ICBM
Pick a continent, hide your silos, and time your strikes against rivals who are plotting the same thing.
91% of 1,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Games like ICBM: Escalation
If ICBM: Escalation left you wanting something replayable and competitive, you have options. Give these games a try when the craving hits.
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$11.99Kiloton
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$6.99DEFCON
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 3,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.99Precipice
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$7.99Wargame: European Escalation
Cold War Europe, 1980s, and the border is heating up. Command hundreds of tanks, helicopters and infantry across huge maps in a real-time tactics game where realism decides fights: terrain, supply and the right unit in the right place. Build your deck, learn a harsh but fair battlefield, and find out why one well-hidden tank can ruin an entire advance.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive, Tense
76% of 2,609 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99Cuban 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$4.99States 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 507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$11.99SUPREMACY: 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: 460FreeWarnament
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 499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.74Flashpoint 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...
Replayable, Competitive, Tense
87% of 211 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$49.99Global Protocol: New World Order
Lead any of 221 countries through a living 2026 world in this data-driven grand strategy game. Shape economies, politics and alliances, wage conventional or nuclear war, run covert operations, and rewrite the global order—alone or online with up to seven friends.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
75% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99War, 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
Cheaper than ICBM: Escalation
First Strike
Guide a nation through escalation on a 3D globe, weighing every launch against the one that ends the world.
74% of 1,922 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
Kiloton
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
DEFCON
Command silos, fleets and shaky alliances from a bunker, then watch the countdown to global annihilation in real time.
87% of 3,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.99
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…
81% of 291 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Wargame: European Escalation
Command hundreds of Cold War units in real time, where terrain, supply and smart positioning decide who holds the line.
76% of 2,609 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$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…
75% of 245 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
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.
90% of 507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$11.99
Warnament
Pick a nation, build alliances and armies, and take your own version of history into turn-based matches with friends.
84% of 499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.74
Global Protocol: New World Order
Lead any of 221 countries through a living 2026 world in this data-driven grand strategy game.
75% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
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.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
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…
63% of 333 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
Hidden gems like ICBM: Escalation
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.
90% of 507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$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…
91% of 181 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.99
Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War
Master grand tactical combat as a Cold War force commander in this data-rich simulation.
98% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$49.99
Kiloton
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Warnament
Pick a nation, build alliances and armies, and take your own version of history into turn-based matches with friends.
84% of 499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$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.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
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…
80% of 951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99
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.
72% of 661 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$12.99
Global Protocol: New World Order
Lead any of 221 countries through a living 2026 world in this data-driven grand strategy game.
75% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour
Command American, Chinese, or GLA forces in big RTS battles, building bases and armies against rival commanders or other players.
90% of 6,465 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,830$0
Tempest Rising
Build bases, command huge armies and outplay rivals in ranked matches on a nuclear-scarred Earth.
86% of 10,171 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 144$39.99
Retro Commander
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
77% of 379 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Newest games like ICBM: Escalation
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…
91% of 181 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.99
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.
90% of 507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$11.99
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.
72% of 661 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$12.99
Global Protocol: New World Order
Lead any of 221 countries through a living 2026 world in this data-driven grand strategy game.
75% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Headquarters: Cold War
Headquarters: Cold War is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game set in a hypothetical 1984 conflict between NATO and the USSR.
66% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War
Master grand tactical combat as a Cold War force commander in this data-rich simulation.
98% of 116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$49.99
Warnament
Pick a nation, build alliances and armies, and take your own version of history into turn-based matches with friends.
84% of 499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.74
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.
92% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$7.99
Tempest Rising
Build bases, command huge armies and outplay rivals in ranked matches on a nuclear-scarred Earth.
86% of 10,171 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 144$39.99
Kiloton
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS.
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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.
84% of 665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99
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…
80% of 951 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99