Works Set In World War II / Video Games Set in World War II

Video games set in World War II.

For the other works, see Works Set in World War II.

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Beat Em Up

• Captain America: Super Soldier: Video game adaptation of Captain America: The First Avenger.

First Person Shooter

• Battlefield has featured the war extensively:
  • Battlefield 1942 and its expansions, Road To Rome and Secret Weapons Of WWII
  • Battlefield 1943.
  • Battlefield Heroes, at least a very cartoony version of it.
  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2. "Operation Aurora", is set in 1944, involving a US team sent into Japan to discover a Japanese superweapon.
  • Battlefield V, notable as one of few WWII FPS games that allows you to play on the Axis side in its Campaign.
• Beach Invasion 1944
  • Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific
• Brothers in Arms 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.
• Call of Duty - except for the Modern Warfare games, which take place 20 Minutes into the Future. Black Ops mostly takes place during the Cold War, but has a flashback to a Soviet special operation shortly after the Germans surrendered. Black Ops III has a sort of Dying Dream 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 Nazi Zombies.
  • Call of Duty 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 Expansion Pack 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.
  • Call of Duty: Finest Hour 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.
  • Call of Duty 2 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.
  • Call of Duty 2: Big Red One focuses on the 1st Infantry Division during the entirety of the European War, from Operation Torch to the Battle of the Siegfried Line.
  • Call of Duty: World at War was an immediate return to World War II following the release of the acclaimed Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. 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.
  • Call of Duty: WWII is a return to the roots of the series.
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard has several WWII soldiers band together as a precursor to modern special forces units.
• Day of Defeat
• Day of Infamy
• Dino D-Day, albeit a WWII with Nazi dinosaurs.
• Enemy Front
• Hell Let Loose is a multiplayer tactical FPS set during the War in Europe and Africa. 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.
• Heroes & Generals is set during the closing months of the war on the Western Front.
• Hour of Victory, when Midway tried making its own Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.
• Land of War - The Beginning - the German invasion of Poland, told from the POV of a young Polish soldier
• Medal of Honor - except for the 2010 reboot and its sequel Warfighter.
  • Medal of Honor (1999) - the acclaimed 1st entry in the series that popularized World War II shooters and started the franchise.
  • Medal of Honor: Underground - the well-received second entry in the series, serving as a Prequel to the first and focusing on French Resistance fighter and leader Manon Batiste.
  • Medal of Honor: Allied Assault- the acclaimed 3rd entry in the series and its two expansion packs that focus on battles stretching from Algeria to Berlin.
  • Medal of Honor: Frontline- the acclaimed 4th entry in the series, set in Western Europe around the time of the Normandy Invasion to Operation Market-Garden.
  • Medal of Honor: Rising Sun- an entry that focuses on the Pacific and CBI Theaters from 1941-44.
  • Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault- an entry that focuses on the exploits of the United States Marine Corps during the early and middle parts of the Pacific War, from Pearl Harbor to Tarawa.
  • Medal of Honor: Vanguard - an entry that focuses exclusively on the Paratroopers of the 82nd and 17th Airborne Divisions during their drops in Europe.
  • Medal of Honor: Airborne - just like the previous game 'Medal of Honor: Vanguard' this is an entry that focuses exclusively on the Paratroopers of the 82nd and 17th Airborne Divisions during their drops in Europe.
• RAID: World War II
• Red Orchestra, set on the Eastern Front.
  • Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, 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 Excuse Plot.
  • Rising Storm is a standalone Expansion Pack for Red Orchestra 2, set on the Pacific Front between Americans and Japanese forces. In contrast to the base game, this one features an Asymmetric Multiplayer, with the Americans and Japanese each having exclusive weapons, and encouraging differing tactics.
• Squad 44 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.
• Ubersoldier
• The Wolfenstein series:
  • Castle Wolfenstein
  • Wolfenstein 3-D
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • Wolfenstein (2009)
  • Wolfenstein: The New Order: Alternate History set in 1960, Those Wacky Nazis have won the war, with the prologue level set during the last stages of the war in 1946.
  • Wolfenstein: The Old Blood: A prequel to The New Order, also set in an alternate 1946.
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: Alternate History, 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.
• World War II Online - a massively multiplayer FPS set during the Battle of France. Notable for featuring the French Armed Forces.

Grand Strategy / Wargame

• Axis & Allies, based on the board game, features a campaign in which the Axis Powers win the war.
• Hearts of Iron
• Panzer General

Narrative Game

• Gerda: A Flame in Winter: Set in Nazi-occupied Denmark, you play as Gerda, a woman whose husband has been captured by the Gestapo.
• Marvel 1943 Rise Of Hydra: Set in occupied Paris and stars Captain America and Black Panther.

Platform

• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin 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 (don't ask how they got in Dracula's castle, let alone in one of Brauner's portraits).

Point & Click

• Titanic: Adventure Out of Time - the opening of the game has the protagonist being killed during The Blitz, and is promptly sent back in time through this. The game's bad endings can also result in a different outcome for the war: Nazi Germany defeating the United Kingdom by either forcing them to surrender or simply bombing them with a nuclear device, the Soviets conquering the UK, or Commie Nazis declaring war on Europe.

Real Time Strategy

Battle Games:

• Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats. Three other games followed with the same engine:
  • D-Day
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge
  • Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege
• The Blitzkrieg series
• Company of Heroes 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 The Cavalry and serve as units for the British's Royal Canadian Artillery Support doctrine. The sequel Company of Heroes 2 was set on the Eastern Front and is notably Darker and Edgier 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.
  • 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.
• The last three missions of the German campaign of Empire Earth. 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.
  • Empires: Dawn of the Modern World : Patton's campaign.
• Men of War
• Steel Division: Normandy 44 bases its maps on aerial reconnaissance photographs from the Western Front.
• War Front: Turning Point — Alternate History, complete with Humongous Mechas, Zeppelins from Another World and other advanced tech.

Infiltration/Squad Games:

• The Commandos series, a stealth-RTS combination about a team of British Commandos usually working far behind enemy lines.
• Partisans 1941, a Commandos-like with management and RPG elements, consisting in leading a team of Soviet partisans on the Eastern Front.
• Silent Storm (the first game only, the sequels are set during the early days of the Cold War).

Real Time Tactics

• Battlestations Midway and its sequel Battlestations: Pacific both cover aerial and naval warfare in the Pacific Theatre. Pacific features a new What If? scenario for the Japanese; what if they'd won the Battle of Midway and proceeded on to attack the United States?
• 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.
• War Thunder is a Allegedly Free multiplayer game focused on aerial combat during this war.
• World of Tanks — the heart of the game is here, although available tanks stretch from 1917 to 1966.
• World of Warships—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.

Roguelike

• Bomber Crew is a management game about controlling the crew of a bomber based off the Avro Lancaster as it flies missions against Nazi Germany.
• Warsaw, turn-based tactical strategy roguelike set during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The player controls Polish resistants.

Run-and-Gun

• Guns, Gore & Cannoli: 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 Those Wacky Nazis 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 Zombie Apocalypse.

Shoot Em Up

• The 1942 series—at least most of the series anyway—is very loosely based on WWII.
• Azur Lane is largely set in an Alternate Universe of World War II, but with 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 various limited-time events covering other fronts and battles in Anachronic Order (barring some silly seasonal modern events). That said, the main plot does eventually start to diverge from the path of actual history.
• Rescue Raiders has present-day forces joining both sides of the war in a Terminator Twosome scenario.
• Strikers 1945 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.

Simulator

Flight/Aerial Combat Simulators:

• 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).
• Air Conflicts
• B-17 Flying Fortress
• Blazing Angels
• Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe
• Digital Combat Simulator includes World War II era planes.
• 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.
• 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.
• IL-2 Sturmovik
• The Saboteur - one of the few games focused on the French Resistance.
• Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
  • Secret Weapons Over Normandy
• War Thunder is a Allegedly Free multiplayer game focused on aerial combat
• World of Warplanes

Submarine Simulators:

• Silent Hunter Series (I through IV)

Tank Simulators:

• Panzer Elite
• Panzer Front

Stealth-Based

• Assassin's Creed: Unity 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 Paris during World War II and has to climb the Eiffel Tower while being shot at by German Messerschmitt planes.
• Death to Spies
• The Great Escape
• Velvet Assassin

Survival Horror

• Clock Tower 3's first stage features the protagonist evading a serial killer during the London bombings.
• Man of Medan - 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.

Tactical RPG

• Operation Darkness (World War II WITH WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRE NAZIS!)
• Valkyria Chronicles is blatantly based off of WWII, complete with the attempted genocide of an ethnic minority.
• Victory Belles 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.

Third Person Shooter

• Hidden & Dangerous and its sequel, a stealth/Third-Person-Shooter/Real-Time-Tactics combination focusing on a SAS team.
• Sniper Elite - The first game takes place during the Battle of Berlin, where you play as a Cold Sniper named Karl Fairburne, who is also a member OSS taking part in Operation Paperclip.
  • Sniper Elite V2 - a reboot of the first game that again takes place during the Battle of Berlin.
  • Sniper Elite III - a prequel to the second game showing Karl Fairburne's experiences during the North African campaign.
  • Sniper Elite 4 - an interquel set during the Italian campaign in 1943, detailing how Fairburne became part of the OSS.
  • Sniper Elite 5 - an interquel set during the Allied Invasion of Normandy in 1944, detailing Fairburne's first encounter with the V2 rocket program.
• The Zombie Army series, a spinoff of Sniper Elite that became its own series. As the title implies, it's Nazi Zombies galore.

Turn-Based Strategy

• Ring of Red
• Strategic Command
• TripleA, based off of Axis & Allies.
• Unity Of Command

Wide Open Sandbox

• The Saboteur - one of the few games focused on the French Resistance.

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