Bronze Age - HD Edition

Posted By admin On 16.04.21

Bronze Age: HD Edition: 09/15/17: North America PC: Bronze Age: HD Edition: 09/25/17: North America 2018; Macintosh: Egypt Old Kingdom: 05/24/18.

This list is an attempt to list comprehensively all historical video games that are currently available for the Windows platform. A number of these are not appropriate for all ages or necessarily for classroom use. This is mostly true of the first-person shooter category (fps): games in the category tend to be rated mature, not appropriate for those under age 17.

A Bronze Age helmet, 13th/12th century B.C. Shallow bronze skull with two bands of triple ridges and a cast-on helmet knob with a cylindrical opening for the helmet crest. Curved cheek pieces, formerly attached to the helmet lining. Decorative discs riveted around the perimeter of the helmet and the cheekpieces. Total height 16.5 cm.
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Guide to Codes:

action = action game
adventure = point-and-click adventure games.
cb-images = choice-based text with images
cb-text = choice-based text
city = city-builder, management
fps = first person shooter (note: fps is used as a commonly known designation; a game identified as fps may or may not have actual shooting involved)
fsim = flight simulator
life = life simulator
rpg = role playing game
rtgs = real-time grand strategy
rts = real-time strategy or tactics
sim = simulation (machine, vehicle etc.)
tbs = turn-based strategy, not exclusively on warfare
thpsa = third person shooter/action
war tb = wargame, turn-based
war rts = wargame, real time

Ancient Near East

Online (Free)

Pre-Civilization Stone Age (tbs)
Pre-Civilization Bronze Age (tbs)- free original web version of Bronze Age – HD Edition
Hammurabi (alternate version) (tbs)- one of the very first computer games. Link 1 is a 1996 remake of the 1978 original.

Desktop ($$)

Bronze Age HD Edition (tbs)
Chariots of War (war)
Egyptian Settlement (city)
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile(city)
Pharaoh + Cleopatra (Also on Gog.com) (city)
Pre-Dynastic Egypt (tbs)
Egypt: Old Kingdom (tbs)

Meso-America and South America

Online (Free)

Desktop ($$)

Medieval 2: Total War Collection (war/tbs/rts) – included Medieval 2: Total War Kingsdoms, with a campaign in the Americas
Europa Universalis III and Europa Universalis IV (rtgs) – both allow play as one of the native empires of Central and South America

Ancient Greece

Online (Free)

300 Spartans: Xerxes’ March to Greece – more a set of interactive animations than a full simulation, but still a worthwhile site to complement lessons on the Persian wars.
Ancient Acropolis Temple – Make a series of construction decisions and see the final Greek temple

Desktop ($$)

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (rts)
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (thpa)
Field of Glory II: Immortal Fire (war tb)
Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece (war rts)
Mare Nostrum (war tb)
Zeus and Poseidon (city)

Ancient China

Online (Free)

Desktop ($$)

Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom @Gog.com (city)
Gloria Sinica: Han Xiongnu Wars (rpg)
Oriental Empires – (tbs) – I’m uncomfortable with the title, but it appears to be a legitimate 4x type game.
Warring States (war tbs)

Ancient Rome

Online (Free)

Centurion – Defender of Rome (1990, Internet Archive) (tbs; war rts)

Desktop ($$)

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (rts)
Caesar II @Gog.com (city)
Caesar III (city)
Caesar IV (@Gog.com) (city)
Celtic Kings: Rage of War @Gog.com (rts)
CivCity:Rome (@Gog.com) (city)
- Jeremiah McCall, PlaythePast.org
Field of Glory 2 (war tbs)
Grand Ages: Rome (city)
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar (war rts)
Imperium Romanum (city)
Mare Nostrum (war tb)
Rome: Total War (war/tbs/rts)
Total War: Rome 2 (war/tbs/rts)

Medieval Europe

Online (Free)

BBC – Battle of Hastings (cb-images)
Conqueror – A multiplayer Risk-style strategy game set in Medieval Europe

Desktop ($$)

Age of Empires II (rts)
Anno 1404 @ Gog.com (city)
Anno 1503 @Gog.com (city)
Castle 1+2 @Gog.com
Conqueror 1086 @ Gog.com (rpg, tbs). Also available on the Internet Archive.
Crusader Kings & Crusader Kings 2 (rtgs) – Real time grand strategy game of Medieval politics, warfare, and dynasty building.
Grand Ages: Medieval (city; rts)
The Guild (@Gog.com)
The Guild 2 (@Gog.com) & The Guild 3 (@Gog.com) (rpg)
The Guild 2: Renaissance(@Gog.com) (rpg)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (@Gog.com) (fps/rpg)
Lords of the Realm: Royal Edition @Gog.com (tbs / rts)
Medieval II: Total War (war/tbs/rts) – Hybrid turn-based kingdom management/ real-time battlefield simulation game.
Patrician 1+2 (@Gog.com) (city/rts)
Patrician 3 (@Gog.com) (city/rts)
The Sims Medieval (@Origin.com) (city/rts/rpg)
Stronghold HD (@Gog.com) (city; rts)
Stronghold Crusader HD (@Gog.com) (city; rts)
Stronghold Crusader 2(@Gog.com) (city; rts)
Stronghold 2 (city; rts)

Feudal Japan

Desktop ($$)

Shogun: Total War 2 (war/tbs/rts)
Sengoku(@Gog.com) (rtgs)
Sengoku Jidai (war tb)

Imperial China

Desktop ($$)

Oriental Empires – (tbs) – I’m uncomfortable with the title, but it appears to be a legitimate 4x type game.
Total War: Three Kingdoms (war/tbs/rts)

Early Modern Europe / Age of Exploration

Online (Free)

Seadog – a simple web-based choice-based text game where the player makes choices as an English privateer out to capture Spanish ships.
Seven Cities of Gold Commemorative Edition (action/rts)- playable in a browser (Edge seems to work better than Chrome) at the Internet Archive. Fully playable and saveable. Odd controls. CTRL = Enter; Enter = Submit text; Arrow Keys for everything else.

Desktop ($$)

Anno 1602 @Gog.com (city)
Arte: Mecenas
- Jeremiah McCall, Gaming the Past, Arte: Mecenas Review
1701 A.D. @Gog.com (city)
Blood and Gold: Caribbean!@Gog.com (rts thps)
Cossacks 3 (@Gog.com) (war rts)
Empire: Total War (war/tbs/rts)
Europa Universalis III and Europa Universalis IV (rtgs)
Imperialism 2: The Age of Exploration @Gog.com (tbs)
Patrician III (@GOG.com) (rtgs, economic)
Patrician 4 (rtgs, economic)- Sea-trade games set in the Medieval Baltic.
Port Royale (rts adventure)
Port Royale 2 (@Gog.com) (rts adventure)
Port Royale 3 (rts adventure)
Rise of Prussia (war tbs)
Sid Meier’s Colonization Classic (tbs)
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization (tbs)
Sid Meier’s Pirates (@Gog.com)

Napoleonic Era

Online (Free)

BBC Battlefield Academy: Battle of Trafalgar (review/overiew)
Napoleonic Wars Online According to NWOL: “The Napoleonic Wars OnLine (NWOL) is a multiplayer simulation of combat and diplomacy during the Wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars (approximately 1793 to 1815.) Players representing 13 European nations form alliances and coalitions, declare wars and make peace, and command armies and fleets in battle, seeking to expand the power and influence of their home country and achieve control over the continent. “

Desktop ($$)

Imperial Glory (war tbs, rts)
Cossacks 2: Napoleonic Wars (war rts)
Cossacks II Anthology @Gog.com (war rts)
Napoleon’s Campaigns (war tbs)
Napoleon: Total War (war/tbs/rts)

19th Century India

19th Century Europe, Industrial Revolution, and Imperialism

Online (Free)

Desktop ($$)

The Curious Expedition (adventure tbs)
Imperialism @Gog.com (tbs)
Pride of Nations (tbs)
Renowned Explorers: International Society (rpg tbs)
Sid Meier’s Railroads(@Gog.com)
Victoria II (rtgs)

World War I