The Vietnam War has been depicted in many games.
Video games
While not as popular a topic as
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
and fictional wars set in modern times the Vietnam War has been the setting for numerous video games.
Cancelled titles
Mods
Digital board games
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Technology and computing Hardware
*Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals
**Digital camera, which captures and stores digital i ...
Lock 'n Load Publishing's ''LnLT Digital'' series
*''Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game'' (2020)
** 3+ DLC expansions (2020 to 2020's)
Other digital board games
*''Rock'n'Roll: Card Wargame'' (TBA)
Action-adventure game
The action-adventure genre is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.
Typically, pure adventure games have situational problems for the player to solve to complete a story ...
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Rambo
Rambo is a surname with Norwegian (Vestfold) and Swedish origins. It possibly originated with '' ramn'' + '' bo'', meaning "raven's nest". It has variants in French (''Rambeau'', ''Rambaut'', and ''Rimbaud'') and German (''Rambow''). It is now best ...
(1987)''
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Magicka: Vietnam (2011)''
*''When I Was Young'' (2020)
Run and gun
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M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1989)''
Top-down shooter
Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs
) are a sub-genre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of chara ...
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Rambo
Rambo is a surname with Norwegian (Vestfold) and Swedish origins. It possibly originated with '' ramn'' + '' bo'', meaning "raven's nest". It has variants in French (''Rambeau'', ''Rambaut'', and ''Rimbaud'') and German (''Rambow''). It is now best ...
(1985)''
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Rambo (MSX)''
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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1986)''
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Operation: Vietnam (2007)''
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)''
Rail shooters
Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs
) are a sub-genre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of charac ...
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Soldier Boyz
''Soldier Boyz'' is a 1995 action film directed by Louis Mourneau and starring Michael Dudikoff. It was written by Darryl Quarles. The film revolves around a group of convicts on a mission in Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a rich man.
Plot
The ...
(FMV rail shooter) (1997)''
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Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Trail (2003)''
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Rambo (2008 video game)
''Rambo'' is a light gun shooter developed by Sega for the arcades in 2008. The game is based on '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985) and ''Rambo III'' (1988), but not ''First Blood'' (1982).
Gameplay
The player assumes the role of John Ramb ...
(2008)'' (Light gun arcade game)
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Rambo: The Video Game (2014)''
Arcade video games
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NAM-1975
is a war shooting gallery arcade video game developed and originally published by SNK on April 26, 1990. It was one of the launch titles for both the Neo Geo MVS (arcade) and Neo Geo AES (home) platforms, in addition to being the only tit ...
(1990)''
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NAM (video game)
''NAM'', sold under the name ''Napalm'' in Walmart retail outlets, is a first-person shooter set during the Vietnam War. It was developed for MS-DOS by TNT Team and published by GT Interactive in 1998. A direct sequel, '' World War II GI'', was ...
(1998)''
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Vietnam: Black Ops (2000)''
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Vietnam 2: Special Assignment (2001)'' (In the game, it is called ''Vietnam 2: Black Ops Special Assignment'' or ''Vietnam: Black Ops 2'')
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Eve of Destruction Classic (2003)'' (Mod for
Battlefield 1942
''Battlefield 1942'' is a 2002 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game can be played in single-player mode against the video game AI or in multiplayer mode a ...
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Battlefield Vietnam
''Battlefield Vietnam'' is a first-person shooter video game. It is the second instalment in the ''Battlefield'' franchise after ''Battlefield 1942''. The game was developed by a Canadian company DICE Canada and published by Electronic Arts. ...
(2004)''
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Eve of Destruction Vietnam (2004)'' (Mod for
Battlefield Vietnam
''Battlefield Vietnam'' is a first-person shooter video game. It is the second instalment in the ''Battlefield'' franchise after ''Battlefield 1942''. The game was developed by a Canadian company DICE Canada and published by Electronic Arts. ...
)
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Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam (2004)''
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Shellshock: Nam '67 (2004)''
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Made Man (video game)
''Made Man'' is a 2006 third-person shooter video game developed by the UK company SilverBack Studios and published by Mastertronic and Aspyr for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. The game is set in the year 1972 within the New York City unde ...
(2006)''
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Eve of Destruction 2 (2007)'' (Mod for
Battlefield 2
''Battlefield 2'' is a first-person shooter video game, developed by DICE (company), DICE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows in June 2005 as the third game in the Battlefield (video game series), ''Battlefield'' franchise.
P ...
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The Hell in Vietnam
''The Hell in Vietnam'' is a Vietnam war-oriented first-person shooter video game developed and published by Polish studio City Interactive for Microsoft Windows on June 1, 2007.
Gameplay
''The Hell in Vietnam'' is a first-person shooter that ta ...
(2008)''
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Shellshock 2: Blood Trails (2009)''
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Tunnel Rats: 1968 (2009)''
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Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)''
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam (2010)''
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7554: Glorious Memories Revived (2011)''
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Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (2012)''
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Vietnam War: The Last Battle (2017)''
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Nam - The Resistance War (2018)''
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Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness (2018)''
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Eve of Destruction Redux (2018)''
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Nam - Bare Feet Iron Will (2018)''
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)''
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Soldiers Of Vietnam - American Campaign (2020)''
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VNW - To be determined to fight (2020)''
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Red Storm : Vietnam War (2021)''
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Military Conflict: Vietnam (2022)''
Tactical shooter games
;The Vietcong series
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Vietcong (video game)
''Vietcong'' is a 2003 tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Pterodon in cooperation with Illusion Softworks and published by Gathering for Microsoft Windows. It is set during the Vietnam War in 1967.
The expansion pack '' Vietc ...
(2003)''
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Vietcong: Fist Alpha (2004)''
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Vietcong: Red Dawn (2005)''
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Vietcong 2
''Vietcong 2'' is a tactical shooter video game, developed by Pterodon and Illusion Softworks, published by 2K for Microsoft Windows in October 2005, and set during the Vietnam War. It is the direct sequel to ''Vietcong''.
Gameplay
The story ta ...
(2005)''
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Vietcong 2: Fist Bravo (2006)''
;Other tactical shooters
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Line of Sight: Vietnam (2003)''
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Conflict: Vietnam (2004)''
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Men of Valor (2004)''
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Elite Warriors: Vietnam (2005)''
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PunjiVR (2022)''
*''Operation: Rolling Stone'' (2023) (DLC for ''Operation: Harsh Doorstop'' (2023))
Management simulations
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VC (1982)''
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'Nam 1965-1975 (1991)''
Military simulations
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Project Reality
''Project Reality'' is a series of combined arms tactical first-person shooter video game modifications which aim to create a realistic combat environment where the core gameplay encourages teamwork and coordination. The original version, ''Proj ...
(2005)''
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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam (2017)''
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Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire (2021)''
*''Burning Lands (TBA)''
Jet simulators
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Flight of the Intruder (video game)
''Flight of the Intruder'' is a flight simulator developed by Rowan Software and published by Spectrum HoloByte in 1990 for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. It was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 with Imagineering as the develo ...
(1990)'' (aka. ''Flight of the Intruder: The Air War in Vietnam'')
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Flight of the Intruder
''Flight of the Intruder'' is a 1991 war film directed by John Milius, and starring Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, and Brad Johnson. It is based on the novel of the same name by former Grumman A-6 Intruder pilot Stephen Coonts. The film received n ...
'' (1991 NES game. aka ''Phantom Air Mission''.)
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Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (1991)''
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Vietnam (1995 video game) (1995)''
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Wings Over Vietnam (2004)''
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Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam'' (2009) (Enhanced edition of ''Wings Over Vietnam'')
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Gunship III'' (2012)
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Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013)'' (Also under helicopter sims list)
Helicopter simulators
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LHX Attack Chopper
''LHX Attack Chopper'' is a combat helicopter vehicle simulation game, simulation game published by Electronic Arts in 1990. Development was led by Brent Iverson who later designed ''Chuck Yeager's Air Combat''. The game was released for MS-DOS ...
(1990)''
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M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1998)
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Search & Rescue: Vietnam Med Evac (2002)''
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Whirlwind over Vietnam (2006)''
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Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013)'' (Also under jet sims list)
Naval simulators
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Gunboat (video game) (1990)''
Real-time tactics
Real-time tactics (RTT)(Article at IGN discussing their perception of RTS and related genres as of 2006. RTT is discussed as a new and not yet established genre from the publisher's perspective, so currently all RTT possible titles are still con ...
games
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Green Berets
The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the "Green Berets" due to their distinctive service headgear, are a special operations force of the United States Army.
The Green Berets are geared towards nine doctrinal m ...
(2001)''
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Men of War: Vietnam (2011)''
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Vietnam '65' (2017) (Enhanced port of
Men of War: Vietnam content into
Men of War: Assault Squad 2)
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Vietnam at War' (2022) (Mod for
MoW: AS 2)
Real-time strategy
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games
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Platoon (2002 video game)
''Platoon'' is a real-time strategy video game developed by Digital Reality and published by Monte Cristo (company), Monte Cristo for the PC Microsoft Windows, Windows in 2002. It was also published by Strategy First as ''Platoon: The 1st Airborne ...
(2002)''
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Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots (2004)'' (Expansion)
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War Over Vietnam (2004)''
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Tactical Heroes 2: Platoons (2018)''
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Radio Commander
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...
(2019)''
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The 'Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations (2020)'' (Free standalone mod for ''
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun'')
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Leave No One Behind: Ia Drang (2022)''
Wargame (video games)
A computer wargame is a wargame played on a digital device. Descended from board wargaming, it simulates military conflict at the tactical, operational or strategic level. Computer wargames are both sold commercially for recreational use and ...
Talonsoft's '' The Operational Art of War'' series
Early 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)
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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
(John Tiller Software/Wargame Design Studio's series)
First 3 Vietnam War-themed ''Squad Battles'' titles were 1st published by HPS Simulations.
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Squad Battles: Vietnam (2001)''
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Squad Battles: Tour of Duty (2002)''
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Squad Battles: Dien Bien Phu (2009)''
Other wargames (video games)
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Conflict in Vietnam (1986)'' (Alt titles: ''Conflict in Vietnam: Your Personal Time Machine into History!'', ''Conflict in Vietnam: The Strategic War Simulation'')
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NAM
Nam, Nam, or The Nam are shortened terms for:
* Vietnam, which is also spelled ''Viet Nam''
* The Vietnam War
Nam, The Nam or NAM may also refer to:
Arts and media
* Nam, a fictional character in anime series ''Dragon Ball''
* ''NAM'' (video ...
(1986)''
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Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles (1996)''
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Modern Air Power: War Over Vietnam (2004)''
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Air Assault Task Force (2006)''
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Viet-Afghan (2010)''
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It takes place in the time period fr ...
& Arsenal of Democracy
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*'' Vietnam ‘65 (2015)''
*''Combat Actions: Vietnam'' (2019)
*''Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967
Campaign or The Campaign may refer to:
Types of campaigns
* Campaign, in agriculture, the period during which sugar beets are harvested and processed
*Advertising campaign, a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme
*Bl ...
(2022)''
Board games
References
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