The Vietnam War has been depicted in many games.

Video games

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.

NameYearPlatformPublisher
'Nam 1965-1975 1991 Amiga, Atari ST, DOS Domark
19 Part One: Boot Camp 1988 Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum Cascade Games
7554: Glorious Memories Revived 2011 Microsoft Windows Emobi Games JSC
Air Assault Task Force 2008 Microsoft Windows ProSIM Company
Air Conflicts: Vietnam 2013 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 bitComposer Games
Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire 2021 Microsoft Windows Bohemia Interactive, Savage Game Design
Battlefield Vietnam 2004 Microsoft Windows Electronic Arts
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam 2010 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2010 Mac, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii Activision, Square Enix
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified 2012 PlayStation Vita Activision, Square Enix
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 2020 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S Activision
Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967 2022 Microsoft Windows Campaign Series Legion
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat 1991 DOS Electronic Arts
Combat Actions: Vietnam 2019 Android, iOS, Amazon Kindle, Mac, Microsoft Windows digital Gameworks LLC
Conflict in Vietnam 1986 Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, PC Booter MicroProse Software, Inc.
Conflict: Vietnam 2004 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mobile phone, N-Gage Global Star Software, SCi Games
Elite Warriors: Vietnam 2005 Microsoft Windows Bold Games
Eve of Destruction Redux 2018 Microsoft Windows Agger Interactive
Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness 2018 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Ubisoft Entertainment SA
Flight of the Intruder 1990 Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, NES Spectrum HoloByte, Mindscape
Green Berets 2001 Microsoft Windows Take-Two Interactive
Gunboat 1990 Amiga, Amstrad CPC, DOS, TurboGrafx-16, ZX Spectrum Accolade
Leave No One Behind: Ia Drang 2022 Microsoft Windows Gaming 301
LHX Attack Chopper 1990 DOS Electronic Arts
Line of Sight: Vietnam 2003 Microsoft Windows Infogrames, Atari
Lost Patrol 1990 Amiga, Atari ST, DOS Ocean Software
M.I.A.: Missing in Action 1989 Arcade Konami
M.I.A.: Missing in Action[1][2] 1998 Microsoft Windows GT Interactive
Made Man 2006 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 Mastertronic, Aspyr
Magicka: Vietnam (Expansion) 2011 Microsoft Windows Paradox Interactive
Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam 2004 Microsoft Windows Brainbox Games
Men of Valor 2004 Microsoft Windows, Xbox Vivendi Universal Games
Men of War: Vietnam 2011 Microsoft Windows 1C Company
Military Conflict: Vietnam 2022 Microsoft Windows dustfade
Modern Air Power: War Over Vietnam 2004 Microsoft Windows HPS Simulations
NAM 1986 Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 Strategic Simulations
NAM 1998 DOS GT Interactive
NAM-1975 1991 Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD SNK
Nam - Bare Feet Iron Will 2018 Browser game Gameflare.com, PacoGames.com, GameArter
Nam - The Resistance War 2018 Browser game PacoGames.com
Operation: Vietnam 2007 Nintendo DS Majesco Entertainment
Platoon (2002 video game) 2002 Microsoft Windows Monte Cristo, Strategy First
PunjiVR 2022 Microsoft Windows Camden Cleveland
Radio Commander 2019 Microsoft Windows Games Operators, Serious Sim
Rambo (1985) 1985 Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum Ocean Software
Rambo (MSX) 1985 MSX Pack-In-Video
Rambo: First Blood Part II 1986 Master System Sega
Rambo (1987) 1987 NES Acclaim
Rambo (2008 video game) 2008 Arcade game Sega
Rambo: The Video Game 2014 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Reef Entertainment
Red Storm : Vietnam War 2021 Android, iOS MeoPlay
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots 2004 Mac, Microsoft Windows Microsoft Game Studios
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam 2017 Microsoft Windows Antimatter Games, Tripwire Interactive
Rock'n'Roll: Card Wargame TBA Microsoft Windows WallRus Group
SEAL Team 1993 DOS Electronic Arts
Search & Rescue: Vietnam Med Evac 2002 Microsoft Windows Global Star Software
Shellshock: Nam '67 2004 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox Eidos Interactive
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails 2009 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Eidos Interactive
Soldier Boyz 1997 Microsoft Windows Dreamcatcher Interactive
Soldiers Of Vietnam - American Campaign 2020 Android Posh Toffee Games
Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu[3] 2009 Microsoft Windows HPS Games
Squad Battles: Tour of Duty[4] 2002 Microsoft Windows HPS Games
Squad Battles: Vietnam[5] 2001 Microsoft Windows HPS Games
Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles 1996 DOS Strategic Simulations Inc.
Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam 2009 Microsoft Windows Third Wire
Tactical Heroes 2: Platoons 2018 Android, iOS eRepublik Labs
The Hell in Vietnam 2007 Microsoft Windows City Interactive
The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956-2000 1999 Microsoft Windows Talonsoft
Thud Ridge: American Aces In 'Nam 1988 Commodore 64, DOS Three-Sixty Pacific
Tunnel Rats (video game) 2009 Microsoft Windows Boll AG
VC 1982 Apple II, Atari 8-bit, DOS, PC-88, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo Avalon Hill
Viet-Afghan[6] (3rd-party expansion) 2010 Microsoft Windows FRVP
Vietcong (video game) 2003 Microsoft Windows Gathering of Developers
Vietcong 2 2005 Microsoft Windows 2K Games
Vietnam (1995 video game) 1995 DOS Viper Software, CompuServe
Vietnam '65 2015 Microsoft Windows Slitherine Strategies
Vietnam: Black Ops 2000 Microsoft Windows ValuSoft
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Trail 2003 Microsoft Windows ValuSoft, Inc., Media-Service 2000
Vietnam 2: Special Assignment 2001 Microsoft Windows ValuSoft, Inc.
Vietnam War: The Last Battle 2017 Browser game PacoGames.com
VNW - To be determined to fight 2020 Browser game PacoGames.com
When I Was Young[7] 2020 Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch WallRus Group, Art Games Studio S.A.
Whirlwind over Vietnam 2006 Microsoft Windows Evolved Games Developer
Wings over Vietnam 2004 Microsoft Windows Bold Games

Cancelled titles

NameYearPlatformPublisher
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

NameYearPlatformPublisher
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

Lock 'n Load Publishing's LnLT Digital series

  • Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game (2020)
    • 3+ DLC expansions (2020 to 2020's)

Other digital board games

  • Rock'n'Roll: Card Wargame (TBA)

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

  • VC (1982)
  • 'Nam 1965-1975 (1991)

Military simulations

Jet simulators

Helicopter simulators

Real-time tactics games

Real-time strategy games

Wargame (video 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.

  • 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

(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

NameYearPublisherDescription
Grunt1971Simulation PublicationsSquad and platoon level combat.
Year of the Rat - Vietnam, 19721972Simulation PublicationsSimulation of the 13 weeks of the Communist Offensive in the Spring of 1972.
Hue1973Simulations Design CorporationBattle of Huế
Patrol1974Simulation PublicationsMan to man skirmish combat in Vietnam and other periods
Search & Destroy: Tactical Combat Vietnam 1965-19661975Simulation PublicationsTactical combat
Operation Pegasus1980Task Force GamesA game simulating the campaign to break the siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War in 1968.
Defiance: The Battle of Xuan Loc1980Swedish Game ProductionA simulation of The Battle of Xuan Loc (11 April 1975).
No Trumpets No Drums1982World Wide WargamesOperational level game simulating the whole of the United States' ground combat role (1965–1975).
Vietnam: 1965-19751984Victory Games (1984)
GMT Games (2021)
Battalion level game simulating the whole of Americas ground combat and politics (1965–1975).
Tet '681992XTR CorpA simulation of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
Winged Horse: Campaigns in Vietnam, 1965-662006Decision GamesA 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 Triangle2013Decision GamesTwo 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 Country2013Decision GamesA strategic simulation of the entire war in Strategy & Tactics #281 that covers the land and air campaign within South Vietnam.
Fire in the Lake2014GMT GamesOne 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 Albany2016Decision GamesA 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 Veteran2017Decision GamesA 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 Game2020Everything Epic Games
Purple Haze 2023Phalanx Games

References

  1. 1 2 "M.I.A.: Missing In Action for Windows (1998)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  2. 1 2 Not to be confused with the 1989 arcade game with the same title
  3. "HPS Sims Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu". www.hpssims.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-10.
  4. "HPS Sims: Squad Battles "Tour of Duty"". www.hpssims.com. Archived from the original on 2003-03-19.
  5. "HPS Sims SQUAD BATTLES: Vietnam". www.hpssims.com. Archived from the original on 2003-03-22.
  6. 1 2 Viet-Afghan's official site Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "When I Was Young on Steam".
  8. "Apocalypse Now". 2017-10-28. Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  9. "When I was young official website".
  10. Vietnam War info page at AOD Wiki
  11. Mods page at AOD Wiki
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