The best simulation games like Enlisted are Hell Let Loose, Post Scriptum and Squad. Below are 6, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to simulation costs you.
Filtering to simulation means you want a system to run or a routine to inhabit. It is the right filter when what you liked was being somewhere rather than beating something.
What you get: A game that does not need you to be good at it, and that rewards paying attention over reacting quickly.
What made Enlisted worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the simulation part of that answer, and only the simulation part.
Fifty-a-side WWII with a supply chain and real command roles. Slower, heavier, no AI squad.
The same era with a stricter simulation streak and a much longer walk to the fight.
Modern rather than WWII, but the squad-leader-and-radio loop is the closest match to what Enlisted is reaching for.
Where the command fantasy goes if you want it total — orders, logistics and a map in your hands.
The same battles from above: squads as units, cover as the whole game.
If the lethality was the draw — two bullets and you are done, modern setting.
Urgency. Simulations are deliberately slow, and the ones with no fail state give you nothing to push against.
Specifically, these are strong answers for Enlisted that are not simulation games, so they are not on this page:
The full list is on games like Enlisted — 10 picks, no genre filter.
Hell Let Loose. Fifty-a-side WWII with a supply chain and real command roles. Slower, heavier, no AI squad.
No. Enlisted released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
A simulation with no fail state and no time pressure. The label describes how it feels to play rather than what genre it is in.
No — one is about running a system well, the other about inhabiting a routine. Recommending across that line is where most simulation recommendations go wrong.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Enlisted list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is simulation — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the simulation guide for where to start in the genre generally.