Games with a historical setting sorted by release date
Some games are set in a specific historical period, usually a period of time particularly enjoyable for gamers such as the midde ages, the discovery of the Americas or the second world war. Historical games take a step further and try to be more faithful to the time period they are set.
Most popular historical games
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The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow
DOS1982protected Tactical Design Group
Knights of the Desert
DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group
Midway Campaign
DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 Avalon Hill
The Ancient Art of War
DOS1984 Evryware
The Ancient Art of War is a classic video game that was released in the late 1980s. Developed by Evryware and published by Broderbund, it was available on various platforms, including Apple II, Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS. The Anc...
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 ...
Crusade in Europe
DOS1985 MicroProse Software
Operation Market Garden
DOS1985protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Gulf Strike
DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Passengers on the Wind
DOS1986 Infogrames
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
DOS1986 Broderbund
Kampfgruppe
DOS1987protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Passengers on the Wind 2
DOS1987 Infogrames
The Civil War
DOS1987 Avalon Hill
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...
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...
Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1
DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group
Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
Gold Rush!
DOS1988protected Sierra On-Line
Guardians of Infinity: to Save Kennedy
DOS1988protected Paragon Software
Nobunaga's Ambition
DOS1988 KOEI
Search and Destroy
DOS1988 Broderbund
The Train Escape to Normandy
DOS1988protected Artech Studios
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...
Up Periscope!
DOS1988 Actionsoft
Vulcan: The Tunisian Campaign
DOS1988 Cases Computer Simulations
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
DOSMac OS1988 Broderbund
Austerlitz
DOS1989protected Tactical Design Group
Austerlitz 1805
DOS1989 Cornerstone Software
Avon
DOS1989 Topologika Software
If Shakespeare wrote video games and then decided, “You know what this needs? A parser and some pixelated drama,” you'd get Avon. In this interactive fiction gem from 1989, you step into the slippers of a humble page t...