by Armchair Dragoons PAO, 22 October 2025
As we have data over several years, we are able to show some trends in the data from a year-to-year basis. Here is a look at how rankings have changed for those titles that have appeared on every survey.
Note that this table updates every year with the most recent overall comparison data
| Title | Rank 2025 | Rank 2024 | Rank 2023 | Change 23-24 | Change 24-25 | Change 23-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-Day at Omaha Beach | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -1 | -1 |
| RAF: The Battle of Britain 1940 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Pavlov's House | 4 | 11 | 3 | -8 | 7 | -1 |
| Halls of Hegra | 6 | 6 | 24 | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| Skies Above Britain | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | -5 | -2 |
| Enemy Action: Ardennes | 8 | 16 | 6 | -10 | 8 | -2 |
| Navajo Wars | 9 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Pax Pamir: Second Edition | 11 | 4 | 2 | -2 | -7 | -9 |
| John Company: Second Edition | 12 | 9 | 9 | 0 | -3 | -3 |
| Fire in the Lake | 13 | 10 | 18 | 8 | -3 | 5 |
| Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | -7 | -7 |
| Thunderbolt Apache Leader | 15 | 57 | 57 | 0 | 42 | 42 |
| Lanzerath Ridge | 17 | 60 | 48 | -12 | 43 | 31 |
| Enemy Action: Kharkov | 19 | 37 | 20 | -17 | 18 | 1 |
| Cuba Libre | 20 | 25 | 27 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Western Front Ace: The Great War in the Air, 1916-1918 | 21 | 30 | 78 | 48 | 9 | 57 |
| Ambush! | 22 | 15 | 12 | -3 | -7 | -10 |
| Maquis | 24 | 182 | 36 | -146 | 158 | 12 |
| Stilicho: Last of the Romans | 25 | 60 | 23 | -37 | 35 | -2 |
| Raid on St. Nazaire | 26 | 121 | 33 | -88 | 95 | 7 |
| Mrs Thatcher's War: The Falklands, 1982 | 27 | 26 | 39 | 13 | -1 | 12 |
| Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga, 1942 | 27 | 18 | 14 | -4 | -9 | -13 |
| Warfighter: The WWII Tactical Combat Card Game | 29 | 103 | 16 | -87 | 74 | -13 |
| Votes for Women | 29 | 119 | 22 | -97 | 90 | -7 |
| Target for Today | 31 | 133 | 65 | -68 | 102 | 34 |
| Fields of Fire | 33 | 5 | 4 | -1 | -28 | -29 |
| The Mission: Early Christianity from the Crucifixion to the Crusades | 33 | 60 | 88 | 28 | 27 | 55 |
| The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire | 33 | 44 | 144 | 100 | 11 | 111 |
| The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43 | 37 | 21 | 10 | -11 | -16 | -27 |
| Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea | 38 | 86 | 117 | 31 | 48 | 79 |
| Advanced Squad Leader | 39 | 60 | 42 | -18 | 21 | 3 |
| B-17: Queen of the Skies | 41 | 8 | 26 | 18 | -33 | -15 |
| Colonial Twilight: The French-Algerian War, 1954-62 | 43 | 40 | 70 | 30 | -3 | 27 |
| Carrier: The Southwest Pacific Campaign – 1942-1943 | 43 | 50 | 53 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? | 46 | 29 | 36 | 7 | -17 | -10 |
| RAF | 47 | 32 | 34 | 2 | -15 | -13 |
| Churchill | 50 | 249 | 212 | -37 | 199 | 162 |
| Peloponnesian War | 50 | 56 | 32 | -24 | 6 | -18 |
| Resist! | 52 | 53 | 15 | -38 | 1 | -37 |
| Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! – Operation Barbarossa 1941 (Second Edition) | 52 | 27 | 95 | 68 | -25 | 43 |
| Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition | 54 | 41 | 343 | 302 | -13 | 289 |
| Agricola, Master of Britain | 58 | 105 | 52 | -53 | 47 | -6 |
| D-Day at Tarawa | 58 | 17 | 11 | -6 | -41 | -47 |
| Dien Bien Phu: The Final Gamble | 58 | 323 | 60 | -263 | 265 | 2 |
| World At War 85: Storming the Gap | 62 | 76 | 126 | 50 | 14 | 64 |
| B-17 Flying Fortress Leader | 63 | 32 | 31 | -1 | -31 | -32 |
| Hadrian's Wall | 64 | 381 | 84 | -297 | 317 | 20 |
| Tarawa 1943 | 64 | 69 | 69 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Britannia | 68 | 133 | 105 | -28 | 65 | 37 |
| Undaunted: Normandy | 68 | 43 | 200 | 157 | -25 | 132 |
| We Must Tell the Emperor | 74 | 55 | 142 | 87 | -19 | 68 |
| Freedom: The Underground Railroad | 78 | 53 | 39 | -14 | -25 | -39 |
| Aces of Valor | 78 | 182 | 60 | -122 | 104 | -18 |
| Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain | 78 | 18 | 126 | 108 | -60 | 48 |
| Arracourt | 82 | 381 | 71 | -310 | 299 | -11 |
| Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection | 82 | 34 | 58 | 24 | -48 | -24 |
| D-Day at Peleliu | 82 | 97 | 126 | 29 | 15 | 44 |
| Pax Emancipation | 82 | 323 | 212 | -111 | 241 | 130 |
| Field Commander: Napoleon | 89 | 49 | 17 | -32 | -40 | -72 |
| Versailles 1919 | 89 | 381 | 144 | -237 | 292 | 55 |
| People Power: Insurgency in the Philippines, 1981-1986 | 89 | 71 | 160 | 89 | -18 | 71 |
| Falling Sky: The Gallic Revolt Against Caesar | 89 | 41 | 25 | -16 | -48 | -64 |
| Beneath the Med: Regia Marina at Sea 1940-1943 | 96 | 119 | 117 | -2 | 23 | 21 |
| Stonewall Jackson's Way II: Battles of Bull Run | 96 | 105 | 89 | -16 | 9 | -7 |
| Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942 (Second Edition) | 108 | 91 | 160 | 69 | -17 | 52 |
| Skies Above the Reich | 108 | 23 | 30 | 7 | -85 | -78 |
| Islands of the Damned: Wake Island and Peleliu | 108 | 323 | 144 | -179 | 215 | 36 |
| Corsair Leader | 111 | 94 | 212 | 118 | -17 | 101 |
| Silent Victory: U.S. Submarines in the Pacific, 1941-45 | 111 | 83 | 51 | -32 | -28 | -60 |
| Nightfighter Ace: Air Defense Over Germany, 1943-44 | 111 | 133 | 126 | -7 | 22 | 15 |
| Conflict of Heroes: Eastern Front – Solo Expansion | 111 | 249 | 95 | -154 | 138 | -16 |
| Tokyo Express: The Guadalcanal Naval Campaign – 1942 | 111 | 60 | 114 | 54 | -51 | 3 |
| Imperium: Classics | 111 | 182 | 419 | 237 | 71 | 308 |
| Black Orchestra | 111 | 329 | 109 | -220 | 218 | -2 |
| Men of Iron Battles Tri-Pack: Men of Iron, Infidel, Blood & Roses | 111 | 76 | 67 | -9 | -35 | -44 |
| Celles: The Ardennes, December 23-27, 1944 | 111 | 265 | 95 | -170 | 154 | -16 |
| All Bridges Burning: Red Revolt and White Guard in Finland, 1917-1918 | 111 | 265 | 268 | 3 | 154 | 157 |
| Endurance | 128 | 199 | 102 | -97 | 71 | -26 |
| The Barbarossa Campaign | 129 | 265 | 160 | -105 | 136 | 31 |
| Obsession | 130 | 133 | 83 | -50 | 3 | -47 |
| Ottoman Sunset: The Great War in the Near East | 130 | 75 | 102 | 27 | -55 | -28 |
| Operation Olympic: The Invasion of Japan 1 November 1945 | 130 | 381 | 335 | -46 | 251 | 205 |
| Commands & Colors: Ancients | 130 | 379 | 44 | -335 | 249 | -86 |
| Target for Tonight: Britain's Strategic Air Campaign Over Europe, 1942-1945 | 130 | 133 | 136 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| The White Tribe: Rhodesia's War 1966-1980 | 164 | 36 | 41 | 5 | -128 | -123 |
| Solitaire ASL | 164 | 20 | 276 | 256 | -144 | 112 |
| Phantom Leader: Deluxe Edition | 164 | 37 | 109 | 72 | -127 | -55 |
| Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars | 164 | 86 | 160 | 74 | -78 | -4 |
| The U.S. Civil War | 164 | 323 | 81 | -242 | 159 | -83 |
| Commands & Colors: Napoleonics | 174 | 265 | 84 | -181 | 91 | -90 |
| Patton's Best | 176 | 24 | 38 | 14 | -152 | -138 |
| Stuka Leader | 176 | 265 | 53 | -212 | 89 | -123 |
| Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations | 176 | 83 | 200 | 117 | -93 | 24 |
| Red Flag Over Paris | 176 | 263 | 117 | -146 | 87 | -59 |
| Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa | 176 | 47 | 143 | 96 | -129 | -33 |
| Squad Leader | 176 | 265 | 105 | -160 | 89 | -71 |
| Keep Up The Fire!: The Boxer Rebellion | 176 | 381 | 160 | -221 | 205 | -16 |
| Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #2 | 176 | 199 | 212 | 13 | 23 | 36 |
| Salerno '43 | 176 | 39 | 160 | 121 | -137 | -16 |
| Memoir '44 | 176 | 133 | 136 | 3 | -43 | -40 |
| SPQR (Deluxe Edition) | 176 | 329 | 200 | -129 | 153 | 24 |
| Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah | 176 | 329 | 335 | 6 | 153 | 159 |
| B-29 Superfortress | 176 | 265 | 343 | 78 | 89 | 167 |
| Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! – Russia 1941-42 | 176 | 381 | 343 | -38 | 205 | 167 |
| Wilderness War | 176 | 265 | 144 | -121 | 89 | -32 |
| Gandhi: The Decolonization of British India, 1917 – 1947 | 230 | 94 | 95 | 1 | -136 | -135 |
| Nemo's War (Second Edition) | 230 | 69 | 144 | 75 | -161 | -86 |
| The MOG: Mogadishu 1993 | 230 | 381 | 105 | -276 | 151 | -125 |
| Cruel Necessity: The English Civil Wars 1640-1653 | 230 | 35 | 102 | 67 | -195 | -128 |
| Leaving Earth | 230 | 112 | 71 | -41 | -118 | -159 |
| Zulus on the Ramparts!: The Battle of Rorke's Drift – Second Edition | 230 | 122 | 82 | -40 | -108 | -148 |
| 1914: Nach Paris | 240 | 265 | 117 | -148 | 25 | -123 |
| Enemy Coast Ahead: Operation Chastise – The Dambuster Raid | 240 | 249 | 343 | 94 | 9 | 103 |
| Panzergruppe Guderian | 240 | 329 | 343 | 14 | 89 | 103 |
| Empires in America: The French and Indian War, 1754-1763 (Second Edition) | 240 | 133 | 419 | 286 | -107 | 179 |
| Operation Dauntless: The Battles for Fontenay and Rauray, France, June 1944 | 240 | 381 | 276 | -105 | 141 | 36 |
| Pax Porfiriana | 240 | 249 | 268 | 19 | 9 | 28 |
| Cities of the Damned: Aachen and Cassino | 240 | 122 | 212 | 90 | -118 | -28 |
| 1066, Tears to Many Mothers: The Battle of Hastings | 240 | 329 | 343 | 14 | 89 | 103 |
| Andean Abyss | 240 | 122 | 95 | -27 | -118 | -145 |
| A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg | 299 | 68 | 28 | -40 | -231 | -271 |
| Cataclysm: A Second World War | 299 | 199 | 268 | 69 | -100 | -31 |
| Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain 1085-1086 | 299 | 323 | 50 | -273 | 24 | -249 |
| The Shores of Tripoli | 306 | 132 | 156 | 24 | -174 | -150 |
| Fleet Commander: Nimitz – The WWII Pacific Ocean Solitaire Strategy Game | 308 | 182 | 419 | 237 | -126 | 111 |
| Crusade and Revolution: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | 308 | 133 | 212 | 79 | -175 | -96 |
| Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944 | 308 | 133 | 343 | 210 | -175 | 35 |
| Europa Universalis: The Price of Power | 308 | 51 | 28 | -23 | -257 | -280 |
| Conquest of Paradise | 308 | 100 | 343 | 243 | -208 | 35 |
| Warriors of God: The Wars of England & France, 1135-1453 | 308 | 329 | 276 | -53 | 21 | -32 |
| Storm Above the Reich | 308 | 60 | 95 | 35 | -248 | -213 |
| By Stealth and Sea | 308 | 71 | 109 | 38 | -237 | -199 |
| Tiger Leader | 308 | 182 | 413 | 231 | -126 | 105 |
| The Wars of Marcus Aurelius | 308 | 100 | 34 | -66 | -208 | -274 |
| Malta Besieged: 1940-1942 | 308 | 329 | 68 | -261 | 21 | -240 |
| The Dark Summer: Normandy 1944 | 308 | 182 | 109 | -73 | -126 | -199 |
| The Dark Valley | 308 | 76 | 160 | 84 | -232 | -148 |
| A Victory Lost: Crisis in Ukraine 1942-1943 | 308 | 122 | 156 | 34 | -186 | -152 |
| Time of Crisis: The Roman Empire in Turmoil, 235-284 AD | 369 | 112 | 114 | 2 | -257 | -255 |
| Charlemagne, Master of Europe | 374 | 249 | 46 | -203 | -125 | -328 |
| N: The Napoleonic Wars | 374 | 58 | 84 | 26 | -316 | -290 |
| Silent War | 374 | 133 | 144 | 11 | -241 | -230 |
| Field Commander: Alexander | 374 | 97 | 413 | 316 | -277 | 39 |
| Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WWII | 374 | 91 | 66 | -25 | -283 | -308 |
| The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, 1943-45 | 374 | 86 | 44 | -42 | -288 | -330 |
| In Magnificent Style: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg | 374 | 71 | 126 | 55 | -303 | -248 |
| MBT (Second Edition) | 374 | 381 | 343 | -38 | 7 | -31 |
| Enemy Coast Ahead: The Doolittle Raid | 374 | 91 | 60 | -31 | -283 | -314 |
| The Fall of Rome | 374 | 329 | 268 | -61 | -45 | -106 |
| Freeman's Farm 1777 | 374 | 199 | 117 | -82 | -175 | -257 |
This table is a comparison of the changes in common survey response items over time; updated annually starting in 2025. It is sorted by the ranking of the most recent year but can be sorted on any of the headers. Will show year-to-year changes, plus the overall change from 2023 to present. Only titles that have appeared on every survey will be included.
This wraps up our 2025 Solo/Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey!
2025 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results
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