Historical Hidden Gems on Steam

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Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition represents a part of the full product. Get a taste of medieval battles in this free version of the acclaimed historical RTS! 4 SP missions and 17 MP maps are now available to everyone. Challenge friends, AI, or take part in our League that will start in March!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Feb 2018
Nantucket Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.

Price -87% 2.41€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Jan 2018
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XII with Power Up Kit "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 12 with Power Up Kit" is an expanded version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 12," which was released in 2012 as the 12th game in the series. The stage is set. Create the story.

Price 36.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 16 Jan 2018
Six Days of Snow In a small inn located in the snowy Japanese mountains, an unlikely relationship blossoms between a once-popular poet and the daughter of the inn's proprietress.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Dec 2017
Shadowhand: RPG Card Game Shadowhand is a strategic RPG card game. Duel powerful enemies in 18th Century England with unique solitaire-style turn-based combat. Equip your character strategically to sneak, slice and blast through foes!

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 Dec 2017
Romance of the Three Kingdoms X with Power Up Kit "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅹ with Power Up Kit" is an expanded version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅹ," which was released in 2004 as the 10th game in the series. In this release, the all-officer playable advances.

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Dec 2017
Easy Red The invasion has begun. Land by sea, launch from gliders, fight in the fields, in the beaches and in the skies. it is time to free France.[/b]

Price -87% 0.55€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Dec 2017
Gladiator School Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.

Price -31% 3.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Nov 2017
Attentat 1942 Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.

Price -13% 7.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Oct 2017
Engare Engare is a game about motion and geometry. Part puzzle game, part drawing tool, Engare is all about your geometric imagination. It’s a meditation on the dynamics of simple machines and the beauty buried deep within repeating motion.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Oct 2017
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX with Power Up Kit "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅸ with Power Up Kit" is an expanded version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅸ," which was released in 2003 as the 9th game in the series. RTK Ⅸ is a strategy based simulation game based in China's chaotic Three Kingdoms period.

Price 27.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Oct 2017
Computer Tycoon Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Price -17% 13.97€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Oct 2017
Field of Glory II Field of Glory II is a turn-based tactical game set during the Rise of Rome from 280 BC to 25 BC.

Price -99% 0.43€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Oct 2017
Bronze Age - HD Edition What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Sep 2017
SAELIG SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Jun 2017
Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China FLYING TIGERS: SHADOWS OVER CHINA is an air-combat action game based on the historical events of America’s secret volunteer squadrons that defended China against Japan in the China-Burma-India theatre of World War 2.

Price -77% 2.96€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 May 2017
SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada Struggle for survival. Death before surrender! Experience the dramatic story and epic, action-packed battles of the Sanada clan during Japan's Warring States period.

Price -36% 32.32€
Rating 8.0
Release 23 May 2017
One Dog Story One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.

Price -55% 4.56€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
The Price of Freedom You are Agent Zero. Your mission: assassinate Benjamin Miller, a radical who broke into CIA facilities and stole top secret chemical weapons research. Your mission quickly takes a dark turn as you learn the truth of what Miller was searching for that night.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Dec 2016
Lost in Secular Love A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Oct 2016
Caesar™ IV Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 29 Aug 2016
Okhlos: Omega Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Price -96% 0.55€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2016
Elisa: The Innkeeper - Prequel This short Visual novel can be considered as a little introductory episode of the game Elisa the innkeeper. Enjoy our Art and Soundtrack as you begin to shape Elisa's destiny for the better or the worse!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Jun 2016
The Deed: Dynasty Getting away with murder has never been easy. These three members of a proud and noble family are separated by five centuries, but have in common a vengeful and murderous intent. Plans must be formed, blood must be spilled and evidence must be planted ...

Price -95% 0.15€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 May 2016
1979 Revolution: Black Friday 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Apr 2016
Way of the Samurai 3 Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Mar 2016
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front - tactical battalion level combat simulation. Action takes place in the summer of 1943 at Mius river and Saur-Mogila tumulus area of over 140 sq. km. Four large-scale operations for the Red Army and Wehrmacht.

Price 31.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Mar 2016
Age of Gladiators "Age of Gladiators" is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities.

Price -68% 2.60€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Feb 2016
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2016
Cross of the Dutchman Cross of the Dutchman is an action adventure game based on the true story of the folk legend 'Pier Gerlofs Donia'. The story takes place in medieval Western Europe, in the province of Frisia, near the turn of the 16th century.

Price -63% 2.58€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 Sep 2015
Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc Relive the most intense battle scenarios of medieval Europe in this third-person 3D epic saga. Brandish your sword as you slay enemies amidst adrenaline-pumping action while you lead your troops to victory.

Price -68% 2.25€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Sep 2015
Company of Heroes 2 - The British Forces This latest multiplayer standalone entry in the COH2 series features this iconic Allied army. Experience a unique tech-tree that challenges the player to balance the constant trade-off between mobility and defense. Surprise opponents with your development choices and an open end game configuration.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 02 Sep 2015
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.

Price -36% 38.53€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Sep 2015
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!

Price -89% 3.11€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Aug 2015
Egyptian Senet The Mysterious Afterlife Journey And The Favorite Pastime Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Don't Miss The Opportunity To Play The World's Oldest Board Game From Ancient Egypt.

Price -94% 0.64€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Aug 2015
Pike and Shot : Campaigns The ultimate wargame set in the age of Pike and Shot is back. You are now in full charge of your nation’s armies, throughout a long campaign in the struggle for dominance.

Price 38.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Aug 2015

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