What are the best WW2 games in 2025? Just as in film and TV, WW2 videogames have proven consistently popular, becoming a whole genre of their own – catering to casual gamers, competitive multiplayer fans, and historical wargamers alike. This guide tracks Wargamer’s all time favorite World War 2 games to recommend your next play.
We’ve picked a diverse mix of titles, from close-up tactical shooters and intense RTS games to sweeping grand strategy games; from free-to-play (F2P) battlers to grognard wargames with thousand-page manuals.
The best WW2 games in 2025 are:
Company of Heroes 3
We’re nailing our colors to the mast – the best WW2 RTS overall is Company of Heroes 3. Relic Entertainment and SEGA’s slick, squad based RTS series has been bringing atmospheric gameplay and WW2 historical detail to a mainstream strategy gaming audience since the original CoH came out in 2006 – but 2023’s Company of Heroes 3 is certainly the best outing yet.
CoH3 boasts noticeably upgraded visuals over its 2013 predecessor, including some deliciously detailed battle damage graphics and destruction animations, both for your units and the battlefield around you. It adds up to a subtle but very satisfying step up in immersion, as your squads duck through collapsing buildings, tanks smash through walls in flames, and dust clouds obscure firefights.
Moreover, where CoH2 had a single, relatively short, linear single-player campaign set on the Eastern Front, COH3 offers two full campaigns at launch – Italy and North Africa – with the Italy campaign operating as a kind of overworld strategic sandbox in the mold of Creative Assembly’s Total War games.
It’s not perfect, but there’s just so much more to play with in this instalment – before we even dip a toe into the ever-lively Company of Heroes multiplayer scene – that it absolutely earns a place among the must-play WW2 games on PC.
Read our Company of Heroes 3 review.
War Thunder
The good thing about free war games is that they give you an opportunity to expand your gaming horizons without having to make any kind of commitment. If you don’t like it, no loss, but if you do, then you might have just discovered your new favorite. With that in mind, we advise anybody who loves war games to take War Thunder for a spin.
This is an all-in-one package, if you will. Do you like getting to ride around in tanks? Or do you prefer the freedom of airborne dogfights? Or, indeed, are you a salty seadog who prefers naval combat? Well, War Thunder covers all of this bases, giving you the opportunity to compete against other players in various types of vehicular battles.
Some of these sorts of game strive for realism to such an extent that they becomes highly inaccessible to new players and often aren’t really that fun. Other games are so wacky and over the top, that the games end up feeling a little too silly. Let us assure you that War Thunder gets just the right balance, with a nuanced control system that’s not too hard to get the hang of, but which still feels weighty and realistic.
The game has been running since 2012, and during that time it has accumulated a huge player base. With so many people online, it’s never difficult to find a match when you feel the need to blow things up. And, of course, developer Gaijin Entertainment has been able to keep interest in the game going for so long through regular updates which include new vehicles, maps, and other features.
With tanks and military vehicles from around the world to unlock, and tons of large, beautiful maps to do battle on, it’s easy to see why War Thunder has so many loyal fans.
Enlisted
First launched in 2021, Enlisted is Russian studio Gaijin’s attempt to recreate its riotously successful free-to-play air-land-and-sea action wargame War Thunder in FPS form.
A fairly by-the-numbers ‘hardcore’ tactical shooter, Enlisted’s core multiplayer gameplay feels more like Battlefield than anything else (albeit with a shorter time-to-kill, and a distinct absence of silly, anachronistic costume options).
Where the game stands out is in the mechanics surrounding the squads of infantrymen you’ll be commanding in-game. Mirroring the upgrade trees of its vehicular-based cousin, you’ll unlock various distinct, named and badged squads as you progress, and spend in-game experience, currency and/or achievement rewards on upgrading their stats, perks and equipment – down to individual pieces of belt gear, equipment, grenades, and so on.
In-game, each human player leads their entire pre-customised team of individually-named soldiers, with the squadmates controlled by AI, until the player gets killed – at which point you’ll jump behind the eyes of your chosen AI comrade, and fight on.
There are now multiple in-game ‘campaigns’ available, including the obligatory Normandy, Stalingrad, and the battle of Berlin – but also less famous theaters like Tunisia. Each consists of a set of thematically appropriate maps, and a progression of unlocks for new squads, weapons, and equipment, that you’ll earn by grinding matches in that campaign.
Like War Thunder before it, its clunky menus and spotty Russian-to-English localisation can also make things a bit confusing to newcomers, despite ongoing development. But persevere, because the deadly, authentic-feeling WWII firefights, detailed unlockables, squad customization, and progression, combined with loads of satisfying little historical details being added all the time, make for a unique multiplayer WWII shooter that’s not quite like anything else available – and it’s worth playing just for that.
World of Tanks
At the end of the day, World of Tanks is a slightly dumb tank game – but there is something refreshing about zipping along the countryside, blasting shells at enemy vehicles on the other end of the map.
On the flip-side of that, you’ll find that there are intense, tight-knit urban environments that require a lot of manoeuvring and positioning, which then turns the game into a very tactical experience.
World of Tanks is a game that will appeal to the history buffs in the gaming community. There are tanks from French, American, German, and Chinese history, with countless other countries thrown into the mix.
Those who have ever wondered about which tanks would win in match-ups that would never have happened in history can finally get their answer. Plus, there’s a lot of fun crossover content in the mix, from franchises ranging from G.I. Joe to Warhammer 40k, so you’ve got some more fantastical matchups to watch unfold too.
These are online-only mass-multiplayer experiences, so if that’s not your thing you probably won’t enjoy WoT. If you are curious about this action/strategy gaming phenomenon, then we also recommend you try and bring a friend, as these things are infinitely more enjoyable with people you know. Just be prepared to put in a lot of work to climb your way to the upper ranks – that or find an alternative in our sister site PCGamesN’s excellent list of the best tank games.
World of Warships
Unsurprisingly, WoW (no, not that one, we mean World of Warships) is a game from World of Tanks dev Wargaming, which takes the formula behind WoT and switches the land-based action for battles at sea.
If you’ve read our guide on the best naval games, you’ll already know that some of us are fans of this super-arcadey naval combat game. Not all war games have to be super-serious and sim-focused, and this is a game that’s great for anybody who wants to blow things up on the seven seas – but don’t get us wrong, it can also be surprisingly cerebral.
Sailing out on the ocean actually feels paradoxically therapeutic, with lots of beautiful nautical scenery. If you’re playing for the first time, you’ll find World of Warships‘ gameplay is quite accessible – but just like the ocean itself, it has some surprising depths.
A good example of the old adage: ‘easy to learn, difficult to master’. The more you play, the more you’ll figure out ways to strategically oust your foes, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t have a whale of a time during those first few battles.
If you’re a fan of naval history, you’ll appreciate the opportunity to build up your collection of real-life historic vessels, and while the game will include battles between certain types of warship that would never have encountered each other in reality, that doesn’t take away all the delights that the game has to offer for the military history buffs. It’s not too focused on any specific country, with ships from Japan, the USA, the USSR, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and countless other nations.
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Hell Let Loose
Black Matter’s Hell Let Loose is a mainstay of the military simulation (mil-sim) crowd, and our favorite WW2 multiplayer shooter (sorry, Enlisted). Released via Early Access in 2019, then fully launched in 2021, this is an unapologetically punishing online tactical shooter in which victory genuinely requires you to fall in with your comrades, work as a team, and coordinate with other teams across the battlefield. Yes, that means you have to talk to strangers. Sorry.
Matches last anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes, pitting two teams of 50 against one another in objective and territory-driven battles across vast maps. Ammunition is limited, and one shot can kill. Take territory, and your team wins extra resources to shore up your control points, and attack the enemy’s.
Lose your strongholds, and you’ll need to coordinate a counter-punch effectively, lest the foe’s momentum overtake you. Nominated ‘officers’ in each team give orders to direct teams to priority objectives, adding both a strategic layer and extra weight to the ‘mil-sim’ element. Better hope you’re led by lions…
If you want a quick shoot-about with mates, or to blitz through lots of straightforward, high-dopamine 10-minute deathmatches, this ain’t for you. But if you want to be absorbed in WW2 squad-level tactics, comms, and combat, investing upwards of an hour in a single bloody battle, Hell Let Loose is well worth the time.
Panzer Corps 2
If you love puzzles and WW2 wargaming, Panzer Corps 2 is for you. The first Panzer Corps game was a staple on this list in its time, but we can confidently say it’s been entirely replaced by the 2020 sequel.
Panzer Corps 2 updates everything from the engine, to the mechanics – it even adds a semblance of a logistics system! You can take your hard-as-nails corps of German tanks and infantry units from the invasion of Poland in 1939, all the way through Barbarossa, Normandy and even some alt-history scenarios involving the invasion of the American mainland.
Multiplayer is also souped up, with hot-seat, Play-By-Email (PBEM) and ‘true’ live multiplayer options available. The powerful Scenario Editor tools let you build your own additional campaigns, too – but these days there’s not so much need to, as Panzer Corps 2 now boasts 12 DLC expansions.
That includes eight instalments of its Axis Operations series – each covering one year of large-scale Axis military operations from 1939 through 1946. What’s that you say? 1946? Yes, 1946: Slitherine’s last Axis Operations pack adds a 30-scenario campaign exploring an alternate history where Germany and Japan launched a joint invasion of the USA, Man in the High Castle-style.
The ‘King of Wargames’ indeed.
Unity of Command 2
Among full-blown WW2 computer wargames, 2019’s Unity of Command 2 is easily the prettiest to look at, but there’s more to its greatness than that.
The original, 2011 Unity of Command will always be remembered as a wonderful, simple ‘gateway’ wargame, but Unity of Command 2 just takes all of the core concepts and turns it up to 11. Better visuals, better mechanics, better scenarios… it’s a knock-out sequel.
Like Panzer Corps, the first UoC took some flak being more of a puzzle than a “true” wargame, and you can still see traces of that in the sequel’s design – many scenarios present you with an initial set-piece or deadlock that you need to break through – but the ways in which you can achieve it have multiplied.
Plus, once you do break-through it’s still a pretty gripping fight to claim your objectives, and the AI will punish and push through to your back-lines if it sees an exploitable gap. This is definitely one of 2019’s best releases, and, if you’re even remotely interested, it’s well worth picking up.
Foxhole
There really is no other multiplayer experience like Foxhole, not just among WW2 games but in gaming as a whole. Just about half of all videogames put you into some sort of fight, but only Foxhole makes you part of a war.
Foxhole’s wars are fought between thousands of players across multiple maps over the course of months. The game commands about 3,000 daily players, swelling up to around 5,000 whenever a new war starts. You have unprecedented freedom in what you do within the war, because every part of the war effort, from infantry, to weapons production, to the logistics corps, is player driven.
If the front line needs tanks, they need to be built in facilities, and then loaded by crane into a transporter for delivery. They’ll need fuel, too, and ammunition. Every step of the process is player driven, which creates incredibly dynamic gameplay. Partisans can harry the logistics network, while encircled positions must be resupplied by daring blockade runs.
While this is technically an ahistorical game, the setting is derived from the technology of the second world war. The two forces are asymmetrical, with different technologies and therefore calling for different strategies to achieve their objectives. You’re not locked to either, and while some players will pick a favorite, there’s nothing stopping you swapping every war.
The Foxhole community is very welcoming. There are a lot of systems to wrap your head around for each role you might want to adopt, but simply asking for help from other players will get you most of the way there.
Close Combat
For old-school, top-down, tactical WW2 squad battles, you can’t do better than Matrix Games’ Close Combat series.
The father of modern WW2 tactical strategy games, Close Combat struck the perfect balance between ‘grog’-like wargaming tradition and mainstream strategy design. Depending on which title you played, it managed to straddle the line between hardcore and mainstream with remarkable grace.
There are mixed opinions regarding the ‘Matrix-era’ of Close Combat games, but the series in general remains a shining example of WW2 strategy game heritage. And, thanks to GOG.com, you can now legally purchase the original classics once more.
Hearts of Iron 4
Paradox’s epic Hearts of Iron 4 first made this list following its 2019 Man the Guns expansion, and remains here half a decade later, as the unquestioned master of WW2 grand strategy games. This vast, sprawling history-bending sandbox has been going from strength to strength, and while its still got some ways to go, Paradox’s flagship war game can now finally stand amongst its contemporaries.
Take command of any nation in existence in 1936, and try to guide them through turbulent period leading up to the second world war. With an open-ended nature and three competing ideologies, what form the second world war takes could be different through multiple Hearts of Iron 4 playthroughs.
You can create your own Divisions, specialising them for specific tasks; our Hearts of Iron 4 division templates guide can help you get started there. A Battle Planner allows you to draw detailed strategies for your armies that the AI will execute for you, and there’s plenty of Hearts of Iron 4 DLC worth checking out that help elevate the base package into something special.
And of course, you can use the best HOI4 mods to transport yourself to any alternate history (or fantastical setting) provided for by modders’ boundless imaginations – we salute them. Hearts of Iron 4 is certainly one of the best WW2 games ever made – but it’s so much more now, too.
Steel Division 2
Eugen Systems’ 2019 sequel Steel Division 2 has its problems, but overall it’s a stunning, hardcore WW2 RTS – and the new campaign mode is one of the finest solitaire wargaming experiences we’ve ever played (warts and all).
If you were a fan of the real-time tactical battles in its 2017 predecessor Normandy ’44, then you may have trouble warming to this – the operational realities of the Eastern Front and how it’s been translated into the game make for some brutal fights, both in single player and multiplayer.
If you felt that the first Steel Division game needed more in the campaign space, however, we dare you to not be impressed by the new Army General mode.
Read our Steel Division 2 review for more.
Strategic Command WW2: World at War
Matrix Games and Fury Software’s Strategic Command WW2: World at War easily supplants its younger sibling, War in Europe, for the simple fact that – while this is, in some ways, ‘more of the same’ – it is nonetheless ‘more of the same’ but now on a global level.
You command either the Axis or the Allied powers (you can have the AI take over individual nations if you want) and must decide where to invest your nation’s production capacity across research, mobilisation, diplomacy and maintaining your armed forces. Units represent Corps, Army Groups, Fleets, and Air Groups.
As fun as tactical or even operational level warfare is, there’s something empowering about taking control of a nation’s entire strategic resources; from industry and production to the military assets. Fury Software’s Strategic Command series has been around since at least the early 2000s and is a great example of grand-strategy wargaming.
Our initial concerns that this one might fall prey to the same problems the SC Classic entry Global Conflict suffered turned out to be ill-founded. Fury has learned the lessons of the past and managed to create a compelling grand-strategy sandbox, at scale, that leaves plenty of meaningful gameplay options, whether you’re in Europe or the Korean peninsula.
Call of Duty 2
Before Modern Warfare reinvented the shooter genre, Call of Duty 2 was the highpoint of narrative FPS games.
Playing the Call of Duty games released before Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare changed the direction of FPS games forever is like uncovering a dinosaur fossil with feathers. They’re transitional games in the evolution of the genre, with features of the past and the future – particularly, they’re a version of Call of Duty that was big on narrative but had yet to develop its killer multiplayer mode.
An early title for the Xbox 360 and PS3 console generation, Call of Duty 2 builds on the strong narrative foundation established in the original Call of Duty. Its three campaigns, for the Soviets, British, and the US, follow the two sides through their war against the Axis in heavily scripted missions – the recapture of Stalingrad against the sixth army, the war in north Africa, and the liberation of Europe. They’re short but impactful.
Though the engine didn’t yet have the processing power to render the spectacular set-pieces for which the series became known, it’s cinematic and evocative. The ruins of Stalingrad might not have as many polygons as they would in a modern game, but great art direction and tight level design make them feel like a massive, realistic recreation of the famous battle front.
Rather than a one-man army you’re a soldier acting as part of a unit, advancing alongside a team of allies. The sound design makes their presence known as your AI companions are always shouting out information about where enemies are located, incoming fire and grenades. It’s atmospheric, and also essential for navigating environments that are packed with disorienting smoke and relentless gunfire.
While the levels are scripted shooting galleries, they’re well-scripted shooting galleries. The gunplay is weighty and precise. The tempo of your movement is calibrated around single-player and the capabilities of the AI, not peak multiplayer performance – it’s simply easier to feel in sync with what the game wants from you. And while there are other games that are a more realistic representation of WW2, none offer a more satisfying sense of being in a WW2 movie.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
If you like your WW2 RTS games hardcore, with high complexity and skill ceilings, try Men of War: Assault Squad 2. Despite the long awaited arrival of Men of War 2 in May 2024, that game’s various technical issues and shortcomings leave Assault Squad 2 unsurpassed as the pinnacle of the series so far, a culmination of every lesson learned in previous iterations.
1C Company / Digitalmindsoftau’s Men of War series is one with humble (and slightly confusing) origins, but also one that’s grown to become a must-have staple of real-time WW2 tactical combat. For fans of Company of Heroes 2 wanting a little more bite, this is one of the most immersive experiences you’ll ever have the pleasure of playing.
There’s a depth and granularity to combat that you rarely see outside of hardcore turn-based counter wargames, and yet it remains easy(ish) to learn and interact with. It can be brutal and punishing (I don’t think they’ve ever gotten the balance quite right between tanks and infantry), but it’s also thrilling.
As official support has waned, a dedicated mod-community has arisen to provide scenarios ranging from WW1 to the Cold War.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2
No conversation on digital wargaming can exist without starting, ending or at the very least, co-existing with, a nod towards the beast set in the east. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2 – the massive 2021 overhaul of Grigsby’s 2010 opus – represents the apex of what happens when you take traditional hex-and-counter wargaming and use computer software to bring out its maximum potential. No-one ever said it would be accessible or easy to get to grips with– but it is the ultimate military simulation of war in the eastern front of World War 2.
Described by the developer as “a complete overhaul and improvement of the original War in the East, with no stone left unturned to provide a more realistic, more historically rich, and more challenging strategy experience”, WITE2 comes with three full-map campaigns (including the full 1941-45 grand campaign, from Operation Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin) plus seven smaller scenarios to play through – adding up to “hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of historical gameplay”.
New and improved mechanics for automating huge swathes of the game’s systems while you focus on the aspects you like best – whether it be managing continental supply or zooming in on a single company-level engagement. This all makes War In The East 2 easier to get a handle on than its 2010 predecessor – but still a heavyweight grognard wargame, so be warned. If that gets you going, though, there is no game better.
Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault
The best open-campaign territory control game is Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault. Company of Heroes 2 grew over time: the advent of the Western Front Armies, overhaul of its War Spoils system, and years of balance refinement cemented its place as a respectable, enjoyable, competitive RTS – but it’s campaign DLC Ardennes Assault that elevated CoH2 the most.
With the Ardennes Assault campaign, Company of Heroes 2 boasts one of the best replayable single player experiences in modern WW2 strategy games. It’s even available as a stand-alone expansion, if you really don’t want to get the core game. It’s arguably even better than the dynamic, map-control Italy campaign it inspired in Company of Heroes 3 (but don’t tell Relic we said that).
Ardennes Assault provides players with a strategic territory-capture meta-game layered over the single-player missions; including semi-random events and time-based objectives that change with each playthrough.
You have four Companies to command (of which you can utilize 3 in each campaign run) and hard choices in an Iron Man setting that forces the player to think through each move and live with sub-optimal strategies. If you’re looking for something less hardcore, or something with a larger player base, then this is a perfect choice.
Battlefield V
Battlefield V offers the best blend of modern FPS combat and large scale tactics in any WW2 game. Released in 2018, BFV still commands over 40,000 daily players, and it’s easy to understand why – this is a slick modern entry in the series that invented massively multiplayer FPS gameplay. It’s also a triumphant return to the WW2 setting that made the classic Battlefield 1942 so beloved.
Battlefield V’s moment to moment gunplay feels modern, with movement and aiming fast and responsive in spite of the slow, dependable WW2 arsenal you’re armed with. But with huge maps to traverse, this isn’t a twitchy COD style slaughterhouse.
Despite being on the more arcadey end of the FPS games on this guide, you’ll perform your best when you can coordinate with members of a squad. The different classes are all important: regenerating health is limited so medics are essential for healing, limited ammunition rewards you for hanging around with a support trooper, and when the enemies bring out tanks, you’ll be glad the assault trooper is on hand.
With 32 players per side, this isn’t the absolute largest WW2 MMO FPS out there, but maps are still large and vehicles are an integral part of traversing and controlling the battlefield. All told, Battlefield strikes a great balance between the twitchy and the hardcore: more playful than Enlisted or Hell Let Loose, but not so much that reflexes can beat coordinated team tactics.
As well as the multiplayer mode, check out the three short, self-contained single-player mini-campaigns (or four, if the bundle version of the game you get contains the The Last Tiger DLC). These hop around the war, putting you in the British special forces in Africa, the Norwegian resistance, and the front lines of the liberation of France. They’re not long, and they don’t make much use of the series’ spectacular scale, but they’re great fun.
Silent Hunter 3
Understandably, most WW2 games focus on the war on land – the faster pace, varied environments, and relative relatability of infantry fighting makes easier gaming fodder. Even popular naval games like World of Warships primarily focus on noisy, flashy, surface fleet battles. The submarine-focused Silent Hunter series – of which Silent Hunter 3 is by far the best – takes a different tack, however.
In SH3, we fight as part of the longest continuous military campaign of World War 2: the battle of the Atlantic. As a U-boat captain of the Kriegsmarine – the German navy – your job is to stalk the shadows of the deep, seeking out Allied warships and merchant navy convoys, and hunting them to extinction.
This is not just an action-focused, twin-stick controlled, ‘World of Submarines’ experience, though – Silent Hunter has always been a full-bodied military simulation, and SH3 is no exception. You’ll need to learn every detail of managing and operating one of multiple, historically accurate models of WW2 german sub, commanding your crew in and out of battle, and handling every aspect of each patrol, from torpedo loading to navigation.
SH3 is not a new game, and it shows – the 3D graphics of 2005 do not stand up any more. But, as an accessible, deep, and responsive WW2 submarine game, it’s simply unrivalled.
IL-2 Sturmovik
The mighty IL-2 Sturmovik is simply the best WW2 combat flight simulator available – so if that’s what you want, this is your game.
This series was already venerable and much loved when its classic ‘omnibus’ edition, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, came out in 2006, but it’s come a long way since. With 2014’s Battle for Stalingrad, developer IC Game Studios re-launched IL-2 completely, with an enormous graphical upgrade and a suite of gameplay improvements.
Since then it’s built a vast library of 50 DLC expansions, including four more full ‘Battle of’ campaigns (Moscow, Kuban, Bodenplatte, and most recently Normandy in 2022) plus loads of individual aircraft to add to your hangars. The ‘Flying Circus’ DLC series even ports gameplay into World War One and the rise of flight – its fourth volume, released in November 2024, adds WW1 biplanes like the Fokker E.III and Sopwith Pup.
This is a serious simulation, and doesn’t pull any punches – but a more realistic and engrossing game about WW2 airborne combat you will not find. Plus, if you find yourself stumped by its learning curve, our IL-2 Sturmovik tutorial can help you get your bearings.
Tank Mechanic Simulator
Tank Mechanic Simulator is a relaxation game designed for treadheads, by treadheads, all about recovering, rust-stripping, repairing, and repainting abandoned tanks from the battlefields of Europe. The base game contains 21 tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled guns, from across the US, German, and Soviet forces, based on original construction documents and discussions with tank museums.
Each vehicle is made up of hundreds of parts that can be individually reconditioned or replaced, with tasks including sand blasting, rust removal, priming and painting, or simply knocking stubborn parts off with a hammer.
A lot of thought has been given to what you might want to do with your collection. So as well as tinkering with your tanks inside and out and choosing a custom paint scheme, you can test drive each vehicle and occupy each of the crew seats. You can put finished tanks into your museum to build your reputation, or sell them to raise immediate funds for big purchases.
Partisans 1941
The real-time stealth tactics genre that began with Commandos has always been focused on underdog stories: a band of a few plucky heroes taking down a foe with an overwhelming advantage in men and materiel. Partisans 1941 takes that to an extreme by giving you control of a band of Soviet resistance fighters deep inside Nazi-occupied territory. Most of your crew has no business fighting, but they’ve got no choice if they want to save their home.
As you’d expect for a Commando-like, each mission will see your small band of heroes navigate a huge map crawling with German forces, only committing to battles when you’re certain that the odds are in your favor. To help you handle your team in real-time there’s an unlimited time-slowing mechanic, but – unless you’re a true genius of the genre – your eventual success may well be built on a mountain of save-scums.
Partisans 1941 also borrows some ideas from games like XCOM. There are persistent injuries for your fighters, as well as new skills to gain. Between missions you’ll be sheltering in a hideout, trying to keep on top of your constant problems with food, ammo, and guns, all of which must be stolen from the nazis. Overall it’s a fantastic union of genre and theme.
Rest assured, with truckloads of new WW2 games getting released every year – in every genre, format, shape, size and flavor – we’ll be keeping this guide updated regularly to keep you posted on the cream of the crop.
In the meantime, if you’d like some more recommendations, we also have a list of our favorite WW2 board games, as well as more PC wargaming guides tracking the best WW1 games and the best naval games around.
For PC wargaming on a budget, our updated guides to the best free war games and free strategy games are your best port of call.
Source: Wargamer
