Games like ICBM

Loved how replayable and competitive ICBM can get? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

First Strike
Take charge of one of twelve nuclear superpowers on a living 3D globe. Expand, research, build rockets, and try to be the last nation standing when the world goes up. Fast rounds, real tension, and a strange twist: sometimes the winning move is dismantling everything you built.
Replayable, Competitive, Tense
74% of 1,922 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
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.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive, Tense
87% of 3,512 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.99
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.
Replayable, Competitive, Retro
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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.
Replayable, Competitive, Tense
81% of 291 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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.
Replayable, Competitive, Tense
75% of 245 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
Terminal Conflict
Touch the world with your fingertips! Your retro terminal awaits your command, for the balance of power, in this definitive Cold War strategy game. Here you belong; assert your leadership through turn based strategic tit-for-tat, on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Don't let it slip away!
Replayable, Competitive, Retro
64% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Warzone 2100
A post-apocalyptic RTS from 1999, kept alive by its community. Rebuild civilization after nuclear war, design your own war machines from parts, and push over 400 technologies through a huge research tree. Artillery duels, radar hunts and a campaign with full-motion video make it a classic worth another look.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive, Tense
89% of 1,638 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29Free
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.
Replayable, Competitive
63% of 333 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
Nuke Them All
An RTS classic reborn with a twist. Time is of the essence, Commander! Capture the flags, conquer the territories, and eliminate the enemy fort. And finally, nuke them all! This old-school sci-fi Indie real time strategy game, crafted by devoted team, revives the genre's enduring allure.
Replayable, Retro, Chaotic
81% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
74% of 6,044 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.
Replayable, Competitive
90% of 506 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$11.99
Warnament
An approachable turn-based grand strategy sandbox. Pick a country, forge alliances, trade, raise armies and rewrite history, solo or with friends. Easier to learn than the big grand strategy names, quick to return to, and endlessly replayable thanks to map and scenario editors plus community mods.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
84% of 498 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.74

Cheaper than ICBM

First Strike

Guide a nation through escalation on a 3D globe, weighing every launch against the one that ends the world.

$11.99

DEFCON

Command silos, fleets and shaky alliances from a bunker, then watch the countdown to global annihilation in real time.

$11.99

Kiloton

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

$6.99

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…

$7.99

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

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

Nuke Them All

An RTS classic reborn with a twist. Time is of the essence, Commander! Capture the flags, conquer the territories, and eliminate the enemy fort.

$9.99

Warnament

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

$9.74

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.

$11.99

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

Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition

In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through…

$14.99

Dummynation

Pick a nation, then grow it by force, trade or diplomacy until the whole map answers to you.

$11.99

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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.

$11.99

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

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.

$7.99

Warnament

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

$9.74

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

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

Raise a base, mass tanks, ships and planes, and push across land, sea and air in fast, friendly-looking battles that stay easy to start and tricky…

$19.99

Global Protocol: New World Order

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

$19.99

War of Dots

Claim territory and command minimalist armies in quick tactical matches against other players.

Free

Nuclear Option

Take off in minutes, fly low to stay off the radar, and settle it with a nuclear shockwave if you have to.

$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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