Games like Command: Northern Inferno
If Command: Northern Inferno is your kind of game, the closest matches are Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY, Wargame: Red Dragon and Regiments — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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 Command: Northern Inferno: Command: Northern Inferno is a stand-alone game that uses the latest version of the Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations (CMANO) engine. Do you have what it takes to stand up to Soviet/WP forces and avert Armageddon?
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Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
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Shares an immersive mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Top pick for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is the ultimate military simulator for modern military conflicts. Designed with a huge emphasis on detail, realism, accuracy and flexibility, Command allows you to simulate and direct any historical or hypothetical air or naval engagement from 1945, at any scale, including strategic nuclear war.
Wargame: Red Dragon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Second-strongest match for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Regiments
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Third-strongest match for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.
First Strike
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Ranked #4 for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Supreme Ruler Ultimate
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Ranked #5 for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!
Polaris Sector
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Ranked #6 for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
Sub Command
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Ranked #7 for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Command: Northern Inferno.
Take charge of the most deadly modern-day submarines in the world - three distinct submarines across two unique and challenging campaigns. Utilize cutting-edge sensor and weapon technology to locate, track and destroy the enemy - even deliver Tomahawk missiles to inland targets.
Wargame: Airland Battle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Ranked #8 for Command: Northern Inferno fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
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Steel Division 2
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Shares an immersive mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Reviewers of Command: Northern Inferno cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
Close Combat - Gateway to Caen
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Reviewers of Command: Northern Inferno cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Close Combat: Gateway to Caen is a great release in the critically-acclaimed Close Combat series. Gateway to Caen focuses on the largest, concentrated British offensive since the Normandy landings in an attempt to penetrate the German lines west of Caen and cross the Odon River to get the stalled advance moving again.
Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Reviewers of Command: Northern Inferno cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is the ultimate military simulator for modern military conflicts. Designed with a huge emphasis on detail, realism, accuracy and flexibility, Command allows you to simulate and direct any historical or hypothetical air or naval engagement from 1945, at any scale, including strategic nuclear war.
Beware of the Blob
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Reviewers of Command: Northern Inferno cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Eat people and craft limbs in this third-person puzzle exploration game. You'll need brains, arms, lungs, and more to escape from Black Hawk Industries HQ in one piece.
Harpoon
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Reviewers of Command: Northern Inferno cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Top Down Shooter, a game where the player will have to dive into the endless depths of the sea as a diver and face thousands of predatory marine life, shooting back at them, pumping their weapons and equipment, gaining points and passing more and more, setting new records!
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Command: Northern Inferno.
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!
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
One-armed robber
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.
Battle for Wesnoth
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Command: Northern Inferno.
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.
Maelstrom
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Command: Northern Inferno.
Command the seas in Maelstrom! Engage in fast-paced naval battles with powerful warships and colossal sea monsters. Customize your fleet and dominate the Abyssal Ocean. Are you ruthless enough to survive?
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Command: Northern Inferno.
Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of the Antilles!
Tactical Monsters Rumble Arena
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Command: Northern Inferno.
Are you ready to RUMMMBLE?
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Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: Northern Inferno. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is the ultimate military simulator for modern military conflicts. Designed with a huge emphasis on detail, realism, accuracy and flexibility, Command allows you to simulate and direct any historical or hypothetical air or naval engagement from 1945, at any scale, including strategic nuclear war.
Command: Chains of War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: Northern Inferno. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
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Command: Shifting Sands
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Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: Northern Inferno. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Shifting Sands traces the history of many Arab-Israeli conflicts: from the sidelines of the Suez crisis, through the lightning Six-Day War, the guerilla-like War Of Attrition and the strategic surprise of the Yom Kippur War, all the way to the historic Osirak raid and the epic air battle over the Bekaa Valley.
Command: The Silent Service
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: Northern Inferno. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Submarine warfare from post-WW2 to the present day! Lay mines, strike land targets with cruise and ballistic missiles, creep up to surface ships to take hull shots undetected, sniff sensitive electronic emissions, tap undersea communications cables, covertly deliver special-forces teams ashore, and of course hunt down anything on the sea...
Command: Desert Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Command: Northern Inferno.
Another title from WarfareSims, the studio behind Command: Northern Inferno. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Northern Inferno.
Command - Desert Storm is a new DLC release for Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations. Fourteen historical & hypothetical campaign scenarios plus a bonus contemporary standalone scenario cover the major actions that marked the conflict, allowing you to explore the events that happened - and the ones that could easily have.
Frequently asked about Command: Northern Inferno
- Does Command: Northern Inferno work on Steam Deck?
- Command: Northern Inferno is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- What games are most similar to Command: Northern Inferno?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Command: Northern Inferno are Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY, Wargame: Red Dragon, Regiments.
- Who developed Command: Northern Inferno?
- Command: Northern Inferno was developed by WarfareSims and published by Slitherine Ltd..
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