Software:List of World War II video games

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Below is a list of video games that center on World War II for their setting.

Adventure games

A Stroke of Fate series

  • A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie (2009)
  • A Stroke of Fate: Operation Bunker (2009)

Charles Games' FMV series

Other adventure games

  • Trinity (1986)
  • Remembering Pearl Harbor (2016) (VR)
  • Paradise Lost (2021) (alternate history)
  • Gerda (2022)
  • Train to Sachsenhausen (2022) (mobile)
  • Torn Away (2023)

Action-adventures

  • The Train (1987) (Multi-genre)
  • Medic: Pacific War (2023) (Multi-genre)

First-person shooters

The Wolfenstein series

The Medal of Honor series

Mirage Media's Mortyr series

Series also linked to City Interactive's Battlestrike series.

  • Mortyr (1999) (aka. Mortyr: 2093-1944)
  • Mortyr II (2004)

City Interactive's Battlestrike series and other games

Including their other budget WWII FPS games:

  • World War II Sniper: Call To Victory (aka. Battlestrike: Call to Victory) (2004)
  • World War II Combat (aka. Battlestrike: Secret Weapons of WWII) (2006)
  • World War II Combat (aka. The Heat of War) (2006)
  • Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt (2006)
  • Battlestrike: Force of Resistance (aka. Mortyr 3) (2007)
  • Operation Thunderstorm (aka. Mortyr: Operation Thunderstorm) (2008)
  • Royal Marines Commando (2008)
  • Battlestrike: Shadow of Stalingrad (2009)
  • Wolfschanze II (2011)

The Battlefield series

The Call of Duty series

Burut CT's ÜberSoldier series

  • ÜberSoldier (2006)
  • ÜberSoldier II (aka. Crimes of War) (2008)

Corvostudio's Easy Red series

  • Easy Red (2017)
  • A Front Too Far: Normandy (2018) (Multi-genre)
  • Easy Red 2 (2020)
    • Easy Red 2: Stalingrad (2022) (Expansion)
    • Easy Red 2: Normandy (2023) (Expansion)
    • Easy Red 2: Ardennes 1940 & 1944 (2023) (Expansion)

Warlines Studios' WWII Operations series

Series titles are free to download.

  • OSS: WW2 Operations (2017)
  • WWII Operations: Desert Front (2020)
    • WWII Operations: Lions on The Desert Front (2022) (Spin-off of Desert Front)
  • The Quick Run - WWII Operations (2021)

Thunder Devs.' BattleRush series

  • BattleRush (2018)
  • BattleRush 2 (2018)
  • BattleRush: Ardennes Assault (2019)

Polygon Art's budget WW2 FPS series

  • Beyond Enemy Lines' - Remastered Edition (2021)
  • United Assault - Normandy '44 (2021)
  • United Assault - Battle of the Bulge (2022)

Other first person shooters

Tactical shooters

The Hidden & Dangerous series

  • Hidden and Dangerous (1999)
    • Hidden & Dangerous: Devil's Bridge (expansion pack) (2000)
    • Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe (improved Gold Edition with mission editor) (2002)
  • Hidden and Dangerous 2 (2003)
    • Hidden and Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron (expansion pack) (2004)

The Deadly Dozen series

The Day of Defeat series

The Red Orchestra series

The Brothers in Arms series

The Sniper Elite series

Other Tactical shooters

  • Battle Europe (1993)
  • My Worst Day WW2 (2005)
  • Commandos (2006) (multi-genre)
  • Sniper (2008)
  • Day of Infamy (2017)
  • Warfare 1944 (2020)
  • Operation: Overlord (2023) (DLC for Operation: Harsh Doorstop (2023))

Rail shooters

  • Beach-Head (1983) (multi-genre)
  • The Train (1987) (multi-genre)
  • Pearl Harbour (1988)
  • Pearl Harbor: Attack! Attack! (2001)
  • Pearl Harbor (2001)
  • B-17 Gunner (2001)
  • Operation Blockade (2002)
  • Pacific Gunner (2002)
  • WWII: Desert Rats (2002)
  • Air Raid: This is not a Drill (aka. Air-Raid: This Is No Drill!) (2003)
  • Battlestrike: Road to Berlin (2005)
  • Battlestrike: The Siege (2005)
  • Pearl Harbor Encounter (2012)
  • Brave Witches VR: Operation Baba-Yaga – Counter Attack in the Snow (2017)
  • Beach Invasion 1944 (2022)

Shoot 'em up games

The 194X series

NMK's WW2 horizontal shoot 'em up series

The Strikers 1945 series

The World Witches Series

  • Strike Witches: Silver Wings (2010)
  • World Witches: United Front (2020)

The Azur Lane series

  • Azur Lane (2017) (mobile)
  • Azur Lane Crosswave (2020)

Other shoot 'em up games

  • Beach-Head (1983) (multi-genre)
  • U-boat (1983) (aka. U-Boat 26)
  • Sky Aces 2 (2013) (mobile)
  • Aircraft Evolution (2018)
  • Until the Last Plane (2021) (multi-genre)

Third-person shooters

Survival games

  • UBOAT (2019) (multi-genre)
  • WW2: Bunker Simulator (2022)

Military simulations

Also known as 'Milsims'.

The Iron Front mod group

 Recommended[who?] mod collections:

Other military simulations

Massive multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS)

Stealth games

The Death to Spies series

Other stealth games

Construction and management simulations

Construction simulations:

DeGenerals S.A.'s series

  • Tank Mechanic Simulator (2020) (Multi-genre)
    • Tank Mechanic Simulator – First Supply DLC (2022)
  • Tank Squad (2023) (Multi-genre)

Different developers:

  • Tank Mechanic Simulator VR (2022) (Multi-genre)

PlayWay S.A.'s various constructors range

  • Project Wunderwaffe (2022)
  • WW2 Rebuilder (2023)
    • WW2 Rebuilder: Germany Prologue (2022)

Other construction simulations

  • Sprocket (2021) (Multi-genre)
  • Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts (2021) (Multi-genre)
  • Ground Of Aces (TBA. 2024/2025?)

Management simulations:

The Warship Girls series

  • Warship Girls (2012)
  • Warship Girls R (2016)

The Kantai Collection series

Online/mobile games:

Other managerial simulations

  • Until the Last Plane (2021) (Multi-genre)
  • Aircraft Carrier Survival (2022) (Multi-genre)

Tank simulators

Loriciel and Futura's WW2 sims series

  • Sherman M4 (1989) (aka. Sherman M-4)
  • D-Day (1992) (Multi-genre)

The Panzer Elite series

Enterbrain's Panzer Front series

Digital Fusion Inc.'s series

  • M4: Operation Tiger Hunt (2002)
  • Panzer Killer! (2007)

Graviteam's various series

  • Steel Fury – Kharkov 1942 (2007)
  • Achtung Panzer (2009)
  • Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star (2011) (aka. Achtung Panzer: Operation Star)
    • 4 unique content expansions (2014)
  • Graviteam Tactics: Mius Front (2016)
    • 25+ expansions (2016 to 2020's)
  • Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943 (2017)
    • 4 DLC expansions (2017–2018)

DeGenerals S.A.'s series

  • Tank Mechanic Simulator (2020) (Multi-genre)
    • Tank Mechanic Simulator – First Supply DLC (2022)
  • Tank Squad (2023) (Multi-genre)

Different developers:

  • Tank Mechanic Simulator VR (2022) (Multi-genre)

SP Games' WWII Tanks series

  • WWII Tanks: Battlefield (2021)
  • Tank Commander: Battlefield (2022)
  • WWII Tanks: Forgotten Battles (2023)

Other tank simulators

Naval simulators

Digital Illusions' naval sim series

Loriciel and Futura's WW2 sims series

Conflict Analytics' Action Stations! group

Other naval simulators

Submarine simulators

Digital Illusions' sub sim series

MicroProse's Silent Service series

Deadly Games' U-Boat Macintosh series

The Silent Hunter series

  • Silent Hunter (1996)
    • Silent Hunter Patrol Disk (1996)
    • Silent Hunter Patrol Disk #2 (1996)
    • Silent Hunter: Commander's Edition (1997)
  • Silent Hunter II (2001)
  • Silent Hunter III (2005)
    • Silent Hunter III: Gold Edition (2007)
  • Silent Hunter 4 (2007)
    • Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific – U-Boat Missions (2008)
  • Silent Hunter V: Battle of the Atlantic (2010)

Magitech's U-Boat Commander series

Mobile games:

  • U-Boat Commander (2009)
  • U-Boat Commander II (2014)

CodeKnitters' Silent Depth series

  • Silent Depth 3D Submarine Simulation (2016)
  • Silent Depth 2: Pacific (TBA. 2024/2025.)

Other submarine simulators

Flight simulators

MicroProse's WW2 flight sim range

Sid Meier's Ace series

The B-17 Flying Fortress series

MicroProse's other WW2 flight sim titles range

Lucasarts' Air Combat series

The Air Warrior series

Deadly Games' Bomber 3 series

Sierra's Aces series

  • Aces of the Pacific (1992)
  • Aces over Europe (1993)

Rowan Software's WW2 flight sim series

Other developers' titles:

Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator series

The WarBirds series

  • WarBirds (1995)
  • WarBirds II (1999)
  • WarBirds III (2002)

The Aces High series

MMO flight sims:

  • Aces High (2000)
  • Aces High II (2003)
  • Aces High III (2016)

InterActive Vision's WW2 flight sim series

  • Beyond Pearl Harbor: Pacific Warriors (2000) (aka. Pacific Warriors: Air Combat Action)
  • Dogfight (2003) (aka. Pacific Warriors II: Dogfight)
  • Red Skies Over Europe (2004)
  • Iron Aces: Heroes of WWII (2006)
  • WWII Battle Over Europe (2008)

IL-2 Sturmovik series

MAUS Software's WW2 flight sims

  • Pearl Harbor: Strike at Dawn (2001)
  • Battle of Europe (2005)

G5 Software's Red Shark series

  • Red Shark (2002)
  • Red Shark 2 (2005)

City Interactive's Combat Wings series

  • World War II: Pacific Heroes (2003)
  • Combat Wings (2005)
  • Combat Wings: Battle of Britain (2006)
  • Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WWII (2012)
  • Dogfight 1942 (2012)
    • Dogfight 1942: Russia Under Siege (2012) (1st DLC)
    • Dogfight 1942: Fire Over Africa (2012) (2nd DLC)

Na.p.s. Team's WW2 flight sim series

  • Flying Squadron (2003)
  • WWII: Battle Over the Pacific (2006)
  • Iron Wings (2017)

Ubisoft's various series

The Air Conflicts series

Home Net Games' Warplanes series

  • Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight (2018)
  • Warplanes: Online Combat (2020) (Mobile)
  • Warplanes: Battles over Pacific (2022) (VR)

Other flight simulators

Multi-type simulators

Lesta Studio's Pacific Storm series

  • Pacific Storm (2005) (Multi-genre)
  • Pacific Storm: Allies (2007) (Multi-genre)
  • Pacific Storm Pack (2009) (Compilation of 2 unique P.S. titles)

Eidos' Battlestations series

Sierra's Aces series

  • Aces of the Pacific (1992)
    • Aces of the Pacific: Expansion Disk – WWII: 1946 (1992)
  • Aces Over Europe (1993)
  • Aces of the Deep (1994)
    • Aces of the Deep: Expansion Disk (1995)
    • Command: Aces of the Deep (1995)

Other multi-type simulators

Role-playing games

  • Another War (2002)
    • Weird War: The Unknown Episode of World War II (2003) (Aka. Another War 2. English release cancelled.)
  • Grom (2003)
  • Combat Elite (2005)
  • Strike Witches: Kiseki no Rondo (2015)

Tactical role-playing games

The Valkyria Chronicles series

CyberConnect2's Fuga series

Anthropomorphic, anime-ish stories based on World War 2

Other tactical role-playing games

  • Warsaw (2019)
  • Broken Lines (2020) (alternate history)
  • Burden of Command (TBA)

Real-time tactics games

Great Naval Battles Games

  • Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939–1943 (1992)
    • Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939–1943 – Super Ships of the Atlantic (1993)
    • Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939–1943 – America in the Atlantic (1993)
    • Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939–1943 – Scenario Builder (1993)
  • Great Naval Battles Vol. II: Guadalcanal 1942–43 (1994)
  • Great Naval Battles Vol. III: Fury in the Pacific, 1941–1944 (1995)
  • Great Naval Battles Vol. IV: Burning Steel, 1939–1942 (1995)
  • The Complete Great Naval Battles: The Final Fury (Incl. Great Naval Battles Vol. V: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914–18) (1996)

The Close Combat series

  • Close Combat (1996)
  • Close Combat (1997)
    • Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem (2010) (Remake based on CC 2 (1997) & CC: The Longest Day (2009))
  • Close Combat III (1998)
    • Close Combat: Cross of Iron (2007) (Remake of CC 3)
  • Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge (1999)
    • Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein (2008) (Remake of CC 4)
  • Close Combat (2000)
    • Close Combat: The Longest Day (2009) (Remake of CC 5 (2000))
  • Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog (2012)
  • Close Combat: Gateway to Caen (2014)
  • Close Combat: The Bloody First (2019)

The Sudden Strike series[1][circular reference]

The Commandos series

  • Commandos (1998)
  • Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (1999)
  • Commandos 2 (2001)
    • Commandos 2 – HD Remaster (2020)
  • Commandos 3 (2003)
    • Commandos 3 - HD Remaster (2022)

Panther Games' Command Ops series

  • Airborne Assault: Red Devils Over Arnhem (2002)
  • Airborne Assault (2003)
  • Airborne Assault: Conquest of the Aegean (2006)
  • Command Ops (2010)
    • Command Ops: Highway to the Reich (2012) (Expansion with content from 1st 2 AA titles)
    • Command Ops: Battles for Greece (2013) (Expansion)
  • Command Ops 2 (2015)
    • 7 volume expansions (2015)

The Squad Assault series

  • G.I. Combat: Episode 1 – Battle of Normandy (2002)
  • Eric Young's Squad Assault: West Front (2003)
  • Squad Assault: Second Wave (2005)

The Blitzkrieg series

  • Blitzkrieg (2003)
    • Blitzkrieg: Burning Horizon (expansion pack) (2004)
    • Blitzkrieg: Rolling Thunder (expansion pack) (2004)
    • Blitzkrieg: Green Devils (expansion pack) (2005)
    • Blitzkrieg: Iron Division (Blitzkrieg Anthology exclusive expansion pack) (2005)
  • Blitzkrieg 2 (2005)
    • Blitzkrieg 2: Fall of the Reich (2006) (Expansion)
    • Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation (2007) (Expansion)
  • Blitzkrieg 3 (2015)

The Afrika Korps series

Used Digital Reality Software's Walker 2 engine.

  • Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps (aka. Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats) (2004)
  • D-Day (2004)
  • 1944: Battle of the Bulge (aka. No Surrender: Battle of the Bulge) (2005)
  • Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege (aka. Mockba to Berlin) (2006)

InterActive Vision's Chain of Command series

  • Chain of Command (2004) (aka. To Serve and Command)
  • Chain Of Command: Eastern Front (2005)

The Codename: Panzers series

The Men of War series

The Company of Heroes series

1C's Theatre of War series

  • Theatre of War (2007)
  • Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943 (2009)
    • Theatre of War 2: Centauro (2009) (Expansion)
  • Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943 (2010)
    • Theatre of War 2 – Battle for Caen (2010) (Expansion)

Digitalmindsoft's Gates of Hell series

Spiritual successor to the Men of War series:

  • Call to Arms – Gates of Hell: Ostfront (2021) (Expansion to Call to Arms (2018))
    • Call to Arms – Gates of Hell: Talvisota (2022) (1st DLC expansion)
    • Call to Arms – Gates of Hell: Scorched Earth (2022) (2nd DLC expansion)
    • Call to Arms – Gates of Hell: Liberation (2023) (3rd DLC expansion)

Other real-time tactics games

  • D-Day (1992) (Multi-genre)
  • Offensive (1996)
  • Muzzle Velocity (1997)
  • Fortress Europe: The Liberation of France (2001)
  • WarCommander (2001)
  • World War II: Panzer Claws (aka. Frontline Attack: War Over Europe) (2002)
  • World War II (2003)
  • Panzer Claws II (2004)
  • Great Battles of WWII: Stalingrad (2004)
  • Super Army (2005)
  • Frontline: Fields of Thunder (2007)
  • Panzer Tactics DS (2007)
  • Talvisota (2007)
  • World War II: General Commander (2008) (2009 digital release by Matrix Games)
  • Order Of War (2009)
  • Achtung Panzer Operation Star (2011)
  • Uprising 44: The Silent Shadows (2012) (Multi-genre)
  • Partisans 1941 (2020)
  • AB 1943 mod (2021) (For Armored Brigade (2018))
  • Classified France '44 (2023)
  • Red Glare (2024)

Real-time strategy games

MicroProse's Command Series

The Command & Conquer: Red Alert series

  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert – Counterstrike (1997)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert – The Aftermath (1997)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert – Retaliation (1998)
  • Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (2020)

The Empire Earth series

Lesta Studio's WWII titles range

  • Pacific Storm (2005) (Multi-genre)
  • Pacific Storm: Allies (2007) (Multi-genre)
  • Aggression - Reign over Europe (2008)
  • Cannon Strike (2009) (More real-time tactics than RTS)
  • Pacific Storm Pack (2009) (Compilation of 2 unique P.S. titles)

The Steel Division series

The Military Operations series

  • Military Operations: Benchmark (2018)
  • Military Operations (TBA) (Shorthand: MilOps)

Other real-time strategy games

Turn-based strategy games

SSI's WW2 TBS series

See List of Strategic Simulations games.

Gary Grigsby's TBS series

Grigsby's titles published by SSI. Check tagged name's page for list.

  • 25 titles (1982-1997)

SSG's Carriers at War series

Gary Grigsby's air combat wargame series

SSG's various series

Battlefront's (1986) engine:

Decisive Battles of WWII series:

  • Decisive Battles of WWII: Ardennes Offensive (1997)
  • Decisive Battles of WWII Vol 2: Korsun Pocket (2003)
    • Decisive Battles of WWII: Across the Dnepr (2003) (Expansion)
  • Decisive Battles of World War II: Battles in Normandy (2004)
  • Decisive Battles of World War II: Battles in Italy (2005)
  • Battlefront (2007 video game) (2007) (Namesake of 1986 version)
  • Kharkov: Disaster on the Donets (2008)
    • Across the Dnepr: Second Edition (2010) (Expansion. Remake of 2003 namesake title.)

Atomic Games' various series

V for Victory series

  • V for Victory: Battleset 1 - D-Day Utah Beach - 1944 (1991)
  • V for Victory: Velikiye Luki (1992)
  • V for Victory: Market Garden (1993)
  • V for Victory: Victory Pak (1993) (Pack of 1st 3 unique V for Victory titles)
  • V for Victory: Gold-Juno-Sword (1993)
  • V for Victory: Commemorative Collection (1995) (Pack of all 4 unique V for Victory titles)

World at War series

A continuation of the V for Victory series:

The Koutetsu no Kishi series

HPS Simulations' various series

The Panzer General series

The Steel Panthers series

  • Steel Panthers (1995)
    • Steel Panthers: Campaign Disk (1996)
    • Steel Panthers: Campaign Disk #2 (1997)
  • Steel Panthers II (1996)
    • Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles – Campaign Disk (1996)
    • SPWW2 (stand-alone expansion) (1999)
  • Steel Panthers III (1997)
  • Steel Panthers: World at War (2000)

Big Time Software's Over the Reich series

Talonsoft's various series

Talonsoft's Campaign series

  • East Front (1997)
    • East Front: Campaign CD 1 (1998)
  • West Front (1998)
    • West Front: Operation Sea Lion (1999)
    • West Front: Battle Pack 1 (1999)
    • TalonSoft's West Front: Elite Edition (2000) (Compilation of West Front & WF: Battle Pack 1)
  • East Front 2 (1999)
  • Campaign Series: Europe in Flames (2000) (Partial compilation of some prior series titles)
    • East Front 2: Fall of the Reich (2001)
  • Rising Sun (2000)
    • Rising Sun: Imperial Strike (2000)
    • TalonSoft's Rising Sun: Gold (2000)
  • TalonSoft's World at War (2001) (Compilation of some prior bundles)
  • John Tiller's Campaign Series (2007) (Compilation of prior series titles published by Matrix Games)

The Operational Art of War series

Early series titles between 1998-2000 published by Talonsoft. TOAW III (2006) was the last Talonsoft-developed series title.

  • Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939–1955 (1998)
    • Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Battle Pack I Scenario Add-on Disk (1999)
  • The Operational Art of War: Century of Warfare (2000) (Collection of 1st 2 TOAW full games & expansions)
  • The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Elite★Edition (2000) (Compilation of 1st full TOAW game & expansion)
  • The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Wargame of the Year Edition (2000) (Similar to Elite★Edition (2000) but with added scenarios)
  • Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III (2006) (First series title to be released by a different publisher, Matrix Games)
  • The Operational Art of War IV (2017)

The Battle of Asia in World War II series

  • Battle of Asia in World War II (1999)
  • Battle of Asia in World War II: The Formosan connection (2004)
  • Battle of Asia in World War II: The Great Raid (2008)
  • Battle of Asia in World War II: Destination Tokyo (2012)

JTS/WDS' various series

(John Tiller Software/Wargame Design Studio's various series)

  • Panzer Campaigns series
    • 26 episodes (1999–2021)
  • Naval Campaigns series
    • 4 episodes (2003–2022) (Guadalcanal & Midway were 1st published by HPS Simulations.)
  • Strategic War series
    • Total War in Europe: First Blitzkrieg (2005) (1st published by HPS Simulations. aka. Strategic War: The First Blitzkrieg.)
    • Total War in Europe: War on the Southern Front (2009) (1st published by HPS Simulations. aka. Strategic War: War on the Southern Front.)
  • Panzer Battles series
    • 4 episodes (2016–2018)
  • Squad Battles series
    • 6 episodes (2002–2010. 6 early WW2 episodes in series were 1st published by HPS Simulations.)

Boku Strategy Games' Combat Command series

  • Combat Command 2: Danger Forward (2000)
  • Combat Command 2: Desert Rats! (2001)
  • Combat Command: The Matrix Edition (2011) (Updated compilation of prior 2 titles)

The Combat Mission series

  • Combat Mission (2000)
  • Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin (2002)
  • Combat Mission Afrika Korps (2004)

The Strategic Command series

IgorLab Software's Soldiers of Empires series

  • Soldiers of Empires (2002)
  • Soldiers of Empires 2 (2012)

VR Designs' various series

  • Advanced Tactics: World War II (2007)
  • Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris (2010)
  • Advanced Tactics: Gold (2011)
  • Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue (2012)
  • Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa (2015)
  • Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive (2021)

Slitherine's Battle Academy series

  • Battle Academy (2010)
    • 6 expansions (2010–2013)
  • Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front (2014)
    • Battle Academy 2: Battle of Kursk (2015) (expansion)

The Unity of Command series

The Panzer Corps series

  • Panzer Corps: Wehrmacht (2011) (Remake of Panzer General)
    • 17 unique expansions (2011–2016)
  • Panzer Corps: Gold Edition (2016)
  • Panzer Corps 2 (2020)
    • 7 expansions (2020–2022)

Brian Kelly's WEGO series

  • Desert War 1940-43 (2011) (Freeware online Java-based version. Shut down in 2016.)[9][10][11]
  • WEGO World War II: Desert War (2018) (Old name: Desert War 1940-1942)[12][13]
  • WEGO World War II: Stalingrad (2021)

The Order of Battle series

  • Order of Battle (2015)
  • Order of Battle: World War II (2015) (free-to-play version of Pacific)
    • 17 DLC expansions (2016–2021)

Yobowargames' Battle Series

  • Battle Series: Eastern Front – Operation Typhoon (2016) (aka. Moscow '41 on itch.io)
  • Operation Fall Gelb – The Battle for France (2016) (Mobile only)
  • Battle Series: Kursk – Battle at Prochorovka (2017)
  • Battle Series: Eastern Front – Battle for Korsun (2018)
  • Battle Series Pacific: Battle for Iwo Jima (2020)
  • Battle Series: Eastern Front – KRIM: The War in the Crimea 1941–42 (2020)

Starni Games' various series

  • Panzer Strategy (2018)

The Strategic Mind series

  • Strategic Mind: The Pacific (2019)
  • Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg (2020)
  • Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism (2020)
  • Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom (2021)
  • Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty (2022)

The WarPlan series

  • WarPlan (Kraken Studios and Matrix Games) (2019)
  • WarPlan Pacific (Kraken Studios and Matrix Games) (2021)

Strategy Game Studio's series

  • 6 episodes (2020's) (Based on actual, not fictional, scenarios)

=== Primarily mobile series: ===

Handygames' WWII mobile strategy games

  • 1942: Deadly Desert (2004, reissued in 2016)
  • 1941: Frozen Front (2005, reissued in 2013)

The Frontline: Games Series (Mobile)

  • Frontline: Eastern Front (2019. Mobile only.)
  • Frontline: Western Front (2019)
  • Frontline: The Great Patriotic War (2019)
  • Frontline: Panzer Blitzkrieg! (2020)
  • Frontline: World War II (2021)

88 mm Games' series

Also as Shenandoah Studios. Same staff as the Frontline: Games Series firm.

  • Battle of the Bulge (2012)
  • Drive on Moscow: War in the Snow (2013)
  • Frontline: Road to Moscow (2014)
  • Frontline: The Longest Day (2014)

Other turn-based strategy games

  • Pacific War (1984) (ZX Spectrum)
  • Europe Ablaze (1985) (aka. Europe Ablaze: The Air War Over England and Germany 1939–1945)
  • Pearl Harbour (1985)
  • Fire-Brigade (1988)
  • Air Raid Pearl Harbor (1990)
  • Barbarossa (1992)
  • Task Force 1942 (1992) (aka. Task Force 1942: Surface Naval Action in the South Pacific. Multi-genre.)
  • The Battle of Britain 2 (1992) (aka. the Battle of Britain)
  • Grandest Fleet (1994)
  • T-34: The Battle (Polish Atari 8-bit game)
  • Sgt. Saunders' Combat! (1995)
  • Battleground (1995)
  • Daisenryaku (Iron Storm) (1996)
  • G.I. Combat: Episode 1 – Battle of Normandy (2002)
  • Pacific War: Matrix Edition (2003)
  • War in the Pacific: The Struggle Against Japan 1941–1945 (2004)
  • For King and Country: Operation Victory (2005)
  • War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922–1930 (2005)
  • Air Campaigns of WWII: Defending the Reich (2006)
  • World War II – Road to Victory (2008)
  • Military History Commander Europe at War (2009)
  • War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition (2009)
  • Legends of War (2011)
  • Pacific Fleet (2014)
  • Spymaster (2014. Mobile.)
  • Atlantic Fleet (2015)
  • Red Thunder (2016) (By digital Gameworks. Discontinued in 2018.)[14]
  • Hex of Steel (2020)
  • Through the Darkest of Times (2020)
  • Attack at Dawn: North Africa (2022) (Multi-genre)

Turn-based tactics games

Microcomputer Games Inc.'s WW2 TBT series

Division of Avalon Hill. See List of Avalon Hill games.

  • Under Fire! (1985) (aka. Under Fire!: A Simulation of Squad Level Combat in WWII.)

General Quarters Software's tactical naval wargame series

  • Battleship Bismarck: Operation Rhine - May 1941 (1987)
  • Midway (1989)
  • Action in The North Atlantic (1989)
  • Air Raid Pearl Harbor (1990)
  • The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot (1990)

Random Games' 1996-2000 Strategy Engine

The Silent Storm series

  • Silent Storm (2003)
  • Silent Storm: Sentinels (2004)
  • Hammer & Sickle (2005)

The Panzer Command series

  • Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm (2006)
  • Panzer Command: Kharkov (2008)
  • Panzer Command: Ostfront (2013)

digital Gameworks' range

  • Valkyrie: Crisis in Berlin 1944 (2016) (aka. 'Valkyrie'. Web/mobile app.)
  • Peleliu: The Devil's Island (2019)
  • Monuments Men: Ebensburg (2020) (Also turn-based RPG, but not much RPG)
  • Murphy's Heroes Hurtgen Forest (2020)

The Armoured Commander series

  • Armoured Commander (2017)
  • Armoured Commander II (2021)

Other turn-based tactics games

Grand strategy games

KOEI's World War series

The Civilization series

The Hearts of Iron series

The Making History series

  • Making History: The Calm & The Storm (2007)
    • Making History: The Calm & The Storm – Gold Edition (2008)
  • Making History II: The War of the World (2010)
  • Making History: The Second World War (2017)

The World Conqueror series

  • World Conqueror 1945 (2011)
  • World Conqueror 2 (2012)
  • World Conqueror 3 (2015)
  • World Conqueror 4 (2017)

Maestro Cinetik's Cauldrons of War series

  • Cauldrons of War – Barbarossa (2020)
  • Cauldrons of War – Stalingrad (2021)

Other grand strategy games

Massive Multiplayer Online Tactical Strategy Game (MMOTSG)

  • NavyField (2005)
  • Blitz 1941 (2009)
  • Foxhole (2017) (Multi-genre)

Digital board games

Command Simulations' board game conversion series

The Avalon Hill Game Company's Third Reich series

  • Third Reich (1992) (aka. Computer Third Reich)
  • Third Reich (1996) (DOS version)

The Axis & Allies series

  • Axis and Allies (1994) (CD-i version)
  • Axis & Allies (1998 video game) (turn-based strategy) (1998)
    • Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz (1999) (Updated edition)
  • TripleA (2011) (Open-source game engine)
  • Axis & Allies 1942 Online (2021)

The Conflict of Heroes series

  • Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear (2012)
    • Conflict of Heroes: Ghost Divisions (2013) (1st expansion)
    • Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel (2013) (2nd expansion)

Lock 'n Load Publishing's various series

  • Mark H. Walker's Lock 'n Load: Heroes of Stalingrad (2014)
  • Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game (2020)
    • 15+ DLC expansions (2020 to 2020's)
  • Tank On Tank Digital - West Front (2017)
    • Tank On Tank Digital - East Front Battlepack 1 (2017) (Expansion)
  • Nations At War Digital Core Game (2020)
    • 6 DLC expansions (2020 to 2020's)

Strategiae's Wars Across The World series

  • Wars Across The World (2017)
    • Several expansions (2017 to 2020's)

Yobowargames' Valor & Victory series

  • Valor & Victory (2021)
    • Valor & Victory: Stalingrad (2022) (1st DLC expansion)
    • Valor & Victory: Shield of Cholm (2022) (2nd DLC expansion)
    • Valor & Victory: Arnhem (2022) (3rd DLC expansion)

Other digital board games

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 :ru:Противостояние (серия игр)
  2. ↑ :ru:Противостояние (игра)#Продолжения
  3. ↑ :ru:Противостояние (серия игр)#«Противостояние 3» / «Sudden Strike»
  4. ↑ "V tylu vraga: Diversanty 2 for Windows (2006)". https://www.mobygames.com/game/v-tylu-vraga-diversanty-2. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Soldiers
  6. ↑ :ru:В тылу врага 2: Братья по оружию
  7. ↑ "V tylu vraga: Diversanty 3 for Windows (2008)". https://www.mobygames.com/game/v-tylu-vraga-diversanty-3. 
  8. ↑ Mehdi, Khosrow-Pour (31 July 2014) (in en). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (3d ed.). IGI Global. p. 3071. ISBN 978-1-4666-5889-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=MJd_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3071. Retrieved 28 July 2021. 
  9. ↑ "Jeanette.Kelly's account page". Virgin Media. http://members.upc.ie/jeanette.kelly/index.html. 
  10. ↑ "Brian Kelly's Desert War 1940-43 Turn-Based Tactical Wargame". 24 July 2015. https://freewargamer.com/brian-kellys-desert-war-1940-43-turn-based-tactical-wargame/. 
  11. ↑ "The Flare Path: Draftees And Deserters". Gamer Network. 27 February 2015. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-flare-path-draftees-and-deserters. 
  12. ↑ "Desert War 1940-1942". Matrix Games. http://www1.matrixgames.com/products/676/details/Desert.War.1940-1942. 
  13. ↑ "The Flare Path: Tank Clashes and Manx Dashes". Gamer Network. 6 April 2018. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-flare-path-tank-clashes-and-manx-dashes. 
  14. ↑ "Red Thunder's official page". WordPress. http://digitalgameworks.com/index.php/red-thunder/. 

See also

  • List of video games
  • Video game genres



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