The Best World-war-2 Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Torn Away added at rank #2.
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Walk the path of Gerda as her quiet life is turned upside down during the World War 2 occupation of her small Danish village. Choose where to go, how to act, and who to trust in this intimate narrative RPG-lite experience inspired by real life events. How far would you go to protect your loved ones?

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  • world-war-2
  • narrative
  • rpg-lite
  • dice
  • war
  • rpg
  • historical
  • adventure
  • slow-paced
  • top-down
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • narration
  • choices
  • conversation

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Torn Away (2023)

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Torn Away is an interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Experience the tragedy of World War II through the eyes of a child and survive without losing your humanity.


  • world-war-2
  • emotional
  • war
  • narration
  • first-person
  • platform
  • story
  • cartoony
  • scroller
  • minimalist
  • adventure
  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • hand-drawn
  • hidden-object

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Gerda: A Flame in Winter - Liva's Story (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?


  • emotional
  • world-war-2
  • narration
  • casual
  • multiple-endings
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • historical
  • conversation
  • hand-drawn
  • stylized
  • fiction
  • choices
  • top-down
  • interactive

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WW2: Bunker Simulator (2021)

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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

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Svoboda 1945: Liberation (2021)

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The horrors of World War II are over, but peace never came to the Czech village of Svoboda. You were sent to investigate a decades-old feud. Who can you trust to explain what happened? How was your family involved? Talk to witnesses to uncover the troubled past in a game unlike any you ever played.


  • historical
  • choices
  • farming
  • war
  • fmv
  • world-war-2
  • emotional
  • conversation
  • cinematic
  • investigation
  • education
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • visual-novel
  • atmospheric

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Through the Darkest of Times (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.


  • historical
  • political
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • world-war-2
  • politics
  • war
  • management
  • narrative
  • poor
  • text
  • story
  • horror
  • stat
  • thrilling

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Commandos 3 - HD Remaster (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Fall in, soldier! Commandos 3 - HD Remaster sends you to the relentless and unforgiving battlefields of Europe. Remastered in high definition including reworked 3D models and textures, improved controls and refined UI


  • tactical
  • real-time
  • world-war-2
  • stealth
  • strategy
  • isometric
  • wargame
  • first-person
  • war
  • shooter
  • squad
  • military

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Until the Last Plane (2021)

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Until the Last Plane is an airfield management game during WW2. Send pilots on mission. Craft spare parts. Repair your planes. Face your enemy and resist.


  • turn-based
  • minigame
  • auto-battler
  • management
  • world-war-2
  • resource-management
  • war
  • military
  • strategy
  • pixel
  • historical
  • top-down
  • pixel-graphics
  • tactical
  • combat

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Gates Of Hell (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch

Relish the staggering realism of WWII: No detail spared. This historically accurate RTS enables you to control single infantrymen in audacious raids and entire tank regiments in the greatest battles of the war. The time has come to experience the hell that soldiers endured.


  • world-war-2
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • editor
  • level
  • tactical
  • historical
  • pve
  • cooperative
  • war
  • pvp
  • realistic
  • wargame
  • military

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Aircraft Evolution (2018)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Fight through 4 time periods, from the era of the First World War to futuristic battles. Level up and evolve your aircraft from a wooden plane to a fighter of the future.

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  • i
  • world-war-2
  • scroller
  • war
  • flight
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • futuristic
  • casual
  • physics
  • experimental
  • simulation
  • tanks
  • military
  • destruction

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