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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The Blue & the Gray

DOS1993 Impressions Games

Operation Combat: Computer Battle Game

DOS1990 Merit Software

Ogre

DOS1986 Origin Systems

The Grandest Fleet

DOS1994 Quantum quality productions

Pacific General

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

L'Empereur

DOS1991 KOEI

Twilight 2000

DOS1991 Paragon Software

War of the Lance

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Waterloo

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering

Dogs of War (1996) drops you into a gritty mercenary’s life where missions mean money, and money means better gear. Set on Windows XP, the game blends strategy and action with a heavy emphasis on firepower. You’ll hire...

People's General

Windows XP/98/951998protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz

Windows XP/98/951999 Wargaming West

Now with 27% more diplomacy and 300% more frustration! Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz (1999) takes everything from the original game and throws in extra scenarios, improved AI, and more ways to accidentally cause a Cold War. Want to ...

North and South

DOS1990 Infogrames

High Command: Europe 1939-45

DOS1992 Colorado Computer Creations

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...

Axis and Allies

Windows XP/98/951998 Wargaming West

Board game night went digital in 1998 with Axis and Allies, a strategy title that lets you rewrite WWII—assuming you don’t forget where you left your infantry. Fans of the tabletop classic will feel right at home maneu...

Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes

Windows XP/98/951997 SSG Strategic Studies Group

Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes is an abandoned turn-based fantasy strategy game designed by Steve Fawkner, developed by SSG Strategic Studies Group and released by Red Orb Entertainment in 1997 for Windows. Warlords 3: Reign of Heroe...

Fields of Glory

DOS1993protected MicroProse Software

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...

UMS 2: Nations at War

DOSMac OS1990 Intergalactic Development

V for victory: Gold-Juno-Sword

DOS1993protected Atomic Games

Panzer General

DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Panger General is a turn based strategy wargame developed by SSI set in World War 2. The player can choose Axis or Allies and fight against the AI or another human player in more than 30 scenarios on a classic hex based map.

Conflict: Korea

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Step into the Korean War with Conflict: Korea, where you command UN forces and discover that even in strategy games, North Korea is a problem. It follows the same system as the rest of the Conflict series: cold interfaces, hot war...

Steel Panthers

DOS1995 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Steel Panthers is the first game in the Steel Panthers series. It was released in 1995 by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). This initial release laid the foundation for the series and introduced players to the turn-based tactical...

Conquest of Japan

DOS1992 Impressions Games

Feudal Japan gets the wargame treatment in Conquest of Japan, a strategy title that mixes historical context with tactical ambition. You manage provinces, wage war, and occasionally wonder why your samurai keep rebelling. The grap...

Conflict in Vietnam

DOS1986 MicroProse Software

This one's not for the faint of heart. Conflict in Vietnam tries to simulate the complexity and chaos of guerrilla warfare in a game where every click can cost lives. The graphics are minimal, the tension maximal. Logistics, terra...

UMS: The Universal Military Simulator

DOSMac OS1988 Intergalactic Development

UMS, short for Universal Military Simulator, is a computer-based wargame simulation developed by Rainbird Software in 1988. It was designed with the intention of providing players with a comprehensive and realistic military simula...