10 Best WWII Games of 2026

Hell Let Loose is our top WWII game because it puts history fans inside the battles they read about. The Steam page lists Carentan, Omaha Beach, Stalingrad and Kursk among its fights, and the maps are recreated to scale from aerial and satellite imagery of the real locations. Matches are 50v50, and players choose from 14 roles across Command, Infantry, Recon and Armour, so an Officer can plan an attack while a Tank Commander and a Spotter handle their own jobs. A resource-based meta-game ties supply to the front line. English Steam reviews are 83% positive across 63,038 reviews, and it costs $49.99. The trade-offs are real: there is no single-player campaign, reviews from the last 30 days are softer at 74%, and the game expects you to talk with your squad. Players who want a story should look at Call of Duty: WWII or Sniper Elite 5 instead.

Company of Heroes 2 is the classic WWII real-time strategy pick, and it still has a large audience: 84% of 28,592 English Steam reviews are positive. Relic built it around small squads and tactical choices. The TrueSight system models each unit's line of sight, the cover system rewards careful placement, and hard and soft counters mean riflemen cannot simply walk up to a tank. The base game includes two Eastern Front armies, the Soviet Red Army and the German Ostheer, plus a single-player campaign as a Soviet commander pushing toward Berlin. The Western Front Armies, The British Forces and Ardennes Assault are sold as standalone add-ons. It runs on very modest hardware and on all three desktop systems. It is an older game, so visuals look their age, and getting every faction costs extra. It was discounted when we checked, so confirm the current US price on Steam.

Hearts of Iron IV is the pick for history fans who care about why the war went the way it did. Paradox describes it as a grand strategy wargame where you take command of any nation in World War II, build its industry, form alliances and plan military strategy down to division templates, research and factory orders. Alternate history paths open up with political choices, so the war can unfold very differently from the history books. The $49.99 Steam purchase now includes four expansions: Death or Dishonor, Together for Victory, Waking the Tiger and Man the Guns, which cover central Europe, the Commonwealth, China and Japan, and naval warfare. It has the best reviews on this list, with 90% of 124,400 English reviews positive, and it runs on 4 GB of RAM. The cost is complexity: new players face many menus and systems, you never aim a rifle, and recent reviews are lower at 67%.

Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront covers the war between Germany and the Soviet Union from June 1941 to May 1945, and it is the most detailed tactics game on this list. Its standout feature is switchable views: you can command from a classic top-down RTS camera, drop into third person, take direct control of a single unit, or use a first-person gunner view in any vehicle. The Conquest dynamic campaign lets you build an army group and research units alone or with friends, and the game also has 12 historical single-player missions, PvE and PvP maps from 1v1 to 4v4, and a choice of Early, Mid or Late war equipment. Reviews are strong and recent ones are even better, at 87% positive. It costs $34.99. It is demanding, with 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1070 class card listed as the minimum, and the depth takes time to learn.

Sniper Elite 5 is the story pick for history fans who prefer to play alone or with one friend. Rebellion sets it in Brittany in 1944, where marksman Karl Fairburne joins a covert US Rangers operation against the Atlantikwall and works with the French Resistance. Many real locations were captured with photogrammetry, and each map offers several infiltration and extraction points. Shots factor in gravity, wind and heart rate, the kill cam returns, and workbenches let you change scopes, stocks and barrels. Co-op lets two players share ammo, give orders and heal each other. Reviews are strong at 84% of 11,389 English reviews positive. The main story follows a fictional Nazi project rather than a documented operation, and the game is about one sniper rather than the larger war. It was heavily discounted when we checked, so check the current US price.

Enlisted is the free way into big WWII battles. Its twist is that each player commands a whole squad of AI soldiers, and if one falls you switch to another and keep fighting, which makes battles with hundreds of soldiers, tanks and aircraft feel crowded. Gaijin lists four nations, the USA, USSR, Germany and Japan, and fronts from the Pacific islands and Normandy to Berlin, Moscow, Stalingrad and Tunisia, so it covers the Pacific War that most games here leave out. The store page counts about 400 vehicles, from motorcycles to bombers, and supports cross-platform play and full controller support. English Steam reviews are 78% positive across 21,111 reviews, and recent ones are 81%. The catch is the business model: the game is free, but squads and packs are sold in the store, with one squad listed at $24.99. It is also online only.

Call of Duty: WWII is the most cinematic way to see the European theater. Activision describes three modes: a campaign that lands you in Normandy on D-Day and moves across Europe, classic run-and-gun multiplayer on WWII-themed maps, and a standalone co-operative mode with its own story. It also supports split-screen play and full controller support, which is rare among the PC games here. Recent Steam reviews are positive at 87% of 189, but the all-time English score is 67% of 14,251, the lowest on this list. At $59.99 it is also the most expensive game here, and it needs 90 GB of storage. History fans should treat it as an action film: it is fast and polished, but it does not model squads, logistics or command the way Hell Let Loose or the strategy games do.

Battlefield V is the big-battle shooter for players who want WWII without the teamwork demands of a milsim. EA sells it on Steam as the Definitive Edition, which unlocks all gameplay content from launch, Year 1 and Year 2, including every weapon, vehicle and gadget, plus all Elites and 84 outfit variations for the British and German armies. Fights span land, air and sea, and there is single-player content as well as online PvP. It supports full controller support and HDR, and the minimum spec is 8 GB of RAM. Reviews are mixed compared with the top of this list: 71% of 35,749 English reviews are positive, and 64% of 656 in the last 30 days. At $49.99 it costs the same as Hell Let Loose, which rates higher and is closer to history, so Battlefield V suits players who value spectacle and quick action over realism.

Squad 44, formerly known as Post Scriptum, is the cheapest paid game here and one of the most demanding in teamwork. Offworld lists 20 large-scale battlefields, more than 150 weapons and over 120 vehicles, with campaigns that include the liberation of the Netherlands and the Battle of Normandy. Its faction list is wider than most: the British 1st Airborne Division, the US 4th Infantry Division, the French Army, Polish Airborne Forces and Australian, Greek and New Zealand units face the Wehrmacht, Waffen SS and Fallschirmjäger. A commander can call gun runs and artillery, other players run logistics and build fortifications, and in-game voice chat ties it together. It costs $19.99, and 79% of 11,809 English reviews are positive. The minimum spec is high, at 16 GB of RAM and an 8 GB graphics card, and there is no single-player mode.

Steel Division 2 is built for history fans who think in battalions. Eugen Systems sets it on the Eastern Front in 1944 during Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive in Belarus, and says every battalion in the campaign matches the real order of battle. You play as a general in turn-based Dynamic Strategic Campaigns on maps up to 150 by 100 km, managing movement and supply, then fight each engagement as real-time tactical battles or auto-resolve them. The game lists more than 600 units, 25 maps and solo, multiplayer and co-op modes. It is light on hardware, with 4 GB of RAM in the minimum spec, and 79% of 4,326 English reviews are positive. It is narrower than the picks above it, focusing on one operation, and the scale of the battles takes patience to learn.