Top-Rated Free Alternate History Games on Steam

25 free Alternate History games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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Chrono CCG - Players say: Build a deck of evolving agents, trade card plays with rivals, and shift persistent timelines to reshape turn-based battles. Players like: Strategic Card Combat · Timeline Shifts · Agent Transformations ·
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Chrono CCG is an indie game from genre veterans where time-traveling agents battle for control of history. Timelines shift mid-match, agents evolve, and deep strategy meets accessible play. For the community, by the community.

Relic Arena - Players say: Equip heroes with historical relics, shape their abilities, and outlast seven rivals in an eight-player autobattler. Players like: Creative Relic Builds · Strategic Depth · Fresh Match Variations ·
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Relic Arena is an 8-player free-to-play autobattler. Equip heroes with relics and build game-breaking combos, led by legendary historical figures.

World of Sea Battle - Players say: Captain a sailing ship in an open-world MMO, trading, fighting NPCs and players, upgrading vessels, and contesting ports. Players like: Tactical Naval Combat · Detailed Sea and Ships · Trading and Island Building ·
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Set sail in World of Sea Battle, an action-packed open-world MMO in the Golden Age of Sail! Command historic ships, battle in PvP & PvE, shape the economy, and engage in territorial guild wars in your quest for glory across the high seas!

Pawns of War - Players say: Build and equip a squad of armed Pawns, then defend a base through auto-battles and grid-based tactical missions. Players like: Detailed Pixel Art · Weapon Customization · Squad and Weapon Variety ·
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Dark parallel world in which humanity has destroyed itself. And only small colonies have survived the last centuries holding on to power at the expense of the totalitarian regime of government. You were thrown here after your death, is this how you were given a second chance?

Project Hailstorm - Players say: As part of an Antarctic recovery team, explore an abandoned dig site, solve simple environmental puzzles, and investigate a buried mystery. Players like: Immersive Atmosphere · Striking Visuals · Effective Sound Design ·
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Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Reverse: 1999 - Players say: As the Timekeeper, trace a reality-reversing Storm across 20th-century eras, rescue Arcanists, and fight with tactical skill cards. Players like: Story and Characters · Distinctive Art Direction · Voice Acting and Music ·
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Reverse: 1999 is a 20th Century Time-Travel Strategic RPG developed by Bluepoch. As the Timekeeper, the observer of eras, you will embark on a journey across time and space, from the Roaring '20s to the turn of the millennium, uncovering the truth about the "Storm" and the mystery of the year 1999.

Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue - Players say: Command a mecha squad behind enemy lines in a turn-based war campaign where terrain, damaged parts, and scarce supplies shape each fight. Players like: Tactical Combat · Mech Customization · Terrain and Positioning ·
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Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue is the proof of concept for the upcoming procedural turn-based mecha tactics RPG set in alternate 1970s Southeast Asia. In this prologue chapter, you'll get to experience combat, exploration, and the opening story of the game.

Saloon Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Rebuild a ruined Wild West saloon by cleaning, furnishing it, mixing drinks, cooking meals, and serving its customers. Players like: Western Atmosphere · Drink-Making and Cooking · Story and Quests ·
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Saloon Simulator Prologue lets you restore an abandoned Saloon and discover that managing it isn't just about creating drinks and meals. Clean up, organize, and choose the right friends - all to become the most recognizable business in the Wild West!

Birds Aren't Real: The Game - Players say: Play a government spy pigeon in an anti-bird city, flying, scanning residents, and disrupting conspiracists in comic missions. Players like: Silly Bird Humor · Spy Pigeon Premise · Cute Art Style ·
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Birds Aren’t Real is a 3D sandbox game with a comic twist.Based on the real-life satirical conspiracy theory, play as a government surveillance pigeon drone, using sneaky maneuvers and creative thinking to manipulate the citizens and dispel their suspicions about the government's avian task force.

South Scrimshaw, Part One - Players say: Follow a newborn Brillo whale through an alien ocean in a documentary-style visual novel with illustrated biology and field notes. Players like: Detailed Hand-Drawn Art · Imaginative Alien Biology · Documentary-Style Story ·
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South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.

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Jun 9, 2023
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Half-Earth Socialism - Players say: As humanity’s global planner from 2023, choose policies and projects to balance climate, resources, food, and political support. Players like: Thought-Provoking Ideas · Challenging Strategy · Engaging Resource Planning ·
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Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?

Babble Royale - Players say: Form words to connect with rivals and eliminate them in a 16-player battle royale, while the hot zone closes in. Players like: Word-Battle Mix · Fast Word Strategy · Fun With Friends ·
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Babble Royale is an intense multiplayer free-for-all that combines word-making skill with fast-paced tactical and strategic action. Earn money and collect loot to upgrade your abilities, outrun the deadly hot zone, and outwit or outlast all your opponents to have the Last Word!

Vedelem: The Golden Horde - Players say: Build a medieval frontier settlement, claim resource-rich land, and raise an army to withstand timed Mongol assaults. Players like: Mongol-Era Atmosphere · Simple RTS Building · Escalating Final Assaults ·
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Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?

Cloud Climber - Players say: As a lone climber in a water-starved world, explore towering ruins, uncover their history, and keep ascending toward the clouds. Players like: Distinctive Visual Style · Melancholy Atmosphere · Intriguing Premise ·
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A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.

I Am Your President: Prologue - Players say: Run a US presidency through branching dialogue, cabinet choices, and responses to world events while trying to win the election. Players like: ·
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I Am Your President: Prologue is a free narrative strategy simulator. Play as the previous US president, decide the fate of the world and run the country any way you like! Enjoy the unique storyline, make choices and carve your path to victory. Election Day is coming – can you secure your victory?

The Emperor's Own: Alpha Teaser - Players say: Play a young intelligence officer in an alternate 1803 empire, navigating unrest, combat, and choices with lasting consequences. Players like: Distinctive Premise · Political Atmosphere · Character Writing ·
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The Emperor’s Own is a story-driven adventure game with RPG elements, set in an alternate universe, inspired by the Russian Empire at the dawn of the 19th century. It features multi-dimensional characters, difficult moral dilemmas, and a mature, branching narrative.

Mr. Prepper: Prologue - Players say: In a surveilled dystopia, build a hidden bunker, gather scarce supplies, and keep inspectors from uncovering your plans. Players like: Secret Bunker Building · Evading Inspectors · Dystopian Premise ·
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Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.

TrenchesWIP - Players say: Fight across a deformable alternate-history battlefield, building defenses, gathering resources, and using guns, tanks, and planes. Players like: Fun Wave Defense · Offline Bot Matches · Promising War Setting ·
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Multiplayer combined-arms first-person shooter set in an alternate history. Build and upgrade bases, harvest resources, construct defenses, purchase weapons and vehicles to overcome the enemy!

Supremacy: 1914 - Players say: Lead a World War I nation, balance resources and armies, and use real-time diplomacy and conquest across multiplayer maps. Players like: Strategic Planning · Player Diplomacy · Long Campaigns ·
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Take over the control of one of the mighty nations during the times of World War 1 in the biggest WW1 strategy game of all time. Conquer provinces, forge alliances and build up your economy in real-time on persistent maps. Build experimental weapons of World War 1 and become the one true superpower!

SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3 - Players say: Lead a nation in a persistent World War III strategy match, balancing military research, economic growth, diplomacy, and conquest. Players like: Strategic Planning · Diplomacy and Alliances · Playing With Friends ·
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This Long Term Strategy Game lets you take control of the armed forces of your nation. Become responsible for its military expansion, technological research and economic development. Form alliances and wage total war for global dominance on the battlefields of World War 3.

Supremacy: Call of War 1942 - Players say: Lead a WWII nation in a persistent strategy campaign, balancing province conquest, military research, real-time movement, and diplomacy. Players like: Strategic Nation-Building · Player Diplomacy · Playing With Friends ·
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Take over the control of one of the mighty nations during the times of World War 2 in this persisting long-term strategy game. Conquer provinces, forge alliances and build up your economy in real-time. Research top secret weapons of World War 2 and become the one true superpower!

CAYNE - Players say: Pregnant Hadley wakes in a hostile research facility; explore its rooms, combine clues and tools, and solve puzzles to escape. Players like: Oppressive Sci-Fi Atmosphere · Grotesque Visual Design · Intriguing Story ·
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Hadley wakes in a facility. She is 9 months pregnant. They want her baby... CAYNE is the FREE, isometric horror game from the creators of STASIS.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising - Players say: Lead Soviet, Allied, or Imperial forces in postwar RTS campaigns, or control Yuriko in a solo dungeon-crawl story. Players like: Wild New Units · Commander’s Challenges · Distinct Faction Forces ·
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Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.

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Battlestations Pacific - Players say: Command U.S. or Japanese forces in Pacific War campaigns, directing fleets or taking control of ships and aircraft. Players like: Naval-Air Combat · Strategy Meets Action · Nostalgic Replay Value ·
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Experience one war through two epic sagas where you will be a part of history or change it. Feel the power of the historically authentic and decisive battles of the Pacific War. Relive some of the grandest and most critical naval battles of recent history and for the first time, choose to lead your fleet to a completely different ending...

Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 - Players say: Lead one of three factions in an alternate-history war, building bases and directing land, sea, and air forces in real time. Players like: Live-Action Cutscenes · Distinct Factions · Co-op Campaign ·
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The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia.