Games like Making History: The First World War
If Making History: The First World War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Imperiums: Greek Wars, Europa Universalis IV and HUMANKIND™ — 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 Making History: The First World War: A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles. Join the global conflict between the Great Powers of the age and forge a new world order for freedom or tyranny.
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Imperiums: Greek Wars
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Making History: The First World War.
Top pick for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!
Europa Universalis IV
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The First World War.
Second-strongest match for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
HUMANKIND™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Making History: The First World War.
Third-strongest match for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Making History: The First World War.
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Making History: The First World War.
Ranked #4 for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World 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.
Millennia
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Making History: The First World War.
Ranked #5 for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First 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.
Rogue State Revolution
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Shares a contemplative mood with Making History: The First World War.
Ranked #6 for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Making History: The First World War.
Ranked #7 for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Shares a contemplative mood with Making History: The First World War.
Ranked #8 for Making History: The First World War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
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Making History: The Great War
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Making History: The First World War.
Reviewers of Making History: The First World War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First 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.
Hearts of Iron IV
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Shares an immersive mood with Making History: The First World War.
Reviewers of Making History: The First World War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First 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.
Tiny Civilization
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Shares a contemplative mood with Making History: The First World War.
Reviewers of Making History: The First World War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Making History: The First World 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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Making History: The First World War at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~60% under Making History: The First World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The First World War.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Making History: The First World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The First 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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Making History: The First World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The First World War.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Making History: The First World War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Making History: The First World 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.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Making History: The First World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Making History: The First World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The First 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 ~68% under Making History: The First World War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Making History: The First 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?
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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 First 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.
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 First 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
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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 First 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
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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 First 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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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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 First World War.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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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 First World War.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
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Frequently asked about Making History: The First World War
- How much does Making History: The First World War cost?
- Making History: The First World War is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Making History: The First World War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Making History: The First 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 First World War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Making History: The First World War are Imperiums: Greek Wars, Europa Universalis IV, HUMANKIND™.
- Who developed Making History: The First World War?
- Making History: The First World War was developed by Factus Games.
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