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The Vietnam War has been depicted in many games.
Video games
editWhile 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.
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 |
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)
- Rambo (1987)
- Magicka: Vietnam (2011)
- When I Was Young (2020)[9]
- M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1989)
- Decolonators (2021)
- Rambo (1985)
- Rambo (MSX)
- Rambo: First Blood Part II (1986)
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)
- 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))
- 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)
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)
Naval simulators
edit- Gunboat (video game) (1990)
Real-time tactics games
editURB Games' Mud and Blood series
edit- 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
edit- 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
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)
Talonsoft's The Operational Art of War series
editEarly 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)
Every Single Soldier's COIN war series
edit- Vietnam '65 (2015)
- Vietnam '66 (TBA. 2025?)
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][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
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".
- ^ "Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Vietnam at War v.1.0.3.5 mod on Gamepressure". Gamepressure. Gry-Online.
- ^ Vietnam War info page at AOD Wiki
- ^ Mods page at AOD Wiki