Games like Making History: The Great War
If Making History: The Great War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game and Hearts of Iron IV — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its detailed province level improvements, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Making History: The Great War: The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.
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Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Top pick for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Second-strongest match for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
Hearts of Iron IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Third-strongest match for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Making History: The Second World War
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Ranked #4 for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.
Making History II: The War of the World
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Ranked #5 for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?
Unity of Command II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Ranked #6 for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Panzer Corps Gold
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Making History: The Great War.
Ranked #7 for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
The ultimate edition of Panzer Corps, containing hundreds of scenarios and all its expansions. Panzer Corps Gold is the culmination of the wargame that has enthralled millions of fans all around the globe, and now it’s your chance to fully experience a real classic.
Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Making History: The Great War.
Ranked #8 for Making History: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.
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Making History: The Second World War
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Great War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.
Hearts of Iron IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Great War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Total War: WARHAMMER II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Great War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
Supreme Ruler The Great War
WHY THIS
Shares trench warfare simulation and an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Great War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. BattleGoat Studios invites you to travel back to 1914 and select from more than 50 playable regions at the onset of World War I, as European powers struggle to survive and new technologies transform warfare.
Tiny Civilization
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Making History: The Great War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Great War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Making History II: The War of the World
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Great War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Great War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?
Toe-tal War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Making History: The Great War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Toe-tal War is a platformer where you kill people with your foot smell. Run and jump to make your feet smelly, change your shoes and socks to control the smell — then get close to enemies and stink them to death.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Making History: The Great War at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Making History: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Making History: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Making History: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The Great War.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Making History: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Making History: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Making History: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Making History: The Great War
- How much does Making History: The Great War cost?
- Making History: The Great War is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Making History: The Great War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Making History: The Great War supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Making History: The Great War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Making History: The Great War are Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game, Hearts of Iron IV.
- Who developed Making History: The Great War?
- Making History: The Great War was developed by Muzzy Lane Software, Factus Games and published by Factus Games.
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