The Best Historical Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 3

Update : The Darkest Files added at rank #5.
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River City Saga: Three Kingdoms (2022)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

River City Saga: Three Kingdoms is a modern take on the classic River City Ransom series, combining it with Romance of the Three Kindgoms to create an exciting beat-em-up adventure. Fight your way through hordes of enemies and upgrade your character with weapons, food, armor or special moves by visiting stores in towns. Interact with NPCs and progress through a six chapter story full of dialogue and comedic timing. Enjoy local or online co-op for up to two players and bonus modes like China Heroes.


What we like:
  • Fun beat-em-up gameplay
  • Upgradeable characters
  • Local or online co-op for up to two players
  • Bonus modes like China Heroes
  • Full gallery with character bios and music gallery
What could be improved:
  • Clunky controls
  • Difficult platforming levels in some areas
  • Very long story dialogue

  • beat-em-up
  • spectacle
  • 2d
  • historical
  • old-school
  • destruction
  • brawler
  • fight
  • platform
  • comedy
  • retro
  • pve
  • family-friendly
  • anime
  • controller-support

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SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada (2016)

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PC Windows vita Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 3

Struggle for survival. Death before surrender! Experience the dramatic story and epic, action-packed battles of the Sanada clan during Japan's Warring States period.

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  • hack-and-slash
  • battle
  • historical
  • fight
  • action
  • combat
  • combo
  • cooperative
  • ninja
  • narrative

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Reigns: Three Kingdoms (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Android IOS iPhone

Swipe through military negotiations, marry to strengthen alliances and recruit soldiers to fight in turn-based card battles in this historical epic.


  • choices
  • card
  • online-ranked
  • turn-based
  • historical
  • humor
  • dynamic
  • strategy
  • dark
  • battle
  • narration
  • 2d
  • novel
  • military
  • cute

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Irem Collection Volume 1 (2023)

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l Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows Mac OS

Irem Collection Volume 1 is a collection of classic legendary arcade shoot 'em up games including Image Fight, Image Fight 2, and X-Multiply brought to modern platforms.


  • turn-based
  • historical
  • strategy
  • battler
  • graphics-including
  • card
  • rpg
  • grand-strategy
  • stylized
  • arcade
  • retro
  • classic
  • 1980s
  • truck
  • 2-rpg

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WW2: Bunker Simulator (2021)

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j Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

During WWII you are an American soldier who captured the german bunker in Normandy. You must defend it at all costs and survive this World War II. Complete missions, cook & shoot, search the bodies for medicines, ammo, and food to survive. WW2: Bunker Simulator is a mix of fps and simulator.

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  • world-war-2
  • wargame
  • resource-management
  • first-person
  • crafting
  • survival
  • shooter
  • historical
  • military
  • management
  • fps
  • 3d
  • war
  • realistic
  • simulation

26

The Hundred Year Kingdom (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Create a world free of conflict in this innovative turn-based simulation. Work together with a mythical young goddess to develop a peaceful civilization over the course of a century.

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  • city-building
  • turn-based
  • simulation
  • colony
  • historical
  • lore
  • building
  • anime
  • time-management
  • immersive
  • multiple-endings
  • management
  • pixel
  • choices
  • romance

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Kubits Gallery (2024)

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Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Kubits Gallery is a logic game for casual players where you will have to solve nonogram grids to repaint the vanished paintings inside museums around the world. Solve puzzles at your own pace more than 120 levels in various fictional galleries.


  • logic
  • abstract
  • historical
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • casual
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • movement
  • education
  • grid
  • relaxing
  • cute
  • puzzle
  • funny

28

Murder Is Game Over: Streaming Death (2023)

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j PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Embark on a thrilling pixel art adventure with Detective Guy & Cleo as they solve a mysterious murder. Explore an eerie seaside village, search for clues, interview suspects, and unravel the truth in this whodunit mystery.


  • detective
  • scroller
  • walking-simulator
  • hidden-object
  • fiction
  • dog
  • point-and-click
  • historical
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • linear
  • interactive
  • exploration
  • horror
  • logic

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SONOKUNI (2025)

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Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.


  • transhumanism
  • cyberpunk
  • hack-and-slash
  • dystopian
  • psychedelic
  • futuristic
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • historical
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • aliens
  • tactical

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Jigsaw Puzzle: Belgium Through The Lens (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Enjoy a personal zen moment filled with casual gaming by solving easy, intermediate and more challenging digital jigsaw puzzles with an ever increasing number of pieces to puzzle together.

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  • historical
  • casual
  • puzzle
  • cooking
  • nature
  • modern
  • cartoony
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • arcade
  • building
  • realistic
  • single-player
  • challenging
  • relaxing

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