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
757 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Science-themed incremental clicker tracing life from cells to space
89% positive
Free
Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Historical strategy combining turn-based campaigns with real-time Napoleonic battles
92% positive
28K reviews
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
2D World War I puzzle adventure about survival and sacrifice
96% positive
28K reviews
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Third-person action adventure with stealth and supernatural rat swarms
91% positive
27K reviews
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Soviet-themed city builder with detailed logistics and planned-economy management
91% positive
27K reviews
UBOAT
World War II submarine simulator centered on crew survival and command
84% positive
27K reviews
Imperator: Rome
Ancient grand strategy about politics, populations, trade, and conquest
66% positive
27K reviews
Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood
Open-world stealth action in Rome with recruitable assassin allies
88% positive
27K reviews
LIZARDS MUST DIE
Third-person hack-and-slash battles against invading lizards and aliens
96% positive
26K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
First-person survival horror with cameras, a mask, and animatronics
94% positive
26K reviews
Farthest Frontier
Medieval city builder with physical logistics, farming, and frontier survival
86% positive
26K reviews
Sniper Elite V2
Third-person World War II sniper shooter with X-ray kill cams
88% positive
25K reviews
Squad 44
World War II multiplayer shooter built around squad coordination
74% positive
25K reviews
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
Third-person stealth action with parkour in the medieval Holy Land
81% positive
25K reviews
The Blood of Dawnwalker
Open-world action RPG with human and vampire forms
87% positive
25K reviews
Day of Defeat: Source
Class-based World War II FPS built around online team battles
92% positive
24K reviews
War Selection
Free-to-play base-building RTS spanning the Stone Age to heavy tanks
85% positive
Free
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue
Open-world historical action from an Assassin hunter's perspective
87% positive
22K reviews
Day of Infamy
World War II first-person shooter with lethal team-based objectives
82% positive
22K reviews
Going Medieval
Medieval colony sim with multilevel building and siege defense
89% positive
21K reviews
Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
21K reviews
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Medieval real-time strategy built around desert castles and sieges
97% positive
21K reviews
Assassin's Creed® Revelations
Open-world stealth action through Ottoman Constantinople with rooftop parkour
84% positive
21K reviews
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
First-person adventure mixing exploration, puzzles, stealth, and whip-based combat
90% positive
21K reviews