The Great War(2015)
Games like The Great War
Looking for games like The Great War? It's a duel in the truest sense, every decision weighed against a single opponent across the table — built on pushing your luck against the roll. This page rounds up 12 of the closest alternatives, scored on mechanical overlap with the original (45%), complexity match (35%), and player-count fit (20%), then weighted by BoardGameGeek community ratings so every pick is one players genuinely rate. The strongest matches come first; the further down you go, the more a game trades exact overlap for a fresh take on the same core appeal.
12 recommendations · scored by ISO
Napoleon Invades Spain: Peninsular War – Part I(2021)
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The Habit of Victory: From Warsaw to Eylau to Friedland, 1806-7(2007)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 3 more
Panzer Vor!(2014)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 3 more
Trench Club(2021)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
Death of an Army: Ypres 1914(2022)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
Aces & Armor(2025)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
Osmanli Harbi: The Ottoman Fronts – 1914 to 1918(2009)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
Helsinki 1918: German Intervention in the Finnish Civil War(2018)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
1914: Glory's End / When Eagles Fight(2014)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
Decisive Victory 1918: Volume One – Soissons(2021)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
Tannenberg: The Introductory Game(2015)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
Tannenberg: Eagles in the East / Galicia: The Forgotten Cauldron(1999)
Shares Dice Rolling + 2 more
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Osmanli Harbi: The Ottoman Fronts – 1914 to 1918
Helsinki 1918: German Intervention in the Finnish Civil War
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