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Best free history games
Games about the past: date old front pages, put events in order, guess the oldest artifact, refight famous battles. Free history games for the browser.
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BEAT THE COUCH
by u/noir_chat
$10,000. Two secret years of real market history. One button. You will probably lose to a couch.
educationalnarrative0 8 players -
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WikiFork
by u/_kapsberger
Connect two historical figures through Wikipedia links. Each turn, pick which of two figures is fewer links from the target. Ten moves.
educationalpuzzle0 7 players -
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Paper Guessr
by u/clearlycarminecat
Date four real New York Times front pages and guess when they ran. A daily history game.
dailypuzzleeducational0 7 players -
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56k.rip
by u/Scholeristical
The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.
0 5 players -
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BattleTap
by u/the_klippa_app
Three historic battles a day. Tap the globe where each was fought; the closer you land, the more points you keep.
educationalpuzzle0 3 players -
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Antikythera
by edwin · built with Claude Opus 5.5
A 3D dive inspired by the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism, the first computer. Everything you see and hear is procedurally generated in real time.
3dnarrativeeducational0 3 players -
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RelicGuessr
by u/notsosleepy
A fun history game where you guess which ancient artifact is the oldest. Compare museum pieces, learn their stories, and challenge friends daily.
dailypuzzleeducational0 3 players -
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Chronl
by u/BreakfastPizza24
Chronl - a daily history puzzle where you drag events into chronological order
dailypuzzleeducational0 3 players -
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RaceLore
by u/No_Committee987
A blind F1 draft: pick historic drivers and cars from memory, no ratings shown, then simulate a 16-race season.
sportsstrategy0 2 players -
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Deathday
by u/vegitos
Two children are born the same night in 1900, three houses apart. One of them is you. Play the century in five minutes and see which of you it kills first.
educational0 2 players -
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Tideline: Operation Breakwater
by u/kookslayer9000
You lead a WWII D-Day-style beach landing, advancing troops under mortar and bunker fire to take the shoreline.
3d0 2 players -
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Biplane Skirmish
by @gtanczyk · built with gamedev.pl
WW1 air battle: lead your biplane squadron head-on into an enemy formation led by the Red Baron and win the dogfight over rolling fields, a winding valley river, and trees.
3dshooter0 1 player -
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Sakura River Valley
by @MengTo
A real time 3D mountain river valley in feudal East Asia at golden hour
0 0 players -
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Silent Shark
by epaga
You command a WWII submarine, plotting contacts on a map and working out torpedo solutions by hand in the free browser demo.
strategy0 0 players -
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Hisorty
by Damian Krajnak
You sort six historical events into chronological order, with three attempts to get the whole line right.
dailypuzzleeducational0 0 players -
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Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment
by Pippin Barr
You play five tiny games based on Greek myths, like pushing Sisyphus's boulder uphill, and none of them can be won.
weirdsports0 0 players -
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Kingdom Architect
by trymnilsen
You gather resources, build houses and farms, and grow a small medieval settlement tile by tile.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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TimeCrime
built with Codex
You search a 360° historical scene for the one object that doesn't belong, then guess where and when you are.
dailypuzzleeducational0 0 players -
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Port Royal 1691
by @yajmch · built with Codex
You rampage through 17th-century Port Royal as a pirate, wrecking buildings and fighting townsfolk with ten different weapons.
sandbox3d0 0 players -
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ChronoFive
You guess the year of five real historical events each day and read the story behind each one.
dailyeducationalpuzzle0 0 players
Every game here is free and runs in your browser with nothing to install. The order comes from players on Joystumble: thumbs up and down (weighted so a few votes don't outrank many), then how many people played. Made one that belongs here? Submit it.