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Close Combat - Panthers in the Fog

Matrix Games · 2015-05-14

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: May 14, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog details the desperate German counter-attack at Mortain, the last chance of the Wehrmacht to stave off defeat in Normandy. Can you match the tenacity of the American defenders of Hill 314? Or can you succeed where the Panzers failed, driving through to the sea and changing history?

71%
positive of 205 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 8,566 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 205 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.19 at Fanatical (2025-06-20) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 58 of 93 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820152026Week of 2015-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$43.38$6.392015-05-142026-08-242015-05-14 — best price $29.992017-03-24 — best price $20.002018-02-06 — best price $13.992018-07-06 — best price $39.992019-01-04 — best price $39.992019-04-17 — best price $9.992019-10-02 — best price $39.992020-01-04 — best price $39.992020-02-10 — best price $36.342020-04-15 — best price $18.772020-07-09 — best price $39.992020-10-21 — best price $33.942021-02-15 — best price $39.992021-06-09 — best price $9.592021-11-16 — best price $39.992022-02-14 — best price $9.592022-05-01 — best price $7.922022-08-15 — best price $13.992022-11-22 — best price $9.592023-03-06 — best price $11.192023-05-09 — best price $13.302023-07-17 — best price $9.492023-09-18 — best price $9.592023-12-11 — best price $7.992024-02-22 — best price $11.992024-04-20 — best price $11.152024-07-09 — best price $13.202024-08-23 — best price $39.992024-10-24 — best price $13.202024-12-15 — best price $11.602025-01-27 — best price $39.992025-04-03 — best price $39.992025-05-28 — best price $7.992025-08-18 — best price $39.992025-10-23 — best price $39.992026-01-09 — best price $7.992026-03-11 — best price $7.992026-05-18 — best price $6.392026-08-24 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

WargameStrategyTacticalSimulationMultiplayerReplay ValueSingleplayerWorld War IITurn-Based StrategyReal-Time with Pause

Census log

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

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