The Best Historical Games - Page 3

Update : Speakeasy added at rank #40.
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Europa Universalis IV (2013)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Europa Universalis IV is a grand strategy game that allows you to lead any significant nation on Earth from 1444 to 1821. Experience war, politics, scientific advances, and the discovery of the New World in a visually stunning world map. The game is accessible to newcomers without sacrificing depth and breadth that existing fans of the series love, and there is a lot going on, but the interface is excellent and easy to use. With different paths to glory, the game also offers a new Trade system, and an improved AI, making grand strategy accessible to all.


What we like:
  • Deep and accessible gameplay
  • Visually stunning
  • Different paths to glory
  • New Trade system
  • Improved AI.
What could be improved:
  • Complexe
  • Rough edges
  • Lack of multiplayer options.

  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • historical
  • military
  • empire
  • simulation
  • economy
  • political
  • war
  • grand
  • real-time
  • naval
  • politics
  • trading

22

Twilight Struggle (2016)

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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.


  • historical
  • card
  • cold
  • tabletop
  • asynchronous
  • political
  • board-game
  • turn-based
  • war
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • alternate
  • multiplayer
  • atmospheric
  • chess

23

Kingdom Come: Deliverance (2018)

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an open-world RPG set in the early 1400s in the heart of Europe, Bohemia. The game follows Henry, a blacksmith's son, who is caught up in a civil war after his home village is raided. Players will explore the sprawling map of Bohemia, engage in realistic combat and make meaningful choices that will shape their story.


What we like:
  • Challenging combat system
  • Vast open-world with plenty to explore
  • Realistic and authentic representation of time period
  • Engaging storyline
  • Intuitive save system
  • Diverse range of activities such as hunting and archery
  • Player choice has significant impact on story outcomes
What could be improved:
  • Slow paced combat
  • Mandatory events require certain levels of skill to overcome
  • Player freedom may not please everyone

  • rpg
  • medieval
  • open-world
  • historical
  • realistic
  • combat
  • dragon
  • fight
  • skill
  • fantasy
  • swordplay
  • first-person

24

Scythe (2018)

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Scythe transports you to an alternate reality in 1920s Europa, one ravaged by the First World War. Take up the role of leader by assuming command of one of 5 factions, and set out to conquer the coveted "Factory". Lead your mechs to war and your people to victory!


  • board-game
  • 4x
  • mech
  • historical
  • i
  • hex
  • turn-based
  • steampunk
  • visual-novel
  • tabletop
  • alternate
  • eroge
  • strategy
  • beautiful
  • grid

25

KELVIN (2022)

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Escape a distant planet before it is swallowed by a black hole

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  • 3d
  • point-and-click
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • historical
  • multiple-endings
  • driving
  • flight
  • puzzle
  • linear
  • adventure
  • action-adventure
  • racing
  • physics
  • environmental

26

Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders (2019)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.


  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • conversation
  • historical
  • investigation
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • minimalist
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • linear
  • narrative
  • story
  • crime

27

Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Prove to have a true Strategic Mind! Spirit of Liberty will put your strategic planning skills to the test. It’s a hardcore, turn-based, historically accurate strategy game set in WWII. Lead Finnish forces against an overwhelming threat through the Winter War, Continuation War, and Lapland War.

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  • historical
  • turn-based
  • tanks
  • tactical
  • strategy
  • wargame
  • world-war-2
  • grand-strategy
  • alternate
  • war
  • military
  • board-game
  • narration
  • hex

28

Mars Horizon (2020)

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80
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Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.


  • simulation
  • space
  • mars
  • turn-based
  • historical
  • exploration
  • management
  • historically
  • science
  • alternate
  • education
  • logic
  • choices
  • immersive
  • building

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Total War: WARHAMMER (2016)

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Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.


  • battle
  • real-time
  • tabletop
  • historical
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • tactical
  • empire
  • war
  • artillery
  • turn-based
  • fight
  • economy
  • vampire
  • management

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Valiant Hearts: Coming Home (2023)

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1917, as World War I rages on, two brothers will fight to survive the trenches and find each other again. Their paths will cross with new Valiant Hearts who will share the joy of reuniting and the horror of the Western Front – all desperate to find their way home.

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  • graphic
  • novel
  • puzzle
  • naval
  • historical
  • war
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • battle
  • puzzling-solving
  • exploration
  • violin
  • scene
  • -only
  • cover

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