The best wargame games
Wargames, much like their tabletop counterparts, are tactical, strategy games in which the players must win battles between two warring factions by moving and attacking with single units, usually played on top-down hex maps. Wargames are often historically accurate, but they can also be based on fantasy or sci-fi settings. Some of the most popular wargames are Panzer General and the Close Combat series.
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Star General
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected Catware, Inc.
Star General is a turn-based strategy game developed by Catware and published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and later for Windows. The game is set in a science fiction universe where players take command of one of five different factions, each vying for control of the galaxy.In Star General, players comman...
Mech War
DOS1992
Gulf Strike
DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Panzer General 2
Windows XP/98/951997protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999
DOS1997protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Patton vs. Rommel
DOS1987 Electronic Arts
Command HQ
DOSMac OS1990 Ozark Softscape
Command HQ was developed by Microplay Software. It was one of the early real-time strategy (RTS) games and focused on global warfare, allowing players to control armies, fleets, and economies in various historical and futuristic scenarios.
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2
DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Empire Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x1993 White Wolf Productions
Empire Deluxe is a classic turn-based strategy game that was originally released in the early 1990s. Developed by Mark Baldwin and Bob Rakowsky of White Wolf Productions and published by New World Computing, it is a successor to the game Empire, which was created by Walter Bright in the late 1970s. The game is set on a world map, where pl...
Front Lines
DOS1994 Impressions Games
MacArthur's War
DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Clash of Steel
DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
5th Fleet
DOS1994
This 1994 naval strategy game for DOS is based on the board game of the same name, which means you’ll spend more time squinting at menus than blowing up ships. It’s cerebral, methodical, and incredibly satisfying - if you’re the kind of person who organizes their spice rack alphabetically. You command modern naval forces in the In...
Austerlitz 1805
DOS1989 Cornerstone Software
Midway Campaign
DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
V for victory: Velikiye Luki
DOS1992protected Atomic Games
Desert Rats
DOS1986 Cases Computer Simulations
Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Over the Reich
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996 Big Time Software
V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach
DOS1991protected Atomic Games
Empire: Wargame of the Century
DOS1987 Northwest Software
La Grande Armee
DOS1991 SDJ Enterprises
A Line in the Sand
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
A Line in the Sand (1992) is what happens when a board game about modern Middle Eastern warfare gets turned into a DOS strategy title with all the subtlety of a cold war memo. You command military forces in a region that is perpetually on fire, and your job is to somehow make that worse - or better, depending on your alignment and ability to read p...
Crusade in Europe
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Empire II: The Art of War
DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
Decision at Gettysburg
DOS1990 TigLon Software
Iron Cross
DOS1994 New World Computing
Knights of the Desert
DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group