Games like DEFCON
Looking for games like DEFCON? Here are top real-time strategy recommendations with a warfare focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with ICBM, ICBM: Escalation or HighFleet.
1 93%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding93% User Score 2,148 reviewsNOVEMBER 5TH, 1983. Here, now, at the height of the Cold War, hundreds of America’s brightest men and women are poised deep underground in concrete bunkers known as Launch Control Centers, ready and awaiting the order to unleash nuclear armaggedon. Today, USAF First Lieutenant Derek Evans joins their ranks. And his first day on the job could be a big one.
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyoptimization, replayability90% User Score 822 reviewsICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS game that plunges players into the high-stakes world of global warfare, where every decision could tip the balance between survival and annihilation. Command vast armies, develop cutting-edge technology, and wield the most devastating weapons ever created to ensure your faction’s supremacy. Whether by conventional forces or through nuclear firepower, you’ll need to …
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87%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding88% User Score 7,310 reviewsCritic Score 59%1 reviewsBattle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?
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86%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, stability87% User Score 4,568 reviewsCritic Score 84%2 reviewsWargame's playable factions are the Warsaw Pact, which is subdivided into the Soviet Union, Communist Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia; and NATO, which is subdivided into the United States of America, United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Canada, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Players can choose various units from the subfactions of the side they are playing on, unlocking new units or improv…
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88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding88% User Score 9,825 reviewsWargame Red Dragon is thrilling in single-player mode with its new dynamic campaign system, and also offers an extensive multiplayer mode where up to 20 players can compete against each other simultaneously.
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization89% User Score 1,677 reviewsCritic Score 69%3 reviewsThe Gold Edition includes: - Supreme Commander - Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
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66%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, optimization67% User Score 3,363 reviewsCritic Score 63%2 reviewsIn the world of Cortex Command, many humans have opted to amputate their entire natural bodies in order to prolong their lives and enable interstellar space travel. Their disembodied brains are hardly helpless, however, as they can remotely control all kinds of machines and craft through artificial interfaces. Playing as one of these people's brains, you can quickly switch control between many di…
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79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, story79% User Score 951 reviewsSuperPower 2 is the only global geopolitical simulation game which allows players to control entire countries. Players control countries in 3 major areas: political, economic and military, but this time, in a beautiful real-time 3D environment. Players build up their own countries and increase their influence in the broader world while competing against sophisticated A.I. Along the way, gamers mak…
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72%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, replayability72% User Score 555 reviewsFIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
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57%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, optimization56% User Score 7,212 reviewsCritic Score 60%1 reviewsColonize solar systems, annihilate homeworlds, and exterminate your foes in epic interplanetary battles with multiple players and thousands of units. Planetary Annihilation takes strategy gaming to a never-before-seen scale -- and gives players powerful tools to control the action. Blow up everything, anywhere; dominate with punishing spacecraft, robots, and other futuristic machines of war. Arm a…
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