- #1 Hell Let Loose
97% matchVery Positive82% of 145,932 reviews2021
Dev: Expression GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 72.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 11.5%, FPS 9.3%, War 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match, offering large-scale WW2 battles, high lethality, logistics, vehicles, and constant squad-and-command communication.
- #2 Squad
96% matchVery Positive81% of 234,054 reviews2020
Dev: Offworld
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 110.9 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 22.8%, FPS 12.4%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, War 9.3%, Realistic 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Even without the WW2 setting, it shares Squad 44's DNA almost exactly through realistic gunplay, large maps, vehicles, and teamwork-first objective play.
- #3 Enlisted
95% matchVery Positive80% of 41,513 reviews2024
Dev: Darkflow SoftwarePub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.9 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 37.5% ★, FPS 13.2%, War 8.8%, Massively Multiplayer 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers combined-arms WW2 combat with infantry, tanks, and aircraft across big objective maps while keeping a strong historical-war feel.
- #4 Day of Infamy
96% matchVery Positive82% of 22,115 reviews2017
Dev: New World Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 20.9 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 40.8% ★, Military 10.9%, FPS 10.9%, War 9.4%, Realistic 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures realistic WW2 infantry combat with deadly weapons, immersive sound design, and objective-driven multiplayer that rewards coordination.
- #5 Arma Reforger
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 47,450 reviews2023
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 85.9 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 25.9%, FPS 13.6%, War 11.3%, Realistic 10.3%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its military-sim foundation, realistic pacing, big maps, and communication-heavy combined-arms gameplay make it a strong alternative despite the Cold War setting.
- #6 Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
94% matchVery Positive93% of 37,931 reviews2011
Dev: Tripwire Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Contains full Rising Storm content as well!
Why similar: World War II 38.3% ★, FPS 10.1%, Realistic 8.8%, War 7.5%, Military 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is one of the classic hardcore historical shooters, with brutal lethality, authentic WW2 atmosphere, and team-based objective fighting.
- #7 Easy Red 2
93% matchVery Positive90% of 12,483 reviews2022
Dev: Marco AmadeiPub: Corvostudio di Amadei Marco
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 37.1% ★, FPS 10.8%, War 10.3%, Multiplayer 6.1%, Realistic 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers grounded WW2 combined-arms battles with infantry and vehicles, making it a good fit if you want authenticity with solo or co-op options too.
- #8 Operation: Harsh Doorstop
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,731 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 ex-developers of Squad, Red Orchestra, and Insurgency.
Why similar: Military 22%, World War II 14.3% ★, FPS 13.5%, War 9.6%, Realistic 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is heavily inspired by the Squad-style formula, emphasizing realistic firefights, teamwork, large environments, and mod-friendly military scenarios.
- #9 Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
91% matchVery Positive87% of 58,535 reviews2017
Dev: Antimatter GamesPub: Tripwire Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 42.3 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: Military 17.7%, Massively Multiplayer 15.5%, FPS 13.1%, War 12.3%, Team-Based 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: While set in Vietnam, it scratches the same itch for lethal gunplay, tactical positioning, teamwork, and immersive large-team warfare.
- #10 Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
91% matchVery Positive88% of 2,518 reviews2006
Dev: Tripwire Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Fight in the theatre of war that changed the world forever. Battle alongside your compatriots on some of the most inhospitable environments of the Eastern Front in Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Red Orchestra places you in the most realistic WWII first-person multi-player combat to date on the PC, allowing the player to fight through...
Why similar: World War II 44% ★, FPS 11%, Military 8.9%, War 6.8%, Realistic 6%
Why You'll Like It: It remains a strong match for players who want unforgiving WW2 gunfights, historical authenticity, and a slower, more tactical style of shooting.
- #11 War of Rights
89% matchVery Positive88% of 14,527 reviews2018
Dev: Campfire Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 90.2 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: Military 16.5%, War 16%, Historical 11.9%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, FPS 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It trades WW2 for the American Civil War, but its organized unit play, realism, and immersive historical frontline battles feel very familiar.
- #12 Iron Front: Digital War Edition
90% matchMixed59% of 865 reviews2012
Dev: X1 SoftwarePub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Command your own troops, man authentic weaponry and take to the sky in deadly warplanes.
Why similar: World War II 27.7% ★, Military 13.6%, War 9.6%, FPS 8.8%, Realistic 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This WW2 military sim leans hard into authentic weapons, vehicles, and battlefield immersion in a way that aligns well with Squad 44's realism focus.
- #13 Verdun
89% matchVery Positive86% of 37,603 reviews2015
Dev: BlackMill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 16.2%, Military 14%, FPS 10.1%, War 10%, Historical 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers gritty historical infantry combat with strong authenticity and squad-based objective play, even if it is narrower in scale and focused on WW1.
- #14 Arma 3
88% matchVery Positive90% of 291,421 reviews2013
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 255.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.8%, FPS 10.2%, War 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Realistic 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is one of the best options for players who love realism, vehicle-supported infantry combat, and large-scale tactical military sandbox battles.
- #15 Isonzo
86% matchVery Positive83% of 16,613 reviews2022
Dev: BlackMill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 22.8 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: Military 18.5%, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Team-Based 10.1%, War 9.4%, Realistic 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its realistic frontline combat, class-based teamwork, and historical objective battles make it a good pick for fans of grounded war shooters.
- #16 Beyond The Wire
87% matchMixed63% of 7,522 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 19.4%, War 14%, FPS 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, Historical 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This WW1 tactical shooter echoes Squad 44's deliberate pacing, team coordination, and historical battlefield immersion.
- #17 Six Days in Fallujah
86% matchVery Positive80% of 15,977 reviews2023
Dev: Highwire GamesPub: Victura
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Six Days in Fallujah is an intensely realistic first-person tactical shooter based on true stories from one of this century’s toughest urban battles.
Why similar: Military 20.2%, FPS 12.6%, War 11.9%, Realistic 9.1%, Team-Based 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Although more co-op focused and modern, it shares the same emphasis on realism, tension, communication, and punishing tactical firefights.
- #18 Battlefield™ V
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 263,557 reviews2020
Dev: DICEPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 56.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This is the ultimate Battlefield V experience. Enter mankind’s greatest conflict with the complete arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and gadgets plus the best customization content of Year 1 and 2.
Why similar: World War II 33.1% ★, FPS 12.7%, Military 12.4%, War 10%, Massively Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is more accessible and less sim-focused, but its WW2 setting, vehicle combat, and large objective-based multiplayer still overlap strongly with Squad 44.
- #19 Foxhole
84% matchVery Positive82% of 50,251 reviews2022
Dev: Siege Camp
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.
Why similar: World War II 29.3% ★, Military 16.4%, Massively Multiplayer 15.5%, War 10.1%, Team-Based 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Despite the top-down perspective, its persistent war, logistics, vehicles, and teamwork-driven frontline combat tap into a similar combined-arms mindset.
- #20 Tannenberg
84% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2017
Dev: Blackmill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Experience authentic First World War action with 64 player battles of maneuver on the Eastern Front. Grab your rifle, ready your sabre and keep your gas mask close as you prepare to play a part in one of the most significant conflicts in history!
Why similar: Military 14.8%, FPS 13.5%, War 13.3%, Team-Based 11.2%, Realistic 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a slower, more tactical historical FPS experience built around positioning, teamwork, and lethal engagements rather than arcade action.
- #21 Holdfast: Nations At War
83% matchVery Positive90% of 27,937 reviews2020
Dev: Anvil Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Military 20.8%, War 15.1%, FPS 14.2%, Historical 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the chaos of large historical multiplayer battles with strong roleplay, teamwork, and immersive period warfare.
- #22 GROUND BRANCH
82% matchVery Positive89% of 23,166 reviews2018
Dev: BlackFoot StudiosPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
Why similar: Military 26.1%, FPS 15.4%, Realistic 13.9%, Tactical 11%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: It is smaller in scale, but its realistic handling, tactical movement, and communication-heavy firefights appeal to the same milsim-minded audience.
- #23 Tank Squad
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 756 reviews2025
Dev: DeGenerals S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tank Squad is a tactical-combat action game. Take part in big tank battles during World War II. Play single-player or coop (4 players). Repair your tanks, replenish supplies, manage the crew and get back to the action!
Why similar: World War II 31.4% ★, Military 14%, War 10.5%, FPS 7.8%, Realistic 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: If the vehicle side of Squad 44 is what you enjoy most, this offers a more specialized WW2 armored combat experience.
- #24 BattleBit Remastered
80% matchVery Positive82% of 145,990 reviews2023
Dev: SgtOkiDoki
Windows
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 35.5 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: Military 20.3%, FPS 16.3%, Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, War 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is much more arcade-like, but its huge player counts, vehicle support, and squad-focused objective battles mirror the large-scale war feel.
- #25 Days of War: Definitive Edition
82% matchMixed51% of 1,937 reviews2020
Dev: Driven Arts
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Days of War is an online FPS that re-imagines the team-based, close quarters, nonstop action of classic World War II multiplayer shooters.
Why similar: World War II 41.5% ★, War 15.2%, FPS 10.3%, Action 4.6%, Shooter 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a lighter and smaller-scale WW2 shooter, but it still targets players looking for classic objective-based historical infantry combat.
- #26 Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway™
81% matchVery Positive91% of 2,346 reviews2008
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a totally redesigned online component.
Why similar: World War II 46.9% ★, FPS 13.4%, Military 13.3%, Tactical 5.8%, War 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on WW2 authenticity, tactical maneuvering, and squad-based infantry combat makes it a decent single-player companion pick.
- #27 Battlefield™ 1
78% matchVery Positive86% of 214,775 reviews2020
Dev: DICEPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 50.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.
Why similar: FPS 22.9%, War 19.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Massively Multiplayer 13.2%, Historical 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is less realistic than Squad 44, but its immersive historical warfare, vehicles, and big multiplayer battles make it a solid alternative.
- #28 Call of Duty®: WWII
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 45,683 reviews2017
Dev: Sledgehammer GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Call of Duty®: WWII - a breathtaking experience that redefines World War II.
Why similar: World War II 46.5% ★, FPS 12.8%, War 12%, Multiplayer 7%, Shooter 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is a more cinematic and fast-paced take on the same era, but still offers boots-on-the-ground WW2 combat for players wanting the setting first.
- #29 Over The Top: WWI
75% matchVery Positive87% of 5,053 reviews2026
Dev: Flying Squirrel EntertainmentPub: GG Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Join 200-player 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: FPS 17.9%, Historical 12.3%, War 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Realistic 10.4%
- #30 Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
78% matchVery Positive85% of 30,868 reviews2021
Dev: Barbedwire StudiosPub: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 72.7 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 41.9% ★, Military 15.1%, War 11.6%, Historical 9.2%, Realistic 7%
- #31 Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30™
79% matchVery Positive88% of 2,101 reviews2008
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Based on a true story. Set during the famous airdrop before the invasion at Normandy, where Sgt. Matt Baker and his squad of 101st Airborne Paratroopers were scattered over the French countryside.
Why similar: World War II 35.2% ★, FPS 21.1%, War 11.3%, Military 9.7%, Shooter 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes realistic WW2 atmosphere and tactical squad command, appealing to players who like the historical infantry side of Squad 44.
- #32 Steel Division 2
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,441 reviews2019
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 51.6 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 37.7% ★, Military 17.2%, War 10.3%, Historical 6.1%, Realistic 5.6%
- #33 Men of War: Assault Squad 2
77% matchVery Positive91% of 46,011 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalmindsoftPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 63.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
Why similar: World War II 41.5% ★, Military 13.1%, War 12.4%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 4.8%
- #34 WWII Online
76% matchMixed51% of 3,784 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 27.3% ★, FPS 18.5%, Massively Multiplayer 11.6%, Military 9.1%, Shooter 7.5%
- #35 Steel Division: Normandy 44
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,291 reviews2017
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.7 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 51.7% ★, Military 15.9%, War 7.9%, Strategy 5.3%, Multiplayer 4.6%
- #36 Army Troop
72% matchVery Positive85% of 418 reviews2025
Dev: Army Troop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Army Troop is an old-school PvP World War 2 online first-person shooter. Reminding you of the good old days World War games.
Why similar: World War II 28.8% ★, Military 10.4%, FPS 9.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%, War 8.8%
- #37 Insurgency: Sandstorm
74% matchVery Positive85% of 131,361 reviews2018
Dev: New World InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 56.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a team-based, tactical FPS based on lethal close quarters combat and objective-oriented multiplayer gameplay. Experience the intensity of modern combat where skill is rewarded, and teamwork wins the fight.
Why similar: Military 22.3%, FPS 19.9%, Realistic 11.7%, War 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #38 Onward
73% matchMixed68% of 9,301 reviews2025
Dev: Downpour Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Onward is the most immersive tactical VR shooter. Join your squad for a wide variety of competitive PvP, co-op PvE, and solo game modes, including intense multiplayer battles or 4-player co-op missions. Realistic weaponry and combat mechanics will push your survival and combat skills to their limit
Why similar: Military 22.6%, FPS 15.1%, War 12.1%, Realistic 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #39 Men of War: Assault Squad
75% matchVery Positive88% of 5,101 reviews2011
Dev: DigitalmindsoftPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.
Why similar: World War II 40.9% ★, Military 13.9%, War 11.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Realistic 5.8%
- #40 Call to Arms: Panzer Elite
71% matchMixed70% of 1,425 reviews2025
Dev: DigitalmindsoftPub: Digitalmindsoft Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lead a platoon of WWII tanks in this immersive TPP and FPP game. Engage in realistic, tactical combat across historic battlefields. Play through campaign or challenge yourself in skirmish mode as either German or US forces.
Why similar: World War II 44.2% ★, Military 14.9%, War 10%, Realistic 8.4%, Historical 7.1%
- #41 WARNO
71% matchVery Positive81% of 14,911 reviews2024
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 69.2 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: Military 28.2%, War 16.1%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Historical 9.3%, Realistic 8.8%
- #42 Zero Hour
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 32,962 reviews2024
Dev: AttritoM7 Productions
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Zero Hour is a tactical FPS with online team-based game play that takes place in a variety of fictional locations interpreted in Bangladesh with Real-life scale & resource management. It brings a grounded, close quarter combat experience to the game.
Why similar: Military 18.4%, FPS 16.7%, Realistic 11.5%, Tactical 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #43 Call to Arms
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 23,876 reviews2018
Dev: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.
Why similar: Military 27.9%, War 13.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%, FPS 9%
- #44 Men of War II
70% matchMixed61% of 7,210 reviews2024
Dev: Best WayPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40.2% ★, Military 16.7%, Historical 8.5%, Realistic 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #45 World War 3
70% matchMixed54% of 54,576 reviews2022
Dev: New Generation GamesPub: Wishlist Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
World War 3 is a free-to-play tactical online multiplayer FPS where the world is your battleground. Outgun the enemy in thrilling, team-based skirmishes with a huge arsenal of weapons, vehicles, gadgets, and drones at your disposal.
Why similar: Military 21.7%, FPS 16.7%, War 13.9%, Realistic 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #46 Fog of War
73% matchMixed48% of 799 reviews2018
Dev: Monkeys Lab.Pub: Neokosmos Technologies Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 17.7 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 29.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.9%, Military 10.5%, FPS 9.3%, War 6.9%
- #47 Fog Of War - Free Edition
73% matchMixed53% of 1,746 reviews2018
Dev: Monkeys Lab.
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 25%
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 46.2% ★, FPS 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Multiplayer 8.3%, War 3.3%
- #48 Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood™
72% matchVery Positive87% of 1,124 reviews2008
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com).
Why similar: World War II 49.2% ★, FPS 15.6%, Military 15.1%, War 7%, Tactical 5.1%
- #49 Gray Zone Warfare
67% matchMixed70% of 66,430 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 20.1%, FPS 14.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.9%, War 10.7%, Realistic 10.2%
- #50 Total Tank Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,576 reviews2020
Dev: Noobz from PolandPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.
Why similar: World War II 48% ★, War 14.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 7.7%, FPS 5%
- #51 Battle Cry of Freedom
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,500 reviews2022
Dev: Flying Squirrel Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: Military 16.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.6%, FPS 11.6%, War 10.5%, Historical 8.4%
- #52 Steel Crew
68% matchVery Positive82% of 607 reviews2021
Dev: Magnus Ander
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Join a Tank as a Driver, Gunner or Commander and team up with and against other Tanks in Tank Vs Tank combat where tactics and communication is key
Why similar: World War II 44.4% ★, Military 14.3%, Team-Based 10.4%, War 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #53 Day of Defeat
69% matchVery Positive90% of 7,278 reviews2003
Dev: Valve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Enlist in an intense brand of Axis vs. Allied teamplay set in the WWII European Theatre of Operations. Players assume the role of light/assault/heavy infantry, sniper or machine-gunner class, each with a unique arsenal of historical weaponry at their disposal. Missions are based on key historical operations.
Why similar: World War II 34.5% ★, FPS 33.2%, War 7.1%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Military 4.7%
- #54 Insurgency
67% matchVery Positive92% of 124,756 reviews2014
Dev: New World Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
Why similar: FPS 39.7%, Military 12.9%, Realistic 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Tactical 6.1%
- #55 BATTALION: Legacy
68% matchMixed60% of 16,390 reviews2019
Dev: BULKHEAD
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
BATTALION: Legacy recaptures the core of classic shooters in the final iteration of Battalion 1944. Return to the simple days of playing first person shooters with your friends. Grab your bolt action rifle in 'rifles only' mode or compete in 5v5 Search and Destroy.
Why similar: World War II 30.9% ★, Military 15.3%, FPS 14.3%, War 9%, Massively Multiplayer 7%
- #56 Men of War™
68% matchVery Positive90% of 3,795 reviews2009
Dev: Best WayPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Men of War is a stunning Real-Time Strategy game that takes place during the height of World War II. Intense battles span Europe and North Africa as gamers play as Soviet, Allied or German forces across 19 massive single-player missions.
Why similar: World War II 45.8% ★, Military 12.7%, Strategy 8.6%, War 7.8%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #57 Day of Defeat: Source
67% matchVery Positive92% of 23,350 reviews2010
Dev: Valve
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.
Why similar: World War II 40.7% ★, FPS 16.6%, Military 9.7%, War 6.9%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #58 Black One Blood Brothers
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,359 reviews2022
Dev: Helios Studio
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Black One Blood Brothers is a tactical military shooter game where strategy and coordination are key. Command a squad of top operators, with unique skills, through high-risk missions around the globe. Customize your crew, plan your missions, and adjust on the fly for a vast replayability.
Why similar: Military 26.3%, FPS 15.6%, War 10.4%, Realistic 9.2%, Tactical 8.5%