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A war game is a type of strategy game that simulates warfare realistically.

War game, Wargame or War Games may also refer to:

Conflict simulations

• Military exercise, a training operation
• Military simulation, a live or computer exercise to develop military strategies
• Wargame (video games), a genre that emphasizes strategic or tactical warfare on a map
• Board wargame, a genre that emphasizes strategic or tactical warfare on a map
• Wargame (hacking), a challenge involving exploiting or defending a computer system vulnerability

Film and television

• The War Game, a film by Mai Zetterling
• The War Game, a 1965 BBC television film
• The War Games, a 1969 Doctor Who serial
• WarGames, a 1983 film by John Badham starring Matthew Broderick
  • #WarGames, a 2018 interactive film adaptation
  • WarGames: The Dead Code
• War Game (2002 film), an animated short film based on the 1993 children's novel
• War Game (2024 film), a documentary film
• War Games: At the End of the Day, a 2010 film by Cosimo Alemà
• "War Games" (Foyle's War), an episode of Foyle's War
• "War Games" (Space: 1999), an episode of Space: 1999
• The Wargame, a 2026 TV series

Literature

• "War Game" (short story), a 1959 short story by Philip K. Dick
• War Game (novel), a 1993 children's novel about World War I
• War Games (novel), a 1981 novel by Karl Hansen
• Batman: War Games, a comic book story arc
• War Games, a 1966 novel by James Park Sloan
• War Games, a 1981 British title of the 1980 novel Optiman by Brian Stableford

Music

• War Games (Grave Digger album) (1986)
• War Games (Rob Swift album) (2005)
• "War Games", a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash from the album Allies
• Ratne igre ("War Games"), a 1985 Yugoslav rock album and song by Kerber
• War Games (John Paul Young song)
• "War Games", a song by the Monkees from the album Missing Links

Professional wrestling

• WarGames match, a professional wrestling match
• NXT WarGames, a professional wrestling event series

Video games

• Wargamer (website), a video game website
• Wargaming (company), a videogame developer and publisher
• WarGames (video game), a 1984 video game for Colecovision
• WarGames: Defcon 1, a 1998 video game for PC and PlayStation
• Wargame: European Escalation, a 2012 real-time strategy game
• Wargame: AirLand Battle, a 2013 real-time strategy game
• Wargame: Red Dragon, a 2014 real-time strategy game
• War Games, a mode in Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians

See also

• Business war games, a role-playing exercise set in the world of commerce
• Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!, a 2000 animated film
• A Game of War, a 1987 book about wargaming
• Game of War: Fire Age, a 2013 MMO freemium video game
• Game Wars a 1991 book about fish and game conflicts
• War (card game), a simple card game featuring a series of "battles" between two players
• War (disambiguation) § Games
• Wargaming (disambiguation)