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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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
First-person survival horror with cameras, a mask, and animatronics
93% positive
27K reviews
Battle Brothers
Turn-based tactical RPG about running a medieval mercenary company
87% positive
27K reviews
Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood
Open-world stealth action in Rome with recruitable assassin allies
87% positive
27K reviews
UBOAT
World War II submarine simulator centered on crew survival and command
81% positive
27K reviews
Demo Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Soviet-themed city builder with detailed logistics and planned-economy management
90% positive
27K reviews
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
World War II multiplayer shooter with infantry and tank battles
93% positive
27K reviews
LIZARDS MUST DIE
Third-person hack-and-slash battles against invading lizards and aliens
96% positive
26K reviews
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
2D World War I puzzle adventure about survival and sacrifice
95% positive
26K reviews
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
Third-person stealth action with parkour in the medieval Holy Land
80% positive
26K reviews
Company of Heroes 3
World War II RTS combining tactical battles with campaign command
58% positive
26K reviews
War Selection
Free-to-play base-building RTS spanning the Stone Age to heavy tanks
84% positive
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Farthest Frontier
Medieval city builder with physical logistics, farming, and frontier survival
84% positive
25K reviews
HUMANKIND™
Historical 4X strategy built around changing cultures across eras
68% positive
23K reviews
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue
Open-world historical action from an Assassin hunter's perspective
86% positive
23K reviews
Demo Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Eighteenth-century grand strategy with turn-based campaigns and real-time battles
89% positive
23K reviews
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Western FPS where an unreliable narrator reshapes each gunfight
95% positive
22K reviews
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Third-person action adventure with stealth and supernatural rat swarms
90% positive
22K reviews
Demo Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
Difficult dark fantasy action RPG built around martial-arts deflections
46% positive
22K reviews
Mafia: The Old Country
Third-person crime adventure about joining the Mafia in 1900s Sicily
71% positive
22K reviews
The Blood of Dawnwalker
Open-world action RPG with human and vampire forms
86% positive
22K reviews
Imperator: Rome
Ancient grand strategy about politics, populations, trade, and conquest
62% positive
21K reviews
Assassin's Creed® Revelations
Open-world stealth action through Ottoman Constantinople with rooftop parkour
83% positive
21K reviews
Demo Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Turn-based fantasy strategy with city building and creature armies
86% positive
20K reviews
Squad 44
World War II multiplayer shooter built around squad coordination
77% positive
20K reviews