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
1,798 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo The Caribou Trail
A first-person walking simulator about ordinary soldiers surviving World War I
90% positive
674 reviews
Demo My Memory of Us
A puzzle adventure about childhood friendship under a robot regime
92% positive
672 reviews
Second Front
Turn-based World War II wargame with hex-grid battles and scenario editing
79% positive
671 reviews
Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Modern tactical wargame with real-time or simultaneous-turn combat in Syria
79% positive
671 reviews
Demo Gecko Gods
A puzzle platformer about climbing and island-hopping as a gecko
95% positive
667 reviews
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
A point-and-click escape room about a soul's many lives
92% positive
667 reviews
The Shell Part III: Paradiso
A detective visual novel about a murder mirroring a painting
96% positive
667 reviews
Okhlos: Omega
Action roguelike about leading an angry mob against Greek gods
79% positive
664 reviews
Demo Grand Ages: Rome
Roman city-building strategy with trade, land battles, and naval warfare
75% positive
663 reviews
You Are Empty: Absolute Edition
Linear first-person shooter with grotesque monsters in alternate-history Soviet Kyiv
92% positive
662 reviews
热血大唐
Historical strategy with customizable commanders and alliance-based military campaigns
96% positive
Free
Armored Battle Crew [World War 1] - Tank Warfare and Crew Management Simulator
World War I tank simulation with crew management under fire
38% positive
660 reviews
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening
Historical survival adventure in Brazil's drought-stricken nineteenth-century backlands
91% positive
657 reviews
Demo Pax Augusta
Roman city builder with modular buildings and provincial management
70% positive
657 reviews
American Conquest
Historical real-time strategy with large armies and colonial-era campaigns
67% positive
651 reviews
Masters of Albion
A town-building god game where you can possess your people
65% positive
651 reviews
Builders of Greece: Prologue
Ancient Greek city builder centered on production, trade, and war
74% positive
Free
Broken Edge
VR sword duels built around breaking your opponent’s weapon
84% positive
645 reviews
Blockbuster Inc.
Movie studio management sim with hands-on film production
52% positive
644 reviews
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars
Historical real-time strategy built around Napoleonic formations and morale
56% positive
643 reviews
Chornobyl Liquidators
First-person disaster response simulation about containing radioactive fallout
50% positive
642 reviews
Burden of Command™
World War II tactical RPG about command and hard choices
83% positive
640 reviews
逐鹿
Turn-based strategy about competing for territory in historical China
61% positive
640 reviews
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Detective visual novel connecting a postwar curse to a prewar murder
94% positive
635 reviews