Games like Making History: The Second World War
If Making History: The Second World War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Panzer Corps 2, Oriental Empires and Millennia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and immersive. 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 Second World 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.
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Panzer Corps 2
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Shares a contemplative mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Top pick for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Second World War.
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
Oriental Empires
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Second-strongest match for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
Millennia
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Third-strongest match for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Second World War.
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Old World
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Ranked #4 for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Second World War.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Making History: The Great War
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Ranked #5 for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World 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.
WarPlan
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Shares a retro mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Ranked #6 for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
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
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Ranked #7 for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Second World War.
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Unity of Command II
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Ranked #8 for Making History: The Second World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World 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.
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Hearts of Iron IV
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Second World War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Second World 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.
A Total War Saga: TROY
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The Second World War.
Reviewers of Making History: The Second World War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Second World War.
Inspired by The Iliad and brought to life through the award-winning strategy game series, A Total War Saga: TROY brings a blend of grand, turn-based empire management and spectacular real-time battles to the heart of the Trojan War.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Making History: The Second World War at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The Second World 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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Second World War.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Making History: The Second World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Second World War.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
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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 Second World 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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World 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 Second World 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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Making History: The Second World War.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Making History: The Second World War
- Does Making History: The Second World War work on Steam Deck?
- Making History: The Second World War is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Making History: The Second World War cost?
- Making History: The Second World War is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Making History: The Second World War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Making History: The Second World War supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Making History: The Second World War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Making History: The Second World War are Panzer Corps 2, Oriental Empires, Millennia.
- Who developed Making History: The Second World War?
- Making History: The Second World War was developed by Factus Games.
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