Games like DCS World on PC
Closest overall match: Take On Helicopters (★ 2.0). Highest rated: Arma 3 at ★ 3.8. Quickest to finish: Take On Helicopters at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like DCS World? Our model ranked 10 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: TrackIR, Realistic and Singleplayer. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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75%
1. Take On Helicopters
Shares TrackIR, Flight, Captions available, Includes level editor and Open World and 3 more tags; rated 0.7 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.0
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 14
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67%
2. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Shares TrackIR, Flight, Military, Realistic and Includes level editor and 1 more tags; rated 0.6 higher.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 14
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62%
3. Train Simulator
Shares TrackIR, VR, Realistic, Open World and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 higher.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 16%
- Shared genres
- 14
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61%
4. ArmA II
Shares TrackIR, Military, Captions available, War and Realistic and 6 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 28%
- Shared genres
- 14
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59%
5. Bigscreen Beta
Shares VR and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 14
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59%
6. Cities XL Platinum
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 30%
- Shared genres
- 14
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59%
7. Mitos.is: The Game
Shares cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 15%
- Shared genres
- 14
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56%
8. Arma 3
Shares TrackIR, Military, Captions available, War and Realistic and 6 more tags; rated 1.1 higher; about 15h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 16h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 14
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56%
9. Hospital Tycoon
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 51
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 14
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55%
10. ARMA: Gold Edition
Shares Military, Realistic, First-Person, Open World and cooperative and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 28%
- Shared genres
- 14
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like DCS World on PC?
On our similarity model, Take On Helicopters is the closest match to DCS World on PC — shares TrackIR, Flight, Captions available, Includes level editor and Open World and 3 more tags; rated 0.7 lower; released within 2 years.
Which game like DCS World is rated highest?
Arma 3 holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.8/5 from 399 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against DCS World on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.