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Command & Conquer™ Generals

EA Pacific · Electronic Arts · 2024-03-07

Steam

ActionStrategy

Franchise: Command & Conquer · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 21, 2004 (Mac), Feb 14, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Command & Conquer Generals puts your trigger finger on the pulse of modern warfare. Prepare your forces General... it's time to engage in the next generation of real-time strategy.

Command & Conquer™ Generals is an Action and Strategy game released in 2024, with a review sentiment of Very Positive (88% of 2110 reviews).

87%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
80/100
IGDB user rating (248 ratings)
27
Nexus mods (95k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy video game and the seventh installment in the Command & Conquer series. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X in 2003 and 2004. The Windows version of Generals was developed by EA Pacific and published by EA Games, the Mac OS X version was developed by i5works and published by Aspyr Media. The Mac OS X version was released by Aspyr on April 12, 2004. In the game, the player can choose from three different factions: the United States, China and the Global Liberation Army (GLA).

Health check

Healthy
  • · 340 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~43/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 44k–98k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,184 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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43443420242026Week of 2024-03-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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