Games like Congo Merc

If Congo Merc left you wanting something tense and retro, you have options. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Angola '86
The first strategy game to capture the essence of the entire South African Border war, from Omugulugwombashe to UNTAG (Aug'66 - Mar'90)
Retro
73% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Vietnam ‘65
It is 1965 and the US ground war in Vietnam is in full swing. As a US Army commander, wage a counter-insurgency (COIN) war to secure the Ia Drang valley, on the border with Cambodia.
Tense, Retro
81% of 389 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.
Tense, Retro
75% of 244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
Black Powder Red Earth®
The near present. Step into the event horizon of a failed state, as Private Military Contractor - Cold Harbor, hunting jihadist terrorists in war-torn sprawls as a lethal surrogate for the host nation.
Tense, Retro
83% of 217 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Twilight Struggle
The Cold War, played as a board game: you and one opponent run the US or the USSR, placing influence across a world map and playing cards built from real history. Every session turns out different, and pushing a rival back one country at a time is hard to put down.
86% of 2,587 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$2.49
Cold War Battles
Lead Cold War ground formations in quick, turn based, hex‑and‑counter battles spanning 5 decades of real and hypothetical conflicts. With over 400 units, more than a dozen factions and varied theatres - from Africa to the Golan Heights, Europe and more, Cold War Battles await.
Retro
95% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler
You are the CEO of a private military company. Recruit capable mercenaries, purchase weapons, and develop your mercenaries according to their roles and characteristics. Observe how your mercenaries perform in combat and plan your tactics to ensure mission success.
Tense
69% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$5.99
SGS Korean War
The first intense conflict of the Cold War, this war is very often forgotten, its very rapid and dynamic but unknown aspect obliterated by months of stagnation following the first year of operations in Korea. Can you make it remembered?
Tense
80% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm Player's Edition
You are the commander of either NATO or Soviet forces locked in battle on the ground in 1980’s Central Europe. As commander, it is your task to provide the battle plan orders to your units. You need to know your mission objectives, strength and weakness of both your forces and you enemy, lay of the land, weather, and time of day in order...
Tense, Retro
87% of 212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$49.99
Jagged Alliance 3
Hired to find Grand Chien's missing president, your mercenary squad must take the countryside back from the Legion. Expect deep turn-based firefights, looted rifles to tinker with, territory to hold, and mercs who bicker the whole way. It is funny, scrappy, and worth playing for fans of tactical RPGs.
Tense
88% of 11,365 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 611$44.99
7,62 High Calibre
7.62 High Calibre is a tactical action game, sequel to Brigade E5. A professional mercenary is in pursuit of a certain Russian "businessman", who stole a large amount of money from his "colleagues". Now he is hiding in a small country of Latin America to avoid an inevitable punishment.
Tense, Retro
77% of 350 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Warhounds
Warhounds is a turn-based tactics game about an elite mercenary squad in an alternate-future Africa, with an old-school action movie streak. Flank, break cover, seize the high ground, and run a mercenary company between missions. High lethality means every decision counts, and one bad turn can cost a veteran.
Tense
70% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$34.99

Cheaper than Congo Merc

Twilight Struggle

Run the US or the USSR, spread influence country by country and play your cards to outmanoeuvre a rival.

$2.49

Marine Sharpshooter II: Jungle Warfare

In this follow-up to the hit Marine Sharpshooter, you'll be a lone operative fighting to restore democracy in an African country.

$2.99

Act of War: Direct Action

Lead a counterterrorist task force through a near-future crisis of oil, terror and collapsing governments.

$2.99

Combat Rush

This "snake", but instead of the snake you have mercenaries with weapons in their hands!

$0.91

9th Company: Roots Of Terror

9th Company Roots of Terror is an action-oriented real-time strategy game based on actual events that took place during the Soviet military campaign…

$0.99

Act of War: High Treason

A techno-thriller RTS where the enemy might be your own side.

$2.99

Unheard Screams - King Leopold II's Rule Over The Congo

Unheard Screams is a text based roleplaying game. You play as Miala, a Congolese liberator attempting to overthrow the regime of King Leopold II of…

$2.99

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical game that places gamers in the small tropical nation of Palinero on the verge of a civil war.

$3.99

Strategy & Tactics: Wargame Collection

Strategy & Tactics: Wargame Collection is a set of three historical turn-based strategies, in which you are going to take command of the armies in…

$0.99

Convict Team Tactics

Turn-based tactics. 20 dangerous convicts. Suicide missions.

$2.99

Mercs

Assemble a team of mercenaries and challenge the computer or another player in a quick turn-based battle.

$1.99

Empires Shall Fall

Empires Shall Fall is a turn-based tactics game set in a dieselpunk world.

$3.24

Hidden gems like Congo Merc

Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War

Master grand tactical combat as a Cold War force commander in this data-rich simulation.

$49.99

War Footing

Run a nation's defenses in the tense years before an invasion, then fight with the army you built.

$11.99

Armored Brigade II

Command tanks, infantry and air support across real-world European terrain, where orders take time to arrive and plans matter more than reflexes.

$39.99

Burden of Command™

You are a company Captain with the historical Cottonbalers in World War II, and your job is psychology as much as shooting.

$24.99

Warhounds

Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.

$34.99

Regiments

Lead tank and infantry platoons through a hot Cold War in Germany, outthinking the enemy with artillery, feints and counter-attacks.

$29.99

Strategic Command: American Civil War

Lead the Union or the Confederacy through a turn-based campaign of armies, generals and hard choices.

$39.99

Jagged Alliance 3

Lead a squad of hired guns through Grand Chien, one careful firefight at a time, alone or with a friend in co-op.

$44.99

Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler

You are the CEO of a private military company. Recruit capable mercenaries, purchase weapons, and develop your mercenaries according to their roles…

$5.99

SGS Korean War

The first intense conflict of the Cold War, this war is very often forgotten, its very rapid and dynamic but unknown aspect obliterated by months of…

$29.99

Black Powder Red Earth®

The near present. Step into the event horizon of a failed state, as Private Military Contractor - Cold Harbor, hunting jihadist terrorists in…

$19.99

Armored Brigade

Armored Brigade is a real-time tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability.

$39.99

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