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

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

Players: 8.1/10

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...

World of Tanks

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

Game released: PC → 29 April 2021

Players: 3.8/10

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...

Humankind

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

Game released: PC → 17 August 2021

Players: 6.9/10

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...

This Land is My Land

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Strategy, Historical, First-person view, Online

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

Players: 7/10

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...

Patron

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

Game released: PC → 10 August 2021

Players: 5.7/10

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...

Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends

Free game, Arcade, Simulation, Historical

Game released: PC → 3 November 2021

Players: 8.8/10

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...

Call of Duty: Vanguard

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

Game released: PC → 5 November 2021

Players: 4.8/10

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...

Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

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

Game released: PC → 11 June 2021

Players: 8.4/10

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...

City of Gangsters

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

Game released: PC → 9 August 2021

Players: 8.9/10

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...

Hell Let Loose

Shooter, First-person view, Historical

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

Players: 7.6/10

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...

Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

Historical, Role-playing game, Stealth, Strategy, Tactics, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 18 May 2021

Players: 10/10

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...

Aircraft Carrier Survival

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

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

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...

War Mongrels

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

Game released: PC → 19 October 2021

Players: 9.8/10

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...

New World: Aeternum

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

Game released: PC → 28 September 2021

Players: 7.4/10

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...

Three Kingdoms: The Last Warlord

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Historical, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 4 February 2021

Players: 6/10

Three Kingdoms: The Last Warlord is an exciting strategy game with turn-based combat in the setting of ancient Japan. A completely new world of the Three Kingdoms...

Land of War - The Beginning

Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Adventure

Game released: PC → 10 June 2021

Players: 4/10

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...

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom

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

Game released: PC → 21 May 2021

Players: 9.8/10

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...

Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

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

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

Players: 8.3/10

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...

War on the Sea

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

Game released: PC → 2 February 2021

Players: 8.6/10

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...

Crusader Kings 3: Northern Lords

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

Game released: PC → 16 March 2021

Players: 9/10

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...

Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad

Strategy, Historical, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 September 2021

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...

Secret Government

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

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

Players: 7/10

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...

Sniper Elite VR

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

Game released: PC → 8 July 2021

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...

Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 8

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

Game released: PC → 12 January 2021

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...

Axis & Allies 1942 Online

Online, Strategy, Historical, Top-down view

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

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...

Hellish Quart

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

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

Players: 7/10

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...

Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation

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

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

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...

Arausio

Free game, Historical, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 22 June 2021

Arausio is a free-to-play, first-person adventure game in which you explore a faithful recreation of the ancient Theater of Arausio and uncover the mystery behind...

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

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...

Ghosts of War: Battle Royale WW2 Shooting games

Shooter, Historical, First-person view, Adventure, Online, Free game

Game released: PC → 26 October 2021

Players: 5.5/10

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...

Gladio and Glory

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

Game released: PC → 16 March 2021

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...

Crash Dive 2

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

Game released: PC → 2 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

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...

Field of Glory 2: Medieval

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

Game released: PC → 4 February 2021

Players: 7.7/10

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...

TryToKillMeAgain

Simulation, Adventure, Shooter, First-person view, Historical, Stealth, Tactics

Game released: PC → 13 December 2021

TryToKillMeAgain is an atmospheric killer simulator with a first-person view. Based on real events, you will have to recreate the historical murders of the most...

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Best Games in the Historical genre of 2021 for PC