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List of Vietnam War games 
Summary
The Vietnam War has been depicted in many games.
Video games edit
While not as popular a topic as World War II and fictional wars set in modern times the Vietnam War has been the setting for numerous video games.
Cancelled titles edit
| Name | Year | Platform | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apocalypse Now (video game)[8] | Cancelled (2017) | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, MacOS, Linux | Erebus LLC |
| Call of Duty: Vietnam | Cancelled (2017) | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows | Activision |
| Vietnam (1986 video game) | 1986 | Abandoned/cancelled | Orpheus Software |
Mods edit
| Name | Year | Platform | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMA: Armed Assault: Unsung Vietnam War mod | 2006 | Microsoft Windows | Bohemia Interactive, Unsung team |
| ARMA 2: Unsung Vietnam War mod and VTE Vietnam The Experience | 2009 | Microsoft Windows | |
| ARMA 3: Unsung Vietnam War mod | 2015 | Microsoft Windows | |
| Eve of Destruction Classic (Mod) | 2003 | Microsoft Windows | Lotte|EoD Devs Team |
| Eve of Destruction Vietnam (Mod) | 2004 | Microsoft Windows | |
| Eve of Destruction 2 (Mod) | 2007 | Microsoft Windows | |
| Operation Flashpoint: Unsung Vietnam War mod | 2004 | Microsoft Windows | Bohemia Interactive, Unsung team |
| The 'Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations (Mod) | 2020 | Microsoft Windows | Tiger Yan |
| Vietnam '65 (Mod) | 2017 | Microsoft Windows | Lightning's team |
| Vietnam at War (Mod) | 2022 | Microsoft Windows | AFS |
Digital board games edit
Lock 'n Load Publishing's LnLT Digital series edit
- Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game (2020)
- 3+ DLC expansions (2020 to 2020's)
Other digital board games edit
- Rock'n'Roll: Card Wargame (TBA)
Action-adventure game edit
- Rambo (1987)
- Magicka: Vietnam (2011)
- When I Was Young (2020)[9]
Run and gun edit
- M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1989)
- Decolonators (2021)
Top-down shooter edit
- Rambo (1985)
- Rambo (MSX)
- Rambo: First Blood Part II (1986)
- Operation: Vietnam (2007)
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)
Rail shooters edit
- Soldier Boyz (FMV rail shooter) (1997)
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Trail (2003)
- Rambo (2008 video game) (2008) (Light gun arcade game)
- Rambo: The Video Game (2014)
Arcade video games edit
- NAM-1975 (1990)
- NAM (video game) (1998)
- Vietnam: Black Ops (2000)
- Vietnam 2: Special Assignment (2001) (In the game, it is called Vietnam 2: Black Ops Special Assignment or Vietnam: Black Ops 2)
- Eve of Destruction Classic (2003) (Mod for Battlefield 1942)
- Battlefield Vietnam (2004)
- Eve of Destruction Vietnam (2004) (Mod for Battlefield Vietnam)
- Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam (2004)
- Shellshock: Nam '67 (2004)
- Made Man (video game) (2006)
- Eve of Destruction 2 (2007) (Mod for Battlefield 2)
- The Hell in Vietnam (2008)
- Shellshock 2: Blood Trails (2009)
- Tunnel Rats: 1968 (2009)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam (2010)
- 7554: Glorious Memories Revived (2011)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (2012)
- Vietnam War: The Last Battle (2017)
- Nam - The Resistance War (2018)
- Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness (2018)
- Eve of Destruction Redux (2018)
- Nam - Bare Feet Iron Will (2018)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
- Soldiers Of Vietnam - American Campaign (2020)
- VNW - To be determined to fight (2020)
- Red Storm : Vietnam War (2021)
- Military Conflict: Vietnam (2022)
Tactical shooter games edit
- The Vietcong series
- Vietcong (video game) (2003)
- Vietcong: Fist Alpha (2004)
- Vietcong: Red Dawn (2005)
- Vietcong 2 (2005)
- Vietcong 2: Fist Bravo (2006)
- Other tactical shooters
- Line of Sight: Vietnam (2003)
- Conflict: Vietnam (2004)
- Men of Valor (2004)
- Elite Warriors: Vietnam (2005)
- PunjiVR (2022)
- Operation: Rolling Stone (2023) (DLC for Operation: Harsh Doorstop (2023))
Management simulations edit
- VC (1982)
- 'Nam 1965-1975 (1991)
Military simulations edit
- Project Reality (2005)
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam (2017)
- Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire (2021)
- Burning Lands (TBA)
Jet simulators edit
- Flight of the Intruder (video game) (1990) (aka. Flight of the Intruder: The Air War in Vietnam)
- Flight of the Intruder (1991 NES game. aka Phantom Air Mission.)
- Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (1991)
- Vietnam (1995 video game) (1995)
- Wings Over Vietnam (2004)
- Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam (2009) (Enhanced edition of Wings Over Vietnam)
- Gunship III (2012)
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013) (Also under helicopter sims list)
Helicopter simulators edit
- LHX Attack Chopper (1990)
- M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1998)[1][2]
- Search & Rescue: Vietnam Med Evac (2002)
- Whirlwind over Vietnam (2006)
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013) (Also under jet sims list)
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- Gunboat (video game) (1990)
Real-time tactics games edit
- Green Berets (2001)
- Men of War: Vietnam (2011)
- Vietnam '65 (2017) (Enhanced port of Men of War: Vietnam content into Men of War: Assault Squad 2)
- Vietnam at War (2022) (Mod for MoW: AS 2)
Real-time strategy games edit
- Platoon (2002 video game) (2002)
- Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots (2004) (Expansion)
- War Over Vietnam (2004)
- Tactical Heroes 2: Platoons (2018)
- Radio Commander (2019)
- The 'Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations (2020) (Free standalone mod for Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun)
- Leave No One Behind: Ia Drang (2022)
Wargame (video games) edit
Talonsoft's The Operational Art of War series edit
Early series titles between 1998 and 2000 published by Talonsoft. TOAW III (2006) was the last Talonsoft-developed series title.
- Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Battle Pack I Scenario Add-on Disk (1999) (Expansion for 1st TOAW (1999) title)
- The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956–2000 (1999)
- The Operational Art of War II: Flashpoint Kosovo (1999) (Expansion)
- The Operational Art of War: Century of Warfare (2000) (Collection of 1st 2 TOAW full games & expansions)
- The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Elite★Edition (2000) (Compilation of 1st full TOAW game & expansion)
- The Operational Art of War Vol 1: 1939-1955 - Wargame of the Year Edition (2000) Similar to Elite★Edition (2000) but with added scenarios)
- Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War III (2006) (First series title to be released by a different publisher, Matrix Games)
- The Operational Art of War IV (2017)
JTS/WDS' Squad Battles Series edit
(John Tiller Software/Wargame Design Studio's series) First 3 Vietnam War-themed Squad Battles titles were 1st published by HPS Simulations.
- Squad Battles: Vietnam (2001)
- Squad Battles: Tour of Duty (2002)
- Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu (2009)
Other wargames (video games) edit
- Conflict in Vietnam (1986) (Alt titles: Conflict in Vietnam: Your Personal Time Machine into History!, Conflict in Vietnam: The Strategic War Simulation)
- NAM (1986)
- Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles (1996)
- Modern Air Power: War Over Vietnam (2004)
- Air Assault Task Force (2006)
- Viet-Afghan (2010)[6][10][11] (Third-party content pack for Hearts of Iron II & Arsenal of Democracy)
- Vietnam ‘65 (2015)
- Combat Actions: Vietnam (2019)
- Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967 (2022)
Board games edit
| Name | Year | Publisher | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grunt | 1971 | Simulation Publications | Squad and platoon level combat. |
| Year of the Rat - Vietnam, 1972 | 1972 | Simulation Publications | Simulation of the 13 weeks of the Communist Offensive in the Spring of 1972. |
| Hue | 1973 | Simulations Design Corporation | Battle of Huế |
| Dien Bien Phu | 1973 | Simulations Design Corporation | First Indochina War, 1950–1954 |
| Patrol | 1974 | Simulation Publications | Man to man skirmish combat in Vietnam and other periods |
| Search & Destroy: Tactical Combat Vietnam 1965-1966 | 1975 | Simulation Publications | Tactical combat |
| Operation Pegasus | 1980 | Task Force Games | A game simulating the campaign to break the siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War in 1968. |
| Defiance: The Battle of Xuan Loc | 1980 | Swedish Game Production | A simulation of The Battle of Xuan Loc (11 April 1975). |
| No Trumpets No Drums | 1982 | World Wide Wargames | Operational level game simulating the whole of the United States' ground combat role (1965–1975). |
| Vietnam: 1965-1975 | 1984 | Victory Games (1984) GMT Games (2021) |
Battalion level game simulating the whole of Americas ground combat and politics (1965–1975). |
| Tet '68 | 1992 | XTR Corp | A simulation of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. |
| Winged Horse: Campaigns in Vietnam, 1965-66 | 2006 | Decision Games | 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 Triangle | 2013 | Decision Games | 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 Country | 2013 | Decision Games | A strategic simulation of the entire war in Strategy & Tactics #281 that covers the land and air campaign within South Vietnam. |
| Fire in the Lake | 2014 | GMT Games | 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 Albany | 2016 | Decision Games | 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 Veteran | 2017 | Decision Games | 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 Enemy | 2019 | Multi-Man Publishing | Tactical 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 Game | 2020 | Everything Epic Games | |
| Purple Haze | 2023 | Phalanx Games |
References edit
- ^ a b "M.I.A.: Missing In Action for Windows (1998)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ^ a b Not to be confused with the 1989 arcade game with the same title
- ^ "HPS Sims Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu". www.hpssims.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-10.
- ^ "HPS Sims: Squad Battles "Tour of Duty"". www.hpssims.com. Archived from the original on 2003-03-19.
- ^ "HPS Sims SQUAD BATTLES: Vietnam". www.hpssims.com. Archived from the original on 2003-03-22.
- ^ a b Viet-Afghan's official site Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "When I Was Young on Steam".
- ^ "Apocalypse Now". 2017-10-28. Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- ^ "When I was young official website".
- ^ Vietnam War info page at AOD Wiki
- ^ Mods page at AOD Wiki