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Charging InfantryWe are a team of students of computer science and history class whose hobbies are also everything the gaming industry has to offer. We love computer games, and for the interprofessional collaboration project, we have merged computer science and history. Together, we build up this website, researching video games with historical aspects. With the much-appreciated help of friends running the AscINC.com gaming web site, we were able to get in our hands some powerful gaming PCs and laptops. As for a computer science part of a project, we run benchmarks and stress tests on these gaming laptops and research their optimization, game engines built upon, etc.

We believe historically themed games do a much better job teaching why some historical actions took place rather than just what and when. Of course, even in an exceptional historical video game, you might not be learning the same stuff you would learn in class, but the history you learn will start to make a bit more sense. And that’s great.

Some genres of video games (mostly role-playing games) are full of arcana, driving from ancient civilizations. Of course, it’s not always historically accurate, and even the ones that try to get it right have to take some liberties with the facts modern scholarship hands down to us to be an entertaining game. But there is a definite divide between games that explain some parts of history and those that put in enough research time to get at least some of the essential facts accurate.

It’s no easy to measure a “historicity” when it comes to games. Games that focus on history may end up overly complicated rather than fun. We highlighted genuinely exceptional PC games that go out of their way to include some historical accuracy. We listed video games that accurately and ably portray a facet of history often understated or neglected in other, purportedly historical games.

In chronological order based on the release date, these are the most historical PC games.

November 20, 2020

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Genre: Action role-playing

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla is the twelfth installment of this best-selling series, produced by fifteen development teams belonging to Ubisoft, under the leadership of Ubisoft Montreal. Although the initial releases were initially the action games genre, they evolved into action RPGs; this is also the case in this installment.

November 20, 2020
August 30, 2020

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Troy: A Total War Saga

Developer: Creative Assembly Sofia
Publisher: Sega
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, MacOS
Genre: Turn-based strategy,
real-time tactics

Total War Saga: Troy is the second installment of the Total War series, developed by Creative Assembly studio. As the name suggests, the main topic for this strategy game was primarily the epic Iliad by Homer.

August 30, 2020
July 17, 2020

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Ghost of Tsushima

Developer: Sucker Punch Productions
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genre: Action-adventure, stealth

Ghost of Tsushima is an action sandbox game developed by Sucker Punch and is a PlayStation 4 exclusive game.  It was developed by the American studio Sucker Punch Productions, the creators of the InFamous and Sly Cooper series.

The player plays a samurai who is taken to the island of Tsushima, where he fights the Mongol invaders in order to avenge the death of his family.

July 17, 2020
March 19, 2020

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Panzer Corps 2

Developer: Flashback Games
Publisher: Slitherine Ltd.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Genre: Turn-based strategy

March 19, 2020
May 14, 2019

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A Plague Tale: Innocence

Developer: Asobo Studio
Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation4, Xbox One
Genre: Action-adventure, stealth, survival horror

May 14, 2019
July 11, 2019

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Field of Glory: Empires

Developer: Ageod
Publisher: Slitherine Ltd.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Genre: Grand strategy

July 11, 2019
September 10, 2019

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Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece

Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Genre: Adventure, educational

September 10, 2019
November 3, 2019

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Brukel

Developer: Bob De Schutter, Lifelong Games
Publisher: Lifelong Games
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Genre: Adventure, indie

November 3, 2019
October 25, 2019

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MediEvil

Developer: Other Ocean Emeryville
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genre: Action-adventure, hack and slash

October 25, 2019
August 27, 2019

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Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Developer: Panache Digital Games
Publisher: Private Division
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: Survival

August 27, 2019
October 16, 2018

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Warriors Orochi 4

Developer: Omega Force
Publisher: Koei Tecmo
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: Hack and slash

The fourth installment of the popular series of hack-and-slash games, in which characters from the Dynasty Warriors series meet characters from the Samurai Warriors series.
Warriors Orochi 4 takes gamers to a fantasy world where the characters from the Dynasty Warriors series encounter the Samurai Warriors series’s protagonists. The realm faces a new crisis caused by Zeus – the most powerful of Greek gods. To restore peace and prosperity, the heroes must recover eight bracelets that provide enormous power to their owners.

October 16, 2018
November 20, 2018

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Battlefield V

Developer: EA DICE
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: First-person shooter, battle royale

Battlefield V is another entry in the bestselling series of first-person shooters developed by DICE, Electronic Arts subsidiary. The game takes place during World War II.
The game is played from the first-person perspective. The battles are fought on a large map, no matter the game mode, using various weapons, vehicles, machines (including planes and tanks), and concealed devices.

November 20, 2018
October 5, 2018

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Developer: Ubisoft Quebec
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Stadia
Genre: Action role-playing

Another title in the bestselling open-world action franchise developed by Ubisoft. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey takes the players on a journey to ancient Greece. The players assume the role of one of the titular Assassins.

October 5, 2018

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