- #1 Twilight Struggle
97% matchVery Positive86% of 2,951 reviews2016
Dev: Playdek, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 32% ★, Wargame 18.8%, Board Game 13.8%, Tabletop 11.1%, Card Game 9.1%
- #2 Labyrinth: The War on Terror
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 179 reviews2022
Dev: Playdek, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Face the global war on terror in this engaging 2 player strategy game. Set against recent world events, Labyrinth portrays the U.S. efforts to counter extremists’ use of terrorist tactics, as well as the wider ideological struggle – guerrilla warfare, fundamentalist rule, regime change and more.
Why similar: Wargame 22.1%, Board Game 20.2%, Military 16.3%, Strategy 15.4%, War 14.8%
- #3 Terminal Conflict
96% matchMixed69% of 70 reviews2020
Dev: Strategy Mill
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25% ★, Political 17.1% ★, Politics 13.1% ★, Wargame 12%, Board Game 8.7%
- #4 Maestro's Cold War 2
95% matchVery Positive98% of 142 reviews2025
Dev: Maestro CinetikPub: Gaming at work
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22.1% ★, Politics 20.4% ★, Political 15.9% ★, Wargame 14.1%, Military 12.3%
- #5 Crimson Banner: War of Liberation
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 赤旗制作组
Windows · Mac
Are you ready, comrades? You will command the People's Liberation Army, strike a heavy blow against the aggressive Nationalist reactionaries in the War of Liberation, and win the liberation of all of China!
Why similar: Cold War 28.9% ★, Wargame 18.3%, Military 14.5%, War 11.2%, Board Game 9.1%
- #6 REDSIDE episode 1
94% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Energy Milk
Windows · Mac · Linux
REDSIDE episode 1 is a twisted thriller set during the Cold War. The world is on the brink of war. Will you be able to prevent a disaster?
Why similar: Cold War 29.3% ★, Politics 20% ★, Wargame 15%, Political 12.4% ★, Military 9.7%
- #7 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game - Digital Edition
93% matchMixed70% of 1,929 reviews2020
Dev: Dire WolfPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A Game of Thrones: The Board Game – Digital Edition is the digital adaptation of the top-selling strategy board game from Fantasy Flight Games.
Why similar: Politics 30.4% ★, Wargame 18.7%, Board Game 16.5%, War 10.9%, Tabletop 9.9%
- #8 SYRAK: the War in the Middle-East
92% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: SAA Studio
Windows
SYRAK is a card-based strategy game set during the most complex war in recent history of the Middle-East. Local or Online game have you play as the Resistance Axis or the Western Defence Organization. Use powerful Political, Espionage and Military Cards to outwit and overwhelm your opponent.
Why similar: Political 16.4% ★, Wargame 16.1%, Politics 15.3% ★, Board Game 10.5%, Military 9.2%
- #9 Nukes on the Loose
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Letaguator Studios
Windows
Compete with up to 5 other players to see who can avoid getting blown up by the hidden dirty bombs in this thrilling card game. Play secrets, veto cards, cruise missiles and a lot more. Only 1 player can survive and save their city!
Why similar: Wargame 24.2%, Cold War 23.1% ★, War 14.6%, Card Game 12.9%, Board Game 10.3%
- #10 US and THEM
91% matchMostly Negative34% of 111 reviews2014
Dev: Icehole GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 36.5% ★, Political 17.1% ★, Politics 13.1% ★, Wargame 11.4%, Strategy 6.3%
- #11 SGS Korean War
90% matchVery Positive84% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
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: Cold War 28.3% ★, Wargame 25%, Military 11.9%, War 11.8%, Strategy 7.1%
- #12 First Strike
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,001 reviews2017
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 30.2% ★, Wargame 16.1%, Political 16% ★, Military 12.5%, War 12.4%
- #13 BATTLE THUNDER FRONT 《战雷前线》
89% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Two Thousand and one entertainment studios
Windows
BATTLE THUNDER FRONT is a unique casual turn-based war game. The background of the game takes the Vietnam War as the theme, and players can fight in the form of small teams or large forces. The game also supports personalized configuration of battle mode for playing
Why similar: Cold War 31.2% ★, Wargame 18.8%, Military 15.5%, War 13.8%, Historical 7.1%
- #14 Hail Britannia
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Ethan Porcina
Windows
Hail Britannia is a text-based game with lite RPG elements set in an alternate 1944 where the Central Powers won World War 1.
Why similar: Politics 29.3% ★, Political 28.5% ★, Military 21.5%, War 13.2%, Historical 4.3%
- #15 WARNO
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 15,442 reviews2024
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 70.4 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: Cold War 29.5% ★, Wargame 21.4%, Military 17.1%, War 11.8%, PvP 5.7%
- #16 American Patriots: Boston Tea Party
88% matchVery Positive88% of 104 reviews2017
Dev: Cult Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Take Boston or die for freedom!
Why similar: Wargame 18.9%, Politics 18.6% ★, War 16.4%, Board Game 15.7%, Military 11.6%
- #17 Precipice
86% matchVery Positive80% of 323 reviews2019
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 34.5% ★, Politics 24.3% ★, War 10.2%, Wargame 6.6%, Strategy 5.8%
- #18 Stealth Fighter DEX
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jimmy Arcade Limited
Windows
Inspired by flight sims of the '90s, you will be piloting a selection of fictional stealth fighter bombers over varied terrain completing procedurally generated missions such as precision bombing, clandestine intelligence gathering, close air support and many others.
Why similar: Cold War 34.1% ★, Wargame 24.9%, Military 19.4%, War 15.4%, Simulation 3.1%
- #19 All Out War: Red Horizon
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fullscale Interactive
Windows
All Out War: Red Horizon is a large-scale first-person shooter with destructible environments, drivable and customizable vehicles, characters, and weapons. Its gameplay bridges the gap between milsim and arcade-style shooters, keeping mostly the fun highlights of warfare front and center.
Why similar: Cold War 30.2% ★, Wargame 25.5%, Military 20%, War 16.1%, PvP 7.3%
- #20 Cold War Battles
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kudos Games
Windows
Lead Cold War formations in quick, turn based, hex‑and‑counter battles spanning 5 decades of real and hypothetical conflicts. With over 250 units, more than a dozen factions and varied theatres - from Africa to the Golan Heights, Europe and more, Cold War Battles await.
Why similar: Wargame 25.7%, Cold War 23.4% ★, Board Game 16.4%, Military 10.5%, Historical 6.8%
- #21 Wartime Glory
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buldogo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wartime Glory is a turn-based strategy war game that is a perfect mix of classic board games like Risk with special cards that give it a new dimension of strategy and tactics. Have fun while you take over the world, one country at a time!
Why similar: Wargame 17%, War 16%, Cold War 13.9% ★, Tabletop 13.8%, Board Game 13.5%
- #22 General Command
81% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Sweet Apple Games
Windows
General Command is a turn-based Napoleonic war game. Create custom battles and lead your army against enemy generals who set their strategy based on aggression and confidence. In the age of muskets, cavalry charges, and cannon fire, use bold battlefield maneuvers to seize victory.
Why similar: Wargame 22.6%, War 15%, Board Game 14.9%, Military 14.9%, Tabletop 12.5%
- #23 Planetary Control!
82% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Kerberos Productions
Windows
Invade strange worlds with alien armies! populate and shield your planets! Assassinate, Sabotage and Nuke your opponents! Collect victory points and achieve... PLANETARY CONTROL!
Why similar: Cold War 22.1% ★, Board Game 17.8%, Tabletop 16.6%, Card Game 16%, War 11.6%
- #24 Campaign Clash: The U.S. History Card Game
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Campaign Clash
Windows · Mac
Dive into U.S. political history with Campaign Clash, a strategic card game where you mix and match historical figures and policies to shape America's past and present. Master the art of political strategy and history through over 1,000 unique cards and all 60 elections from 1789 to 2024.
Why similar: Politics 27.2% ★, Political 26.6% ★, Board Game 11.9%, Card Game 11.4%, Historical 9.1%
- #25 FIREGROUND Modern War
81% matchMixed66% of 88 reviews2020
Dev: Xyak-Xyak
Windows
Modern Combat Tactical Team Battlegrounds Competitive Multiplayer Shooter for your LOW SPEC PC!
Why similar: Cold War 24.1% ★, Politics 19.7% ★, Political 15.7% ★, Wargame 15.1%, Military 11.4%
- #26 Frontline: Afrika Korps
77% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Frontline: Games Series
Windows
Lead iconic WWII forces across stunning desert battlefields. Command, customize, and conquer in thrilling, historically rich campaigns. Outsmart foes with Real time strategy cunning tactics. The sands of Africa await!
Why similar: Cold War 33% ★, Wargame 20.7%, Military 15.8%, War 12.7%, Tabletop 8.7%
- #27 Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,042 reviews2019
Dev: Serious SimPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.2% ★, Wargame 19%, Military 14.4%, War 12.1%, Tabletop 10.2%
- #28 Wargame: European Escalation
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,391 reviews2012
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Why similar: Cold War 38.1% ★, Military 20.7%, Wargame 20.2%, War 9.2%, Strategy 8%
- #29 Launch Them All
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3rd Shift Studios
Windows
A high-stakes turn-based missile duel where every shot matters. Spy, bluff, and deploy powerful tactical abilities to destroy enemy military assets while avoiding civilian casualties.
Why similar: Cold War 26.6% ★, Wargame 21.4%, Board Game 20.5%, War 10%, Strategy 8.4%
- #30 World War 3: Card Battler
78% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Angel Star Studios
Windows
Play as your favorite country, in a card battle for world domination.
Why similar: Political 25.6% ★, Politics 23.3% ★, Military 13.6%, Card Game 10.7%, War 10.6%
- #31 12 Months: Vietnam
77% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: AlphaSixGames
Windows
Experience the Vietnam War through the eyes of an administrative officer who observes the first few missions but never sees combat again — only the paperwork of war. Lives, morale, service time, and survival depend on your choices. Everyone is replaceable... including you.
Why similar: Cold War 19.6% ★, Board Game 19%, War 17.6%, Wargame 13.7%, Military 13.4%
- #32 Hijong Park's Defender Patrol
76% matchVery Positive99% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Hijong ParkPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Hijong Park's Defender Patrol is a small, low-poly helicopter combat flight simulator featuring simple but fully interactable cockpit system, playable in both the monitor and Virtual-reality.
Why similar: Cold War 40.2% ★, Wargame 25.3%, Military 17.6%, War 14.1%, Simulation 2.7%
- #33 Polygonal Conflict
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dmrgames
Windows
Raise your army, crush the enemy defense, and seize air superiority in Polygonal Conflict. This is a massive-scale military sandbox where you directly control a vast arsenal of vehicles, command advanced AI, and personally smash through enemy lines across enormous battlefields
Why similar: Cold War 37.1% ★, Wargame 27%, Military 14.8%, War 12%, PvP 4.6%
- #34 World At War 85 Digital: Core Game
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lock 'n Load Publishing
Windows · Mac
World At War 85 Digital is a dynamic platoon-level combat computer game based on the award-winning board games of the same series name. World At War 85 Digital series centered on armor, artillery, and infantry combat during 1985 World War 3.
Why similar: Wargame 25.4%, War 17.4%, Board Game 15.5%, Military 12.6%, Tabletop 12.5%
- #35 Through the Ages
74% matchVery Positive91% of 2,323 reviews2018
Dev: CGE Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Legendary board game classic from award winning designer Vlaada Chvátil
Why similar: Politics 28.7% ★, Board Game 19.1%, Tabletop 16%, Card Game 14%, Historical 10.5%
- #36 Wargame: Airland Battle
75% matchVery Positive87% of 4,447 reviews2013
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
Why similar: Cold War 40.7% ★, Military 23.9%, Wargame 17.3%, War 7.4%, Strategy 7.4%
- #37 Rock'n'Roll: Card Wargame
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Игры LokiPub: WallRus Group
Windows
US Marines and Vietnam warriors, welcome to a new card wargame that will send you on a crazy alternative-historical trip through the chemical-drenched jungles of the Vietnam war. Become a commander of Vietnamese guerrillas or American armed forces and show what you're made of!
Why similar: Cold War 33.6% ★, Wargame 17.1%, War 11.9%, Board Game 11.3%, Tabletop 9.7%
- #38 Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
73% matchVery Positive87% of 58,792 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: Cold War 33.2% ★, Wargame 20.2%, Military 16.3%, War 13.8%, PvP 7.2%
- #39 Radio Commander VR
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Serious SimPub: Games Operators
Windows
Radio Commander now in VR! Be there, right next to the battlefield, in a commander’s tent in the middle of a Vietnamese jungle. Step into the shoes of an experienced leader and lead your soldiers to victory… or at least give them a chance to survive the Vietnam hell.
Why similar: Cold War 31.9% ★, Wargame 22.5%, Military 19%, War 12%, Historical 7.2%
- #40 冷战:前线 Cold War Frontline
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: 夏日旧风工作室
Windows
Join this multiplayer cooperative PVE tank shooting game, drive famous vehicles from the Cold War, and have the opportunity to fight side by side with players around the world. Now, start the engine, the order will come later!
Why similar: Cold War 36.3% ★, Wargame 20.3%, Military 15.3%, War 13.5%, 1980s 5.8%
- #41 Root
72% matchVery Positive90% of 5,307 reviews2020
Dev: Dire Wolf
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
Why similar: Wargame 23.3%, Board Game 18.9%, War 16.8%, Tabletop 15.1%, Card Game 9.1%
- #42 Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Imugi
Windows
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.
Why similar: Politics 23.1% ★, Political 17.1% ★, Wargame 15.9%, War 11.4%, Military 11.4%
- #43 SALVO
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erdem ŞahinPub: Doomed Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 35.3% ★, Wargame 24%, Military 19%, War 14.3%, Strategy 4.4%
- #44 '83
69% matchMixed66% of 938 reviews2026
Dev: Blue Dot Games
Windows
'83 is a 40v40 squad based, objective focused online tactical first person shooter set in a Cold-War-Gone-Hot scenario. It's designed with 'accessible realism' for the most enjoyable, but still hardcore experience that gets you to the action fast, without losing the lethality of war.
Why similar: Cold War 37.8% ★, Military 16.7%, Wargame 16.5%, War 14.4%, PvP 6.9%
- #45 SGS NATO's Nightmare
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 117 reviews2023
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
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 30.7%, Cold War 29.1% ★, PvP 9.3%, Military 9.1%, War 6.7%
- #46 Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 255 reviews2009
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold contains Supreme Ruler 2020 and the expansion, Global Crisis: SUPREME RULER 2020 Overnight, the US dollar crashes AND the sound echoes across the globe. The economic crisis amplifies global instabilities and regional disputes, tearing the world asunder. Nations dissolve, economies collapse, and tensions escalate.
Why similar: Politics 25.4% ★, Wargame 21%, Political 19.5% ★, Military 15.6%, War 12.2%
- #47 Mercury
71% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Atomic Isotope Studios
Windows
Mercury is postmodern sci-fi first-person shooter set in the year 2052 where you take the role of a Mercury agent of the Special Operations Command Center undergoing tremendous missions in an effort to stop the development of a super weapon by the Soviets.
Why similar: Cold War 45.2% ★, Political 23.8% ★, Military 17.9%, War 13%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #48 World War Forex
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Leobot Electronics
Windows
Rule the Financial Frontier: Immerse yourself in the role of a powerful politician in a world of war and unrest. Lead your nation to prosperity through cunning forex trades and dominate the financial battlefield. Live the life of a master strategist in this innovative game
Why similar: Cold War 26.2% ★, Politics 22.2% ★, Wargame 16.6%, Military 12.3%, War 11.4%
- #49 Red Ledger
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Comrade Sovia
Windows
Four departments. One sealed warehouse. Submit your secret budget, claim the assets, and hope the paperwork survives inspection. Red Ledger is a short 4-player PvP bluffing game with bot-filled seats.
Why similar: Cold War 40.6% ★, Politics 33% ★, Tabletop 9.1%, PvP 8.4%, Strategy 4.3%
- #50 Autocrats
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Singular Programmer
Windows
Rule your nation in a first-person government simulator. Expand your territory, command armies, control resources, and forge alliances. Lead your people to prosperity or dominate all nations.
Why similar: Politics 25.2% ★, Political 22.2% ★, Wargame 21.9%, Military 15.8%, War 11%
- #51 Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game
69% matchVery Positive84% of 576 reviews2020
Dev: Lock 'n Load Publishing
Windows · Mac
Lock 'n Load Tactical is fast and Furious tactical combat that is fast to learn. In LnLT you get squads, weapon teams, armored vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft, and, in the modern-era games, helicopters. Individuals such as Leaders, Medics, Snipers, Chaplains, Advisors, and, of course, Heroes.
Why similar: Wargame 33%, Board Game 21.6%, Cold War 13.5% ★, War 9.7%, Tabletop 7.4%
- #52 Final Strategy
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Final Strategy Studio
Windows
Final Strategy is a serious, modern real time strategy experience focused on large scale warfare and direct unit control. Command elite forces and race against time to stop a rogue nuclear operation built from abandoned Cold War stockpiles.
Why similar: Cold War 42.7% ★, Wargame 26%, Military 19.9%, Strategy 4.8%, War 3.9%
- #53 Tiny Combat Arena
67% matchVery Positive84% of 1,540 reviews2022
Dev: Why485Pub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Tiny Combat Arena is an approachable combat flight simulator sporting a stylized look and various game modes. Dogfight your way in the Arena and in Quick Action or craft your own scenarios and take part in a vast war with objectives and friendly armies to support.
Why similar: Cold War 41.4% ★, Wargame 22.3%, Military 15.3%, War 11.7%, 1980s 5.6%
- #54 SGS Okinawa
68% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Strategy Game StudioPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
A standalone epic rendering of the 1945 bloody fighting on Okinawa, the last great battle of the Pacific War. The game is part of the Pacific D-Day collection. Both sides are playable, each with their own challenge.
Why similar: Wargame 31.6%, War 19.1%, Military 16.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Historical 8.8%
- #55 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Antti Suni
Windows
PC conversion of a turn-based hex-strategy board war game.
Why similar: Wargame 27.4%, Board Game 19.4%, Military 16%, Historical 9.5%, Tabletop 8.9%
- #56 Regiments
66% matchVery Positive88% of 2,868 reviews2022
Dev: Bird's Eye GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 38.5% ★, Wargame 24.1%, War 13.3%, Military 12.9%, 1980s 4.8%
- #57 Project Wunderwaffe: Prologue
67% matchMixed67% of 332 reviews2022
Dev: Weasel Games
Windows
Project Wunderwaffe: Prologue is some part of the full version of the game. The gameplay starts in the realities of World War II, the Soviets and Allies are coming. Your task in the game is to keep enemy troops as far away from your base as possible. Fight and survive!
Why similar: Wargame 22.9%, Cold War 21.1% ★, Military 18.4%, War 14.2%, Political 11.1% ★
- #58 Supreme Ruler 2030
67% matchMixed64% of 544 reviews2023
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
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: Political 23.1% ★, Politics 21% ★, Wargame 19.3%, Military 15.3%, War 15.1%
- #59 Columbia Games' EastFront
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Foible GamesPub: Avalon Digital
Windows · Mac
Columbia Game’s EastFront details the conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union during WWII, using the famous Columbia Games Blocks system.
Why similar: Wargame 34.9%, War 16.9%, Military 16.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Historical 8.8%