Historical 2021 for PC — top best games in the Historical genre

Medieval Dynasty - a game in the Historical genre

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Action, Historical, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Survival, Construction, Crafting, Online

Early Access: PC → 17 September 2020; Game released: PC → 17 December 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Medieval Dynasty is a first-person action-adventure RPG set in an open world inspired by the medieval era. The main character is an ordinary poor man who has to...

Hell Let Loose

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

Early Access: PC → 6 June 2019; Game released: PC → 27 July 2021

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Hell Let Loose is a realistic first-person shooter set during World War II. You will take part in major and famous battles, recreated with unprecedented realism...

World of Tanks

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Call of Duty: Vanguard

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

Game released: PC → 5 November 2021

Players: 5/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Call of Duty: Vanguard — the continuation of the popular first-person shooter series Call of Duty. As in previous installments, the game features a story campaign...

Humankind

Business / Management, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Historical, Online, City Building

Game released: PC → 17 August 2021

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Humankind is a turn-based management strategy about the history of mankind. The game will allow you to rewrite the human past and create your own, unique...

Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

DLC, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Tactics, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 11 June 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 86/100

The addition tells about the battles on the Eastern Front during the Great Patriotic War. It will hold players from June 1941 to the end of the war in May 1945. The...

New World: Aeternum

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Historical, Open world

Game released: PC → 28 September 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A multiplayer action role-playing game set in an alternate universe during the era of American colonization. The game world is filled with strange creatures, dark...

Hellish Quart

Action, Fighting, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Indie, Side view, Arcade

Early Access: PC → 16 February 2021; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

Hellish Quart is a side-scrolling historical fighting game that focuses on realism and dueling with bladed weapons. A full-fledged dismemberment awaits you in real...

This Land is My Land

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Strategy, Historical, First-person view, Online, Survival, Open world

Early Access: PC → 20 November 2019; Game released: PC → 20 October 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 67/100

This Land is My Land is a dynamic stealth action game with a third-person view in the open world of the American Wild West. The main character is the leader of an...

Crusader Kings 3: Northern Lords

DLC, Strategy, In real time, Simulation, Historical, Top-down view, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 16 March 2021

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 63/100

Crusader Kings 3: Northern Lords is an expansion for the real-time global strategy game that will delight with new events and delve deeper into Scandinavian...

War on the Sea

Action, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines, Historical, Strategy, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 2 February 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 76/100

War on the Sea is a massive tactical strategy game in which you travel to the historic battlefields of World War II and lead your fleet to victory. The game offers...

Crash Dive 2

Warships / Submarines, Simulation, Tactics, Historical, Top-down view, First-person view, Stealth, Action

Game released: PC → 2 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Crash Dive 2 is a tactical simulator about submarines with historical elements and a first-person view. You have to hunt enemy convoys, combat destroyers, attack...

Samurai Warriors 5

Action, Slasher, Fantasy / Medieval, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 27 July 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Samurai Warriors 5 is a continuation of the samurai slasher film set in medieval Japan. The game takes place during the Onin Troubles during the Sengoku period. The...

Ephesus

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Historical, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 3 December 2021; Game released: PC → 17 February 2023

Steam: 51/100

The game takes place on the western coast of the Aegean Sea during the majestic Roman Empire. The main character is an adventurer named Hector Rem, who lives in the...

War Mongrels

Historical, Action, Strategy, Tactics, Adventure, Isometric, Cooperative (co-op), Stealth

Game released: PC → 19 October 2021

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 72/100

War Mongrels is an isometric real-time tactical strategy game set on the Eastern Front. The main characters are two Wehrmacht soldiers who decide to desert and join...

Land of War - The Beginning

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

Game released: PC → 10 June 2021

Players: 4/10

Steam: 53/100

Land of War — The Beginning is a historical first-person shooter set at the outbreak of World War II in Poland in September 1939, as well as other episodes...

Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

Historical, Role-playing game, Stealth, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based, City Building, Survival

Game released: PC → 18 May 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Siege Survival: Gloria Victis is a spin-off of the multiplayer role-playing game Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG. The game takes place in a castle besieged by...

Svoboda 1945: Liberation

Adventure, Historical, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 3 August 2021

Steam: 98/100

The story unfolds in a small village called Svoboda on the Czech-German border, where the main character arrives to investigate a long-standing conflict. However...

Patron

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Business / Management, Isometric, City Building, Survival

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 74/100

Patron is a real-time city-building simulator with management elements and an isometric camera view in a medieval setting. In the game you have to turn a small...

City of Gangsters

Business / Management, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Historical, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 9 August 2021

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 67/100

City of Gangsters is a management strategy game with an isometric camera view, where you create your own syndicate in the United States during the Prohibition era...

Opus Castle

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Free game, Exploration, Historical

Game released: PC → 9 November 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 60/100

Opus Castle is a free-to-play indie horror adventure game with a first-person view, based on the true story of a murder that took place in the Brazilian castle of...

Secret Government

Simulation, Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 15 April 2021; Early Access: PC → 22 June 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 52/100

Secret Government is a global turn-based strategy about secret societies, where you have to manage a powerful organization that influences the whole world. You will...

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Historical, Tactics, Indie, Tanks, Board / Group Game

Game released: PC → 21 May 2021

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 86/100

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom is a turn-based strategy game set in the Second World War. In the game, you will lead the Allied forces in two game campaigns...

Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends

Free game, Arcade, Simulation, Historical, Casual game

Game released: PC → 3 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 85/100

Cell to Singularity — Evolution Never Ends is a shareware original clicker game where you have to go through all the stages of the evolution of life on Earth...

Life is Feudal: MMO

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Survival, Historical

Early Access: PC → 12 January 2018; The project is closed: PC → 18 January 2021

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 34/100

Life is Feudal: MMO is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with a third-person view in a brutal and dark medieval setting. Together with other...

Ghosts of War: Battle Royale WW2 Shooting games

Shooter, Historical, First-person view, Adventure, Online, Free game, Battle Royale, Action

Game released: PC → 26 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 53/100

Ghosts of War: Battle Royale WW2 Shooting games is an adventure historical shooter with a first-person view. Legendary exciting battlefields with tanks, ships and...

Field of Glory 2: Medieval

Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Medieval era, Historical, Simulation

Game released: PC → 4 February 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in the High Middle Ages from 1040 to 1270. The game centers on the heyday of chivalry, when heavily armed horsemen in dense...

Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

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

Early Access: PC → 21 August 2020; Game released: PC → 24 September 2021

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 75/100

Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865) is a historical real-time global strategy game with an isometric camera view set during the American Civil War. The game...

Aircraft Carrier Survival

Simulation, Indie, Warships / Submarines, Strategy, Historical, Business / Management, Tactics, Side view, Isometric, Action, Survival

Early Access: PC → 5 February 2021; Game released: PC → 20 April 2022

Steam: 60/100

Aircraft Carrier Survival is a tactical simulator with elements of real-time management strategy, where you will act as the captain of an aircraft carrier during...

Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 8

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Tactics, Side view, Slasher

Game released: PC → 12 January 2021

Steam: 55/100

Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 8 is a tactical strategy game with RPG elements and an isometric view. Players can perform subtle operations with multiple generals on...

Warplane Inc

Side view, Flight Simulator, Historical, Simulation

Game released: PC → 8 June 2021

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 69/100

Warplane Inc is a historical flight simulator with a side view. Two fictional states begin hostilities. War and love are two interconnected storylines, like in a...

Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation

Strategy, Grand strategy, Indie, Historical, Simulation, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 1 September 2024; Early Access: PC → 17 August 2021

Steam: 85/100

Global turn-based strategy in the spirit of Sid Meier's Civilization. Unlike traditional strategy games, the game focuses on the complex social and political...

Casina: The Forgotten Comedy

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Comedy, Historical

Game released: PC → 27 May 2021

Steam: 76/100

A visual novel based on the eponymous Roman comedy. The action of the game takes place in Athens during the peak of Ancient Greece, where the beautiful Casina...

Gladio and Glory

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Indie, Free game, Online, Simulation, Slasher

Game released: PC → 16 March 2021

Steam: 91/100

Gladio and Glory is a free-to-play hardcore action sandbox with a third-person view, where you have one task — to kill the rest of the gladiators. You can...

Sands of Fire

Simulation, First-person view, Top-down view, Historical, Tanks, Old school

Game released: PC → 2 April 2021

Steam: 100/100

A tank simulator set during the North African campaign of World War II. The player commands a tank in battles where tactics and the choice of equipment help...

Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad

Strategy, Historical, Turn-based, Indie, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 10 September 2021

Steam: 89/100

Cauldrons of War — Stalingrad — a global historical strategy with turn-based battles in the setting during the Great Patriotic War. In the game you will...

Decision in the Desert

Strategy, Educational game (Education), Top-down view, Historical, Simulation

Game released: PC → 30 November 2021

Steam: 60/100

A real-time tactical wargame set during the North African campaign of World War II. The player commands either side and directs tanks, artillery, air support, and...

Sniper Elite VR

Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Virtual Reality (VR), Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 8 July 2021

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Sniper Elite VR is a sniper shooter with stealth elements in the popular Sniper Elite series of games for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index...

Axis & Allies 1942 Online

Online, Strategy, Historical, Top-down view, Board / Group Game

Early Access: PC → 31 July 2019; Game released: PC → 9 November 2021

Steam: 78/100

Axis & Allies 1942 Online is a top-down multiplayer historical strategy game based on the board game of the same name. In the game, you will develop your own...

Red Button

Free game, Strategy, Simulation, Indie, Business / Management, Grand strategy, Historical

Game released: PC → 15 October 2021

Steam: 82/100

Red Button is a free management strategy with turn-based battles where you can arrange a real nuclear apocalypse. The game takes place in a parallel universe in...

Historical

Best Games in the Historical genre of 2021 for PC