Best Wargame Games on Steam
Detailed conflict simulations emphasizing orders, units, terrain, and historical tactics.
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1Totally Accurate Battle Simulator - Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Apr 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- build and play with around 200 custom units you design yourself.
- set an "unkillable" custom hero against 200 peasants and still lose because they fall into the water.
- directly control a unit mid-battle and steer one wobbling fighter through the chaos up close.
- make a custom unit like Santa who dual-wields fish, throws magic spears, and summons boulders onto enemies.
- hit start and watch one dragon wipe out an entire army in about four seconds.
- hunt for secret units hidden around maps like a scavenger hunt, then add them to your battles.
- treat the campaign like a coin-budget puzzle where you keep swapping between swarms and a few expensive heroes until something works.
- spawn random armies, then add one extra unit after each fight to see how a single change flips the outcome.
2Total War: WARHAMMER II - The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.
Sep 28, 2017
In this game, you can…
- get ambushed, eat a tactical nuke minutes into the fight, then rebuild your entire battle line mid-chaos and still win.
- lead an army of thousands of rats with poison bombs, lightning cannons, and rapid-fire guns that can erase units fast.
- play on a stitched-together mega-map where every race from both games is in one campaign with wildly different starting situations.
- race other empires to complete world-shaking rituals, then hold off enemy counterattacks long enough to finish yours.
- set up a chokepoint defense where one perfect position and timed spells lets you beat multiple elite armies at once.
- send a single hero into the front line to fight whole groups alone, then swing the battle with healing or devastating magic.
- slam cavalry into a line hard enough to rip it open, then follow up with hydras, dragons, and phoenixes to finish the collapse.
- pull 10,000 gold from a shipwreck, drop it straight into new buildings, then use the upgrade to launch your next conquest.
3This War of Mine - In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Nov 14, 2014
In this game, you can…
- peek through keyholes, steal unseen, and hear the owners realize their medicine or food is missing.
- walk in on a soldier cornering a starving girl, intervene, kill him, take his gun, and limp home badly wounded.
- kill someone in panic, hear nearby civilians scream "You killed him!", and watch your own survivors spiral into depression or leave.
- spend the day patching walls, building beds, cooking, and keeping everyone alive until night lets you risk a supply run.
- choose one survivor to sneak into a random ruined location at night with a strict time limit and barely any bag space.
- have your shelter raided at night, then wake up to missing supplies and wounded survivors if nobody stood guard.
- jump an armed man from the shadows, stab him silently, grab his gear, and then get shot while trying to escape.
- get an endgame epilogue that tells who survived, who deserted, and who broke after you finally make it to the end.
4Tabletop Simulator - Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
Jun 5, 2015
In this game, you can…
- load almost any board game from the Workshop and play it online with friends.
- build huge 3D dungeons and battle maps, then run a full tabletop campaign remotely.
- import your own images, decks, and 3D models, then playtest a custom board game you designed.
- flip the entire table and send every piece flying.
- shuffle, deal, and hide card hands like you're actually holding physical cards.
- automate setup, scoring, and cleanup so a modded game mostly runs itself.
- save a table exactly as it is, reload it later, and even move components between different games.
5Besiege - Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Feb 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- stack millions of bombs under a rocket, set them off, and get launched kilometers into the air as burning debris rains down.
- build a self-stabilizing VTOL airship with 12 missiles, turrets, a cargo bay with doors, a cockpit view, and jet boost.
- build a catapult to launch a boulder, then watch the boulder launch the catapult and still win.
- build a spiked go-cart, then keep escalating into catapults, flying machines, and other siege contraptions.
- plant a bladed windmill on a post and let incoming birds fly into it.
- use hinge parts as tank tracks and roll a handmade tank across the battlefield.
- create a walking robot with cannon arms, a flamethrower mouth, and a helicopter head that still moves and fights.
- turn on god powers to ignite anything, drag machines around, switch to zero gravity, and make builds invincible for testing.
6Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm - Contains full Rising Storm content as well!
Sep 13, 2011
In this game, you can…
- operate a tank with other players in separate crew roles, then swap seats mid-fight when a crewman goes down.
- call recon planes and coordinate mortars, howitzers, rockets, and smoke marks so the whole team can cross a killing zone.
- sprint a flamethrower to a trench, crawl under machine-gun fire for minutes, then flood the position with fire.
- drop a sprinting soldier at 200+ meters with a basic bolt-action rifle.
- get your vision washed out and your aim rattled just from bullets snapping past your cover.
- look around inside a tank after a blast and realize a crew position is suddenly empty, then keep fighting down a man.
- fight through bunker tunnels with a revolver, win a close-range duel in a cramped passage, then finish the holdouts with a grenade.
- hold your fire in a shell crater, control your breathing to aim, and only shoot when the target moves because a miss can get you killed.
7DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS - Become immersed in exhilarating battles as a nameless hero in the Three Kingdoms
Jan 16, 2025
In this game, you can…
- wade into armies that fill the screen and cut down thousands of soldiers.
- use weapons with their own gimmicks, like throwing wheels, recalling them, then perfect-launching the return hit for a damage bonus.
- order bodyguards to attack, defend, charge, or form up, then push an objective by fighting inside your own moving formation.
- ride across a living battlefield, plug weak flanks, and watch morale swings change how hard the whole fight gets.
- perfect-parry an enemy officer, dodge-cancel their follow-up, and turn a would-be ambush into a clean counterkill.
- trigger a one-on-one duel with a dangerous officer in the middle of the wider battle, then jump back into the frontline chaos.
- build Bravery by attacking and parrying, then spend it on Battle Arts you can swap mid-fight for huge, hard-hitting moves.
- reshape a battle with tactics like spear walls, fire arrows, boulders, ladders, and grand maneuvers that change how the map plays.
8Holdfast: Nations At War - Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!
Mar 5, 2020
In this game, you can…
- drift away in a stolen lifeboat while a violinist plays, then get run over by a huge enemy ship.
- play a violinist on a warship to boost allies.
- win a fight by beating someone to death with a frying pan while yelling fix bayonets.
- join 150+ player battles on land and at sea.
- load cannons, repel boarders, and fight ship-to-ship battles in the same round.
- watch half the server blast songs over voice chat, then still pull off a coordinated charge.
- carry a flag into an enemy fort, wave it around inside, and survive long enough to sprint back out.
- have the whole match agree to put weapons away and hold a spontaneous fistfight duel
9Bad North: Jotunn Edition - Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.
Nov 16, 2018
In this game, you can…
- line shieldmen up sideways to a boat so arrow knockback physically shoves the ship and enemies into the water.
- hold a hill choke point with pikemen so attackers hit a spear wall and can get shoved into the sea.
- unlock commander powers like mines, bombs, reinforcements, and gold income, then build each leader into a specialist.
- watch longboats approach while you study the island map and commit your tiny squads before the landing hits.
- bait axe throws with shieldmen, pull them back, and let the attackers walk into pikemen waiting behind.
- hit slow-motion command mode to redirect squads between landings while they keep fighting on their own.
- turn terrain into a weapon by pinching enemies, forcing them off cliffs, and driving them into the sea.
10Easy Red 2 - Experience massive battles with infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on large destructible open-world maps. Equip yourself, coordinate with your squad, and fight through World War II in singleplayer, co-op, or multiplayer!
Jan 6, 2022
In this game, you can…
- swap into a different squadmate when you die instead of respawning.
- steal or pilot a plane, use it to destroy a tank, parachute out, then keep pushing on foot.
- build your own battles in an editor by importing heightmaps and real-world terrain data, then watch the AI fight over it.
- call in artillery as a squad event where someone requests it, you drop coordinates, then choose AP, HE, or smoke.
- crank unit counts so maps turn into huge battles packed with infantry, tanks, planes, and explosions.
- rush in as a medic, pick the correct treatment for the wound, then drag injured soldiers to safety.
- scavenge mid-fight by looting ammo, bandages, helmets, and weapons off bodies to fit whatever role you need next.
- disable a tank by shooting its tracks, plant dynamite on it, then finish it off when it's stuck.
