Best World War II Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated world war ii games.

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Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ is the expansion to the Game of the Year winner and highest rated real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes®. Featuring new campaigns to overcome, units to command, and battlefields to conquer, Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ delivers evolved gameplay mechanics and 3 episodic adventures...

Price -61% 7.31€
Rating 8.9
Release 08 Apr 2009
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures Enter the colorful world of West Wallaby Street in a series of four cracking adventures brought to you by Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace & Gromit animated films, and award-winning Telltale Games.

Price -81% 2.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 Mar 2009
Hearts of Iron 2 Complete Includes Hearts of Iron II plus the two expansions, Doomsday and Armageddon When Germany is defeated in 1945, the Allies and the new Soviet alliance fight for supremacy. World War III is drawing closer. Play as the ruler of one of 175 countries through World Wars II and III.

Price -87% 1.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Jan 2009
Call of Duty: World at War Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Nov 2008
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood™ With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com).

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Oct 2008
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway™ Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a totally redesigned online component.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Oct 2008
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 Il-2 1946 includes all of the original IL-2 series content: IL-2 Sturmovik™: Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters™ and alternate histry campaigns of year 1946. What was years ago began as a one-aircraft study sim is now an astonishing anthology, with a whopping 229 flyable aircraft and over 300 aircraft total!

Price -94% 0.62€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Jun 2008
Silent Hunter® III The king of submarine simulations returns with an all-new 3D engine, new crew command features, and more realistic WWII naval action than ever before. The movie-like graphics and simple, tension-filled gameplay make this the perfect game for the realism fanatic and the casual gamer.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Jun 2008
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30™ Based on a true story. Set during the famous airdrop before the invasion at Normandy, where Sgt. Matt Baker and his squad of 101st Airborne Paratroopers were scattered over the French countryside.

Price -51% 2.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 May 2008
Death to Spies Smersh is Russian for "Death to Spies" and was the name of a set of counterintelligence agencies formed in the Soviet Army during World War II. Their mission was to secure the rear of the active Red Army by arresting traitors, deserters, spies and criminal cells.

Price -21% 3.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Mar 2008
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts The next chapter in the #1 rated RTS franchise thrusts players into a hellish war torn landscape to command two battle-hardened armies in relentless campaigns for honor and country. Players lead the tenacious British 2nd Army during the heroic World War II liberation of Caen, France, and command the German Panzer Elite as they struggle...

Price -86% 2.76€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Sep 2007
Return to Castle Wolfenstein World War II rages and nations fall. The Nazis are twisting science and the occult into an army capable of annihilating the Allies once and for all. As US Army Ranger William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, pierce the black heart of the Third Reich and stop them...or die trying.

Price -82% 0.91€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Aug 2007
Wolfenstein 3D World War II rages. The Nazis are planning to build an unstoppable, mutant army. On a mission to steal the secret plans, you were captured and imprisoned. Now, a lucky break gives you the chance to escape, but a maze of passages and trigger-happy Nazis stand in your way.

Price -88% 0.64€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Aug 2007
Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. This legacy version also grants access to the latest version of COH, just called "Company of Heroes".

Price 32.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Jul 2007
Battlestations: Midway Battlestations: Midway is an immense action game that drops players into massive air, sea, and undersea battles from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway.

Price -83% 1.20€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Mar 2007
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin Commandos 3: Destination Berlin is a game of real-time tactics that places you in command of an elite unit of Special Forces behind enemy lines in the European theater of World War II.

Price -90% 0.52€
Rating 6.1
Release 15 Mar 2007
Commandos 2: Men of Courage Commandos 2: Men of Courage is a tactical action/strategy game set against the backdrop of World War II. Take control of an elite group of commandos who must venture deep into enemy territory and utilize their combined expertise to complete a series of mission-based objectives.

Price -83% 0.87€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Mar 2007
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty You have been selected for active service in the Commandos Corps, and must now mobilize in a series of 8 new dangerous missions.

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Mar 2007
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in World War II that puts you in command of a small squad of elite troopers. Send them behind enemy lines on a series of hazardous missions, and bring them back alive.

Price -89% 0.56€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Mar 2007
Making History: The Calm & the Storm <p>Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and deep research that lets you play with real historical challenges.

Price -85% 0.62€
Rating 7.5
Release 13 Mar 2007
Call of Duty: United Offensive Award-winning developer Gray Matter Interactive follows up on the success of Infinity Ward's Call of Duty™ - winner of over 80 Game of the Year and 50 Editors' Choice awards worldwide - with Call of Duty™: United Offensive™.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 13 Oct 2006
Call of Duty® 2 Call of Duty® 2 redefines the cinematic intensity and chaos of battle as seen through the eyes of ordinary soldiers fighting together in epic WWII conflicts. The sequel to 2003's Call of Duty, winner of over 80 Game of the Year awards, Call of Duty 2 offers more immense, more intense, more realistic battles than ever before, thanks to...

Price -32% 13.70€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Oct 2006
Call of Duty® (2003) Call of Duty® delivers the gritty realism and cinematic intensity of World War II's epic battlefield moments like never before.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 13 Oct 2006
DEFCON Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.

Price -91% 1.08€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2006
Company of Heroes Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.

Price -86% 2.72€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Sep 2006
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 Fight in the theatre of war that changed the world forever. Battle alongside your compatriots on some of the most inhospitable environments of the Eastern Front in Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Red Orchestra places you in the most realistic WWII first-person multi-player combat to date on the PC, allowing the player to fight through...

Price -19% 3.26€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Mar 2006
Day of Defeat Enlist in an intense brand of Axis vs. Allied teamplay set in the WWII European Theatre of Operations. Players assume the role of light/assault/heavy infantry, sniper or machine-gunner class, each with a unique arsenal of historical weaponry at their disposal. Missions are based on key historical operations.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 May 2003
Sniper Elite V2 In the dark days of the end of World War Two amidst the ruins of Berlin, one bullet can change history…

Price -87% 3.16€
Rating 8.7
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