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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Aces Over Europe

DOS1993 Dynamix

Strap into your Spitfire, because Aces Over Europe (1993, DOS) is here to show you that flying over 1940s Europe was as dangerous as it was polygonal. As a follow-up to Aces of the Pacific, this one tightens the mechanics, adds gr...

Blue Max: Aces of the Great War

DOS1990protected Artech Studios

Forget missiles—Blue Max: Aces of the Great War takes you back to when air combat meant leather helmets, canvas wings, and a healthy fear of gravity. Released in 1990 for DOS, it’s a flight sim that drops you into WWI&...

Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group

The Ancient Art of War in the Skies

DOS1992 Evryware

Frontline

DOS1990 Cases Computer Simulations

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...

Overlord

DOS1994 Rowan Software

Passengers on the Wind 2

DOS1987 Infogrames

Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy

DOS1988protected Paragon Software

Conflict: Korea

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Taipan for Windows

Windows XP/98/952002freeware

Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected MicroProse Software

La Grande Armee

DOS1991 SDJ Enterprises

Conquest of Japan

DOS1992 Impressions Games

Gloriana

DOS1996 ASCARON Entertainment

Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign

DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations

The Lost Patrol

DOS1991 Astros Productions

The Lost Patrol is an abandoned multi-type action game set in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war. The Lost Patrol was developed by Astros Productions (DOS version) and released by Ocean Software in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari...

Austerlitz

DOS1989protected Tactical Design Group

Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles

DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations

Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45

DOS1994 KOEI

Praetorians

Windows XP/98/952003protected Eidos Interactive

Praetorians is a real-time strategy (RTS) game originally released in 2003 by Pyro Studios. Set in the Roman Empire during its peak, the game offers a blend of strategy and tactics, focusing on large-scale battles rather than reso...