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Games like DEFCON
Introversion Software · 2006 · 87 % positive of 4,182
24 games that play like DEFCON and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Precipice, WARNO and ICBM: Escalation.
Player tags
At a glance
What games like DEFCON have in common
- The tags they share most often with DEFCON: Strategy (22 of 24), Tactical (18) and Cold War (7).
- They came out between 2009 and 2024, 24 of them after DEFCON (2006).
- Best rated by Steam players: ICBM (91 % positive of 1,831).
- 5 games both play and look like DEFCON, among them ICBM: Escalation, ICBM and First Strike.
By gameplay
Plays like DEFCON
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Precipice
80 % positive of 318
Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Cold War
WARNO
81 % positive of 12,671
Shared: Tactical · PvP · Co-op
ICBM: Escalation
87 % positive of 878
Shared: PvP · Online Co-Op · Co-op
Cold Waters
87 % positive of 4,533
Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Cold War
ICBM
91 % positive of 1,831
Shared: Tactical · PvP · Strategy
Cuban Missile Crisis
75 % positive of 270
Shared: Strategy · Cold War · RTS
First Strike
77 % positive of 1,864
Shared: Tactical · PvP · Strategy
SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3
76 % positive of 5,257
Shared: Online Co-Op · Strategy · Replay Value
Nuclear War Simulator
67 % positive of 247
Shared: Strategy · Military · Difficult
Wargame: Airland Battle
87 % positive of 4,406
Shared: Tactical · Co-op · Strategy
Frozen Synapse Prime
63 % positive of 335
Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Top-Down
Phantom Doctrine
74 % positive of 4,494
Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Replay Value
More matches
- Twilight Struggle86 % positive of 2,807Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Cold War
- Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm Player's Edition88 % positive of 249Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Replay Value
- Codename: Panzers - Cold War66 % positive of 265Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Cold War
- Combat Mission Cold War67 % positive of 201Shared: Tactical · PvP · Strategy
- Frozen Synapse82 % positive of 2,599Shared: Tactical · Co-op · Strategy
- Making History: The Second World War77 % positive of 276Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Military
- Sigma Theory: Global Cold War76 % positive of 1,347Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Difficult
- Arma Tactics32 % positive of 976Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Military
- Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Cold War25 % positive of 1,210Shared: Strategy · Cold War · RTS
- Wargame: European Escalation78 % positive of 3,321Shared: Tactical · Co-op · Strategy
- Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY82 % positive of 613Shared: Tactical · Strategy · Cold War
- REDCON84 % positive of 751Shared: Strategy · Singleplayer · 2D
By look
Looks like DEFCON
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
ICBM
91 % positive of 1,831
ICBM: Escalation
87 % positive of 878
War, the Game
68 % positive of 458
SuperPower 2 Steam Edition
80 % positive of 2,761
Supreme Ruler 1936
73 % positive of 294
Zombie City Defense 2
72 % positive of 200
SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3
76 % positive of 5,257
Nuclear War Simulator
67 % positive of 247
First Strike
77 % positive of 1,864
Extinction Day
75 % positive of 228
Supreme Ruler Ultimate
77 % positive of 1,223
Polaris Sector
71 % positive of 455
More matches
- Reassembly94 % positive of 3,960
- Supreme Ruler 203065 % positive of 472
- Battlevoid: Harbinger79 % positive of 1,020
- Captain Forever Trilogy89 % positive of 184
- Galimulator91 % positive of 486
- Simulator of Ukraine 199190 % positive of 197
- SPACECOM68 % positive of 513
- 4th Generation Warfare55 % positive of 158
- Age of History II89 % positive of 46,395
- Cyber Attack73 % positive of 179
- World Warfare & Economics69 % positive of 569
- Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal96 % positive of 4,647
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.