Games like Decision in the Desert
Looking for games like Decision in the Desert? Here are top tactical strategy recommendations with a historical focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Conflict in Vietnam, Crusade in Europe or Dogfight: 80 Years of Aerial Warfare.
1 A strategy game centering around military conflicts in Vietnam.
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54%Game Brain Scoregraphics86% User Score 14 reviewsCrusade in Europe is a classic real-time simulation game from the 80s designed by Sid Meier and Ed Bever. The first title in the "Command Series" of tactical wargames from Microprose, the game features real-time battles that test your skills as a commander.
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As the name suggests, this flight simulation gives you a chance to fly most of the famous fighter models from World War 1 to the present day. You can fly the Sopwith Camel, the Spitfire, the F-4 Phantom, the Harrier Jump Jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the Fokker DR1, and the MiG-23, each with realistic and functional cockpit features. The game offers 6 historical missions, a duel mode and a "What …
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88%Game Brain Scorereplayabilitygameplay, story88% User Score 77 reviewsA Day of InfamyStrategic Command - WWII: War in the Pacific and its flagship 1941 Day of Infamy campaign comes with an impressive 36,000 hex map, providing you with the opportunity to wage war from India and Burma in the west, via the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, the Philippines, Guadalcanal, the Kokoda Trail, Iwo Jima, Tarawa and Midway to the west coast of North America, at an approximately 80km/5…
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82%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, optimization80% User Score 1,204 reviewsCritic Score 91%1 reviewsUnity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
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51%Game Brain Scorereplayability, musicgameplay, graphics67% User Score 27 reviewsPanzer Doctrine is an unconventional World War II real-time strategy game. It was designed to provide interesting alternative to turn-based hex grid wargames. Complex military simulation of tank warfare on the eastern front.
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding86% User Score 899 reviewsCommand: Modern Operations is the next generation in cross-domain modern wargaming. It enables you to simulate every military engagement from post World War II to the present day and beyond. The scale is primarily tactical/operational, although strategic scale operations are also possible.
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89%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyoptimization, grinding89% User Score 703 reviewsGraviteam 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.
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75%Game Brain Scoregraphics, replayabilitygameplay, stability75% User Score 77 reviewsThe game recreates the campaigns and battles of Erwin ‘Desert Fox’ Rommel’s legendary Afrika Korps, in Libya between 1941 and 1942. Play the Axis forces to conquer the most valuable prize of all: the Suez Canal. Or command the 8th Army soldiers, the famous Desert Rats, to repel the invaders. Afrika Korps contains many scenarios, covering different periods of the war in the North African desert i…
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99%Game Brain Scoregameplay, replayabilitystory, graphics99% User Score 106 reviewsFlashpoint Campaigns: Cold War is a grand tactical combat simulation on the Cold War battlefield. As the force Commander, you will plan and then issue orders and Standard Operating Procedures to your battalion, brigade, or regimental forces, shaping the fight by maneuver and your intent. Your forces will engage the enemy in rendered real-world map locations. Each hex is 500m of militarily signific…
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