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>>10665876
It would kind of have to be a science fiction game for that, ergo a Wolfenstein title.
Nazi Germany fought tooth and nail, but not always smartly, and they had some serious uphills in terms of resources and industry even from the beginning of the war, uphills they tried to overcome, but couldn't, and which kept getting worse.

I think the only theoretical shot they would have had at all were if they had ignored Poland and then swallowed their wrath for France as to not get the Brits and Americans involved, then going for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Austria, etc, and then trying to build up some sort of alliance for the looming threat of Russia versus Europe. Also make sure to ghost Imperial Japan.
Some countries may be easier to convince of that, like Finland who were in direct Russian peril, while others may be more skeptical, it'd probably not be very easy to get France and Britain to play along, they really didn't want a rearming Germany if they could help it.

Despite what some people will insist about WW2 as a cope, America was one of the key players, and not just by their military action, but because of how much of an industrial and economic powerhouse they were. Russia fought very hard as well, but they got a lot of very badly needed help from the American Lend Lease, providing them with a lot of food, vital infrastructure, lots of vehicles for logistics, etc, etc, things they really could not have gone without.

You basically would need Germany to be fighting far fewer fronts, and to not have Germany's enemies getting backing from the big industrial powerhouse across the ocean. They could also do with not wasting shitloads of time and resources on ridiculous wunderwaffen.
This could all be pretty interesting as a premise for a game, but it's also such a radically different war that it would barely be recognizable, and in reality German leadership as a whole just didn't have the right chops or discipline to steer the country that way.

>>7148620
>If not for them, Germans would've steamrolled Europe and invaded America.
LMAO, Germany was on shaky ground throughout the war and it only got worse for them, horrible fuel production which crippled them logistically, hence a heavy reliance on horse and carriage for moving supplies, as well as increasingly narrow margins for being able to apply mechanized ground warfare and field their airforce.
They ran through all their ammunition stockpiles on Poland alone and suffered an increasingly bad shortage afterwards, they were in a really bad shortage of arms and ammunition that they would capture and field as many enemy small arms and small arms production as they possibly could.
Manpower was in constant shortage, and one of Hitler's blunders was issuing WAY more stand or die orders than useful, leading to deaths and captures of soldiers who instead could have retreated and fought another day.
Then we have the economical side, where Nazi Germany fell for the Autarky meme, and the economy couldn't hold itself together without robbing selected domestic demographics and plundering conquered areas for resources to bring home.
You also have things like Germany's nuclear weapon's program being a complete joke because much of the necessary science was dismissed as 'jew science' and useful scientists fleeing the country left them high and dry on that part.

There is no reality in the multiverse where Nazi Germany manages to not fall apart in one way or another before the 1950s, and certainly not one where they manage to stage a functional land invasion in North America.

On Soviet Russia, they were strongly dependent on the US, more than half ammunition they were using was produced in America via the Lend-Lease, and much of the food needed to feed troops came there as well. The Red Army was incidentally also in a horrible state early on, due to Stalin purging leadership, which was why their attack on Finland was initially such an insane meatgrinder for them.