List of Vietnam War games
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.
Action-adventure game
- Magicka: Vietnam (2011)
- When I was young (2020)[9]
Top-down shooter
- Operation: Vietnam (2007)
Rail shooters
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Trail (2004)
- Soldier Boyz (FMV rail shooter) (1997)
Arcade shooter games
- NAM (video game) (1998)
- Vietnam: Black Ops (2000)
- Vietnam Special Assignment 2 (2001)
- Battlefield Vietnam (2004)
- Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam (2004)
- Shellshock: Nam '67 (2004)
- Made Man (video game) (2006)
- 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 (2011)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (2012)
- Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness (2018)
- Eve of Destruction Redux (2018)
- Vietnam War: The Last Battle
Tactical shooter games
- 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)
- Military Conflict: Vietnam (2020)
Military simulations
- Project Reality (2005)
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam (2017)
Jet simulators
- Wings Over Vietnam (2004)
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013)
Helicopter simulators
- M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1998)[2][3]
- Search & Rescue: Vietnam Med Evac (2002)
- Whirlwind over Vietnam (2006)
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013)
Real-time tactics games
- Green Berets (2001)
- Men of War: Vietnam (2011)
Real-time strategy games
- Platoon (2002 video game) (2002)
- War Over Vietnam (2004)
- Vietnam ‘65 (2015)
- Radio Commander (2019)
Wargame (video games)
- The Squad Battles Series
- Squad Battles: Vietnam (2001)
- Squad Battles: Tour of Duty (2002)
- Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu (2009)
- Other Wargame (video games)
- Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles (1996)
- The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956-2000 (1999)
- Air Assault Task Force (2006)
Board games
| Name | Year | Publisher | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of the Rat - Vietnam, 1972 | 1972 | Simulation Publications | Simulation of the 13 weeks of the Communist Offensive in the Spring of 1972. |
| 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 | Battalion level game simulating the whole of Americas ground combat role (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. |
| Fire in the Lake: COIN series Vol IV | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
References
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059230/When_I_Was_Young/
- "M.I.A.: Missing In Action for Windows (1998)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- Not to be confused with the 1989 arcade game with the same title
- http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/DBPhu/DBPhu.html
- http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/TOD/TOD.html
- http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/SBVietnam/SBVietnam.html
- http://vietafghan.frvp.com Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- "Apocalypse Now". 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- "When I was young official website".
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