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Close Combat

Atomic Games · SNEG · 2024-05-15

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 01, 1996 (DOS), Jul 01, 1996 (Mac), Jul 01, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Defeat the enemy in this classic nonstop World War II battle action. Lead your men through the terror, fatigue, and hell of war on to victory. Only you can bring'em back alive!

89%
positive of 18 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$5.99
steam price (US)
Close Combat is a 1996 real-time computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Microsoft. Set during World War II, it simulates the conflict between the United States' 29th Infantry Division and Germany's 352nd Infantry Division after the Invasion of Normandy. The player controls an artificially intelligent army whose behavior is dictated by psychological models: each soldier makes decisions based on the circumstances of the battlefield and can disobey the player's orders.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 225% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 82% of 13,514 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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