List of Alternate History Fiction - Video Games

Video Games

• 1996. Command & Conquer: Red Alert series, a series of computer real time strategy video games set in an alternate timeline, created when Albert Einstein travels back to the past and eliminates Adolf Hitler in an attempt to prevent World War II from taking place. This plan indirectly backfires and results in an unchecked Soviet invasion of Europe by Joseph Stalin in the 1950s.
• 1997. Fallout (series), a series of role playing video games set in a post-apocalyptic United States where the world's timeline diverges after World War II, in which the cultural basis and technological aspects of the 1950s and the "World of Tomorrow" remains a part of everyday life.
• 1999. Crimson Skies, PC game based on the original board game.
• 2000. Gunparade March, in which an alien invasion occurs in 1945, before the end of World War II. The series lead to the creation of an anime series.
• 2002. Iron Storm, set in a world where World War I lasts more than half a century.
• 2003. Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, video game sequel to PC game.
• 2003. Enigma: Rising Tide, the British passenger ship Lusitania was not sunk by a German U-boat in the First World War.
• 2003. Freedom Fighters, set in an alternate Cold War where the Soviet Union drops the atomic bomb on Berlin in 1945 and eventually invades the United States in likely early 2000`s.
• 2006. Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday, contains a scenario involving Soviet forces attacking Allied forces in 1945, starting World War III.
• 2006. Resistance: Fall of Man, set in 1951 Britain as human resistance forces attempt to drive out an alien species of unconfirmed origin called the Chimera.
• 2007. War Front: Turning Point, set in an alternate version of World War II in which Adolf Hitler died during the early days of the war, and a more effective leadership arose to command Germany during the conflict.
• 2007. World in Conflict, set in 1989 during the social, political, and economic collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet Union pursued a course of war to remain in power.
• 2008. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3,set in the time where Soviets successfully eliminated Albert Einstein,turning the war on the Soviet favors,but also the rise of the Empire of the Rising Sun,Japanese armies that will almost crush both Allies and Soviets.
• 2008. The Crossing, a parallel universe that has the Knights Templar seizing the French throne.
• 2008. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, it depicts the invasion of the United States by Nazi Germany during the 1950s.
• 2009. Damnation, set in the early part of the twentieth century after the American Civil War has spanned over several decades, where steam engines replace combustion engines.