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Burden of Command™

Green Tree Games LLC · 2025-04-08

Steam

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 08, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Can you lead? Burden of Command is an emotionally authentic tactical leadership RPG. You’re a company Captain in the historical Cottonbalers. Fighting psychology as much as bullets, you must build respect, trust, and battlefield experience to bring your brothers safely home.

Burden of Command™ is an Indie, RPG, and Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 655 reviews).

7
playing now
84%
positive of 655 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (212 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 13k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 655 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $19.99 at Steam (2025-04-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
17217220252026Week of 2025-04-08: 172 positiveWeek of 2025-04-08: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-04-15: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-04-15: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-22: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-29: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-04-29: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-06: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-05-06: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-13: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-20: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-20: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-27: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-03: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-17: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-12: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 5 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 6 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 7 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 6 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
754Apr 2025Aug 2026Apr 2025 — avg 75 · peak 214May 2025 — avg 26 · peak 61Jun 2025 — avg 17 · peak 42Jul 2025 — avg 11 · peak 40Aug 2025 — avg 15 · peak 39Sep 2025 — avg 11 · peak 30Oct 2025 — avg 9 · peak 30Nov 2025 — avg 6 · peak 14Dec 2025 — avg 8 · peak 19Jan 2026 — avg 10 · peak 22Feb 2026 — avg 10 · peak 29Mar 2026 — avg 14 · peak 33Apr 2026 — avg 8 · peak 20May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 20Jun 2026 — avg 6 · peak 21Jul 2026 — avg 5 · peak 17Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$19.992025-04-082026-07-092025-04-08 — best price $19.992025-04-15 — best price $24.992025-06-02 — best price $19.992025-06-09 — best price $24.992025-06-27 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $24.992025-07-29 — best price $19.992025-08-06 — best price $24.992025-09-29 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $24.992025-12-18 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-03-09 — best price $19.992026-03-16 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
74.7%
earned "Lace Up Your Boondockers"
15.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2025-04-17, latest 2026-02-24 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RPGWarWargameStrategyTacticalEmotionalHistoricalStory RichStrategy RPGTactical RPG

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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