List of Vietnam War games explained

The Vietnam War has been depicted in many games.

Video games

While not as popular a topic as World War II or fictional wars set in modern times, the Vietnam War has been the setting for numerous video games.

Name Year Platform Publisher
'Nam 1965-19751991Amiga, Atari ST, DOSDomark
1988Commodore 64, ZX SpectrumCascade Games
7554: Glorious Memories Revived2011Microsoft WindowsEmobi Games JSC
Air Assault Task Force 2008Microsoft WindowsProSIM Company
2013Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4bitComposer Games
Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire2021Microsoft WindowsBohemia Interactive, Savage Game Design
Battlefield Vietnam 2004Microsoft WindowsElectronic Arts
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam2010Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
2010Mac, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, WiiActivision, Square Enix
2012PlayStation VitaActivision, Square Enix
2020Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/SActivision
Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-19672022Microsoft WindowsCampaign Series Legion
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat1991DOSElectronic Arts
2019Android, iOS, Amazon Kindle, Mac, Microsoft Windowsdigital Gameworks LLC
Conflict in Vietnam1986MicroProse Software, Inc.
2004Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mobile phone, N-GageGlobal Star Software, SCi Games
2005Microsoft WindowsBold Games
Eve of Destruction Redux2018Microsoft WindowsAgger Interactive
2018Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox OneUbisoft Entertainment SA
Flight of the Intruder1990Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, NESSpectrum HoloByte, Mindscape
Green Berets2001Microsoft WindowsTake-Two Interactive
Gunboat1990 Amiga, Amstrad CPC, DOS, TurboGrafx-16, ZX SpectrumAccolade
2022Microsoft WindowsGaming 301
LHX Attack Chopper1990DOSElectronic Arts
2003Microsoft WindowsInfogrames, Atari
Lost Patrol1990Amiga, Atari ST, DOSOcean Software
M.I.A.: Missing in Action1989ArcadeKonami
M.I.A.: Missing in Action[1] [2] 1998Microsoft WindowsGT Interactive
Made Man2006Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2Mastertronic, Aspyr
(Expansion)2011Microsoft WindowsParadox Interactive
2004Microsoft WindowsBrainbox Games
Men of Valor 2004Microsoft Windows, XboxVivendi Universal Games
2011Microsoft Windows1C Company
2022Microsoft Windowsdustfade
2004Microsoft WindowsHPS Simulations
NAM1986Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64Strategic Simulations
NAM1998DOSGT Interactive
NAM-19751991Neo Geo, Neo Geo CDSNK
Nam - Bare Feet Iron Will2018Browser gameGameflare.com, PacoGames.com, GameArter
Nam - The Resistance War2018Browser gamePacoGames.com
2007Nintendo DSMajesco Entertainment
Platoon (2002 video game)2002Microsoft WindowsMonte Cristo, Strategy First
PunjiVR2022Microsoft WindowsCamden Cleveland
Radio Commander2019Microsoft WindowsGames Operators, Serious Sim
Rambo (1985)1985Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX SpectrumOcean Software
Rambo (MSX)1985MSXPack-In-Video
Rambo: First Blood Part II1986Master SystemSega
Rambo (1987)1987NESAcclaim
Rambo (2008 video game)2008Arcade gameSega
2014Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360Reef Entertainment
2021Android, iOSMeoPlay
2004Mac, Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Game Studios
2017Microsoft WindowsAntimatter Games, Tripwire Interactive
TBAMicrosoft WindowsWallRus Group
SEAL Team1993DOSElectronic Arts
2002Microsoft WindowsGlobal Star Software
2004Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, XboxEidos Interactive
2009Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360Eidos Interactive
Soldier Boyz1997Microsoft WindowsDreamcatcher Interactive
Soldiers Of Vietnam - American Campaign 2020AndroidPosh Toffee Games
[3] 2009Microsoft WindowsHPS Games
[4] 2002Microsoft WindowsHPS Games
[5] 2001Microsoft WindowsHPS Games
1996DOSStrategic Simulations Inc.
2009Microsoft WindowsThird Wire
2018Android, iOSeRepublik Labs
The Hell in Vietnam2007Microsoft WindowsCity Interactive
The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956-20001999Microsoft WindowsTalonsoft
1988Three-Sixty Pacific
Tunnel Rats (video game)2009Microsoft WindowsBoll AG
VC1982Apple II, Atari 8-bit, DOS, PC-88, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCoAvalon Hill
Viet-Afghan[6] (3rd-party expansion)2010Microsoft WindowsFRVP
Vietcong (video game)2003Microsoft WindowsGathering of Developers
Vietcong 22005Microsoft Windows2K Games
Vietnam (1995 video game)1995DOSViper Software, CompuServe
Vietnam '652015Microsoft WindowsSlitherine Strategies
2000Microsoft WindowsValuSoft
2003Microsoft WindowsValuSoft, Inc., Media-Service 2000
2001Microsoft WindowsValuSoft, Inc.
2017Browser gamePacoGames.com
VNW - To be determined to fight2020Browser gamePacoGames.com
When I Was Young[7] 2020Microsoft Windows, Nintendo SwitchWallRus Group, Art Games Studio S.A.
Whirlwind over Vietnam2006Microsoft WindowsEvolved Games Developer
Wings over Vietnam2004Microsoft WindowsBold Games

Cancelled titles

Name Year Platform Publisher
Apocalypse Now (video game)[8] Cancelled (2017)Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, MacOS, LinuxErebus LLC
Call of Duty: VietnamCancelled (2017)Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft WindowsActivision
Vietnam (1986 video game)1986Abandoned/cancelledOrpheus Software

Mods

Name Year Platform Publisher

Unsung Vietnam War mod

2006Microsoft WindowsBohemia Interactive, Unsung team
ARMA 2

Unsung Vietnam War mod and VTE Vietnam The Experience

2009Microsoft Windows
ARMA 3

Unsung Vietnam War mod

2015Microsoft Windows
Eve of Destruction Classic (Mod)2003Microsoft WindowsLotteEoD Devs Team
Eve of Destruction Vietnam (Mod)2004Microsoft Windows
Eve of Destruction 2 (Mod)2007Microsoft Windows
Operation Flashpoint

Unsung Vietnam War mod

2004Microsoft WindowsBohemia Interactive, Unsung team
(Mod)2020Microsoft WindowsTiger Yan
Vietnam '65 (Mod)2017Microsoft WindowsLightning's team
Vietnam at War (Mod)2022Microsoft WindowsAFS

Digital board games

Lock 'n Load Publishing's LnLT Digital series

Other digital board games

Action-adventure game

Run and gun

Top-down shooter

Rail shooters

Arcade video games

Tactical shooter games

The Vietcong series
Other tactical shooters

Management simulations

Military simulations

Jet simulators

Helicopter simulators

Naval simulators

Real-time tactics games

URB Games' Mud and Blood series

Other real-time tactics games

Real-time strategy games

Talonsoft's The Operational Art of War series

Early series titles between 1998 and 2000 published by Talonsoft. TOAW III (2006) was the last Talonsoft-developed series title.

JTS/WDS' Squad Battles Series

(John Tiller Software/Wargame Design Studio's series)First 3 Vietnam War-themed Squad Battles titles were 1st published by HPS Simulations.

Other wargames (video games)

Board games

Name Year Publisher Description
Grunt1971Simulation PublicationsSquad and platoon level combat.
Year of the Rat - Vietnam, 19721972 Simulation of the 13 weeks of the Communist Offensive in the Spring of 1972.
Hue1973Simulations Design CorporationBattle of Huế
Dien Bien Phu1973Simulations Design CorporationFirst Indochina War, 1950–1954
Patrol1974Simulation PublicationsMan to man skirmish combat in Vietnam and other periods
1975Simulation PublicationsTactical combat
Operation Pegasus1980 A game simulating the campaign to break the siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War in 1968.
Defiance: The Battle of Xuan Loc1980 A simulation of The Battle of Xuan Loc (11 April 1975).
No Trumpets No Drums1982 Operational level game simulating the whole of the United States' ground combat role (1965–1975).
1984 Victory Games (1984)
GMT Games (2021)
Battalion level game simulating the whole of Americas ground combat and politics (1965–1975).
Tet '681992 A simulation of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
Winged Horse: Campaigns in Vietnam, 1965-662006 A simulation of the critical fighting that marked the first months after massive conventional US intervention into conflict. An expansion was also produced to cover the war up to 1975.
Snoopy's Nose & Iron Triangle2013 Two operational scenarios in Modern War #7 that simulated the campaign along a portion of the Mekong River in 1967 and the first large U.S. operation that attempted to eliminate the VC stronghold consisting of the infamous Cu Chi Tunnels.
In Country2013 A strategic simulation of the entire war in Strategy & Tactics #281 that covers the land and air campaign within South Vietnam.
Fire in the Lake2014 One to four players represent the VC, ARVN, NVA and US forces in a card driven game system that handles insurgency and counter insurgency activities.
LZ Albany2016 A tactical simulation of the firefight known as LZ Albany in Modern War #24 that covers the VC's ambush of U.S. air cav infantry in 1965.
Combat Veteran2017 A man on man tactical scenario of the firefight at the rice paddy angle in May 1967 in Modern War #31 that simulates Charlie Company of 4/47 (9th Infantry) going up against Viet Cong bunkers hidden in a jungle treeline.
Front Towards Enemy2019Multi-Man PublishingTactical combat at the scale of 50 meters per hex and five minutes per turn. Units represent fire teams of 1-4 men, heavy weapon sections, leaders, vehicles, and helicopters.
Rambo: The Board Game2020
Purple Haze 2023Phalanx Games

Notes and References

  1. Web site: M.I.A.: Missing In Action for Windows (1998). MobyGames. 2019-04-27.
  2. Not to be confused with the 1989 arcade game with the same title
  3. Web site: HPS Sims Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu . www.hpssims.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090610073805/http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/DBPhu/DBPhu.html . 2009-06-10.
  4. Web site: HPS Sims: Squad Battles "Tour of Duty" . www.hpssims.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030319025604/http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/TOD/TOD.html . 2003-03-19.
  5. Web site: HPS Sims SQUAD BATTLES: Vietnam . www.hpssims.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030322204843/http://hpssims.com/pages/products/SB/SBVietnam/SBVietnam.html . 2003-03-22.
  6. http://vietafghan.frvp.com Viet-Afghan's official site
  7. Web site: When I Was Young on Steam.
  8. Web site: Apocalypse Now. 2017-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20171028070309/https://apocalypsenow.com/. 2018-05-31. 2017-10-28.
  9. Web site: When I was young official website.
  10. https://aod.paradoxwikis.com/Vietnam_War Vietnam War info page at AOD Wiki
  11. https://aod.paradoxwikis.com/Mods Mods page at AOD Wiki