Games involving alternate history

What if the nazi won World War 2? What if nuclear weapons brought humanity to a post-apocalyptical nightmare in the 50s? Alternate history video games deal exactly with that: history that took a turn into a different direction (usually for the worse) than the timeline we know.

Most popular alternate history games

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

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Command & Conquer

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Fallout

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Alternate history games

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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
B-1 Nuclear Bomber

DOS19813.6/5 Avalon Hill
Battlezone

DOS19834.3/5 Atari
Bravo Romeo Delta

DOS19934.3/5
Command & Conquer

DOS1995freeware4.1/5 Westwood Studios
Command & Conquer: Red Alert

DOS1996freeware4.2/5 Westwood Studios

Command and Conquer: Red Alert is a RTS developed by Westwood Studios, a sequel to Command & Conquer. Allies and the Soviet Union battle for control over Europe in an alternate history setting.
Command HQ

DOS19904/5 Ozark Softscape
Crisis in the Kremlin

DOS1991protected4/5 Spectrum Holobyte
Fallout

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 Interplay Productions
Fallout 2

Windows XP/98/951998protected4.2/5 Black Isle Studios
Future Wars: Adventures in Time

DOS19904.1/5 Delphine software
Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon

DOS19923.3/5 ReadySoft
I have no Mouth and I Must Scream

DOS1995protected4.1/5 The Dreamers Guild
Interstate '76

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.2/5 Activision
Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox

DOS19933.6/5 Castleworks Gameware
Mech Brigade

DOS1987protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Metal Gear

DOS19904.1/5 Konami
Reelect JFK

Windows 3.x19943.6/5
Roadwar 2000

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Rocket Ranger

DOS1988protected4.2/5 Cinemaware
S.D.I.

DOS19893.9/5 Cinemaware
Space 1889

DOS19904/5 Paragon Software

Space 1889 is an abandoned top down RPG developed by Paragon Software and released in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga. Space 1889 setting is classic science fiction, but is set in the Victorian. It's worth noting that Space 1889 is loosely based on the tabletop game of the same name.
Spear of Destiny

DOS19924.3/5 id software
Strike Commander

DOS1993protected4.2/5 Origin Systems

Strike Commander is combat flight simulation game created by Chris Roberts (the designer behind Wing Commander) and Jeff George. Strike Commander was developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS.
Wasteland

DOS1988protected3.9/5 Interplay Productions
Wolfenstein 3D

DOSMac1992protected4.1/5 id software

Wolfenstein 3D is the first-person shooter that popularized the whole genre in the early 90s and is considered one of the greatest games ever made. Wolfenstein 3D was designed by John Romero and Tom Hall (id Software) and released as shareware by Apogee Software in 1992 for DOS. Wolfenstein 3D is based on the Wolf3D engine, programmed by John ...