Line #79 WorksSetInWorldWarII/VideoGamesSetInWorldWarII


1	Video games set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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3	For the other works, see WorksSetInWorldWarII.
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8	[[folder:Beat Em Up]]
9	* ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaSuperSoldier'': Video game adaptation of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.
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12	[[folder:First Person Shooter]]
13	* ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' has featured the war extensively:
14	** ''VideoGame/Battlefield1942'' and its expansions, ''Road To Rome'' and ''[[StupidJetpackHitler Secret Weapons Of WWII]]''
15	** ''Battlefield 1943''.
16	** ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHeroes'', at least a very cartoony version of it.
17	** ''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany 2''. "Operation Aurora", is set in 1944, involving a US team sent into Japan to discover a Japanese superweapon.
18	** ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV'', notable as one of few WWII FPS games that allows you to play on the Axis side in its Campaign.
19	* ''VideoGame/BeachInvasion1944''
20	** ''VideoGame/BeachInvasion1945Pacific''
21	* ''VideoGame/BrothersInArms'' has paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne fighting on the Western Front in France for two games and later being deployed in Operation Market Garden in the series' third game.
22	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' - except for the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games, which take place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'' mostly takes place during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, but has a flashback to a Soviet special operation shortly after the Germans surrendered. ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII Black Ops III]]'' has a sort of DyingDream sequence set during a surreal version of the Battle of the Bulge with period-accurate soldiers using weapons from more than a hundred years in the future from said battle, dire wolves in a shape-changing forest, and then a round of VideoGame/NaziZombies.
23	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty1'' focuses on the Allied airborne landings in Normandy for the Americans and British, with several missions taking place behind enemy lines complementing both, while the Soviet campaign focuses on the Battle of Stalingrad, the Vistula-Oder Offensive, and finally the Battle of Berlin. The ''United Offensive'' ExpansionPack expands the Battle of the Bulge from the ending of the first game's American campaign, while the British campaign features British bombing missions over Europe, and later, commando raids in the Netherlands and Sicily. Finally, the expansion's Soviet campaign covers the Battle of Kursk, as well as the Battle of Kharkov.
24	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyFinestHour'' is a console-exclusive entry that focuses on the Battle of Stalingrad for the Soviets, the North African campaign for the British, and the Battle for Germany for the Americans.
25	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty2'' focuses on the Battles of Moscow and Stalingrad for the Soviets, the North African campaign and the Battles around Caen for the British, and the Battle of Pointe Du Hoc and the Battle of Germany for the Americans.
26	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty2BigRedOne'' focuses on the 1st Infantry Division during the entirety of the European War, from Operation ''Torch'' to the Battle of the Siegfried Line.
27	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' was an immediate return to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII following the release of the acclaimed ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare''. What makes this entry unique is that it's the first in the series to focus on the Pacific Theater of World War II, specifically the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
28	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWWII'' is a return to the roots of the series.
29	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyVanguard'' has several WWII soldiers band together as a precursor to modern special forces units.
30	* ''VideoGame/DayOfDefeat''
31	* ''VideoGame/DayOfInfamy''
32	* ''VideoGame/DinoDDay'', albeit a WWII with Nazi dinosaurs.
33	* ''VideoGame/EnemyFront''
34	* ''VideoGame/HellLetLoose'' is a multiplayer tactical FPS set during the WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica. Currently, maps are set in France, Belgium, and Germany, with the current belligerents being the US Army, Soviet Red Army, and the German Wehrmacht. Future updates plan on implementing the British Army, Polish Army, and Finnish Army.
35	* ''VideoGame/HeroesAndGenerals'' is set during the closing months of the war on the Western Front.
36	* ''VideoGame/HourOfVictory'', when ''Midway'' tried making its own ''Medal of Honor'' and ''Call of Duty''.
37	* ''VideoGame/LandOfWarTheBeginning'' - the German invasion of Poland, told from the POV of a young Polish soldier
38	* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' - except for [[VideoGame/MedalOfHonor2010 the 2010 reboot]] and its sequel ''Warfighter''.
39	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor1999'' - the acclaimed 1st entry in the series that popularized World War II shooters and started the franchise.
40	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorUnderground'' - the well-received second entry in the series, serving as a {{Prequel}} to the first and focusing on [[LaResistance French Resistance fighter and leader Manon Batiste]].
41	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault''- the acclaimed 3rd entry in the series and its two expansion packs that focus on battles stretching from Algeria to Berlin.
42	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline''- the acclaimed 4th entry in the series, set in Western Europe around the time of the Normandy Invasion to Operation Market-Garden.
43	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun''- an entry that focuses on the [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific Pacific and CBI]] Theaters from 1941-44.
44	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorPacificAssault''- an entry that focuses on the exploits of the [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]] during the early and middle parts of the [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific Pacific War]], from Pearl Harbor to Tarawa.
45	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard'' - an entry that focuses exclusively on the [[ItsRainingMen Paratroopers]] of the 82nd and 17th Airborne Divisions during their drops in Europe.
46	** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' - just like the previous game 'Medal of Honor: Vanguard' this is an entry that focuses exclusively on the [[ItsRainingMen Paratroopers]] of the 82nd and 17th Airborne Divisions during their drops in Europe.
47	* ''VideoGame/RAIDWorldWarII''
48	* ''VideoGame/RedOrchestra'', set on the Eastern Front.
49	** ''VideoGame/RedOrchestra2HeroesOfStalingrad'', the 2011 sequel, focusing on the famous Battle of Stalingrad, as well as a number of other battles taking place around the same time period. Notably, it is one of the very few World War II FPS to have a single-player campaign for the Germans. However, it's only a short campaign with an ExcusePlot.
50	** ''VideoGame/RisingStorm'' is a standalone ExpansionPack for ''Red Orchestra 2'', set on the Pacific Front between Americans and Japanese forces. In contrast to the base game, this one features an AsymmetricMultiplayer, with the Americans and Japanese each having exclusive weapons, and encouraging differing tactics.
51	* ''VideoGame/Squad44'' is set in the Western Front between 1940 and 1945, from the Fall of France, to D-Day and Operation Market-Garden. The most recent updates have added the Battle of the Bulge into the mix.
52	* ''VideoGame/{{Ubersoldier}}''
53	* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' series:
54	** ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein''
55	** ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''
56	** ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein''
57	** ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}''
58	** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'': AlternateHistory set in 1960, ThoseWackyNazis have won the war, with the prologue level set during the last stages of the war in 1946.
59	** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'': A prequel to ''The New Order'', also set in an alternate 1946.
60	** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'': AlternateHistory, again, as a follow-up to the above games since ''The New Order''. New York City was destroyed by a Nazi atomic bomb at the end of the games' alternate World War II, of all things.
61	* ''VideoGame/WorldWarIIOnline'' - a massively multiplayer FPS set during the Battle of France. Notable for featuring the [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades French Armed Forces]].
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64	[[folder:Grand Strategy / Wargame]]
65	* ''VideoGame/AxisAndAllies'', based on the board game, features a campaign in which the Axis Powers win the war.
66	* ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron''
67	* ''VideoGame/PanzerGeneral''
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70	[[folder:Narrative Game]]
71	* ''VideoGame/GerdaAFlameInWinter'': Set in Nazi-occupied Denmark, you play as Gerda, a woman whose husband has been captured by the Gestapo.
72	* ''VideoGame/Marvel1943RiseOfHydra'': Set in occupied Paris and stars ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/BlackPanther.
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75	[[folder:Platform]]
76	* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' has WWII as its backdrop: the game is set in 1944, the prologue mentions all the loss of life from the war as the reason the castle has reappeared, it includes a grenade sub-weapon that looks like a US WWII-era grenade, and the cutscene preceeding the boss battle with Medusa shows a petrified GI ([[FridgeLogic don't ask how they got in Dracula's castle, let alone in one of Brauner's portraits]]).
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79	[[folder:Point & Click]]
80	* ''VideoGame/TitanicAdventureOutOfTime'' - the opening of the game has the protagonist being killed during The Blitz, and is promptly sent back in time through this. [[spoiler:The game's bad endings can also result in a different outcome for the war: [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory Nazi Germany defeating the United Kingdom by either forcing them to surrender]] [[StupidJetpackHitler or simply bombing them with a nuclear device]], the Soviets conquering the UK, or CommieNazis declaring war on Europe.]]
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83	[[folder:Real Time Strategy]]
84	[[AC:Battle Games:]]
85	* ''VideoGame/AfrikaKorpsVsDesertRats''. Three other games followed with the same engine:
86	** ''D-Day''
87	** ''1944 Battle of the Bulge''
88	** ''Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege''
89	* The ''VideoGame/{{Blitzkrieg}}'' series
90	* ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes'' starts off with Americans and Germans on the Western Front, later adding British forces to the ''Opposing Fronts'' stand-alone expansion. Canadians' appear in the original game's final mission as TheCavalry and serve as units for the British's Royal Canadian Artillery Support doctrine. The sequel ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes 2'' was set on the Eastern Front and is notably DarkerAndEdgier than its preceding game - the plot is a Russian veteran recounting his experiences in the brutal conflict under interrogation. The main fare of it involves the Russian Soviet Union and Germans, though Polish irregulars appear in a campaign mission and in some commanders for Soviet players.
91	** Later expansions of 2 added the Western Armies (first USA and OKW, then later the British forces), as well as a campaign focused on the Battle of the Bulge.
92	* The last three missions of the German campaign of ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth''. Not to mention the Pacific campaign of ''Art of Conquest'', two of the missions of the American campaign, a "Turning Point" D-Day scenario in the second game, and another "Turning Point" scenario taking place at the Battle of Kursk in ''Art of Supremacy''.
93	** ''VideoGame/EmpiresDawnOfTheModernWorld'': Patton's campaign.
94	* ''VideoGame/MenOfWar''
95	* ''VideoGame/SteelDivisionNormandy44'' bases its maps on aerial reconnaissance photographs from the Western Front.
96	* ''VideoGame/WarFrontTurningPoint'' -- AlternateHistory, complete with {{Humongous Mecha}}s, ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld and other advanced tech.
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98	[[AC:Stealth/Squad Games:]]
99	* ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'', a series of RTS (apart from ''Strike Force'') about a team of commandos trained by the British who usually work far behind enemy lines.
100	* ''Partisans 1941'', a ''Commandos''-like with management and RPG elements, consisting in leading a team of Soviet partisans on the Eastern Front.
101	* ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'' (the first game only, the sequels are set during the early days of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar).
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104	[[folder:Real Time Tactics]]
105	* ''Battlestations Midway'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/BattlestationsPacific'' both cover aerial and naval warfare in the Pacific Theatre. ''Pacific'' features a new WhatIf scenario for the Japanese; what if they'd won the Battle of Midway and proceeded on to attack the United States?
106	* ''[[VideoGame/GraviteamTactics Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star]]'' is set during the Third Battle of Kharkov; the WWII DLC campaigns cover other battles near Kharkov. ''Mius Front'' will cover battles along the Mius River in summer 1943.
107	* ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' is a {{Allegedly Free\|Game}} multiplayer game focused on aerial combat during this war.
108	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' -- the heart of the game is here, although available tanks stretch from 1917 to 1966.
109	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''--much like ''World of Tanks'', the heart of the game is focused here, although the available ships stretch from as early as 1898 all the way up to 1953.
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112	[[folder:Roguelike]]
113	* ''VideoGame/BomberCrew'' is a management game about controlling the crew of a bomber based off the Avro Lancaster as it flies missions against Nazi Germany.
114	* ''VideoGame/{{Warsaw}}'', turn-based tactical strategy roguelike set during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The player controls Polish resistants.
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117	[[folder:Run-and-Gun]]
118	* ''VideoGame/GunsGoreAndCannoli'': The sequel is set in 1944, smack dab in the middle of the war. Vinnie Cannoli, the main character, ends up finding out about a conspiracy involving ThoseWackyNazis wanting to experiment on and use the zombie poison from the first game, and ends up going to Europe to stop them from potentially winning the war and/or unwittingly causing the ZombieApocalypse.
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121	[[folder:Shoot Em Up]]
122	* The ''VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo'' series--at least most of the series anyway--is very loosely based on WWII.
123	* ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' is largely set in an AlternateUniverse of World War II, but with [[MoeAnthropomorphism shipgirls]] and otherworldly invaders; the tutorial starts with the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and the introductory story maps cover the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Midway, with [[TemporaryOnlineContent various limited-time events]] covering other fronts and battles in AnachronicOrder (barring some silly seasonal modern events). That said, the main plot does eventually start to diverge from the path of actual history.
124	* ''VideoGame/RescueRaiders'' has present-day forces joining both sides of the war in a TerminatorTwosome scenario.
125	* ''VideoGame/Strikers1945'' is set in the summer of 1945, after the end of WWII when an extraterrestrial force called C.A.N.Y. starts a coup in an attempts to restart the war. Its sequel ''1945 II'' is set in the winter of 1945, where a new organization called F.G.R. picks up where C.A.N.Y. left off by threatening the world with more wars, thus disrupting the post-war peace.
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128	[[folder:Simulator]]
129	[[AC:Flight/Aerial Combat Simulators:]]
130	* Sierra's ''Aces'' line, consisting of ''Aces of the Pacific'' (Pacific air war), ''Aces Over Europe'' (European air war), and ''Aces of the Deep'' (Battle of the Atlantic, from a U-boat viewpoint).
131	* ''VideoGame/AirConflicts''
132	* ''VideoGame/B17FlyingFortress''
133	* ''VideoGame/BlazingAngels''
134	* ''Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe''
135	* ''VideoGame/DigitalCombatSimulator'' includes World War II era planes.
136	* ''Heroes of the Pacific'' revolves around a [=U.S.=] Navy fighter squadron as they fight in the skies over Pearl Harbor to above Iwo Jima.
137	* ''Heroes over Europe'' has an American pilot posing as a Canadian and fights in the Battle of Britain and later joins the [=U.S.=] Army Air Corps as the [=U.S.=] gets involved in the war.
138	* ''VideoGame/IL2Sturmovik''
139	* ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur'' - one of the few games focused on the French Resistance.
140	* ''VideoGame/SecretWeaponsOfTheLuftwaffe''
141	** ''VideoGame/SecretWeaponsOverNormandy''
142	* ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' is a {{Allegedly Free\|Game}} multiplayer game focused on aerial combat
143	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarplanes''
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145	[[AC:Submarine Simulators:]]
146	* ''VideoGame/SilentHunterSeries'' (I through IV)
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148	[[AC:Tank Simulators:]]
149	* ''Panzer Elite''
150	* ''VideoGame/PanzerFront''
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153	[[folder:Stealth-Based]]
154	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' is set in the late 18th century, but it has Animus glitch segments that send Arno Dorian to other eras. In one instance, he finds himself in occupied UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} during World War II and has to climb the {{Eiffel Tower\|Effect}} while being shot at by German Messerschmitt planes.
155	* ''VideoGame/DeathToSpies''
156	* ''VideoGame/TheGreatEscape''
157	* ''VideoGame/VelvetAssassin''
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160	[[folder:Survival Horror]]
161	* ''VideoGame/ClockTower3''[='=]s first stage features the protagonist evading a serial killer during the London bombings.
162	* ''VideoGame/ManOfMedan'' - the prologue of the game is set shortly after the end of World War II in the Pacific, onboard a troop transport converted into a freighter.
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165	[[folder:Tactical RPG]]
166	* ''VideoGame/OperationDarkness'' (World War II WITH WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRE NAZIS!)
167	* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' is blatantly based off of WWII, complete with the attempted genocide of an ethnic minority.
168	* ''VideoGame/VictoryBelles'' is set in a version of WWII where a massive otherwordly fleet known as the Morgana has suddenly invaded all of the Earth's seas right when the invasion of Poland begins, with only warships that have manifested an onboard female personification (the eponymous "Belles") being able to effectively fight back. As such, the international community has agreed to organize all of the Belles and their crews into a single joint force under the command of the League of Nations. However, the Belles' parent nations remain at war with each other despite their tenuous cooperation against the Morgana.
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171	[[folder:Third Person Shooter]]
172	* ''VideoGame/HiddenAndDangerous'' and its sequel, a stealth[=/=]Third-Person-Shooter[=/=]Real-Time-Tactics combination focusing on a SAS team.
173	* ''VideoGame/SniperElite'' - The first game takes place during the Battle of Berlin, where you play as a ColdSniper named Karl Fairburne, who is also a member UsefulNotes/{{OSS}} taking part in Operation Paperclip.
174	** ''VideoGame/SniperEliteV2'' - a reboot of the first game that again takes place during the Battle of Berlin.
175	** ''Videogame/SniperEliteIII'' - a prequel to the second game showing Karl Fairburne's experiences during the North African campaign.
176	** ''Videogame/SniperElite4'' - an {{interquel}} set during the Italian campaign in 1943, detailing how Fairburne became part of the OSS.
177	** ''VideoGame/SniperElite5'' - an {{interquel}} set during the Allied Invasion of Normandy in 1944, detailing Fairburne's first encounter with the V2 rocket program.
178	* The ''VideoGame/{{Zombie Army\|Trilogy}}'' series, a spinoff of ''Sniper Elite'' that became its own series. As the title implies, it's NaziZombies galore.
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181	[[folder:Turn-Based Strategy]]
182	* ''VideoGame/RingOfRed''
183	* ''Strategic Command''
184	* ''[[VideoGame/TripleAAxisAndAllies TripleA]]'', based off of ''TabletopGame/AxisAndAllies''.
185	* ''VideoGame/UnityOfCommand''
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188	[[folder:Wide Open Sandbox]]
189	* ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur'' - one of the few games focused on the French Resistance.
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191	[[/index]]

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