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First-person shooters[edit]

The Call of Duty series

• Call of Duty (2003)
  • Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004) (expansion pack)
• Call of Duty: Finest Hour (2004)
• Call of Duty 2 (2005)
• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
• Call of Duty 3 (2006)
• Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (2007)
• Call of Duty: World at War (2008)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) (one missions based on WWII)
• Call of Duty: WWII (2017)

The Brothers in Arms series

• Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (2005)
• Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (2005)
• Brothers in Arms: D-Day (2006)
• Brothers in Arms DS (2007)
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (2008)
• Brothers in Arms: Double Time (2008)

The Medal of Honor series

• Medal of Honor (1999)
• Medal of Honor: Underground (2000)
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002)
  • Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead (expansion pack)
  • Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Breakthrough (expansion pack)
• Medal of Honor: Frontline (2002)
• Medal of Honor: Infiltrator (2003)
• Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003)
• Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004)
• Medal of Honor: European Assault (2005)
• Medal of Honor: Heroes (2006)
• Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (2007)
• Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007)
• Medal of Honor: Vanguard (2007)

The Battlefield series

• Battlefield 1942 (2002)
  • Battlefield: 1942: The Road to Rome (2003 expansion pack)
  • Battlefield: 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII (2003 expansion pack)
• Battlefield Heroes (2009)
• Battlefield 1943 (2009)
• Battlefield V (2018)

The Wolfenstein series

• Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
• Spear of Destiny (A Wolfenstein 3D Graphics Adventure) (1992)
  • Spear of Destiny Mission 2: Return to Danger (1994)
  • Spear of Destiny Mission 3: Ultimate Challenge (1994)
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001)
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003)
• Wolfenstein (2009)
• Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)
• Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (2015)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017)

The Red Orchestra series

• Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (2006)
  • Mare Nostrum (RO1 Mod)
• Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad (2011)
  • Rising Stormexpansion (2013)

The Day of Defeat series

• Day of Defeat (2003)
• Day of Defeat: Source (2005)

The Operation Green Panther series

• Operation Green Panther Pacific (1999)
• Operation Green Panther: Road to Hong Kong (2000)
• Operation Green Panther: Battling Singapore (2001)
• Operation Green Panther: Burma (2002)
• Operation Green Panther: British Malaya (2003)
• Operation Green Panther: Entering Cabanatuan (2004)
• Operation Green Panther: Road to Manila (2005)
• Operation Green Panther: Formosa (2007)
• Operation Green Panther: Landing to Iwo Jima (2009)
• Operation Green Panther: Landing to Okinawa (2010)

City Interactive's Battlestrike series and their other budget WWII FPS games

• World War II Sniper: Call To Victory (aka. Battlestrike: Call to Victory) (2004)
• World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (aka. Battlestrike: Secret Weapons of WWII) (2006)
• World War II Combat: Iwo Jima (aka. The heat of War) (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 (2009)

Other First Person Shooter Games

• Gary Grigsby's Pacific War 1992
• WWII GI (1999)
• Mortyr (1999)
• Elite Forces: WWII - Normandy (2001)
• Elite Forces: WWII - Iwo Jima (2001)
• D-Day: Normandy (2002)
• Beyond Normandy: Assignment Berlin (2003)
• Airborne Hero: D–Day Frontline 1944 (2004)
• Mortyr 2 (2004)
• Ardennes Offensive (2005)
• The Outfit (2006)
• ÜberSoldier (2006)
• Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt (2006)
• History Channel's ShootOut! The Game (2006)
• The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific (2007)
• Hour of Victory (2007)
• ÜberSoldier II (aka. Crimes of War) (2008)
• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (2008)
• Operation Wolfsburg (2010)
• Dino D-Day (2011)
• Uprising 44: The Silent Shadows (2012)
• Heroes and Generals (2012)
• Enemy Front (2014)
• Corregidor 1945 - The Last Battle (2016)
• Days of War (2017)
• Battalion 1944 (2018)
• BattleRush (2018)
• BattleRush 2 (2019)
• Vanguard: Normandy 1944 (2019)
• World War II Heroes: Road to Warsaw (2019)

Tactical shooters[edit]

The Sniper Elite series

• Sniper Elite (2005)
• Sniper Elite V2 (2012)
• Sniper Elite 3 (2014)
• Sniper Elite 4 (2017)

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

• Deadly Dozen (2001)
• Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theater (2002)

Other Tactical Shooter Games

• Commandos: Strike Force (2006)
• Sniper: Art of Victory (2008)
• Raid: World War II (2017)

Rail shooters[edit]

• Pearl Harbor: Attack! Attack! (2001)
• Pearl Harbor: Defend the Fleet (2001)
• B-17 Gunner: Air War Over Germany (2001)
• Pacific Gunner (2002)
• WWII: Desert Rats (2002)
• Battlestrike: Road to Berlin (2005)
• Battlestrike: The Siege (2005)

Military simulations[edit]

• Project Reality (2005)
• Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 (2008)
• Iron Front: Liberation 1944 (2012)
• Day of Infamy (2017)
• Fog of War (2018)
• Post Scriptum (2018)
• Hell Let Loose (2019)

Massive multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS)[edit]

• World War II Online (2001)
• Heroes & Generals (2013)

Stealth games[edit]

The Death to Spies series

• Death to Spies (2007)
• Death to Spies: Moment of Truth (2008)
• Alekhine's Gun (2016)

Other stealth games

• Castle Wolfenstein (1981)
• Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (1984)
• Into the Eagle's Nest (1986)
• The Great Escape (1986)
• Prisoner of War (2002)
• The Great Escape (2003)
• Airborne Troops: Countdown to D-Day (2005)
• Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines (2005)
• Velvet Assassin (2009)
• The Saboteur (2009)

Tank simulators[edit]

The Panzer Elite series

• Panzer Elite (1999)
  • Panzer Elite: Special Edition (2001)
• Panzer Elite Action: Fields of Glory (aka. First Battalion) (2006)
• Panzer Elite Action: Dunes of War (2007)

Other tank simulators

• M4 (1992)
• Panzer Commander (1998)
• iPanzer ´44 (1998)
• Panzer Front (2000)
• Operation Tiger Hunt (2002)
• Panzer Front Ausf.B (2004)
• Panzer Killer! (2007)
• T-34 vs Tiger (2008)
• Steel Fury – Kharkov 1942 (2008)
• War Thunder (2016)

Naval simulators[edit]

• Destroyer Command (2002)
• World of Warships (2015)
• War Thunder (2016)
• Sea of Battle (2019)

Submarine simulators[edit]

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 4: Wolves of the Pacific (2007)
  • Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific - U-Boat Missions (2008)
• Silent Hunter V: Battle of the Atlantic (2010)

The Silent Service series

• Silent Service (1985)
• Silent Service II (1990)

Flight simulators[edit]

IL-2 Sturmovik series'

• IL-2 Sturmovik (2001)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles (2003)
  • IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles - Ace Expansion Pack (2004)
• Pacific Fighters (2004)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (2006)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey (2009)
• Wings of Prey (2009)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover (2011)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad (2013)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover - Blitz Edition (2017)

The Air Conflicts series

• Air Conflicts: Air Battles of World War II (2006)
• Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II (2009)
• Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (2011)
• Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers (2012)

Lucasarts' Air Combat series

• Battlehawks 1942 (1988)
• Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain (1989)
  • Their Finest Missions: Volume One (1989)
• Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (1991)
  • P-38 Lightning Tour of Duty (1991)
  • P-80 Shooting Star Tour Of Dut (1991)
  • He 162 Volksjäger Tour of Duty (1991)
  • Do 335 Pfeil (1991)

Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator series

• Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998)
• Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater (2000)
• Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe (2002)

The Air Warrior series

• Air Warrior (1988)
• Air Warrior II (1997)
• Air Warrior III (1997)

The Warbirds series

• Warbirds (1998)
• Warbirds II (1999)
• Warbirds III (2002)

The Combat Wings series

• World War II: Pacific Heroes (2003)
• Combat Wings (2005)
• Combat Wings: Battle of Britain (2006)
• Dogfight 1942 (2012)

Other flight simulators

• Hellcats Over the Pacific (1991)
• B-17 Flying Fortress (video game) (1992)
• 1942:Pacific Air War (1994)
• Pacific Strike (1994)
• Fighter Ace 1997
• European Air War (1998)
• Jane's WWII Fighters (1998)
• Luftwaffe Commander (1999)
• Fighter Squadron: Screamin' Demons Over Europe (1999)
• Iron Aces (2000)
• Aces High II (2000)
• Airfix: Dogfighter (2000)
• Pacific Warriors (2000)
• Pearl Harbor: Strike at Dawn (2001)
• Pearl Harbor: Zero Hour (2001)
• Red Shark (2002)
• Jane's Attack Squadron (2002)
• Dogfight: Battle for the Pacific (2003)
• Secret Weapons Over Normandy (2003)
• Red Skies Over Europe (2004)
• Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory (2005)
• Heroes of the Pacific (2005)
• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (2006)
• Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII (2007)
• Attack on Pearl Harbor (2007)
• Digital Combat Simulator (2008)
• WWII Aces (2008)
• Heroes over Europe (2009)
• Pearl Harbor Trilogy – 1941: Red Sun Rising (2010)
• Birds of Steel (2012)
• Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII (2012)
• Dogfight 1942 (2012)
• World of Warplanes (2013)
• WW2: Wings of Duty (2014)
• War Thunder (2016)
• Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China (2017)
• Kamikazes: Battle of the Philippine Sea (2017)

Multi-type simulators[edit]

The Battlestations series

• Battlestations: Midway (2007)
• Battlestations: Pacific (2009)
• Battlestations: Leyte Gulf (TBA)

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

• War Thunder (2013)

Role-playing games[edit]

• Another War (2002)
• GROM: ...Terror in Tibet! (2003)
• Weird War (2004)
• Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers (2005)

Interactive fiction[edit]

• Trinity (1986)

Real-time tactics games[edit]

The Close Combat series

• Close Combat (1996)
• Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far (1997)
• Close Combat III: The Russian Front (1998)
• Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge (1999)
• Close Combat: Invasion Normandy (2000)
• Close Combat: The Bloody First (TBA)

The Sudden Strike series^{[1][circular reference]}

• Counter Action (1997)^{[2][circular reference]}
  • Protivostoyanie: Opalyonnyj sneg (1998)^{[3][circular reference][4][circular reference]}
• Sudden Strike (2000)
  • Sudden Strike Forever (2001) (expansion pack)
  • Protivostoyanie 3: Vtoroe dyhanie (2002)^{[5][circular reference]}
• Sudden Strike 2 (2002)
  • Hidden Stroke: APRM (2003) (unofficial expansion)
  • Sudden Strike: Resource War (2004) (stand-alone expansion)
  • Hidden Stroke 2: APRM (2005) (stand-alone expansion)
• Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory (2007)
  • Sudden Strike: The Last Stand (2010) (stand-alone expansion)
• Sudden Strike 4 (2017)

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)
  • Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation (2007)
• Blitzkrieg 3 (2015)

The Company of Heroes series

• Company of Heroes (2006)
• Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (2007)
• Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor (2009)
• Company of Heroes 2 (2013)
• Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault (2014)

The Men of War series^{[6][circular reference]}

• Soldiers: Heroes of World War II (2004)
• Silent Heroes: Elite Troops of WWII (2005)
• Faces of War (2006)
• V tylu vraga: Diversanty 2 (2006)^{[7][8][circular reference]}
• V tylu vraga 2. Bratya po oruzhiyu (2007)^{[9][circular reference]}
• V tylu vraga: Diversanty 3 (2008)^{[10][11][circular reference]}
• Men of War (2008)
• Men of War: Red Tide (2009)
• Men of War: Assault Squad (2011)
• Men of War: Condemned Heroes (2012)
• Men of War: Assault Squad 2 (2014)
• Assault Squad 2: Men of War Origins (2016)
• Soldiers: Arena (2019)

The Commandos series

• Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (1998)
• Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (1999)
• Commandos 2: Men of Courage (2001)
• Commandos 3: Destination Berlin (2003)

The Codename: Panzers series

• Codename: Panzers Phase One (2004)
• Codename: Panzers Phase Two (2005)
• Rush For Berlin (2006)
  • Rush For the Bomb (2007)

Digital Reality's Afrika Korps series

• Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps (aka. Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats) (2004)
• D-Day (2004)
• Ardennes Offensive (2005)
• Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege (aka. Mockba to Berlin) (2006)

• 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)

Other real-time tactics games

• Offensive (1996)
• Muzzle Velocity (1997)
• WarCommander (2001)
• World War II: Panzer Claws (aka. Frontline Attack: War Over Europe) (2002)
• World War II: Frontline Command (2003)
• Panzer Claws II (2004)
• Great Battles of WWII: Stalingrad (2004)
• Super Army (2005)
• Frontline: Fields of Thunder (2007)
• Theatre Of War (2007)
• Panzer Tactics DS (2007)
• Talvisota: Icy Hell (2007)
• Order Of War (2009)
• Achtung Panzer Operation Star (2011)

Real-time strategy games[edit]

The Empire Earth series

• Empire Earth (2001)
  • Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest (2001)
• Empire Earth II (2005)
  • Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy (2006)
• Empire Earth III (2007)

The Command & Conquer: Red Alert series

• Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996)
  • Red Alert: Counterstrike (1997)
  • Red Alert: Aftermath (1997)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000)
  • Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge (2001)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008)
  • Red Alert 3: Uprising (2009)

Other real-time strategy games

• P.T.O. (1989)
• Conqueror (1988)
• Empires: Dawn of the Modern World (2003)
• War Times (2004)
• Axis & Allies (2004)
• Pacific Storm (2005)
• Pacific Storm: Allies (2007)
• War Front: Turning Point (2007)
• Officers (2007)
• Spring: 1944 (2008)
• World War II Online: Battleground Europe (High Command) (2009)
• War Leaders: Clash of Nations (2009)
• R.U.S.E. (2010)
• Banzai Attacks Mission Asia (2012)
• Banzai Attacks Mission Pacific (2014)
• Dominations (2015)
• World War II Heroes: Road to Burma (2016)
• Steel Division: Normandy 44 (2017)
• World War II Online: Hells in Asia (2018)

Turn-based strategy games[edit]

The Panzer General series

• Panzer General (1994)
• Allied General (1995)
• Pacific General (1997)
• Panzer General II (1997)
• Panzer General 3D Assault (1999)
• Panzer General III: Scorched Earth (2000)
• Panzer General Online (2013)

The Steel Panthers series

• Steel Panthers (1995)
  • Steel Panthers: Campaign Disk (1996)
  • Steel Panthers: Campaign Disk #2 (1997)
• Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles (1996)
  • Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles - Campaign Disk (1996)
  • SPWW2 (stand-alone expansion) (1999)
• Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command - 1939-1999 (1997)
• Steel Panthers: World at War (2000)

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)
• East Front 2 (1999)
• Rising Sun (2000)
  • Rising Sun: Imperial Strike (2000)

The Combat Mission series

• Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord (2000)
• Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin (2002)
• Combat Mission Afrika Korps (2004)
• Combat Mission Macarthur Begins to Asia (2006)
• Combat Mission: Fall of the Red Sun (2008)

The Strategic Command series

• Strategic Command: European Theater (2002)
  • Strategic Command: Gold (2006)
• Strategic Command 2: Blitzkrieg (2006)
  • Strategic Command 2: Weapons and Warfare Expansion (2007)
  • Strategic Command 2: Patton Drives East (2008)
• Strategic Command: WWII Pacific Theater (2008)
• Strategic Command: WWII Global Conflict (2010)
  • Strategic Command: WWII Global Conflict - Gold (2011)
• Strategic Command: WWII - War in Europe (2017)

The Decisive Battles of WWII series

• Decisive Battles of WWII: Ardennes Offensive (1997)
• Decisive Battles of WWII: Across the Dnepr (2003)
• Decisive Battles of WWII Vol 2: Korsun Pocket (2003)
• Decisive Battles of World War II: Battles in Normandy (2004)
• Decisive Battles of World War II: Battles in Italy (2005)

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)

The Koutetsu no Kishi series

• Koutetsu no Kishi (1991)
• Koutetsu no Kishi 2: Sabaku no Rommel Shougun (1994)
• Koutetsu no Kishi 3: Gekitotsu Europe Sensen (1995)

The Silent Storm series

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

Other turn-based strategy games

• Barbarossa (1992)
• Grandest Fleet (1994)
• Operation Europe: Path To Victory (1994)
• Stalingrad (1994)
• Sgt. Saunders' Combat! (1995)
• Operation Europe: Path to Victory (1995)
• Battleground: Ardennes (1995)
• Over the Reich (1996)
• Daisenryaku (Iron Storm) (1996)
• Achtung Spitfire (1997)
• Soldiers at War (1998)
• Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 (1998)
• Avalon Hill's Squad Leader (2000)
• G.I. Combat: Episode 1 - Battle of Normandy (2002)
• Soldiers of Empires (2002)
• Pacific War: Matrix Edition (2003)
• War in the Pacific: The Struggle Against Japan 1941–1945 (2004)
• War Plan Orange: Dreadnoughts in the Pacific 1922–1930 (2005)
• Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm (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)
• Panzer Corps (2011)
• Unity of Command (2011)
• Soldiers of Empires 2 (2012)
• The Future Reich (2014)
• The Führer's Resurrection (2015)
• Panzer Strategy (2018)
• Sabotage of Europe and the Pacific (2019)

Grand strategy games[edit]

The Hearts of Iron series

• Hearts of Iron (2002)
• Hearts of Iron II (2005)
  • Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday (expansion pack) (2006)
  • Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon (expansion pack) (2007)
  • Hearts of Iron II: Iron Cross (expansion pack) (2010)
  • Arsenal of Democracy (2010)
• Hearts of Iron III (2009)
  • Hearts of Iron III: Semper Fi (expansion pack) (2010)
  • Hearts of Iron III: For the Motherland (expansion pack) (2011)
  • Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour (expansion pack) (2012)
  • Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game (2011)
• Hearts of Iron IV (2016)
  • Hearts of Iron IV: Together for Victory (2016)
  • Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor (2017)
  • Hearts of Iron IV: Waking the Tiger (2018)
  • Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns (2019)

The Civilization series

• Civilization (Video Game) (1991)
• Civilization II (1996)
• Civilization III (2001)
• Civilization IV (2005)
• Civilization V (2010)
• Civilization VI (2016)

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)

Other grand strategy and alternate history games

• P.T.O Pacific Theater of Operations (1989)
• P.T.O Pacific Theater of Operations II (1993)
• Gary Grisby's World at War (2005)
• Commander: Europe at War (2007)
• Commander: Pacific at War (2008)
• Call of War (2009)
• Supreme Ruler 1936 (2014)

Massive Multiplayer Online Tactical Strategy Game (MMOTSG)[edit]

• NavyField (2005)
• Blitz 1941 (2009)

Board games[edit]

• Axis & Allies (turn-based strategy) (1998)
  • Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz (1999) (expansion pack)
• Steel Panthers: World at War (2007)

References[edit]

1. ^ru:Противостояние (серия игр)
2. ^ru:Противостояние (серия игр)
3. ^ru:Противостояние (серия игр)
4. ^ru:Противостояние (игра)#Продолжения
5. ^ru:Противостояние (серия_игр)#«Противостояние_3» / «Sudden_Strike»
6. ^ru:В тылу врага (серия игр)
7. ^https://www.mobygames.com/game/v-tylu-vraga-diversanty-2
8. ^Soldiers: Heroes of World War II#Spin-offs
9. ^ru:В тылу врага 2: Братья по оружию
10. ^https://www.mobygames.com/game/v-tylu-vraga-diversanty-3
11. ^Soldiers: Heroes of World War II#Spin-offs

See also[edit]

World War 2 Games Free Download Pc

With Call of Duty, Battlefield, and more returning to the 1940s, we have to ask: what are the best WW2 games on PC? The most devastating conflict in our recent history of fighting over land and ideologies has been distilled into heroic charges, tense dogfights, epic digital wars, and savage battles many times over, and here you’ll find the best videogame adaptations of them all.

Whether you’re looking for the grittiness of a beach landing, the strategy of battle planning, the thrill of an aerial dogfight, or intense camaraderie experienced by a band of brothers, there’s a World War II game that has something to offer you. And thanks to the new wave of interest in the period, some of these games sport astonishing graphics and modern, punchy gunplay.

So from massive, free-to-play vehicular battlefields to complex war games, you’re bound to find something below to keep you duking it out for countless hours in our round-up of the finest WWII games.

The best WW2 games are:

War Thunder

World War 2 was a combined arms effort, with land, sea, and air forces offering equally invaluable efforts, and War Thunder truly captures that. It originally threw a spotlight on the war’s colossal aerial battles, but soon went on to include land battles through the medium of noisy tank warfare, and naval efforts via its sea-based expansion.

Boasting a dizzying number of historically accurate aircraft, tanks, and boats from pretty much every nation involved in the war, this exceptional free-to-play WW2 game offers a great multiplayer experience that neatly sits in the middle ground between complex simulation and arcade fighter. Like a sim, War Thunder has incredible attention to detail that makes it compelling to play. Each machine feels genuinely different and all offer their own challenges. And even when you’re not in the heat of battle there are tactics to consider as you stock your hangars with various new vehicles and upgrade them to suit your approach.

More like this: War Thunder is also one of the best plane games

Developer Gaijin Entertainment has expanded each of its combat types out, so you can read our War Thunder naval combat guide or our beginner’s guide to War Thunder tank battles if you need some help learning the basics.

World of Tanks

Wargaming’s flagship free-to-play WW2 game is obsessed with tanks, hence the name World of Tanks. It’s full of incredibly detailed artillery platforms and caterpillar tracks for you to drool over before rolling into battle. Hundreds of these glorious machines can be researched, unlocked, and purchased as you gain experience and resources from every tense match.

World of Tanks is a game you can dip your toes into, play for a bit, and have fun. On the surface, it’s simple and arcade-like, but underneath the chassis is the loud, angry engine of something more serious. How vulnerable is the machine gun port of the Tiger II? Where are the soft spots on the indomitable IS-3? What is the effective armour thickness of the T-32’s upper glacis? Armour penetration, angles, weak spots – this is the stuff you need to know.

To taste victory time after time, to work your way up the tank tiers and eventually get your name on leaderboards, you need to make a significant time investment. It would feel a bit like work if this wasn’t a game about blowing up tanks, which never stops being fun. And with constant updates, new maps, modes, features, and an audience of hundreds of millions of players, you’re always learning. It might not be the most realistic game at times, but it’s easily one of the best tank games on PC.

World of Warships

The third of Wargaming’s WW2 games, World of Warships sees the tried and tested formula of World of Tanks transposed to the sea. It’s not just World of Tanks with ships, though, as the switch to naval combat has informed a lot of big changes. These sea battles are slower, more thoughtful, and ultimately more tactical than their land-based counterparts.

Out in the open sea, there’s a sense of dread and vulnerability that you just don’t get in Wargaming’s other titles. Not this severe, anyway. There’s no hiding or running away in World of Warships – just plans, some of which will fall apart, and others that could, with some help from your team, lead to a glorious victory.

Air support adds an extra interesting wrinkle. You can hurl the fighters and bombers positioned on your decks at your foes, and suddenly the game starts to feel like an RTS. But one where you’re also frantically trying to line up your killer cannons and praying to Poseidon that this time, this time, it’ll be a direct hit. That is what makes it one of the best WW2 games on PC. On top of all this, Wargaming also do a terrific job of updating the game, with expansions adding new ships like a Pan-Asian line of destroyers to the game, not to mention the odd World of Warships seasonal event.

Steel Division 2

If you’re not into hardcore wargames and are looking for a more hands-on WW2 strategy game then Steel Division 2 ticks a lot boxes. Taking place on the eastern front of WW2, Steel Division 2 focuses heavily on the source material, translating every aspect of the horrid struggle between Axis and Russian forces into its gameplay. Soviet conscripts are in abundance, but are poorly equipped and will yield under too much pressure. The SS troops on the other hand offer a great deal more efficiency, but lack energy and enthusiasm after months spent fighting in the harsh Russian winter.

Much like the first game, Steel Division: Normandy ‘44, the sequel is peerless when it comes to representing the scale of warfare, offering up large maps with strict, unnatural borders so as to give you a cross-section of a large-scale combat operation. You have tanks, troops, and aircraft under your control, but your focus at all times is on the battlefield rather than where you’re drawing these forces from.

The new Army General mode is a neat touch, which does an excellent job mixing RTS story campaigns with the long-form strategic decisions you’d normally find in one of the best war or grand strategy titans. These four mini-campaigns take you through the Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation that saw Soviet forces finally breakthrough the Axis stranglehold, with most of the action taking place on a strategic map.

Call of Duty: WWII

If you are looking for breadth and realistic details, then COD: WW2 might rub you up the wrong way with its Eurocentric campaign and PPSh-41-toting German soldiers. However, what it does better than all but the best WW2 games is connect the player to the squad they fight alongside, all the way from the beaches of Normandy to the capture of Ludendorff Bridge. It does this by tying health, ammo, and grenade refills to squad members, forcing you to seek out your medic if you are low on health, even if a tank separates you. It is an elegant and organic way of simulating the bonds that form between brothers in arms.

COD: WW2 also stands out as one of the best WW2 games because of it relatively recent release date. After the glut of World War 2 games that hit PC in the mid-2000s we endured a decade-long drought where all the leaps and bounds made in videogame graphics helped bring other conflicts and settings to life while WW2 games were left behind. In our COD: WW2 review we were impressed by the audiovisual fidelity, which lends the campaign an almost filmic level of sheen, whether that is the sumptuous ring that fills your ears every time you reload an M1 Garand, or the unsparing particle effects that give every texture and environment their due depth. Sure, you will have seen and fought these WW2 battles in games before, but they have never looked this convincing.

Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2 was a jolt of electricity applied to the WW2 formula when it launched in 2005. Familiar scenes like the D-Day landings were recreated in greater detail, with more drama and a nail-biting sense of vulnerability. And, at the time, it was the best the war had ever looked.

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With four campaigns across three theatres, the global scope of the war was on display. Like the original Call of Duty, it followed British, American and Russian troops, but also presented the north African campaign for the first time, as the Brits fought across the desert, melting and dying and hiding from tanks.

Despite being over a decade old, COD2 has stood the test of time thanks to the fact that it was one of the first games to add features like regenerating health, so you could focus on the battle and not worry about scurrying around looking for health kits. And with improved ally AI, it really felt like you were leading proper soldiers – all of them named – rather than mindless models with guns attached to them. Not just one of the best WW2 games, Call of Duty 2 is one of the best FPS games on PC.

Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault

As our Company of Heroes 2 review points out – despite capturing the horror of winter warfare the RTS sequel didn’t quite hit the same high notes as its venerable predecessor. But with the standalone expansion of Ardennes Assault, Relic reinvigorated the single-player portion of the series, giving it one of its most interesting campaigns and regaining the WW2 RTS games crown.

It is all about the dynamic map. The Ardennes region is one big, constantly shifting warzone, with the Germans attempting to lock down as much territory as possible. Controlling the US forces of Baker, Able and Dog Company – all with unique mechanics and strengths – players must force the Germans out, bit by bit, in a desperate, bleak campaign. It is not just about winning battles; a victory doesn’t matter if it has cost you all your veteran units and left the rest of your force tattered and weak. A Pyrrhic victory spells doom for your campaign.

Random objectives and events can crop up in battles and on the campaign map itself, so no campaign is alike. You might be tasked with assassinating an officer during a mission, or ambushing a convoy on the campaign map, and failure or victory will have a tangible impact on the rest of the war. It is a persistent, savage war, where failure is always nipping at the heels of the increasingly desperate US forces. With details like that, no wonder it is one of the best WW2 games on PC.

Commandos 2: Men of Courage

They don’t make them like this anymore, and that is a tragedy. Commandos 2 is 17 years old, but remains utterly unsurpassed. It is a puzzle game, essentially. You control a group of operatives behind enemy lines, across ten elaborate, complex, devilishly hard missions.

Each mission is a huge, sprawling thing with a beautifully detailed, liberating map and tricky objectives that require a lot of planning, scouting, smarts and a spot of trial and error. Objectives run the gamut from stealing documents and rescuing spies to blowing up ships and stealing vehicles. Getting in the way of that are countless patrols, guards, minefields and even harsh weather. Luckily, the Commandos have more than a few tricks up their sleeves.

You have a spy who can steal clothes and disguise himself as the enemy, a secret agent who can distract and drug Nazis, and a battle-hardened Green Beret who likes to get a bit of blood on his hands. You even have a dog, Whisky, and he is both delightful and good at drawing the attention of enemies. Each mission gives you a specific group to use, and then it is up to you how you want to go about completing the main, secondary, and bonus objectives. It is this kind of freedom that makes Commandos 2 not just one of the best WW2 games on PC, but one of the best PC games of all time, period.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

As much as games like Brothers in Arms and World of Tanks aim for historical accuracy in their weapons, machinery, and locations, they still offer a Hollywood-tinted depiction of the action. Red Orchestra 2 removes the filters and offers an unflinchingly difficult simulator shooter. Heroes of Stalingrad recreates battles from the Eastern Front in a Battlefield-like combined arms settings with soldier classes and vehicles. Throwing pray-and-spray, gung-ho attitudes to the wind, Red Orchestra demands strict teamwork, caution, and a considered tactical approach to objectives.

It is the hardships of being an individual cog in the machine that makes Red Orchestra compelling. Machine-gunners are vital for covering fire, allowing other players to advance down the field. But holding down the trigger too long causes the barrel to melt and buckle, requiring it to be replaced in a lengthy maintenance animation. Tanks are murder machines when fully crewed, but attempt to commandeer one by yourself and you will find yourself a sitting target as you attempt to aim your cannon. As well as the stresses of being part of a team, as an individual you’ll have to constantly count your rounds as a complete lack of HUD removes any indication as to what is left in your magazine.

Each round of Red Orchestra 2 is hard work, but like ARMA and other bullet-physic heavy shooting simulations, there’s a distinct, unrivalled sense of victory with every point scored. Few WW2 games make you work this hard for a single kill. If you’re more interested in the Pacific conflict then there’s even a spiritual successor from Tripwire Interactive called Rising Storm that’s just as brutally realistic.

Silent Hunter III

The Second World War is frequently depicted as a violently bloodthirsty, explosive, and ear-drum bursting conflict. But not every element of all-out war is noisy or fast paced. For the quiet, considered, cold-blooded killers out there, there is nothing quite like Silent Hunter’s unique brand of stealth. Throw out your undercover OSS agents, and submerge yourself in underwater naval warfare.

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Silent Hunter III, despite being over a decade old, remains one of the best WW2 games, and allows you to command a U-Boat full of German seamen under the surface of the Atlantic ocean. Freeform missions simply inform you of targets and naval traffic, allowing you to conduct the operation in whatever conniving manner you so wish. You will need to be map savvy; Silent Hunter is one of those gloriously uncompromising submarine games, and without solid navigation skills you’ll be firing torpedoes into the open ocean instead of the side of a Allied merchant ship. Patience is the key ingredient though, as you lurk in wait as your plan slowly comes together.

Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway

The Brothers in Arms games offer some of the best stories in the WW2 niche, filled with personal tales of struggle and camaraderie. Hell’s Highway, the third in the BiA series, brings the troubles of the 101st Airborne’s Matt Baker to a close with a harrowing story that emphasises the relentless loss of life every soldier was forced to endure, evoking the likes of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.

Backing up the story is a fantastic FPS game. It borrows the third-person cover system of the Rainbow Six: Vegas games, making the squad tactics a much smoother, effective element. War is hell in Brothers in Arms, and the methodical employment of flanking maneuvers and suppressing fire is the only way you’ll be able to survive it. Thanks to the tight-knit relationships Hell’s Highway weaves over its campaign, by the end you will really feel as if you helped pull your comrades through the dirt.

And damn is it grim. Grisly, too. Body parts are blown off, men are turned into bloody bags of meat – it is nasty stuff. It does not feel like Hell’s Highway revels in the gore, though. It feels more like an attempt to present war as a horrible, traumatising scenario that you should be glad you are experiencing on a PC rather than in reality.

Battlefield 1942

With Battlefield 1942, it felt like the FPS genre was evolving. Until DICE released the first in what would be an enduring series, multiplayer games were mostly concerned with the glory of the individual. They were about fast reflexes and kill counts. Battlefield 1942, however, is all about cooperation.

You can see where a lot of the series’ systems began, like the roles or classes, the addition of vehicles like tanks and planes and the importance of controlling the map. There was an even greater focus on combined arms warfare, though. You could be bombarding coastlines with your capital ship while your chum flies around in a bomber, trying to take out manned installations protecting the coast. The scale and diversity was crazy. And the maps let you duke it out in all of WW2’s theatres, so you could fight as the British in El Alamein or the Imperial Japanese Navy in Iwo Jima.

A few years ago, EA made it free, but it has since been removed from Origin due to Gamespy going out of business, leaving the game without servers. However! There are still places you can download it from, along with community servers, so there’s still life in the game yet – you can also get Battlefield 1942 in HD with the right mods. But should that life run out, DICE are bringing the 40s back with their next game: Battlefield V.

Order of Battle: U.S. Pacific

Order of Battle: Pacific takes the now well-worn Panzer General-style of wargames and manages to do more with than any other of the classic game’s successors have in a long time. It is an intricate-yet-approachable wargame, with logical rules and a distinct eye for detail.

Each move becomes a series of puzzles. Objectives need to be reached quickly, with no dawdling. Yet extending your grasp for side-missions can also provide bonuses further down the line. Each decision expands into new opportunities and further questions.

It is also a game that finally succeeds at naval transportation and combat, which is pretty rare among the best strategy games, and a vital feature considering the Pacific setting means much of your time will be set at sea. Order of Battle’s approach to naval is exceptionally strong, and makes sailing from port to port as interesting as battles themselves.

Hidden & Dangerous 2

Hidden & Dangerous 2 may be an ageing veteran that needs a stick to stay mobile these days, but its tales of silent heroics, undercover operations, and daring strikes have been unmatched in the 15 years since its release.

Rainbow Six for 1944, Hidden & Dangerous 2 is a tactical squad shooter with all the trimmings we’re clamoring for in the modern era: permadeath, persistent characters, detailed operation loadout screens, and fully open maps with mission goals to be completed any which way you fancy. Leading a squad of four stiff-upper-lipped SAS officers, there is a fascinating variety of missions that take you to every theatre of the war, from a snowy top secret research base to the dense jungles of Burma.

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The level of freedom is comparable to Hitman: Blood Money (there is even the option to strip enemies and steal their clothing), and the lack of enforced silence means when things go belly-up you can crack open the heavy machineguns and simply murder your way out. The controls and systems are all fairly clunky and the AI of your squadmates is never up to scratch, but the thrill of Hidden & Dangerous’ campaign is absolutely worth pushing through the niggles for.

World of Warplanes

World of Warplanes lets you live out your fantasy of being a World War 2 fighter pilot, absolutely for free. Wargaming’s WW2 game thrusts you into the cockpit of over five aircraft types that can include thousands of customisable configurations. Your eternal fight for dominance of the skies sees you facing action-packed 12v12 dogfights that require careful communication and effective teamwork for you to claim victory.

This free PC game is set in the Golden Age of military aviation, and it has the environments to match. You can choose to fight for one of seven nations, but the canvas through which you’ll be targeting the baddies is inspired by land masses all over the world. It means that, if you’re anything like us and get shot out the sky on the regular, you’ll at least be able to enjoy the view on the way down.

IL-2 Sturmovik 1946

Though IL-2 Sturmovik is almost old enough to leave school and get a job, it remains one of the best simulation games of all time, particularly those with a military bent.

1946, then, is something very special, because it contains IL-2 Sturmovik, its sequel, and a whole bunch of expansions, which means you get an almost bewildering number of campaigns and richly detailed planes, and by the time you are done with it all, you will be effortlessly pulling off Yo-Yos like a master ace and speeding across the skies in Yaks and MiGs like a natural.

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While 1946 collects all the pre-2007 IL-2 Sturmovik games and expansions, it also adds nine extra campaigns and lots of lovely jets in an alternate history version of the war that sees Germany and Russia duking it out in the skies in high speed jet battles. The missions are scripted, though you will find dynamic battles in the older games that come with 1946, and you’ll find yourself on tense bombing runs, foiling deadly raids and getting into plenty of thrilling dogfights.

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And there we have it: the very best WW2 games you can find on PC. In need of even more? Head to our partner site Wargamer for a look at the best WWI games. But, until next time, tinkety tonk and down with the Nazis, old fruit.

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