Games like Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition
If Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Making History: The Great War, Making History: The Second World War and Making History: The Calm & the Storm — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep customization via editor, challenging 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 Calm and the Storm Gold Edition: Making History Gold Edition is the expanded and updated version of the original WWII grand strategy game Making History: Calm & the Storm. Command your nation and change the course of history.

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Making History: The Great War
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Top pick for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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.
Making History: The Second World War
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Second-strongest match for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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: The Calm & the Storm
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Third-strongest match for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
<p>Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.
WarPlan
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Ranked #4 for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
WarPlan is an incredibly accurate World War II simulation engine. It is a balance of realism and playability incorporating the best from 50 years of World War II board wargaming. Play a recreated World War II in every detail, thanks to the engine flexibility and database
Unity of Command II
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Ranked #5 for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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.
Making History II: The War of the World
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Ranked #6 for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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?
Panzer Corps Gold
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Ranked #7 for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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 II
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Ranked #8 for Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master.Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it.Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..
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Risk
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Draft! Attack! Fortify! Play the original game of strategy and world domination — now for your PC. Enjoy the classic look and fun of RISK in an exciting new interactive experience. Play two ways as you strategize over the map and set out to conquer the world.
Making History II: The War of the World
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Reviewers of Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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?
Making History: The Great War
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Reviewers of Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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.
Hearts of Iron IV
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Reviewers of Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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
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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.
Toe-tal War
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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.
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The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
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Crusader Kings II
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Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
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KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.
Age of Conquest IV
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Demise of Nations
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The Shadow Government Simulator: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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Frequently asked about Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition
- How much does Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition cost?
- Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition are Making History: The Great War, Making History: The Second World War, Making History: The Calm & the Storm.
- Who developed Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition?
- Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition was developed by Muzzy Lane Software and published by Factus Games.
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