The Best Historical Board Games

This collection draws from BGG\'s historical theme, filtered for ratings of 7.0 or higher. War games, economic games, and medieval games each have their own collections and are excluded here, keeping the focus on historical settings that don\'t fit neatly into those categories.

You will find Cold War political simulations, age-of-exploration trading games, ancient civilization builders, and historical event games that recreate specific moments in time. Some span millennia in a single session; others zoom into a single decade with forensic detail. The common thread is that the history is load-bearing — remove the theme and the mechanics stop making sense.