List of World War II video games

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Below is a list of video games that center on World War II for their setting.

First-person shooters[]

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 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: Vanguard (2007)
  • Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007)
  • Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (2007)
  • Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond (2020)

The Battlefield series[]

The Call of Duty series[]

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)
  • Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt (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 (2011)

Other First Person Shooter Games[]

  • World War II GI (1999)
  • Mortyr (1999)
  • Elite Forces: WWII - Normandy (2001)
  • Elite Forces: WWII - Iwo Jima (2001)
  • Elite Forces: D-Day: Normandy (2002)
  • Beyond Normandy: Assignment Berlin (2003)
  • Airborne Hero: D–Day Frontline 1944 (2004)
  • Mortyr 2 (2004)
  • Ardennes Offensive (2005)
  • WWII: Soldier (aka. S.O.E.: Operation Avalanche) (2005)
  • The Outfit (2006)
  • ÜberSoldier (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)
  • Day of Infamy (2017)
  • Easy Red (2017)
  • Fog of War (2018)
  • Raid: World War II (2017)
  • A Front Too Far: Normandy (2018)
  • BattleRush (2018)
  • BattleRush 2 (2019)
  • Battalion 1944 (2019)
  • Days of War (2020)
  • Easy Red 2 (2020)
  • End of War 1945 (2020)
  • WWII Operations: Desert Front (2020)
  • Land of War: The Beginning (2021)
  • Medic: Pacific War (2022)

Tactical shooters[]

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[]

The Day of Defeat series[]

The Brothers in Arms series[]

The Sniper Elite series[]

The Red Orchestra series[]

Other Tactical Shooter games[]

Rail shooters[]

  • 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[]

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Stealth games[]

The Death to Spies series[]

Other stealth games[]

Tank simulators[]

The Panzer Elite series[]

Other tank simulators[]

Naval simulators[]

Submarine simulators[]

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[]

Flight simulators[]

IL-2 Sturmovik series[]

The Air Conflicts series[]

Lucasarts' Air Combat series[]

Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator series[]

The Air Warrior series[]

The Warbirds series[]

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

The Combat Wings series[]

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

The 19XX series[]

Other Simulators

Multi-type simulators[]

The Battlestations series[]

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[]

Point and click[]

  • A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie (2009)
  • A Stroke of Fate: Operation Bunker (2009)

Role-playing games[]

Interactive fiction[]

Real-time tactics games[]

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[]

The Men of War series[]

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[]

The 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 Games[]

  • 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)

The Command Ops series[]

Other real-time tactics games[]

Real-time strategy games[]

The Empire Earth series[]

Other real-time strategy games[]

  • P.T.O. (1989)
  • Conqueror (1988)
  • Empires: Dawn of the Modern World (2003)
  • Rise of Nations (2003)
  • War Times (2004)
  • Axis & Allies (2004)
  • 1944: Battle of the Bulge (aka. No Surrender: Battle of the Bulge) (2005)
  • 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)
  • Steel Division 2 (2019)
  • Radio General (2020)
  • (2017)

Turn-based strategy games[]

The Panzer General series[]

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[]

The Strategic Command series[]

The Strategic Mind series[]

  • Strategic Mind: The Pacific (2019)
  • Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg (2020)
  • Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism (2020)
  • Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom (2021)
  • Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty (2022)

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[]

The Silent Storm series[]

The Unity of Command series[]

The Kantai Collection series[]

The WarPlan series[]

  • WarPlan (Kraken Studios and Matrix Games) (2019)
  • WarPlan Pacific (Kraken Studios and Matrix Games) (2021)

Handygames' WWII mobile strategy games[]

  • 1942: Deadly Desert (2004, reissued in 2016)
  • 1941: Frozen Front (2005, reissued in 2013)

Other turn-based strategy games[]

  • Computer Bismarck (1980)[11]
  • 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)
  • (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)
  • Soldiers of Empires 2 (2012)
  • The Future Reich (2014)
  • World War II: TCG (2014)
  • The Führer's Resurrection (2015)
  • Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa (2015)
  • Panzer Strategy (2018)
  • Sabotage of Europe and the Pacific (2019)
  • Fuga: Melodies of Steel (2021)

Grand strategy games[]

The Hearts of Iron series[]

  • Hearts of Iron (2002)
  • Hearts of Iron II (2005)
  • 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)
  • Hearts of Iron IV (2016)
    • (2016)
    • (2017)
    • (2018)
    • (2019)
    • (2020)
    • (2020)

The Civilization series[]

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

The Making History series[]

The World Conqueror series[]

  • (2011)
  • (2012)
  • (2015)
  • (2017)


Other grand strategy and alternate history games[]

Massive Multiplayer Online Tactical Strategy Game (MMOTSG)[]

  • NavyField (2005)
  • Blitz 1941 (2009)

Board games[]

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

References[]

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  5. ^ ru:Противостояние (серия_игр)#«Противостояние_3» / «Sudden_Strike»
  6. ^ "V tylu vraga: Diversanty 2 for Windows (2006)".
  7. ^ Soldiers: Heroes of World War II#Spin-offs
  8. ^ ru:В тылу врага 2: Братья по оружию
  9. ^ "V tylu vraga: Diversanty 3 for Windows (2008)".
  10. ^ Soldiers: Heroes of World War II#Spin-offs
  11. ^ Mehdi, Khosrow-Pour (31 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (3d ed.). IGI Global. p. 3071. ISBN 978-1-4666-5889-9. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

See also[]

  • List of video games
  • Video game genres
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