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Ancient Battle: Alexander
Strategy 11 April 2014
Historical turn-based strategy dealing with the subject of Alexander Macedonian conquests. The Hunted Cow studio title is distinguished by its significant expansion and attention to detail, which will appeal to all history fans.
Duma Szlachecka
Strategy canceled
A browser-based economic strategy by the native studio Historical Simulations. Production takes us into the reality of the seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, allowing us to play the role of a nobleman building his magnate power. While having fun, we take care of the economic aspect and development of our farmstead, participate in the political life of the country and create our own military force.
Battle Cry of Freedom
Action 01 March 2022
Battle Cry of Freedom is an action multiplayer game developed by the Flying Squirrel Entertainment team. It allows us to take part in the most famous clashes during the American Civil War. More than 500 players can clash in online battles at the same time.
War of Enlightenment
Strategy 01 May 2005
War of Enlightenment is a completely free online historical strategy game written by the independent Finnish artist Timo Hannukkal.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - The Da Vinci Disappearance
Action 08 March 2011
The Da Vinci Disappearance is a paid DLC addition to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the third installment of Ubisoft's best-selling cycle. The plot revolves around the kidnapping of Leonardo DaVinci by the cult of Hermeticists. The extension also offers a new map, the Alhambra, which is located in Grenada.
Crusader Kings II: Jade Dragon
Strategy 16 November 2017
Crusader Kings II: Jade Dragon is an expansion to the popular 2012 historical strategy game developed by Paradox Development. In order to work, this add-on requires the base game. Jade Dragon implements China into the game – albeit as an unplayable faction; however, it serves as an outside empire, which indirectly affects the turn of events, especially within India and Transoxiana.
Age of Empires: Castle Siege
Strategy 27 August 2014
Age of Empires: Castle Siege is a spin-off of the best-selling Age of Empires series. Castle Siege is a free-to-play game with optional microtransactions. The game was developed by Smoking Gun Interactive, creators of many mobile games and Kinect games for Xbox 360, under the watchful eye of Microsoft. Castle Siege is set in medieval times, and the players can choose one of the few historic factions to play as.
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia
Action 09 February 2016
The third installment in a 2.5D platform game series that exists as a spin-off to the Assassin’s Creed franchise. This time you visit the 1918 Russia, when two bloody revolutions lead to some radical changes in the government. The brutal Bolshevik rule ignites a civil war, while the never ending struggle between the Templars and the Assassins rages on in the background.
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Trilogy
Action 09 February 2016
Compilation of three Assassin's Creed series spin-offs, realized in the form of 2.5D platformers. The action of individual productions takes place in different historical realities - in each game, however, a sneaky approach to the game is rewarded, and as a result, the silent elimination of opponents or sneaking behind their backs. The strong point of the titles included in the set is the graphic design, whose high quality is guaranteed by the UbiArt Framework technology.
Crusader Kings II: The Reaper's Due
Strategy 25 August 2016
The 12th expansion for 2012’s grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, Crusader Kings II. In The Reaper’s Due, the developers focused on historical epidemics such as the Black Death which was the plague that gathered a bloody harvest in 13th century Europe. Therefore, the add-on introduces several new mechanics. The most important ones are obviously diseases that spread throughout the map of the continent.
The Great Whale Road
RPG 31 March 2017
A strategy role-playing game set in the early Middle Ages, and the first production by Sunburned Games. The game takes place in the 7th century Europe, and there is a large focus on historical accuracy and the plot, divided into campaign for each of the playable nations (e.g. the Danish, the Franks, the Picts and the Anglo-Saxons).
Holdfast: Nations at War
Action 05 March 2020
A historical action game, in which you participate in multiplayer land and naval battles. The production was developed by Anvil Games, the members of which worked on Mount & Blade: Warband – Napoleonic Wars. Regardless of whether the battle takes place on land or at sea, the key aspect of the game is the cooperation between teammates. Both battle types feature soldiers of various classes with distinct characteristics and roles.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Strategy 31 December 1985
Turn-based strategy, which takes place in China during the Han Dynasty. The player's task is to manage his state and to unite the other regions under his rule.
Samurai Defender
Strategy 11 March 2013
Representative of the tower defense species, whose action was set in feudal Japan overwhelmed by internal conflicts. While playing in Samurai Defender we play the role of the commander, whose task is to defend the castle against the waves of enemies.
Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi
Strategy 30 November 2017
Another entry in the series of strategy games developed by Koei Tecmo, this time not only for big platforms but also mobiles devices. As the previous games, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi takes us to the feudal Japan of the Sengoku era and lets us take part in the major battles of those turbulent times.
11-11: Memories Retold
Adventure 09 November 2018
An adventure game, the action of which was set during World War I. During the game we play the roles of Harry and Kurt, i.e. soldiers standing on opposite sides of the barricade, whose fates are interwoven with each other.
The Berlin Wall
Strategy canceled
An adventure game, enriched with elements taken from sneaking and strategy, in which we follow the fate of three characters trying to escape from the totalitarian part of the city divided by a stone wall. During the game in The Berlin Wall we not only organize and prepare an escape plan, but also acquire the means and tools necessary for its implementation, and when we feel ready to do so - we try to cross the border illegally by ourselves.
Warfront Defenders: Westerplatte
Strategy 07 August 2017
Three-dimensional strategic minigra set on a diorame-like map, recreating the historic defense of Westerplatte, which started the Second World War. The game is a hybrid of RTS and tower defense.
Colonial Conquest
Strategy 28 July 2015
A turn-based strategy game developed by Argonauts Interactive, taking place between 19th and 20th century, in the age of conquest and warfare. During the game, we assume the role of one of the historic figures, such as Theodore Roosevelt, Queen Victoria, Emperor Meiji, Wilhelm II, Jules Ferry, or Alexander III, while our objective is to lead our empire to world domination.
Numantia
Strategy 24 October 2017
Numantia is a turn-based strategy game focused on recreating the historical atmosphere of the Numantian war – a conflict that was fought between the ancient Spaniards and the Roman Empire during the 2nd century BC. During the battles the player must strategically operate various units of Iberian or Roman troops and between the battles he or she must maintain logistics and resources of the army.
Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte
Simulation 07 November 2019
At the end of December 1944, the idea of carrying out a massive attack on 20 Allied airfields in the Netherlands, Belgium and France appeared - it was the so-called Bodenplatte Operation.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Flying Circus - Volume I
Simulation 07 November 2019
Il-2 Sturmovik: Flying Circus - Volume I is an expanded aircraft simulator, for the first time in the history of this series set in the realities of the First World War. 777 Studios and 1C are responsible for creating this production.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Band of Bastards
RPG 05 February 2019
The third add-on to the realistic RPG game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The plot presented in the expansion concerns a band of mercenaries led by the impoverished nobleman Kuno from Rychwald. DLC was created by the authors of the original - the Czech company Warhorse Studios.
Testimony of Help
Adventure 24 September 2023
A first-person interactive short film. Testimony of HELP is set in the 1940s, during World War II, in the Ulm family home. The player witnesses a regular day alongside little Basia Ulm and the tragic fate that befell the family for sheltering Jews.