24 Best World War Games on Steam

War for the Overworld is a great Real-Time Strategy, management and a Fantasy-based video game by Subterranean Games. The game lets you be an Underlord who lives Underground and is destined to build Dungeons with traps and an underground lair for defense purposes. The only task of the game is to save the underground world from the Overlord heroes with the help of a huge army of Minions. Your best strategies and management skills are the things that can guarantee your safety along with the minions. You must train the Minions to mine and collect different materials as the resourced build defenses and protect your keep against the wrath of the Overlord Heroes. War for the Overworld is a great RTS, Management and Fantasy video game to play and enjoy.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II combines the Tactical Role-playing, and Real-time Strategy elements developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. It takes place in the fictional Universe of Warhammer 4K and serves as the sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War game. There are different playable armies available for players such as Tyranids, Space Marines, Eldar, and Orks. The game offers the differ gameplay from its previous title and expansion pack. It has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and the player has to choose his favorite class to get into the world where he has to lead his team to destroy the enemy bases while trying to defend his own. Using customization, the player can design his player character, recruit his army and lead it on the battlefield against enemies. A massive arsenal of weaponry can be used during combat and can upgrade them using points that the player won by completing multiple tasks. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II offers core features such as Brutal Frontline Action, Non-Linear Gameplay, Single-player Campaign, Co-op Multiplayer, and more. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay and smooth controls, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is the incredible game to play and enjoy.

Bomber Crew mixes the Management, World War II, Survival, Action and Flight Simulation elements developed by Runner Duck and published by Curve Digital. The game takes place in the thrilling world and enables you to prepare your team for most dangerous missions where you will face the enemies. In the beginning, you have to train and customize your Bomber Crew using a variety of accessories and items. Skills, back stories, and procedurally generated names offer the unique experience for the player, be careful, the game features the permanent death system. During the flight, you have to manage fuel, hydraulics, ammo, and more to survive in the brutal environment. It brings fast-paced strategy gameplay with high-risk expedition where dangers can come from everywhere. In the game, bad weather, enemy fighter, low oxygen, and flak guns await when the wheels of your fighter are up. Bomber Crew includes prominent features such as Get Ready for War, lots of Missions, Fast-paced Strategy, Flight Simulation, Choose your Crew, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods is a Downloadable Content Pack for the original title Crusader Kings II and serves as the 4th expansion pack in the Role-playing and Strategy game developed by Paradox Development Studio. In DLC Pack, you can play as the Zoroastrian or Pagan leader, with little focus on the Viking. Play as the Pagan and effort to conquer your weak neighbors, loot their resources and claim their lands to expand your empire to progress. In the game, you starts the game with landless character, who must gather forces, create realm, and defend it from others while fighting small realms and conquer them to unlock additional content. The game mainly focuses on grand strategy elements and supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes. It features various historical figures such as Charlemagne, Harold Godwinson, and more. It has an education and genetics system where the children will inherit many religion, traits, and more. With addictive gameplay, smooth controls and superb mechanics, Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods is the best game to enjoy.

Stellaris is a Grand Strategy, 4K, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game offers a thrilling gameplay centers on resource management, space exploration, establishing an empire, diplomacy and spacefaring civilizations. It mixes the RTS (Real-time Strategy), and space exploration elements and takes place in the Sci-fi-themed world focuses on space in the future 2200. In the start of the game, the player controls a strange species in the beginning level of space exploration, right after the invention of FLT (Faster-than-light) ship technology. In the game, the player manages a ship, including building, science, and military vessels. There is only a single planet in the start of the game offers a single science ship, a construction ship, and three small warships to progress. The player needs to establish his empire, recruit his force, and effort to battle spacefaring enemies and more to score the points and use them to unlock additional content. With detailed features, improved gameplay, and wonderful controls, Stellaris is the incredible game for space lovers.

Making History: The Great War mixes the elements of Grand Strategy, World War I, Turn-based and Simulation developed by Muzzy Lane Software and published by Factus Games. The game features several independent nations and lets the player select one of them to jump into the battle. Each nation has its unique units, strategies and more. During the game, the player must deal with economy, military, citizens and more. Create his mighty armies and can command them during the war to take over the nation for resources and useful goods. The player can control air, water, and land units to attack enemies and can earn points to unlock further content to enjoy. He can trade with others, buy and sell goods and expand his nation to become the giant. There are more than 275 nationalities available with unique model sets. After earning enough points, the player can upgrade his empire, weapons, units and more. Making History: The Great War includes prominent features such as Build Trenches, Choose the Nation to Conquest Colonies, Destroy Enemy Defenses, lots of Weapons and more. Try it out.

Day of Defeat is a Multiplayer First-person Shooter, and Action-Adventure video game published by Activision and developed by Valve L.L.C. The game centers on team-based gameplay and takes place in the fictional Europe theater of WWII. It has no Single-player campaign, with features left only multiplayer aspects. It offers the team and objective-based gameplay with a system of classes. There are two different factions such as The Allies and the Axis Powers. To get into the world, you can join either the Axis or Allied armies, including both Britain and the United States. Get into your role, start exploring the world and attempts to fulfill your missions to earn points. The game unlocks further content in the game world, as you advanced. Use military-based weapons and vehicles during the game and immerse yourself in shooting gameplay experience. New Weapons, massive Maps, Upgrades, Detailed Environment, etc. are the core features in the game. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Turtle Rock Studios and published by Valve Corporation. It is a follow-up to Counter-Strike video game and features Multiplayer Mode, updated Character Models, Maps, Textures, Single-player Campaign and more. The game lets you assume the role of the protagonist who is a part of military and revolves around his struggle to fight against terrorist to save his world. You can explore the environment from first-person perspective and use a variety of military-based weapons such as machine gun, sniper rifle, a pistol, grenades, rocket launcher and more. There are a series of missions available and the game features up to twelve new missions in Single-player campaign. You can navigate open world environment and can compete against other players around the globe in Multiplayer mode. As the game progresses, other features, weapons and content will be unlocked. You can collect power-ups and ammo during exploration and can upgrade your weapons using experience points. Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is the best game as compared to other FPS games.

Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign is a Turn-based Strategy, WWII, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by 2×2 Games. The game revolves around between two factions such as German and Russia. In the beginning, you play as German and your ultimate task is to assume the role of the commander, lead your army through a variety of levels and attack enemy in turn-based combat. The game takes place in the World War 2 during 1942 to 1943. Lead your army and attempts to destroy against army using a variety of weapons and strategies. Defend your units, and try to eliminate the soldiers of against team to win the match. The game rewards you with points as you win and you can use these points to upgrade your army, units and weapons. Progress through the game and expand your units further and further and conquer the entire land to become the master. Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign is the wonderful game as compared to other Turn-based Strategy games.

Darwinia is an Action, Real-time Strategy, War and Single-player video game created by Introversion Software. The game takes place in the randomly generated world populated with AI (Artificial Intelligence). It combines the elements of Puzzle, god games, and strategy. You can get into the role of the protagonist, and you can run multiple programs similar to units used in RTS games. You must lead your army, research and upgrade weapons and fight against foes and virus. The game includes a series of objectives and different scenarios. Explore the game world, complete levels, earn experience points and destroy harmful viruses. Unlock other features, weapons, and levels using your points and dominate the computer world. The ultimate task is to fend off virus, spam e-mails by destroying your programs. The game is played from a top-down perspective. It offers fast-paced gameplay and lets you immerse yourself in RTS experience. With detailed environment, exciting gameplay, superb soundtracks, and brilliant controls, Darwinia is the best game to play and enjoy.

Battle of the Bulge is a Turn-based, Strategy, WW2, Tactical and Single-player video game developed by Shenandoah Studio and published by Slitherine Ltd. The game takes place in WWII environment and invites to you control the protagonist named Axis or the team to dominate the snow battlefields. It offers turn-based strategy gameplay in which you must lead your forces and command them to take over important locations, secure supply routes, and fend off enemies by destroying your bases. It has challenging levels filled with complex tasks you must complete each one at any cost to earn points. Different scenarios included in the game that you enjoy. Battle of the Bulge includes core features such as Retina Graphics, Play against AI or Friends, Fast Turn-based, Quick Start Guide, Online Strategy and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Day of Defeat: Source is a Military-themed, First-person Shooter, and Team-based Multiplayer video game created and published by Valve Corporation. The game takes place in the World-War II-themed world, the Europe in 1944 and is a remake of Day of Defeat. It revolves around between two factions such as the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht and introduces six different character classes to select and play. The main objective of the player to choose his faction and character to get into the world where he can encounter lots of players all over the world, create his alliance with other players and can battle against each other in different modes using military equipment, weapons and vehicles. The game includes a variety of weapons and engage the player into shooting experience. Work together and take down other factions throughout the game to earn experience points and use them to unlock further content or upgrade your character. It offers an open environment and lets the player to use advanced weapons to take down your enemies while collecting power-ups and experience. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb graphics, Day of Defeat: Source is the best game to play and enjoy.

Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars is a Downloadable Content Pack for original game. The game introduces the final years of the Empire of French and revolves around their struggle to conquer the Western Europe to become the super power in the early nineteenth century. The game combines the elements of Action Role-playing, Historical, Strategy, Tactical and Shooter. It supports multiplayer mode and allows you select your nation and take part in invasion of Russia and battle the French from the front line. Lead your army, use weapons to conquer your enemies and participates in sword fights. It includes nineteenth century uniforms, weapons and environments. There are lots of other players like you around the world with the same task to dominate the battlefield. Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars offers core features such as Massively Multiplayer Battles, Five different Nations, Three Hundred Thirty unique Units, and a variety of Weapons, Resources, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Hearts of Iron IV is an Action, Strategy, War, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Paradox Development Studio. The game is centered on WWII, and features various nations and lets the player choose one of them in 1936 or 1939 and leads his army to win. There are three major powers such as the Axis, the Comintern, and the Allice. Lead your nation, make strategies, and fight against other nations using weapons and win the battle.

The game rewards the player with experience points that can unlock further content. Protect your units on land, sea, and air and take down enemies. Hearts of Iron IV offers core features such as Total Strategic War, Control any Nation, Online Combat, Control Planes, Tanks, etc. With a detailed environment, impressive gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Hearts of Iron IV is a superb game to play.

Ultimate General: Gettysburg combines the elements of Strategy, Military and War developed and published by Game-Labs. The game takes place in the fictional world and includes various nations to play and enjoy. It focuses on the tactical battle and lets the player select his nation and start to fight against other faction. Lead thousands of soldiers during the war and command them to attack other nation. Make the strategies, explore the massive map, protect sea, land and air units. Complete a series of challenging missions and prove himself as the best commander. It rewards the player with reputation points as progress and can use these points to unlock further content in the game. Control aircraft, ships and land armies to fend off enemies. The game lets the player to play solo in the single-player campaign against AI and can play against other players in multiplayer mode. Ultimate General, Multiday Battle, Easy Controls, Detailed Map, Advanced Line, Tactical Factors, Historical Scenarios, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.

Defcon is a Real-time Strategy and Multiplayer video game developed by Introversion Software. The game takes place in the vector graphics of old computer themed the world and offers a variety of nuclear weapons. It comprises different nations and it allows you to select your nation and get into the game world where you have to destroy as much population of enemies as possible to score the highest points. Protect your land by defeating enemies and other players and gain experience points. The game rewards you with 2 points as you defeat your enemies and can lose one point as you lose or death in the game. There are different levels in the game and each level has its own time challenge. The game includes six different countries such as Latin America, Africa, North America, Russia, Europe and Asia. All countries contain over 1 billion population. It has a set of modes such as Offline mode, Diplomacy mode, Multiplayer mode as well as units. Nuclear missiles, aircraft, ships, and ground units are also features in the game. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

Verdun is a great Tactical, multiplayer Online First Person Shooter video game set in the World War 1 Era and offers a totally unique game-play experience that immerses you with the immensely blasting nature of the game. The game features historically accurate and quite realistic venues, WW1 weaponry other aesthetics that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time. Verdun pushes you right in the middle of the 1916’s infamous battle of Verdun, France and allows you to be part of a 32 player squad and tasks you to defend and capture a number of trenches in order to attack and kill the enemies.by using the WW1 era weaponry, tactics and courage you are required to complete the game objectives. Just like the above mentioned names, Verdun allows you to select your character from 4 main classes (Rifleman, Machine Gunner, NCO and Ganadier) and act according to the skill set of the selected player character. Verdun offers a great realistic World War1 experience, along with a wonderfully immersive game-play, Squad-based Warfare, a great setting, beautiful visuals and a lot of other great things. For an awesome FPS Multiplayer and Tactical experience, do try it out.

Empire: Total War is a Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics and MMO video game created by The Creative Assembly and Feral Interactive. The game is set in the Early Modern Period of 18th Century and allows you to choose a faction for yourself and dominate over the known world by the use of massive armies, diplomacy and economics. The turn based element of the game allows you to engage yourself in wars against the enemies in real-time. You can select any campaign and wage wars against your enemies through land and sea and use differently trained troop units. Empire: Total War lets you see and take part in some of the biggest wars of the history like American War of Independence, Battle of Fontenoy, Battle of Rossbach, Battle of Brandywine etc. Every campaign of the game allows you to build and manage your own settlement in which you can erect different structures, gather resources and train your troops etc. Multiplayer mode of the game allows you to make alliances with other online players and fight with your enemies with doubled strength and resources, defeat them and conquer their territories. Empire: Total War is a great Tactical MMO-RTS game to play and enjoy.

Total War: Rome 2 is an amazing Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game by The Creative Assembly, set in an alternative Historical setting of Rome. The game focuses basically on Real-time Combats, Battles and Faction-based conquering themes. With choices to select your character from a number of races, skill trees and experiences, Total War: Rome 2 allows you to be part of an enormously huge kingdom ranging from Spanish coasts to far-situated kingdoms of the east, get into a specific faction, lead your people, take part in epic wars, and show off your best commercial, statistical, military and democratic strategies and skills. Running whole kingdoms, making rules for the living, building cultures, controlling economies and constructing buildings, businesses etc. are the unique aspects of this wonderful game. Try it out and you’ll definitely feel like being part of the great Roman Empire.

Machines at War 3 by Isotope 244 is a great MMO-RTS and War based video game. The game lets you be a commander, command over a great number of military units, Military grade vehicles (Tanks, Humvees, Cruisers, Planes, choppers etc.) and make best strategies to either defend yourself against the enemies or to attack and conquer them. Machines at War 3 is played from a top down perspective and allows you to focus on every detail from above and manage it well. The game encourages you to attack and destroy most prominent enemy installations to disrupt their transport and operations. You can use heavy artillery, air strikes, battle ships and other available resources to conquer your enemies. The multiplayer gaming mode lets you be allies with your online friends and attack the enemy from multiple directions and with more power and force. Your Strategic, Diplomatic and Friendly relations with other settlements are the key elements in winning or losing the wars and expansion of your own lands, so you better be good at them in order to prove your supremacy and to dominate over the surrounding world. Machines at War 3 offers fantastic visuals, game-play and other characteristics.

Xenonauts is a Sci-Fi Turn-based Tactical-RPG and Strategy video game that offers a brilliant gameplay with similarities to XCOM series games. The game draws heavy inspiration from the Original X-Com and is set in Alternate timeline of Earth where you take on the role of the Commander of Xenonauts, an organization leading the resistance against the invasion. Your main task is to reorganize your army units, collect the funding for various projects, launch numerous missions to intercept enemy UFos and complete the game objectives by defeating the enemies and capturing all of their ships plus their base. Xenonauts offers similar mechanics to its predecessor and the original game of the series X-Com and allows you to enjoy leading epic missions against the enemies, show off your superior Tactical and Strategy skills, engage in epic combats and enjoy an immersive game-play. With all the refined aesthetics of X-Com, visually stunning and quite brilliant game-play plus the addictive nature, Xenonauts is a wonderful game to play.

Endless Legend by Amplitude Studios is a Turn Based 4x Fantasy MMO-RTS video game set in the land of Auriga and allows the players to dominate over the land by Exploration, Technology, Conquest, Wars, Diplomacy and Research. You can select your character from one of the eight main races/factions, multiple skill trees and unique characteristics. Endless Legend tasks you with expanding the kingdom of Auriga by using the above mentioned methods and once an area is seized, you can gather up resources and build new cities. The quests in the game can be unlocked by completing different tasks and every finished quests awards you with Dust, the game currency. Dust can be used to buy more upgrades and stuff that makes the game more interesting. Endless Legend with a wonderful Grid-based mechanics, turn based combats, amazing quests and characters, cool visuals and a brilliant game-play is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.

Expeditions: Conquistador is an epic Indie, Action-Adventure, MMO, Strategy and RPG video game by Logic Artists that takes you to an amazing era of 16th century and the Spanish explorers who reached the shores of America with the soldiers in search of gold, fame and adventures. This epic game will take you directly to the wilderness of where you’ll have to face Hunger, Harshest territorial difficulties, disease and dangerous creatures that you have never seen before. On this once home of the Aztec Empire, you’ll have to settle down, build structures, train armies, make diplomatic relations to the neighboring settlements and conquer the world that is still vacant and is filled with the epic loot. Expeditions: Conquistador lets you go against the native savages, kill them, loot their resources, go on epic quests to find the unimaginable goods, engage in battles with the natives and lay the bases of your superiority and your rule. Expeditions: Conquistador is an amazing MMO-RTS video game to play and enjoy.

Total War: Shogun 2 is a Real-Time Strategy and Tactical War-based MMO Video game by popular The Creative Assembly. The game is set in the 16th century in Japan and focuses on its Feudal system that came into existence after the Onin War during the era of Ashikaga Shogunate. The whole country got divided into various clans such as Chosokabe, Date, Hojo, Mori, Oda, Shimazu, Takeda, Tokugawa, Uesugi, Hattori, Iko-Iko and Otomo etc. led by fierce Warlords. The warlords started wars against each other to took the control into their hands and started governing over several parts of the country. You can select any clan that best suits you and start managing it by dominating over the other clans. To dominate you must start a mission campaign, Produce massive armies such as Ninjas, Geishas etc. grow your Economy by engaging in deep businesses and trade bounds, start researching and building new technologies in order to advance through the game. You must also strengthen up your economic and political sides too by the use of special agents. You can dominate over your enemies with the help of Turn by Turn game-play and better strategies. On the capture of any Kyoto or territory you must also dominate over your enemies by fighting against them in Realm Divide mode. You must eliminate head of clan who is fighting against you in Realm Divide to conquer and seize the resources. Every clan defeat in Realm Divide allows you to rule over that clan, their armies, resources and their territory as well and that means more power and fame amongst all other clans. Multiplayer gaming mode lets you make alliances with other online players to fight against any clan, win the battles and divide the resources and territory. Total War: Shogun 2 is a great RTS and tactical War Based MMO Video game to play and enjoy.