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Combat Mission Black Sea

Battlefront · Matrix Games · 2021-01-21

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jan 21, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017

83%
positive of 578 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (68 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$59.99
steam price (US)
Combat Mission: Black Sea is a computer wargame by American studio Battlefront.com in the Combat Mission series of games that covers a fictionalized Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 17,397 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–26k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 578 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$23.99-60%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $16.87 at GameBillet (2025-11-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 125 of 184 observed days · $7.12 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
313120212026Week of 2021-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$16.872021-01-212026-10-162021-01-21 — best price $50.992021-09-27 — best price $59.992022-01-05 — best price $59.992022-03-25 — best price $45.172022-08-11 — best price $59.992022-11-14 — best price $59.992023-02-27 — best price $37.792023-05-15 — best price $49.772023-07-24 — best price $49.772023-09-19 — best price $37.772023-12-11 — best price $59.992024-02-20 — best price $41.992024-04-25 — best price $49.772024-06-27 — best price $29.992024-08-01 — best price $46.432024-09-04 — best price $23.402024-10-25 — best price $19.202024-11-30 — best price $20.602024-12-25 — best price $24.002025-01-17 — best price $18.702025-02-13 — best price $23.992025-03-25 — best price $59.992025-04-26 — best price $49.772025-05-27 — best price $23.992025-06-27 — best price $18.622025-07-24 — best price $59.992025-09-17 — best price $23.992025-10-28 — best price $23.992025-11-27 — best price $20.122026-01-03 — best price $59.992026-01-29 — best price $23.992026-02-28 — best price $23.992026-04-02 — best price $19.192026-05-11 — best price $24.002026-06-11 — best price $59.992026-07-20 — best price $59.992026-09-11 — best price $24.002026-09-27 — best price $23.992026-10-13 — best price $23.992026-10-16 — best price $23.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-01-21 (Steam store data)

Player tags

3DWarCombatModernWargameMilitaryStrategyTacticalRealisticSimulation

Census log

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

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