Collider has published a ranked list of the ten greatest historical video games of all time, arguing that while few such games are fully historically accurate, the best ones offer immersive, authentic portrayals of major world events and eras. The list spans settings from ancient Rome and medieval Europe to the two World Wars, highlighting titles that blend entertainment with a genuine sense of time and place.

Games featured include:
– Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (2008) — a WWII first-person shooter following a paratrooper through Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands
– Pentiment (2022) — a narrative RPG set in 16th-century Bavaria, following a travelling painter solving a murder mystery, winner of a Peabody Award
– Verdun (2015) — a squad-based WWI shooter praised for its grounded, strategic depiction of trench warfare