The best military games

The navy, the army, the air force, were all an inspiration for a number of games belonging to many different genres, from run and gun action games to flight simulations. Whether or not you like military themes, the top quality of these games was often enough to attract lots of players.

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Operation Combat: Computer Battle Game

DOS1990 Merit Software

Operation Wolf

DOS1989 Taito

The Grandest Fleet

DOS1994 Quantum quality productions

Global Conquest

DOS1992 Ozark Softscape

B-17 Flying Fortress

DOS1992 MicroProse Software

B-17 Flying Fortress (1992) is the kind of game where you don't just fly the plane—you are the plane. One moment you're the pilot, the next you're the nose gunner swatting Luftwaffe pests like you're at the world’s ang...

Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter

DOS1991protected MicroProse Software

Red Baron

DOS1990protected Dynamix

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

DOS1991 Electronic Arts

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is a combat flight simulation video game released in 1991 by Electronic Arts. The game is named after and endorsed by the real-life aviation legend, Chuck Yeager, who was the first pilot to break the soun...

F-22 Lightning 2

DOS1996 NovaLogic

Silent Service 2

DOSMac OS1990protected MicroProse Software

Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition)

DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected Quicksilver Software

Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition) invites you to discover new lands, build colonies, and occasionally “accidentally” wipe out entire civilizations while smiling politely. It’s part strategy game, part hi...

Battlehawks 1942

DOS1988 LucasArts

Welcome to the skies of World War II, where dogfights are fast, fuel is low, and you probably forgot to raise your landing gear. Battlehawks 1942 (1988) is a flight sim with just enough realism to make you sweat and just enough ar...

Airborne Ranger

DOS1988 MicroProse Software

Strap in and crawl through the mud - Airborne Ranger (1988) is here to chew bubblegum and infiltrate enemy lines. And it's all out of bubblegum. This tactical action game lets you drop behind enemy territory, blow things up, and l...

Aces of the Pacific

DOS1992 Dynamix

Aces of the Pacific (1992, DOS) takes to the skies over WWII’s Pacific Theater, where you can dogfight in legendary aircraft and prove your piloting prowess — or spin into the sea with style. The graphics are dated, bu...

A-10 Tank Killer

DOS1989 Dynamix

Explosions? Check. Missiles? Check. Graphics that look like someone spilled gray soup on your monitor? Double check. A-10 Tank Killer lets you pilot a flying war machine and rain chaos upon tiny pixel tanks that may or may not be ...

Waterloo

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Dogs of War

Windows XP/98/951996demo Software Engineering

StarCraft

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1998protecteddemo Blizzard Entertainment

StarCraft is a classic RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh. StarCraft takes the Warcraft experience to a sci-fi setting with an interesting story, three ...

Heroes of the 357th

DOS1992 Midnight Software

Tornado

DOS1993protected Digital Integration

Army Men

Windows XP/98/951998 The 3DO Company

Army Men lets you live out your childhood fantasy of plastic soldier warfare without the hassle of crawling under the couch. You control Sarge, a green-tinted war machine with a stiff upper lip and an affinity for melting tan enem...

Jungle Strike

DOS1995 Electronic Arts

Seek and Destroy

DOS1996 Safari Software

Seek and Destroy was a shoot'em up published by the well known Epic Megagames in 1996 that tried to change the usual shoot'em up gameplay for the better. Instead of wave after wave of enemies to shoot down, you are given short mis...

People's General

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

Space Crusade

DOS1992 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive

EF 2000

DOS1995 Digital Image Design

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

Windows XP/98/951998protected Pyro Studios

Forget Rambo. Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is what happens when you drop six experts behind Nazi lines and tell them to behave tactically… or else. Every mission is a deadly puzzle where timing, stealth, and patience are y...

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 ...