hmm... any game that plays in history is only as accurate as the player wants it to be. :)

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at at some point: Vermeer (not the game itself, but it has a lot of historical information which sometimes have effect on the gameplay.

Oregon Trail. I'm pretty sure at least one person actually died of dysentery.

Mario's time machine.

[very evil laugh]
Muahahahaaaa

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 is probably accurate :)

Not too many historically accurate games, because most games happening in the medieval era (and a lot of games happening after that, but before modern times) don't claim to be a portrayal of our history or even our reality.

They tend to create their own worlds with at least 1 unrealistic gimmick (fantasy or sci-fi).

I guess a lot of strategy games portraying historical battles are pretty accurate.

Fair enough.

This is starting to seem a bit pointless! Throw something in if you've got it anyway.

New Horizons on the SNES (not the characters you play, but the background setting).

The Total War saga (well, for the historical battles and also the state of affairs at the beginning of world conquest games).

The Age of Empires Saga.

An endless stream of WWII games (not my top genre to play, so specifics don't come to mind atm, but I've followed new titles in gaming for many years and can tell you with confidence that there were a bucketload). If you start doing a search on Gamespot, you'll them.

EDIT: Actually, a friend of mine played Hearts of Iron and told me it was pretty accurate. The game even ends around the time the war ended.

Age of Rifles, Age of Sail, a veritable cornucopia of WWII era games. Sid Meier's Gettysburgh/Antienam.

Just a bit of clarification, though? Do you mean games actually rooted in history, or games that are placed in a historically accurate time frame? Or something more educational, like say, Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego?

Placed in a historically accurate time frame, historically accurate events. Not some alternative dimension story, in "insert time frame".

I really doubt I'd enjoy an educational game... I usually end up being creeped out by how the developers of educational games think you're a bloody retard. Or maybe I've been unlucky enough to stumble upon the worst ones.

Gotcha. You could try out Sid Meier's Colonization. Think Civ during European exploration of the New World. It runs perfectly fine on D-Fend and I believe Abandonia has it listed as freeware.

As for education titles? The ONLY reason I played them is because my parents back then thought that we'd learn better if we thought we were playing games too. >.>
So I had to play Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Carmen Sandiego, Super Solvers, you name it. :(

HORRIBLE TIMES. HORRIBLE. Edutainment, my butt.

The Paradox grand strategy games (Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, Victoria and the like) are insanely historically accurate.

Example: You can pick any date to begin the game, down to the very day, and the world map will reflect exactly what the political map of the world looked like.

Of course, the games are viciously difficult to play.

Yeah, I've always heard that the learning curve in Paradox games is like a cliff, more than a curve, but once you get used to it, you'll love those games. I've been looking over Sengoku more than a few times.

The 'City Builder' series - Pharoh etc. are based on historical fact, that, you know, it takes and makes a game out of, but they start in a fairly acturate place AFAIK

This is GOG, not GoG.