Games like First Strike

If First Strike left you wanting something competitive and replayable, you have options. Browse these games for your next favorite.

ICBM: Escalation
A grand strategy RTS about the worst day imaginable: you run a faction, race through tech eras, and decide whether conventional armies or a nuclear stockpile wins the world. Bluff, deter, and launch, alone or with up to ten players, in matches where every choice could end in glowing ruins.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
85% of 1,283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 178$29.99
Precipice
A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term ambitions. Every action risks an enemy reprisal, and if nobody backs down from a standoff, we all lose.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
81% of 291 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
DEFCON
A Cold War strategy game about global thermonuclear war, inspired by the film Wargames. From a bunker, you place silos, fleets and defenses, forge alliances you will break, and watch real-time death tolls climb. Nobody wins a nuclear exchange. You just have to lose the least.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
87% of 3,510 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.99
SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3
A grand strategy war that runs in real time over days and weeks. You command a modern nation's armed forces, research its technology, manage its economy and negotiate with up to 140 other players while the front lines move while you sleep. Plan an attack at breakfast, check how it landed at dinner, and win the long game.
Competitive, Replayable
74% of 6,038 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 460Free
States of Power
Command a World War II nation's armies, economy and diplomacy in a grand strategy wargame that fits a full match into one session. Easy to pick up in minutes, deep enough to master, with a built-in Scenario Editor for making and sharing your own worlds.
Competitive, Replayable
90% of 492 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$9.59
OpenFront
A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game where hundreds of players fight over one shared map. Start with a small patch of land, grow an economy, broker truces, and end the match with nuclear weapons. Simple controls, real opponents, and a different game every time.
Competitive, Replayable
86% of 1,258 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 620$6.99
Kiloton
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS. Scheme your way through a highly replayable campaign, or conduct some "diplomacy" on your "friends" in multiplayer.
Competitive, Replayable
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
SuperPower 2 Steam Edition
Take charge of any of 193 real countries and run everything: politics, economy, war. Raise taxes, sign treaties, invade your neighbours, and watch the world react in real time. It is all numbers under the hood, and once that clicks, ruling the planet is hard to put down.
Competitive, Replayable
78% of 2,517 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$9.99
Dummynation
You get one country and one promise to keep: world domination. Dummynation is a real-time grand strategy game with shifting borders, streamlined economy and diplomacy, and no chores. Invade, negotiate or outgrow your rivals, alone or against real players, in sessions that end long after you meant them to.
Competitive, Replayable
88% of 3,183 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 68$11.99
War, the Game
'War, the Game' is a RTS for pc in realistic present day setting.The controls are intuitive, the game rules are simple and transparent.The game focuses on strategy and the use of ones brain to complete the scenarios.The map is a spherical version of earth. That's new.
Competitive, Replayable
63% of 333 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
Solar Nations 2
Grand strategy in 2092: take the helm of a Solar System Great Power, colonize nine worlds, build space fleets ship by ship, and fight wars that can end in nuclear fire. Deep politics, wild alternate histories, and a whole solar system to conquer, alone or with friends.
Competitive, Replayable
85% of 662 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
World Warfare & Economics
Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!
Replayable
57% of 647 Steam reviews are positive$29.99

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Precipice

A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term…

$7.99

SuperPower 2 Steam Edition

Run a real nation's politics, economy and wars, and watch the whole world respond to every decision you make.

$9.99

States of Power

Command a World War II nation's armies, economy and diplomacy in a grand strategy wargame that fits a full match into one session.

$9.59

OpenFront

Claim land, build an economy and negotiate your way to dominance against real opponents in fast multiplayer rounds.

$6.99

Kiloton

A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.

$6.99

War, the Game

'War, the Game' is a RTS for pc in realistic present day setting.The controls are intuitive, the game rules are simple and transparent.The game…

$6.99

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…

$4.99

Observe

Watch nations rise and fall on their own, redraw the map as a god, or take command of any country in a world you can build from scratch.

$6.39

Supreme Ruler 1936

Real-Time Strategy Game. Guide your nation through the most violent era in modern history.

$9.99

Twilight Struggle

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

$9.99

Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold

Take charge of a real country's economy, military and diplomacy as the world order falls apart around you.

$9.99

Command HQ

Command HQ is a fast, simple 1990 wargame of global conquest across World Wars I through V.

$6.99

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States of Power

Command a World War II nation's armies, economy and diplomacy in a grand strategy wargame that fits a full match into one session.

$9.59

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…

$12.99

OpenFront

Claim land, build an economy and negotiate your way to dominance against real opponents in fast multiplayer rounds.

$6.99

Kiloton

A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.

$6.99

Observe

Watch nations rise and fall on their own, redraw the map as a god, or take command of any country in a world you can build from scratch.

$6.39

Warnament

Pick a nation, build alliances and armies, and take your own version of history into turn-based matches with friends.

$12.99

Solar Nations 2

Steer a 2092 superpower through nine worlds, fleet building and deep politics, solo or with friends, where a war can end in nuclear fire.

$14.99

ICBM: Escalation

A grand strategy RTS about the worst day imaginable: you run a faction, race through tech eras, and decide whether conventional armies or a nuclear…

$29.99

FrontWars

Turn a small territory into an empire on a shared world map, where a full match fits into a coffee break and every round plays out differently.

Free

Age of Clicks

Grow an industry, raise armies and take over the map in a strategy idler where every conquest opens up more to manage.

$12.99

Global Protocol: New World Order

Lead any of 221 countries through a living 2026 world in this data-driven grand strategy game.

$19.99

Terra Invicta

Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.

$39.99

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