The Best Historical Games for Playstation 5

Update 25 March 2025: Grit and Valor 1949 added at rank #19.

Here are our 10 Best Historical Games for Playstation 5, position 21 to 30:

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg
Murder Is Game Over: Streaming Death
Life of Slime
The Murder of Sherlock Holmes

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Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg (2020)

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

turn-based
historical
tactical
wargame
strategy
military
world-war-2
board-game
tanks
war
rpg
alternate
3d

Murder Is Game Over: Streaming Death (2023)

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Embark on a thrilling pixel art adventure with Detective Guy & Cleo as they solve a mysterious murder. Explore an eerie seaside village, search for clues, interview suspects, and unravel the truth in this whodunit mystery.

detective
scroller
walking-simulator
hidden-object
fiction
dog
point-and-click
historical
visual-novel
choices
linear
interactive
exploration
horror
logic

Life of Slime (2023)

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Slami, who did not go to university, goes to Intown to try to find his own special way in life. In Intown, you will meet characters just like Slami, all of them different from each other. Will you accompany them on this path? It is up to you to decide.

walking-simulator
2d
platform
action-adventure
pixel
historical
alternate
modern
atmospheric
zombies
exploration
lo-fi
conversation
cute
sci-fi

The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (2024)

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Investigate the murder of Sherlock Holmes in an incredible Virtual Reality adventure. Interact with everything in an authentic voxel reconstruction of 221B Baker Street. Search for clues, play the violin, read books and become a oneiric detective in this dreamlike escape room.