The Best Historical Games

Update : Warnament added at rank #1.
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Warnament (2025)

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A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.


  • i
  • historical
  • grand-strategy
  • diplomacy
  • politics
  • wargame
  • resource-management
  • competitive
  • sandbox
  • military
  • pvp
  • economy
  • minimalist
  • education
  • alternate

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The Mine (2025)

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PC Windows

2.5D open world puzzle action adventure game.


  • mining
  • underground
  • collectathon
  • exploration
  • point-and-click
  • metroidvania
  • historical
  • word
  • horror
  • adventure
  • open-world
  • puzzle
  • 2.5d
  • platform

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LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 (2025)

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PC Windows

LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 is a cooperative slasher action game, a high–quality continuation of the SENSATIONAL first part. Insidious lizards attacked the lands of the Rus again. HYPERBOREA is on fire and only the GLORIOUS HEROES can lick the invaders from their homeland.

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  • campaign
  • spectacle
  • historical
  • cooperative
  • arts
  • cinematic
  • hack-and-slash
  • martial
  • dinosaurs
  • conspiracy
  • action-adventure
  • alternate
  • swordplay
  • third-person
  • realistic

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The Darkest Files (2025)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?


  • detective
  • simulation
  • historical
  • noir
  • political
  • immersive
  • investigation
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • nonlinear
  • puzzle
  • story
  • 3d

5

Yasuke Simulator (2025)

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PC Windows

Step into 1579 as Yasuke, the African samurai, and join Oda Nobunaga in his quest to unite Japan! Master precise katana combat, uncover secret gear, and unleash your ancestral power in this historically inspired action-packed journey through feudal Japan.

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  • historical
  • swordplay
  • ninja
  • satire
  • cinematic
  • hack-and-slash
  • action-adventure
  • realistic
  • story
  • tps
  • medieval
  • third-person
  • violent
  • atmospheric
  • first-person

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Sid Meier's Civilization VII (2025)

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Nintendo Switch 2 Xbox Series X/s Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Linux Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X quest 3

The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!

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  • 4x
  • historical
  • strategy
  • empire
  • military
  • economy
  • war
  • turn-based
  • tile
  • resource
  • city-building

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DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS (2025)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox Series X/s

Become immersed in exhilarating battles as a nameless hero in the Three Kingdoms

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  • hack-and-slash
  • battle
  • historical
  • fight
  • rpg
  • martial
  • musou
  • action
  • story
  • spectacle
  • arts
  • tactical
  • combat
  • narrative
  • strategy

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Two Falls Nishu Takuatshina (2024)

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Explore 17th century Canadian wilderness through the eyes of Jeanne, a French woman who crossed the Atlantic to start anew and Maikan, an Innu hunter trying to discover what’s disturbing the forest. Your choices will shape the traits of the protagonists in this narrative single-player experience.

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  • choices
  • historical
  • fiction
  • nature
  • narration
  • cinematic
  • interactive
  • linear
  • stylized
  • narrative
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • action-adventure

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake (2024)

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Theater of war, infinite drama. A masterpiece of historical simulation "ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8" is revived after 20 years. Enjoy the greatest military drama in the Three Kingdoms series, with the largest number of officers and scenarios!


  • turn-based
  • historical
  • diplomacy
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • grand-strategy
  • wargame
  • military
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • character
  • remake
  • real-time
  • rpg
  • period

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Plague: London 1665 (2024)

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Plague: London 1665 is an RPG with pixel art graphics set in 1665's during the Bubonic Plague outbreak in overcrowded and polluted London. As a body collector, graveyard keeper, and family provider, avoid the disease while clearing the streets. Will you survive the outbreak or become another victim?


  • historical
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • choices
  • complex
  • atmospheric
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • multiple-endings
  • survival
  • trading
  • story
  • inventory
  • management

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