Historical 2011 — top best games in the Historical genre

World of Tanks - a game in the Historical genre

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Historical, Tanks, Tactics

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 → 29 April 2021

Players: 3.8/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 78/100

An online simulator in which players control tanks in battles on various maps. You can choose from over 600 tanks from different countries and eras, each with its...

Assassin's Creed 2

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Historical, Open world, Parkour

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Mac → 9 March 2010

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Assassin's Creed 2 is a stealth action game with a third-person view. The game will take you to Florence during the Renaissance. Your hero, the assassin Ezio...

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 15 September 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is a multiplayer first-person shooter set in the Second World War. The game is a continuation of Ostfront 41-45, only with a...

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Historical, Open world, Parkour

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 → 29 November 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Assassin's Creed: Revelations is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. In this part of the series about the adventures of Ezio...

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Historical, Open world, Adventure

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 → 22 March 2011

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a stealth action game with a third-person view in a historical setting. The game takes place in Renaissance Italy. YOU play as a...

Total War: Shogun 2

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Historical, Turn-based, Grand strategy

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 15 March 2011

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Total War: Shogun 2 is a global strategy with turn-based movements on a global map and real-time battles. The end of the 19th century became a turning point in...

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

Strategy, Grand strategy, Historical

Game released: PC → 8 April 2011

Steam: 88/100

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is a grand historical strategy game spanning the period from the outbreak of the First World War to the onset of the Cold War...

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Historical, Point & Click

Game released: Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Nintendo DS, Wii, PC, iOS → 28 June 2012

Players: 6/10

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut - One of the all-time classic adventures, the multiple BAFTA nominated Broken Sword: Director's Cut takes...

The Cat and the Coup

Free game, Indie, Historical

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 → 15 June 2011

Steam: 93/100

This documentary game follows the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran’s first democratically elected prime minister, during the events surrounding the...

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Historical, Simulation, Arcade

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 → 30 August 2011

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 56/100

This arcade flight simulator stages aerial combat during World War I and World War II. Its seven campaigns, based on resistance movements of the Second World War...

Way of the Samurai 4

Adventure, Action, Japanese role-playing game, Historical

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC → 5 October 2012

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Set in a Japanese port town in the mid-19th century, this historical action-adventure with role-playing elements follows a masterless samurai in Amihama after the...

Stronghold Kingdoms

Online, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Free game, MMO

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS → 28 February 2012

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 56/100

Stronghold Kingdoms is a popular real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view. In this game you will become a ruler, on whose shoulders will fall great...

Panzer Corps

Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Sandbox

Game released: PC, Mac → 11 July 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Panzer Corps is a historical top-down turn-based strategy game. The game is dedicated to the Second World War, where you can play both a campaign for the Germans...

1942

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Historical

Game released: Amstrad CPC, BREW, Commodore 64, FM-7, Game Boy Color, J2ME, MSX, NES, PC-88, Wii, PC, Windows Mobile, ZX Spectrum → 1986

Players: 7.1/10

1942 is a dynamic top-down shooter with the ability to play together with a friend on the same screen. The year is 1942, you have to try on the role of a fighter...

Medal of Honor: Frontline

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: GameCube, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox → 20 December 2002

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

This first-person shooter set during World War II follows Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson as he infiltrates the German frontline. His mission is to steal the HO-IX, an...

Sengoku

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Historical, Simulation, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 13 September 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A character-driven strategy game about rival Japanese lords vying for power in 16th-century Japan during the Sengoku period. The player leads a nobleman seeking to...

Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends

Action, Fighting, Beat them all, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Slasher, Historical

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC → 18 November 2011

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 64/100

A standalone expansion to Dynasty Warriors 7, this historical action game combines beat ’em up and hack-and-slash elements with a third-person perspective. Dynasty...

Six-Guns

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Android, iOS → 12 November 2012

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Six-Guns — Buck Crosshow, a lone amnesiac outlaw, awakens in the Arizona desert and heads west in search of the nearest settlement. As he approaches the...

Pride of Nations

Strategy, Third-person view, Historical, Turn-based, Simulation, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 7 June 2011

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 46/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A turn-based historical grand strategy game about the rivalry of great powers during the 19th-century colonial era. The player leads one of eight countries through...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 4: Wall of Fire

Strategy, Isometric, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based

Game released: PC-98, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, SEGA 32X, SEGA Saturn, SNES, Wii, PC, Windows 3.x → 13 February 1994

A turn-based historical strategy game based on the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it follows rival Chinese rulers vying for power at the end of the Han...

Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy

Strategy, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Tactics, Online

Game released: PC, Mac → 17 May 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 76/100

Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy — The forces included in the game are troops and vehicles typical of the US Army, US Airborne Forces and German Army in...

Men of War: Vietnam

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Sandbox, Tactics

Game released: PC → 8 September 2011

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Men of War: Vietnam is a tactical isometric real-time strategy game set during the Vietnam War. In the game you will find two well-developed story campaigns, where...

Armageddon Squadron

Arcade, Action, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Top-down view, Historical

Game released: Android, bada, iPhone, Symbian, Zeebo → 23 December 2009

Armageddon Squadron is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, flight simulator and historical game from the masters from the Polarbit AB studio. The...

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover

Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 25 March 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 60/100

This World War II flight combat simulator is set in 1940, as British, German and Italian air forces fight for control of the skies over Britain. Players take part...

Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Historical, Indie

Game released: PC → 22 February 2011

Steam: 94/100

This real-time historical strategy game centers on warfare in ancient Greece. Campaigns unfold across a continuous map based on satellite data and cover a range of...

King Arthur: Fallen Champions

Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Turn-based, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 16 September 2011

Steam: 37/100

Metacritic: 54/100

This fantasy RPG strategy game follows three heroes whose paths cross in an ancient region of Britannia beyond the Forest of Bedegraine. Sir Lionel sets out to...

Hearts of Iron 3: For the Motherland

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Historical

Game released: Mac, PC → September 2011

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 100/100

Hearts of Iron 3: For the Motherland — The addition significantly improves the performance of the game, and also adds the ability to manage the partisan...

Nobunaga no Yabou: Tendou with Power-Up Kit

Strategy, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Grand strategy, Historical

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita → 17 December 2010

Steam: 81/100

Nobunaga no Yabou: Tendou with Power-Up Kit is a strategy game with an anime/manga twist from the masters at Tecmo Koei. The main publisher of the game is Koei...

iBomber Defense

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Historical, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: iPad, iPhone, Mac, PC → 17 November 2010

Steam: 76/100

iBomber Defense is a top-down strategy game with a historical twist from Cobra Mobile Limited. The main publisher of the game is Chillingo...

Europa Universalis 3: Divine Wind

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Historical

Game released: Mac, PC → 16 March 2011

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 71/100

An expansion for Europa Universalis 3, this historical strategy game focuses on governing states and vying for influence in the Far East. Players can take the role...

Theatre of War 3: Korea

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical

Game released: PC → 26 November 2010

Steam: 46/100

Metacritic: 49/100

Art of War: Korea is a historical real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view. The events of the game will tell about the Cold War conflict that erupted...

Revolution Under Siege

Historical, Strategy, Tactics, Top-down view, Turn-based, Simulation

Game released: PC → 20 July 2011

Steam: 70/100

Revolution Under Siege is a top-down historical game with strategy and tactical elements from Paradox France S.A.R.L. and SEP REDS. The game is published by Matrix...

Dynasty Warriors 7

Action, Strategy, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 → 29 March 2011

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Dynasty Warriors 7 is the first game in the series to expand beyond the Battle of Wuzhang Plains. Consequently, the Kingdom of Jin was added, bringing the total...

Red Orchestra 2: Digital Deluxe Edition

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Collection, Historical

Game released: PC → 30 August 2011

Red Orchestra 2: Digital Deluxe Edition is a first-person action game with a mixture of shooter and historical game from the developers of Tripwire Interactive. The...

BBC Battlefield Academy

Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Sandbox

Game released: iPad, Mac, PC → 14 March 2012

Steam: 84/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set across the fronts of World War II, where the player commands a group of troops through combat missions. Victory calls for...

Pride of Nations: Spanish-American War 1898

Strategy, DLC, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 18 July 2011

An historical strategy scenario for Pride of Nations, Pride of Nations: Spanish-American War 1898 covers the conflict between the United States and Spain. Beginning...

TripleA

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Turn-based, Tanks

Game released: Linux, Mac, PC → 22 July 2011

Steam: 81/100

TripleA is a top-down simulator with elements of strategy, business simulator, fantasy game, historical game and tank simulator. Sometimes the game is also called...

History: Great Battles — Medieval

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 6 May 2011

History: Great Battles — Medieval is an isometric strategy game with a touch of fantasy and history from the developers at Slitherine. The game is published...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Historical

Game released: iOS, Android → 4 October 2011

Players: 10/10

Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas is an isometric role-playing game with action and historical elements from developers at Disney Interactive Studios...

Pride of Nations: The Franco-Prussian War 1870

Strategy, DLC, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 6 September 2011

An add-on for Pride of Nations, centered on the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the fall of Napoleon III’s empire. In this turn-based scenario, Prussia and its...

Historical

Best Games in the Historical genre of 2011 (Game released)