List of Vietnam War games

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The Vietnam War has been depicted in many games.

## Video games

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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

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'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 '66 | TBA (2025?)  | Microsoft Windows | Every Single Soldier
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

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Name | Year | Platform | Publisher

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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

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Name | Year | Platform | Publisher

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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

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### Lock 'n Load Publishing's LnLT Digital series

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

### Other digital board games

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* Rock'n'Roll: Card Wargame (TBA)

## Action-adventure game

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* Rambo (1987)
* Magicka: Vietnam (2011)
* When I Was Young (2020)[9]

## Run and gun

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* M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1989)
* Decolonators (2021)

## Top-down shooter

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* Rambo (1985)
* Rambo (MSX)
* Rambo: First Blood Part II (1986)

## Rail shooters

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* 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

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* 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

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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

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

## Military simulations

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* Project Reality (2005)
* Rising Storm 2: Vietnam (2017)
* Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire (2021)
* Rolling Thunder: Vietnam (2025. EA.)

## Jet simulators

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* 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

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* 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)

## Naval simulators

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* Gunboat (video game) (1990)

## Real-time tactics games

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### URB Games' Mud and Blood series

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* Mud and Blood: Vietnam (2004) (Online)
* Mud and Blood: Recon (MnBR) (2015) (Online)
* Occupation Force: Vietnam (OFV) (2016) (Online. Abandoned EA title.)
* Recondo (TBA, 2025?)

### Other real-time tactics games

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* Green Berets (2001)
* Operation: Vietnam (2007)
* 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)[10]

## Real-time strategy games

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* 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)

## Turn-based tactics

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* SOG: Vietnam (2025)

## Wargame (video games)

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### Talonsoft's The Operational Art of War series

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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

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(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)

### Every Single Soldier's COIN war series

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* Vietnam '65 (2015)
* Vietnam '66 (TBA. 2025?)

### Other wargames (video games)

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* 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][11][12] (Third-party content pack for Hearts of Iron II & Arsenal of Democracy)
* Combat Actions: Vietnam (2019)
* Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967 (2022)

## Board games

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Name | Year | Publisher | Description

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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

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1. ^ a b "M.I.A.: Missing In Action for Windows (1998)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. ^ "Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Vietnam at War v.1.0.3.5 mod on Gamepressure". Gamepressure. Gry-Online.
11. ^ Vietnam War info page at AOD Wiki
12. ^ Mods page at AOD Wiki

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