Cold War Strategy games to play together

33 Cold War Strategy games your group can play together online, including Maestro's Cold War 2, Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, and Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War.

All games: 24

Maestro's Cold War 2

Addictive yet chill. An immersive Cold War sandbox. Revive the Cold War in this classic strategy game—easy to pick up, yet challenging and deep, offering endless replayability.

92%92% positive of 178 reviews6Playing now: 6$12.99

Hell Let Loose: Vietnam

Step into the explosive fury of war with Hell Let Loose: Vietnam. Play a decisive role in one of the most iconic conflicts in history with expansive 50v50 player battles, where teamwork, tactics and an arsenal of destructive weapons combine to shape the battlefield in your favour.

61%61% positive of 11,477 reviews1.6KPlaying now: 1,576$39.99

Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War

Master grand tactical combat as a Cold War force commander in this data-rich simulation. Plan and issue orders in asynchronous WEGO turns, leveraging real-world maps and complex features like Electronic Warfare and Air Assaults to outthink your enemy.

99%99% positive of 113 reviews6Playing now: 6$49.99

ICBM: Escalation

ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.

85%85% positive of 1,275 reviews142Playing now: 142$29.99

WARNO

Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.

80%80% positive of 14,667 reviews1KPlaying now: 1,018$39.99

Arma Reforger

Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.

79%79% positive of 52,973 reviews12.2KPlaying now: 12,153$39.99

Operation: Harsh Doorstop

Operation: Harsh Doorstop is the ultimate, free to play, tactical shooter sandbox. Play singleplayer, multiplayer, or co-op modes and explore thousands of community-created maps, weapons, and vehicles via the Steam Workshop. Created by developers of the cancelled Project Reality 2 project.

76%76% positive of 20,965 reviews133Playing now: 133Free

3 Days War

3 Days War is a unique multiplayer strategy war game. Integrating the mechanics of RTS+4X, it allows dozens of players to engage in a three-day real-time strategy competitionon. Commanders, use your skills, strategies, games and even deception to become the ultimate winner!

82%82% positive of 721 reviews8Playing now: 8Free

Armchair Commander

A turn-based strategy game where you can experience WWII campaigns and explore alternate history scenarios made by the community.

87%87% positive of 113 reviews1Playing now: 1Free

Line War

A new type of RTS with elements from 4X, Wargame, and Real-Time Tactics. Draw commands and execute a superior strategy to defeat your opponent, focusing on high-level decisions rather than constant micromanagement.

80%80% positive of 1,077 reviews6Playing now: 6$24.99

ICBM

ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.

91%91% positive of 1,657 reviews8Playing now: 8$19.99

Combat Mission Cold War

CM Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today.

60%60% positive of 155 reviews6Playing now: 6$59.99

Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game

Lock 'n Load Tactical is fast and Furious tactical combat that is fast to learn. In LnLT you get squads, weapon teams, armored vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft, and, in the modern-era games, helicopters. Individuals such as Leaders, Medics, Snipers, Chaplains, Advisors, and, of course, Heroes.

82%82% positive of 568 reviews3Playing now: 3$4.99

Lords Mobile: Kingdom Wars

Clash with global players in this epic real-time strategy game!

66%66% positive of 5,925 reviews842Playing now: 842Free

The Operational Art of War IV

The Operational Art of War IV is the new generation of operational wargames. With more flexibility than before and with a new array of exciting features, it will make you relive the most iconic battles from the dawn of the 20th Century to modern day, including the ones that never occurred!

76%76% positive of 290 reviews36Playing now: 36$39.99

Phantom Doctrine

The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.

73%73% positive of 3,830 reviews26Playing now: 26$39.99

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

Red Orchestra Series' take on Vietnam: 64-player MP matches; 20+ maps; US Army & Marines, PAVN/NVA, NLF/VC; Australians and ARVN forces; 50+ weapons; 4 flyable helicopters; mines, traps and tunnels; Brutal. Authentic. Gritty. Character customization. And napalm in the morning.

87%87% positive of 42,718 reviews226Playing now: 226$24.99

First Strike

FIRST 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.

73%73% positive of 1,923 reviews4Playing now: 4$2.99

Twilight Struggle

Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.

86%86% positive of 2,581 reviews75Playing now: 75$9.99

Wargame: Red Dragon

The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.

87%87% positive of 15,782 reviews163Playing now: 163$29.99

Supreme Ruler Ultimate

Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!

77%77% positive of 1,176 reviews41Playing now: 41$19.99

Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager

Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.

73%73% positive of 422 reviews1Playing now: 1$29.99

Wargame: Airland Battle Co-op Is a Two-Player Campaign

Play Wargame: Airland Battle’s turn-based Cold War campaign online with one friend, then fight its battles together in real time.

86%86% positive of 3,594 reviews28Playing now: 28$19.99

Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered

The genre-defining military sim that began as Operation Flashpoint (2001), now a modernized, 64-bit, cross-platform build for Windows and Linux, with its engine released as open source. Over 2 million copies sold. The Cold War battlefield of Everon and Nogova, remastered for today's hardware.

88%88% positive of 2,423 reviews41Playing now: 41$9.99

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