The most popular 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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The Civil War

DOS1987 Avalon Hill

War of the Lance

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Front Lines

DOS1994 Impressions Games

The Blue & the Gray

DOS1993 Impressions Games

Ogre

DOS1986 Origin Systems

Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Battle for Normandy

DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group

Released in 1983, Battle for Normandy plays less like a game and more like a history book that came alive, donned a helmet, and asked for a coffee. This is wargaming at its purest: grid maps, unit stats, and more abbreviations tha...

Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Pacific General

Windows XP/98/951997protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

The Perfect General

DOS1991 White Wolf Productions

The Perfect General is a turn-based strategy military game developed by White Wolf Productions and released in 1991 by Quantun Quality Production. The Perfect General gameplay is quite simple compared to other wargames, but it's b...

Midway Campaign

DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.

Crusade in Europe

DOS1985 MicroProse Software

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...

Operation Combat: Computer Battle Game

DOS1990 Merit Software

The Big Three

DOS1989 SDJ Enterprises

Waterloo

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles

DOS1988 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...

MacArthur's War

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Clash of Steel

DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Patton vs. Rommel

DOS1987 Electronic Arts

Conquest of Japan

DOS1992 Impressions Games

Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes

DOS1990 Command Simulations

In Blitzkrieg: Battle at the Ardennes, you’re not just playing a wargame — you’re being handed a clipboard, a stack of orders, and a freezing cold battlefield in 1944. This 1990 DOS title lets you relive one of W...

Mech War

DOS1992

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group

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. 3

DOS1992 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Battle of Antietam

DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Civil War buffs, rejoice. Battle of Antietam (1985) lets you relive one of the bloodiest days in American history... via pixelated dots and turn-based tension. There’s no flash here—just raw, old-school strategy where ...