The most popular historical games

Some games are set in a specific historical period, usually a period of time particularly enjoyable for gamers such as the midde ages, the discovery of the Americas or the second world war. Historical games take a step further and try to be more faithful to the time period they are set.

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Gengis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf

DOS19923.7/5 KOEI

Zeppelin: Giants of the Sky

DOS19953.9/5 Ikarion Software

Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992protected4.2/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS19883.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations

High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS19924.1/5 Colorado Computer Creations

Midway Campaign

DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44

DOS1992protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

The Civil War

DOS19873.3/5 Avalon Hill

Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected3.8/5 Cinemaware

Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS19893.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Galleons of Glory

DOS19903.6/5 Broderbund

Galleons of Glory is an abandoned educational historical simulation game developed and published by Broderbund in 1990. As Magellan your mission is to circumnavigate the world while managing your crew and ship.

Up Periscope!

DOS19884.1/5 Actionsoft

Austerlitz 1805

DOS19893.9/5 Cornerstone Software

Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS19882.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations

Overlord

DOS19944.2/5 Rowan Software

D-Day: The Beginning of the End

DOS19943.5/5 Impressions Games

Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition)

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected4.2/5 Quicksilver Software

Conquest of the new world is a turn-based strategy game that lets you control one of 6 different nations in their attempt to colonize the new continent. The gameworld is represented in an isometric point of view. Combat is a mini-game taking place on a battlefield where victory can be achieved by killing enemy troops or capturing the enemy's flag.