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Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour

EA Pacific · Electronic Arts · 2024-03-07

Steam

ActionAdventureRPGStrategy

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

Releases: Mar 03, 2005 (Mac), Sep 22, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour brings you closer to the enemy than ever before. Engage opposing forces at hot spots around the globe as you match strategies and arsenals against the new masterminds of modern war.

Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour is an Action, Adventure, RPG and Strategy game released in 2024, with a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 6321 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

90%
positive of 6.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
83/100
IGDB user rating (135 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Command and Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour is the expansion pack for the 2003 video game Command & Conquer: Generals. Zero Hour added several new abilities and units to each side, and a new mode of play called Generals' Challenge, along with a lot more changes, new features and bug/glitch fixes.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,159 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~145/week).
  • · Review velocity down 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 27,942 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 132k–297k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,602 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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93593520242026Week of 2024-03-01: 935 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 241 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 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 WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily 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

Act of War: Direct ActionSupreme CommanderOriginal WarWorld War III: Black GoldBreach & ClearPraetoriansCommand & Conquer™ Generals

Similarity via IGDB.

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