Free games like Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Crusader Kings II
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
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.
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Age of Conquest IV
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.
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Order of Battle: World War II
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Order of Battle: World War II is a breath of fresh air for all strategy fans. It is a game that takes wargaming to a new level by upgrading every single game element and rebooting the genre for a new generation of players.
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Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. And it is like none other. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy set in the merciless reality of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.
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CivIdle
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
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Demise of Nations
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.
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The Shadow Government Simulator: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition.
Shadow Government Simulator: Prologue is just part of the amazing adventure that awaits you in the full version of the game. A turn-based strategy game where you lead a secret society towards world domination. Investigate the influential and convert them to your faction via bribery, seduction & more