuries – from ancient times to the modern day and beyond. You shape your state, history and map of the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, RTS 19.3%, Wargame 18.5%, Political Sim 8.6% ★
This Long Term Strategy Game lets you take control of the armed forces of your nation. Become responsible for its military expansion, technological research and economic development. Form alliances and wage total war for global dominance on the battlefields of World War 3.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.3% ★, Diplomacy 24.3% ★, Wargame 24%, RTS 14.4%, Strategy 6.2%
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 31.4% ★, Wargame 25%, RTS 19.9%, Military 6.5%, Simulation 6.5%
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Why similar: Diplomacy 33.5% ★, Grand Strategy 24.7% ★, Political Sim 16.3% ★, Philosophical 8.8%, Simulation 5.7%
A tactical immersive sim. You are underground with nothing but missiles. Design ballistic weapons, hunt billion-dollar radars with 20,000-dollar drones, flood the enemy with cruise missiles, or reach hypersonic technology. Welcome to asymmetric war.
Why similar: Cold War 37% ★, Wargame 31.7%, Military 8.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Strategy 6.3%
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: Diplomacy 29.1% ★, Grand Strategy 25.2% ★, RTS 16.8%, Tactical 10.1%, Military 6%
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 39.2%, Cold War 13.6% ★, Tactical 13%, Simulation 11.1%, Military 9.1%
Lead your empire in turn based strategy war game. Select your country and start to play.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.6% ★, Wargame 24.1%, Political Sim 13.3% ★, 1980s 8.6%, War 6%
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 48.4% ★, RTS 13.9%, Military 10.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 7.8%
A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.
Why similar: Diplomacy 31.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, RTS 14.5%, Tactical 10.1%, Military 5.5%
Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master.Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it.Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.4% ★, Diplomacy 26.1% ★, Political Sim 12.3% ★, Strategy 9.6%, War 7.2%
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 32.9% ★, Wargame 24.5%, 1980s 13.2%, Tactical 10.1%, Military 7.4%
Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!
Why similar: Wargame 63.6%, Military 18.5%, Strategy 12.8%, 2D 5.1%
Nuclear war simulator is a detailed realistic simulation and visualization of large-scale nuclear conflicts with a focus on humanitarian consequences. It lets you design conflict scenarios and estimate the consequences using a population density map and realistic weapons effects.
Why similar: Wargame 37.8%, RTS 33.9%, Simulation 15.6%, Military 9.1%, Strategy 3.5%
Command any of 261 real-world countries in this 2026 grand strategy game. Build your economy, lead armies, and navigate deep diplomacy. Features built-in modding support and 12 supported languages. Shape the global order through espionage, nuclear deterrence, and AI-driven geopolitics.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.5% ★, Diplomacy 23.8% ★, Wargame 18.8%, Political Sim 12% ★, Strategy 7.8%
Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. No micromanagement, grand scale, fast paced, audiences, assassins, imperial court, disloyal admirals.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.8% ★, Diplomacy 33.5% ★, Cold War 23% ★, Strategy 4.8%, Simulation 4.3%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 51.5% ★, Tactical 16.2%, Simulation 8.2%, Military 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%
The latest expansion of the ultra-realistic world simulator, where you play as the head of state or the opposition! New Features: tourism simulator, party strategies with regime censures, personal wealth management, a European army, AI and robotics.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.6% ★, Wargame 20.6%, RTS 19.2%, Political Sim 13.1% ★, Simulation 8.2%
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Wargame 37%, RTS 29.2%, Tactical 9.3%, Military 8%, Simulation 6.4%
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.9% ★, Political Sim 17.5% ★, Wargame 14.5%, RTS 14.2%, Strategy 9.7%
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: RTS 25.8%, Wargame 23.7%, Tactical 14%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Military 8.3%
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 45.5%, Tactical 16.2%, Simulation 12%, Military 10.7%, Strategy 9.7%
Can you face the challenges of the Oval Office? Find out in Mr. President, a sandbox simulation of the U.S. presidency. Pursue your legislative agenda. Compete with rivals Russia and China. Deal with crises from 9/11 to COVID-19; and direct the U.S. military against terror groups and rogue states.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.6% ★, Grand Strategy 25% ★, Wargame 18.2%, Political Sim 11.6% ★, Simulation 5%
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
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: Grand Strategy 28.8% ★, Wargame 24.3%, RTS 23.5%, Simulation 6.4%, Military 6%
Command modern military armies by zooming out and issuing orders to large formations, or zooming in to issue orders to individual squads and vehicles. Waronoi is the real-time strategy war game.
Why similar: Wargame 37.6%, RTS 36.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Military 9.2%, War 4.8%
