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Making History: The Second World War
Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“These Making History games are very good wargames. This one is one of the only WW2 global wargames you can play that enables stacking, which is essential for realistic naval and land combat results. The mechanics of this game make the warfare take central place but you still…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“Despite of harsh critisism in past and a bit too linear starting phase and also few omitted opportunities in functional design there is still a huge fun-potential awaiting each strategy fan there. A game rather for a kind of "lean back"-patient strategy fans though. For me there…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:06 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
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German Language Update
We have made a pass at improving the German translation for The Second World War. All areas of the game are now in German. We expect some errors but we hope this will be a big step forwards.
Chinese Language Update
Big improvements to Chinese translations through out the UI and events.
The Second World War Chinese Release
We are happy to announce the release of a Chinese language version of The Second World War. All strings have been translated into Simplified Chinese including UI and events. Also in the this update, w
Making History: The Second World War - Romanian & Yugoslavian Air Forces
We’ve finished another set of aircraft models representing two minor Eastern European powers, Romania and Yugoslavia. There were unfortunately not many domestically designed combat craft to choose fro
Making History: The Second World War - The Czechoslovak Air Force
As a small, landlocked nation surrounded by hostile neighbours, Czechoslovakia placed a high priority on developing a modern aviation industry. With no ports or ships, they viewed the air as their sea
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Simulation · World War II · Indie · War · Historical · Grand Strategy · Turn-Based · Turn-Based Strategy · Military · Moddable · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese, German * |
| Achievements | 103 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.factusgames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows XP with Service Pack 2 Processor: Pentium 4 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-Compliant, Shader 2.0 3D Video Card DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: Windows-Compliant Keyboard & Mouse