- #1 Battle Cry of Freedom
97% 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: Historical 19.5%, War 14.9%, Military 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.5%, America 8.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: This title is the closest thematic peer to War of Rights, offering large-scale American Civil War combat with a focus on historical weaponry and formations.
- #2 Holdfast: Nations At War
96% 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: Historical 23.8%, War 21.7%, Military 16.5%, FPS 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same chaotic, line-infantry style of combat found in the 19th century with a heavy emphasis on community and team-based coordination.
- #3 Hell Let Loose
96% 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: War 18.3%, Military 12.9%, Historical 12.1%, Realistic 9%, FPS 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at large-scale, historical team-based combat where communication and squad-level tactics are essential for victory.
- #4 Squad 44
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,290 reviews2018
Dev: Offworld
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 45.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Team up and join the frontline in Squad 44, the most authentic tactical WW2 shooter. Experience ruthless realism with an immense arsenal of faithfully recreated weapons and vehicles across massive WW2 battlefields.
Why similar: Military 16.5%, War 16%, Historical 11.9%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, FPS 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A highly realistic tactical shooter that mirrors the slow-paced, immersive, and team-focused gameplay loop found in War of Rights.
- #5 Squad
94% 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 23.1%, War 16.9%, Realistic 11.2%, FPS 10.6%, Massively Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for large-scale, team-based tactical shooters that require intense communication and authentic military cooperation.
- #6 Verdun
94% 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: Historical 17.7%, War 15.2%, Military 11.8%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, FPS 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an authentic, gritty depiction of World War we trench warfare that emphasizes team-based squad mechanics.
- #7 Isonzo
93% 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 17.3%, Historical 16%, War 15.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Realistic 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a realistic and atmospheric depiction of high-altitude WWI combat with a focus on tactical team play.
- #8 Arma Reforger
91% 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 23.8%, War 18.7%, Realistic 11.5%, FPS 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A premier military simulation platform that offers unparalleled realism and tactical depth for players who value authentic combat mechanics.
- #9 Tannenberg
92% 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: Historical 20.9%, War 18.6%, Military 11.5%, Realistic 9%, FPS 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It expands on the WWI tactical shooter formula with larger maps and a focus on maneuver warfare similar to the scale of Civil War battles.
- #10 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: War 18.7%, Historical 18.2%, Military 15%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, FPS 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a visceral, team-based historical combat experience that rewards coordination and tactical positioning.
- #11 Six Days in Fallujah
89% 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: War 19.5%, Military 18.3%, Historical 17.9%, Realistic 10%, FPS 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on realistic, squad-based tactical combat that emphasizes the dangers and intensity of modern urban warfare.
- #12 Beyond The Wire
90% 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: War 19.4%, Historical 19.3%, Military 15%, FPS 8.6%, Massively Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A large-scale WWI shooter that focuses on the intensity of trench warfare and the necessity of working as a cohesive unit.
- #13 GROUND BRANCH
89% 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 26.4%, Realistic 17.1%, FPS 13.2%, War 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: For players who appreciate the high-fidelity tactical aspects of War of Rights, this offers a deep, realistic military simulation experience.
- #14 Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
88% 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: Historical 20.3%, War 17.9%, Realistic 14.1%, FPS 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic tactical shooter that set the foundation for realistic, team-based historical combat in the FPS genre.
- #15 Day of Infamy
87% 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: War 23.2%, Military 14.9%, FPS 12.6%, Historical 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A team-based, historical shooter that strips away arcade elements to focus on authentic squad-level tactics.
- #16 Foxhole
86% 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: War 28.2%, Military 25.4%, Massively Multiplayer 19.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Shooter 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: While top-down, it offers a massive, persistent war simulation where logistics and team-based coordination are just as important as combat.
- #17 Rising Front
84% matchVery Positive88% of 3,874 reviews2026
Dev: Sandstorm Studios Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A FPS WW1 & Revolutionary War battle simulator with a focus on Workshop Content, rag-doll physics, intelligent AI, massive battles, procedural AI cover system, real-time building system and FPS combat!
Why similar: War 32.2%, Historical 23.6%, FPS 11.6%, Realistic 6.9%, Shooter 6%
Why You'll Like It: A large-scale sandbox shooter that provides an immersive, historical combat experience with a focus on massive infantry engagements.
- #18 Ultimate General: Civil War
86% matchVery Positive89% of 8,396 reviews2017
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
Why similar: War 30.7%, Historical 25.5%, America 15.7% ★, Military 13.1%, Strategy 5%
Why You'll Like It: While a strategy game, it is the definitive tactical experience for those who want to command Civil War forces with historical accuracy.
- #19 Easy Red 2
85% 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: War 22.6%, Historical 17.6%, FPS 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Realistic 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the scale of historical battles with a focus on large maps and combined-arms gameplay.
- #20 Call to Arms
84% 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 25.2%, War 22.6%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Strategy 9%, FPS 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This unique hybrid allows players to switch between real-time strategy and first-person combat, offering a deep tactical experience.
- #21 Insurgency: Sandstorm
82% 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 20.7%, FPS 15.7%, War 14.8%, Realistic 13.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical shooter that prioritizes realistic weapon handling and intense, objective-based team play.
- #22 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
80% matchVery Positive88% of 286,599 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 61.2 hrsMean: 152.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Why similar: War 40%, Historical 18%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Realistic 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive-scale simulation of historical-style combat that captures the feeling of being part of a large, coordinated army.
- #23 Ultimate General: Gettysburg
83% matchVery Positive81% of 2,701 reviews2014
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
Why similar: Historical 42.9%, War 17.8%, Military 10.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical simulation that focuses on the specific historical maneuvers of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- #24 WWII Online
82% 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: FPS 20.1%, Historical 15.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.8%, Military 11.7%, Shooter 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A long-standing persistent war simulation that offers a massive scale of combat for players who enjoy long-term strategic team play.
- #25 Over The Top: WWI
78% 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: Historical 28%, War 17.1%, Multiplayer 11.9%, FPS 11.8%, Realistic 9.8%
- #26 Rise of Liberty
81% matchVery Positive84% of 1,869 reviews2019
Dev: Sandstorm Studios Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Rise of Liberty is a FPS single-player massive Revolutionary War battle simulator. Fire deafening cannons into the thick of the battle, stand in line formation and fire devastating volleys into the enemy. Gather your men for these monumental battles and defeat the enemy!
Why similar: War 31.8%, Military 22.3%, FPS 14%, Shooter 7.2%, Realistic 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style historical shooter that allows players to experience the scale of American Revolutionary War battles.
- #27 Battle of Empires : 1914-1918
81% matchMixed69% of 2,101 reviews2015
Dev: Great War TeamPub: Best Way Soft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 is a story-driven RTS that brings to life some of the most brutal battles of the Great War. Each mission showcases the era’s most devastating weaponry — sabotage, stealth, trench warfare, gas attacks, artillery, and mobile infantry. BoE delivers the full WWI experience.
Why similar: War 31.2%, Historical 29.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Military 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical wargame that focuses on the historical realities of WWI combat and unit management.
- #28 Master of Command
76% matchVery Positive92% of 3,127 reviews2025
Dev: Armchair Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Historical 28.6%, War 25.4%, Military 19.2%, America 9.7% ★, Strategy 4.8%
- #29 Men of War: Assault Squad 2
78% 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: War 29.7%, Military 17.5%, Historical 15.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed tactical game that allows for deep control over individual units and vehicles in historical settings.
- #30 Days of War: Definitive Edition
79% 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: War 33.4%, Historical 12.7%, FPS 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Action 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced but team-oriented historical shooter that focuses on the classic feel of WWII combat.
- #31 Field of Honor
75% matchVery Positive95% of 154 reviews2024
Dev: civciv
Windows
Field of Honor is a single-player game that combines elements of first-person shooter and strategy, set in the Napoleonic Wars, American Revolutionary War and American Civil War. You can take command of massive battles or engage as a single soldier to defeat the enemy in various game modes.
Why similar: Historical 21.8%, War 19.8%, Military 15%, FPS 13.6%, Simulation 12.1%
- #32 Iron Front: Digital War Edition
79% 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: Historical 20.1%, War 19.1%, Military 15.1%, Realistic 8.3%, FPS 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore military simulation set in WWII that shares the same engine and tactical philosophy as the Arma series.
- #33 Steel Division 2
76% 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: War 23.2%, Historical 22.1%, Military 21.4%, Realistic 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #34 Voor De Kroon
75% matchVery Positive89% of 547 reviews2022
Dev: Future Minimalism
Windows
Fight for control during the Friso-Hollandic Wars. Set in the medieval 13th century, the game features a strategy campaign and historical battles. Fight alongside your army in 3rd person battles and command your troops in this strategy-action game.
Why similar: War 35.1%, Historical 32.1%, Realistic 6.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Gore 5.8%
- #35 Battle Grounds III
73% matchVery Positive86% of 4,030 reviews2024
Dev: The Battle Grounds Game Development Team
Windows
After 6 years of development, Battle Grounds III (BG3) is the next iteration in the classic franchise which began 17 years ago. Prepare for battle in the American War of Independence!
Why similar: Historical 42.1%, War 17.4%, Multiplayer 12.1%, FPS 9.7%, America 4.4% ★
- #36 Chivalry 2
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 54,538 reviews2022
Dev: Torn Banner StudiosPub: Tripwire Presents
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Chivalry 2 is a multiplayer first person slasher inspired by epic medieval movie battles. Players are thrust into the action of every iconic moment of the era - from clashing swords, to storms of flaming arrows, to sprawling castle sieges and more.
Why similar: Historical 24.5%, War 19%, Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Military 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #37 Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
77% 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: War 18.9%, FPS 14.3%, Military 13.7%, Historical 13.1%, Realistic 11.2%
- #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 20.1%, War 19.4%, FPS 11.3%, Realistic 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%
- #39 Fog of War
77% 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: War 15.6%, Military 13.3%, Massively Multiplayer 12%, FPS 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #40 Vietnam War
72% matchVery Positive85% of 1,437 reviews2025
Dev: Thorium Game Lab
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Open world single-player FPS. Command your squad in battle across jungles, hills and villages of Vietnam. Fight as U.S or Vietcong. Vast arsenal of weapons and 50+ vehicles
Why similar: Historical 30.1%, War 21%, Military 15.5%, FPS 13.2%, Shooter 6.1%
- #41 Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,322 reviews2021
Dev: Grand Engineer Corps
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 83.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!
Why similar: Historical 51.5%, War 31.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #42 MORDHAU
73% matchVery Positive80% of 113,010 reviews2019
Dev: Triternion
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 73.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.
Why similar: Historical 26.7%, Multiplayer 24.6%, First-Person 12.7%, Realistic 10.9%, FPS 10.3%
- #43 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: War 22.8%, Military 22.3%, Historical 21.5%, Realistic 8.4%, Massively Multiplayer 7.3%
- #44 Army Troop
71% 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: War 18.8%, Military 12.4%, FPS 9.9%, Historical 9.4%, Realistic 8.9%
- #45 Ultimate General: American Revolution
72% matchMixed54% of 1,053 reviews2024
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
American Revolution is a sandbox strategy game featuring the epic historical period during the rebellion of the American colonies against the British Empire.
Why similar: Historical 30.1%, War 23.2%, Military 19.4%, America 15.7% ★, Strategy 5.3%
- #46 Bodycam
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 41,720 reviews2024
Dev: Reissad Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Bodycam is the first tactical multiplayer FPS with a true body-camera view in Unreal Engine 5. Close-quarters combats feel raw and loud. Every angle, callout, and bullet matters. Play Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Body Bomb on photoreal maps where teamplay, tactics, and clutch skill are key.
Why similar: Military 29.4%, Realistic 18.1%, FPS 17.2%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Shooter 9.2%
- #47 Total Conflict: Resistance
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,969 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Total Conflict: Resistance is a unique symbiosis of global strategy, tactics and first-person action. Realistic mass battles, many types of armored vehicles, weapons, uniforms, unique mechanics, immersive free gameplay. Lead any state and bring it to greatness!
Why similar: War 29.9%, Military 21%, Realistic 13.5%, FPS 13.1%, Shooter 5%
- #48 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 19.6%, War 18.7%, FPS 12%, Realistic 12%, Massively Multiplayer 10%
- #49 Operation: Harsh Doorstop
68% 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 23.2%, War 18.3%, Realistic 12.1%, FPS 12%, Multiplayer 11.1%
- #50 Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
70% matchMixed65% of 12,384 reviews2019
Dev: KK Game Studio
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.
Why similar: War 19.4%, FPS 16.9%, Military 14.4%, Shooter 11%, Strategy 9.1%
- #51 Wolfpack
69% matchVery Positive88% of 2,043 reviews2019
Dev: Usurpator ABPub: SUBSIM
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A crew of players experience the tense atmosphere of a WW2 U-boat, manning the stations in this realistic co-op simulation game. Several crews may play together in a wolfpack, completing missions based on iconic events during the different stages of German U-boat warfare. Solo play included.
Why similar: Simulation 20.2%, Historical 17.3%, War 16.4%, Multiplayer 14%, Military 13.5%
- #52 Battle of Vukovar: Rain of Steel
69% matchMixed56% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Cro Game Developers
Windows
Join the historic battle for Vukovar at the end of the 20th century through multiplayer combat. Play in teams choosing one of the five modes or outside the team in a free for all mode. Accomplish your goals using real weapons from the war while moving through an accurate simulation of the city map
Why similar: War 25.1%, Military 19.1%, Historical 17.9%, FPS 11.4%, Realistic 5.7%
- #53 Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
66% 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: Historical 30.5%, War 23.6%, Military 17.1%, Realistic 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #54 Prime & Load : 1776
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 387 reviews2020
Dev: Radio Silence Entertainment
Windows
Set in the American Revolution, Prime & Load : 1776 lets command and control your very own regiment.
Why similar: War 39%, Multiplayer 14.3%, FPS 13.6%, Shooter 8.1%, Strategy 7.4%
- #55 BattleRush: Ardennes Assault
70% matchMixed53% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Multiplayer action game in the entourage of the Second World War with total destruction of the environment. Complete freedom of action. Do anything and anywhere. Build defense, demolish enemy towns, control any vehicle which you will see on your way or create.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 17.3%, War 15.9%, Military 13.1%, FPS 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #56 Talvisota - Winter War
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,106 reviews2020
Dev: Talvisota TeamPub: Tripwire Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Talvisota for Rising Storm 2 brings players from the steaming jungles of Vietnam to the frozen forests of Finland, during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War of the late 1930s.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 39.3%, Simulation 15.5%, War 13.5%, Military 9.2%, Action 8.9%
- #57 Call to Arms: Panzer Elite
64% 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: Historical 26.2%, War 22.6%, Military 18.7%, Realistic 12.7%, Simulation 8.1%
- #58 Half Sword
63% matchMixed68% of 21,716 reviews2026
Dev: Half Sword GamesPub: Game Seer Publishing
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Half Sword is a physics-based medieval combat simulator featuring historically accurate XV-century arms and armor. We are not afraid to show the brutal nature of medieval combat with in-depth blood and gore features.
Why similar: Historical 46.1%, Realistic 20.1%, Gore 13%, Simulation 9%, First-Person 6.3%