The most popular military games

The navy, the army, the air force, were all an inspiration for a number of games belonging to many different genres, from run and gun action games to flight simulations. Whether or not you like military themes, the top quality of these games was often enough to attract lots of players.

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The Dam busters

DOS1985 Sydney Development

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Decision in the Desert

DOS1985 MicroProse Software

Armor Alley

DOSMac OS1991

In Armor Alley, you command a helicopter in a warzone that looks like a side-scrolling office meeting gone wrong. It’s strategy meets action: you must manage resources, deploy units, and not crash into the ground every five ...

Platoon

DOS1987 Ocean Software

Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road

DOS1988 SNK Corporation

Risk

Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth

Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations

Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII battle where everything went spectacularly sidewa...

Midway Campaign

DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Conflict: Korea

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

MacArthur's War

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Steel Thunder

DOS1989protected Accolade

Global Conquest

DOS1992 Ozark Softscape

PHM Pegasus

DOS1987 LucasArts

Dive Bomber

DOS1989

Navy Seal

DOS1989 Cosmi Corporation

Operation Combat: Computer Battle Game

DOS1990 Merit Software

Decision at Gettysburg

DOS1990 TigLon Software

Guerrilla War

DOS1987 SNK Corporation

Battlehawks 1942

DOS1988 LucasArts

Welcome to the skies of World War II, where dogfights are fast, fuel is low, and you probably forgot to raise your landing gear. Battlehawks 1942 (1988) is a flight sim with just enough realism to make you sweat and just enough ar...

Boot Camp

DOS1989 Konami

Boot Camp (1989, DOS) is the game that turns military training into a button-mashing festival of pain. Ever dreamed of surviving basic training without breaking a sweat? This is it—if your definition of “not sweating&r...