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Close Combat: Modern Tactics

Strategy 3 Tactics · Matrix Games · 2021-04-15

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 15, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Close Combat is a pausable real-time wargame series, heavily focused on historical accuracy and realistic soldier psychological profiles. Close Combat - Modern Tactics was originally released in 2007, and re-released on Steam in 2021.

Close Combat: Modern Tactics is a Strategy game released in 2021, priced at $29.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (42% of 31 reviews).

0
playing now
42%
positive of 31 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 66% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

GOG$7.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2024-05-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 74 of 96 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320212026Week of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$5.472018-03-202026-10-142018-03-20 — best price $19.992018-11-28 — best price $39.992019-10-10 — best price $39.992020-07-06 — best price $39.992021-02-15 — best price $39.992021-06-24 — best price $9.892021-12-22 — best price $9.892022-05-10 — best price $9.892022-08-12 — best price $9.012022-10-27 — best price $13.492022-12-23 — best price $7.192023-03-20 — best price $9.892023-05-08 — best price $24.852023-07-21 — best price $9.182023-09-29 — best price $29.482024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-03-14 — best price $7.192024-05-20 — best price $29.992024-07-29 — best price $29.992024-09-18 — best price $11.992024-11-18 — best price $29.992025-01-13 — best price $23.932025-03-10 — best price $6.682025-04-25 — best price $29.992025-06-26 — best price $7.492025-09-17 — best price $7.492025-11-06 — best price $7.492026-01-23 — best price $7.492026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-05-12 — best price $7.492026-07-31 — best price $5.472026-09-02 — best price $7.492026-09-12 — best price $29.992026-09-22 — best price $7.492026-10-02 — best price $7.492026-10-12 — best price $7.492026-10-14 — best price $7.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DPvPWarCombatModernWargameStrategyTacticalTop-DownRealistic

Census log

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

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