Best Historical games on PC
Games set during or modeled on real periods, civilizations, and conflicts from the past, including medieval societies and the world wars. Play ranges from commanding nations and armies to fighting battles or exploring open worlds.
- Past eras and civilizations
- Period warfare and military strategy
Related: Strategy, War, Medieval, World War II
1,680 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Melodramatica
Theater management with actor training and backstage problem solving
79% positive
Free
Opus Castle
First-person horror adventure with branching stories in a haunted castle
59% positive
Free
Demo Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin
A historical adventure following a scholar through China's imperial examinations
92% positive
99 reviews
Castle Empire
Top-down strategy with castle management and real-time army battles
60% positive
Free
East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance
Merchant simulation about trading across cities and growing a family business
91% positive
99 reviews
PyramidValley: Reborn
Isometric city building in ancient Egypt, with online cooperative play
88% positive
Free
Demo The Bird of the North
A deduction game about reconstructing conversations across visions of the past
96% positive
99 reviews
三国志·天下归心
Turn-based Three Kingdoms RPG following Liu Bei's bid to restore Han rule
71% positive
98 reviews
Demo Quartermain and the Cult of Cthulhu
Retro first-person shooter pitting you against Nazis and occult monsters
91% positive
97 reviews
Pestis
A medieval medical simulation about treating plague victims and surviving
80% positive
96 reviews
Staden under Gamlestaden
Historical exploration with town quests in sixteenth-century Sweden
84% positive
Free
胡莱三国3
Multiplayer strategy combining collectible generals with idle city management
64% positive
Free
Conquer: Napoleonic Wars
Turn-based historical strategy about conquest at the height of Napoleon's empire
75% positive
Free
Demo AMEDAMA
Side-scrolling action-adventure where a wandering soul takes over other bodies
79% positive
96 reviews
Countryballs at War
Grand strategy wargame combining turn-based expansion with real-time army battles
91% positive
96 reviews
Cats in the Ancient City of Gu Su
A hidden-object cat hunt inside a historical Chinese scroll painting
94% positive
96 reviews
Hyperchannel
An endless first-person shooter with rubber hose cartoon visuals
44% positive
Free
Wars of Napoleon
Turn-based grand strategy with detailed Napoleonic army and supply management
45% positive
95 reviews
1406
A horror adventure about a writer who doubts ghosts exist
44% positive
95 reviews
World War 2: Strategy Simulator
Turn-based military strategy with land, sea, and air campaigns
40% positive
Free
The 2020 Trail
Casual strategy parody about navigating everyday life during 2020
88% positive
Free
Grief like a stray dog
A wartime visual novel about delivering letters and death notices
99% positive
95 reviews
Dreams with Furry 🦊
Match-three puzzles paired with short stories about furry historical figures
85% positive
95 reviews
Age of Pyramids
Ancient Egyptian city building with resource planning and pyramid construction
38% positive
Free