Games Like Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall

Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...

Why similar: Political Sim 20.3% ★, Cold War 20.3% ★, Grand Strategy 8.5% ★, Diplomacy 8% ★, CRPG 6.4%

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 37% ★, Cold War 12.5% ★, Diplomacy 8% ★, Alternate History 6.4%, Strategy 5.9%

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 21.3% ★, Political Sim 19.9% ★, Alternate History 12.4%, Diplomacy 10.5% ★, Grand Strategy 9.5% ★

is a grand strategy game that takes place in 1992-2004. You take lead of your own Party in the face of the total devastation of one of the fictional post-Soviet states in Europe. Try to realize your (or someone else's) political dreams in the shaky arena of this dilapidated situation.

Why similar: Political Sim 22.3% ★, Alternate History 12.6%, Grand Strategy 11% ★, CRPG 9.9%, Historical 8.9%

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Political Sim 34.3% ★, Alternate History 19.7%, Strategy RPG 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%

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 33.7% ★, Diplomacy 10.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%, Grand Strategy 9.4% ★, Historical 9.4%

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 26.9% ★, Political Sim 24.2% ★, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, Alternate History 11.5%, Historical 7.4%

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 34.9% ★, Political Sim 23% ★, Historical 13.2%, Diplomacy 8.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%

The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country. The young socialist state proudly raises its flags, its eyes fixed on a distant, bright future.

Why similar: Political Sim 27.9% ★, Cold War 26.6% ★, Diplomacy 21.1% ★, Historical 8.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.1%

You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?

Why similar: Political Sim 39.4% ★, Alternate History 25.1%, Historical 11.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.8%

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: Political Sim 32.3% ★, Diplomacy 30.7% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Historical 8%

Arms Race - TCWE is PC strategy game based on the historical conflict between the USA and the USSR

Why similar: Political Sim 27.2% ★, Cold War 23.7% ★, Diplomacy 12.3% ★, Grand Strategy 10.2% ★, Alternate History 8.6%

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: Political Sim 35.6% ★, Alternate History 24.7%, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 5.8%

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 35.4% ★, Political Sim 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 15.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 5.1%

In the unique world of this political simulator, you travel to Europe, 1932-1935, to become the party leader in one of the following countries: Germany, France, or England. You have a real chance to become the winner of WWII even before it begins...

Why similar: Alternate History 22.3%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 19.8%, Historical 13.2%, Management 8.6%

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: Political Sim 27.4% ★, Cold War 21.4% ★, Alternate History 13.6%, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%

The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.

Why similar: Diplomacy 20.6% ★, Alternate History 16.1%, Grand Strategy 14.7% ★, Historical 11.9%, Strategy RPG 9.5%

All Walls Must Fall is a Tech-Noir Tactics game set in Berlin 2089, where the Cold War never ended.

Why similar: Cold War 44.2% ★, Alternate History 25.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy 7.3%, RPG 6%

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: Political Sim 33.7% ★, Diplomacy 20.9% ★, Grand Strategy 13.1% ★, Management 8.6%, Choices Matter 5.8%

Get ready to take part in the world war! It depends only on your choice who you will be - a winner or a loser! It's time to press the red button!

Why similar: Political Sim 30.4% ★, Alternate History 21.3%, Grand Strategy 18.7% ★, Historical 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%

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: Political Sim 40% ★, Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Management 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%

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: Political Sim 26.4% ★, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14.6% ★, Historical 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.6%

Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.

Why similar: Historical 22.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Management 11.8%

January, 1915. The Race to the Sea is over. The Great War has just begun. You are the commander of a single division in the meat grinder that is the Western Front. Lead your men over the top as you attempt to break the stalemate that is to claim the lives of millions over the course of years.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.1% ★, Historical 20.8%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 17.7%, Management 11.8%

Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.

Why similar: Cold War 30.8% ★, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15%, Management 14.1%, Historical 12.3%

For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

Why similar: Political Sim 45.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Management 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Strategy 6.4%

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.

Why similar: Cold War 30.5% ★, Diplomacy 28% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4% ★, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Simulation 5.1%

Cold War turns hot in 1953: massive hex strategy with nukes, supply, and sabotage.

Why similar: Cold War 39.4% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Strategy 7.5%

A medieval sandbox. Serve a king, rule your own fief, or raise a claimant to the throne. Marry, scheme, rebel, claim a crown, or just watch. Every NPC in this world lives by the same rules you do, driving it toward collapse. Stopping it is your task; the higher you rise, the more ways you have.

Why similar: Political Sim 32% ★, Diplomacy 22.6% ★, Historical 15.7%, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Simulation 5.2%

Lawgivers is a turn-based political simulation game. Run for elections with your own party and enter parliament to approve or abolish laws. Appoint the president and decide whether you want a democracy or just a fake one instead.

Why similar: Political Sim 34.1% ★, Diplomacy 22.6% ★, Grand Strategy 10.8% ★, Choices Matter 8.1%, Management 6.9%

Lead the King’s Council for generations as the consequences of your decisions decide the kingdom’s resources and political standing. Form alliances, solve dilemmas, and prepare for the final uprising that was foretold by an ancient prophecy

Why similar: Political Sim 34.8% ★, Strategy RPG 12%, Historical 12%, Nonlinear 9.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: Alternate History 19.5%, Historical 16.5%, Strategy RPG 15%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Management 9.6%

Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.

Why similar: Political Sim 23% ★, Diplomacy 20.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Historical 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%

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: Political Sim 21.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, Historical 17.7%, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, Alternate History 9.1%

Step into the shoes of J. Edgar Hoover and combat the Mafia, Communists, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, and more as you shape history with your every move. Download now and become the ultimate mastermind in this thrilling management RPG!

Why similar: Political Sim 22.6% ★, Cold War 21% ★, Grand Strategy 10.2% ★, Historical 8.2%, Strategy RPG 7.2%

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Why similar: Political Sim 52.6% ★, Choices Matter 14.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.

Why similar: Political Sim 41.4% ★, Diplomacy 27.7% ★, Management 8.7%, RPG 7.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%

In 1789, the Ming Dynasty had survived for a hundred years. At this time, just before the Great Revolution, what will the Ming Dynasty look like under the influence of players?

Why similar: Political Sim 32.6% ★, Historical 17.9%, Strategy 13.3%, RPG 11.3%, Simulation 10.9%

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: Turn-Based Strategy 30.9%, Cold War 29.4% ★, Simulation 20%, Strategy 19.7%

Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?

Why similar: Political Sim 30.4% ★, Diplomacy 19.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, Alternate History 16.5%, Management 5.7%

Tempelhof, Berlin, dawn of 8th April 1949.A major armed conflict is brewing between the Western powers and the Soviet bloc. The Red Army has been growing ever stronger since the end of World War II. With the growth of their army the Soviets realize that they hold the advantage, and are only waiting for the right moment to attack.

Why similar: Cold War 64.9% ★, Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 13.7%

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 55.7% ★, Alternate History 26.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 4.6%, Choices Matter 3.1%

The first intense conflict of the Cold War, this war is very often forgotten, its very rapid and dynamic but unknown aspect obliterated by months of stagnation following the first year of operations in Korea. Can you make it remembered?

Why similar: Political Sim 32.1% ★, Cold War 27.1% ★, Historical 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Strategy 10.9%

Lead your political party in a fierce competition to seize power against major rivals. Invest strategically, secure votes, and navigate crucial decisions to claim the presidential seat. Will you shape the destiny of Turkish politics?

Why similar: Political Sim 42.8% ★, Alternate History 21.7%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 8%, Management 6.5%

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 44.8% ★, Historical 16.1%, Strategy RPG 14.6%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 7.7%

Near the border of the iron curtain in the soviet union lies a small village where unrest is brewing and supplies are scarce. You and your family have been sent there to bring order, where you will serve the USSR as a judge. Balance your own moral judgment with the opinions of those watching...

Why similar: Simulation 31.2%, Strategy 29.7%, RPG 26.6%, Indie 12.4%

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.

Why similar: Management 33.9%, Simulation 26.3%, Multiple Endings 23.4%, Story Rich 10.8%, Indie 5.6%

As a moustached soviet nuclear missile operator, you’re the last frontier of your motherland’s defense. Survive a freezing Siberian winter, untangle nasty bear intrigues and adapt to always changing environment in this cold war simulator.

Why similar: Cold War 40.6% ★, Alternate History 18.9%, CRPG 16%, Nonlinear 9.6%, Management 9.1%

As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!

Why similar: Political Sim 47.3% ★, Historical 22.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%

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: Political Sim 27.4% ★, Cold War 25.6% ★, Grand Strategy 11.3% ★, Alternate History 10.7%, Historical 8.2%

Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.

Why similar: Political Sim 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18% ★, Alternate History 15.6%, Historical 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%

Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.

Why similar: Political Sim 39.3% ★, Alternate History 28.1%, Simulation 7.8%, RPG 6.9%, Choices Matter 6.5%

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: Political Sim 26.2% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9% ★, Cold War 19.6% ★, Alternate History 14.9%, Historical 8.7%

Calm Down, Stalin is a game where you directly control your hands to threaten your enemies with nuclear weapons by moving your finger closer to The Button while signing important state papers, answering phone, dealing with your subordinates and fighting the stress of your job by smoking your pipe!

Why similar: Cold War 63.3% ★, Simulation 19.6%, Indie 12.3%, Story Rich 4.8%

Lead your people to glory and write a new chapter of history in Realpolitiks II, a real-time grand strategy game where you lead any contemporary nation in an attempt to secure world dominance.

Why similar: Political Sim 42.8% ★, Grand Strategy 26.7% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Indie 4.7%

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: Diplomacy 24.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, Alternate History 16.1%, Historical 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg is a turn-based strategy set in the period of WW2. It brings a modern look and new features to a good old wargame genre. You are to lead the German Armed forces overcoming unthinkable odds and claiming the ultimate bittersweet victory in Europe. Blitzkrieg is the way!

Why similar: Alternate History 29.3%, Historical 20.7%, Strategy RPG 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Strategy 7.9%

Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Why similar: Cold War 45.2% ★, Historical 18.8%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 6.6%

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: Political Sim 22.9% ★, Diplomacy 14.3% ★, CRPG 10.3%, Strategy RPG 9.4%, Historical 8.1%