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 play...

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 s...

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...

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 ...

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.

If you ever wanted to command the Pacific fleet without getting wet, Carrier Strike is your game. Set during WWII, it’s a turn-based wargame where numbers, radar, and weather reports matter more than reflexes. You’ll p...

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 perpet...