Games like DEFCON on PC
Closest overall match: Darwinia (★ 2.7). Highest rated: Evil Genius at ★ 3.8. Quickest to finish: Darwinia at about 1 hours.
We compared DEFCON against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Singleplayer, RTS and Tactical. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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67%
1. Darwinia
Shares RTS and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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65%
2. Multiwinia
Shares RTS and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.9 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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62%
3. AI War: Fleet Command
Shares RTS, Tactical, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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59%
4. Atom Zombie Smasher
Shares Tactical, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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57%
5. Oil Rush
Shares RTS and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 lower.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 26%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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57%
6. Wargame: European Escalation
Shares Wargame, Cold War, RTS, War and Tactical and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 42%
- Shared genres
- 10
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56%
7. Eador. Masters of the Broken World
Shares Tactical and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
55%
8. 100% Orange Juice
Shares Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 19%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
55%
9. Europa Universalis III Complete
Shares Real-Time with Pause, RTS, War and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 10
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55%
10. Uplink
Shares Real-Time with Pause, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Singleplayer; same developer.
- Year
- 2001
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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54%
11. Wargame: Red Dragon
Shares Wargame, Cold War, RTS, War and Tactical and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 33%
- Shared genres
- 10
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52%
12. Evil Genius
Shares Real-Time with Pause, RTS, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 49%
- Shared genres
- 10
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like DEFCON on PC?
On our similarity model, Darwinia is the closest match to DEFCON on PC — shares RTS and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 1 year.
Which game like DEFCON is rated highest?
Evil Genius holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.8/5 from 138 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against DEFCON 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.