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Commander: The Great War cover art

Commander: The Great War

The Lordz Games Studio · Slitherine Ltd. · 2014-07-25

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jul 25, 2014 (iOS), Jun 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take Command and Secure Victory in the Great War! Commander – The Great War features a Grand Campaign covering the whole war from the invasion of Belgium on August 5, 1914 to the Armistice on the 11th of November 1918 in addition to 16 different unit types including Infantry, Cavalry, Armoured Cars and Tanks, Artillery, and much more!

Commander: The Great War is a Strategy game released in 2014, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (80% of 295 reviews).

5
playing now
80%
positive of 295 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$29.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 14,087 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.4k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 295 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2019-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720152026Week of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1712026-09-15 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 8 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 6 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 9 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 7 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 7 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 13 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 8 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 17 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 8 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
845Jul 2014Aug 2026Jul 2014 — avg 84 · peak 254Nov 2014 — avg 13 · peak 33Mar 2015 — avg 12 · peak 35Jul 2015 — avg 12 · peak 27Nov 2015 — avg 10 · peak 25Mar 2016 — avg 15 · peak 38Jul 2016 — avg 13 · peak 31Nov 2016 — avg 11 · peak 32Mar 2017 — avg 18 · peak 71Jul 2017 — avg 13 · peak 32Nov 2017 — avg 11 · peak 29Mar 2018 — avg 13 · peak 33Jul 2018 — avg 12 · peak 29Nov 2018 — avg 14 · peak 30Mar 2019 — avg 9 · peak 23Jul 2019 — avg 11 · peak 26Nov 2019 — avg 9 · peak 25Mar 2020 — avg 13 · peak 27Jul 2020 — avg 11 · peak 27Nov 2020 — avg 8 · peak 19Mar 2021 — avg 7 · peak 19Jul 2021 — avg 8 · peak 19Nov 2021 — avg 8 · peak 19Mar 2022 — avg 5 · peak 11Jul 2022 — avg 8 · peak 19Nov 2022 — avg 7 · peak 19Mar 2023 — avg 7 · peak 19Jul 2023 — avg 6 · peak 17Nov 2023 — avg 7 · peak 18Mar 2024 — avg 6 · peak 16Jul 2024 — avg 6 · peak 16Nov 2024 — avg 6 · peak 18Mar 2025 — avg 7 · peak 17Jul 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Nov 2025 — avg 6 · peak 14Mar 2026 — avg 6 · peak 17Jul 2026 — avg 6 · peak 14Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 12
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$7.492015-01-012026-07-292015-01-01 — best price $19.792015-07-31 — best price $14.992015-12-22 — best price $19.792016-06-23 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $14.992017-06-22 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $9.892018-02-15 — best price $9.892018-06-21 — best price $9.892018-11-21 — best price $9.892019-02-04 — best price $9.892019-06-26 — best price $7.492019-12-19 — best price $7.492020-02-25 — best price $7.492020-11-25 — best price $14.692021-02-25 — best price $14.692021-11-24 — best price $14.692022-02-10 — best price $14.692022-10-10 — best price $7.492022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-06-29 — best price $7.492023-11-21 — best price $7.492024-03-14 — best price $7.492024-08-12 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $7.492025-01-27 — best price $7.492025-04-28 — best price $11.992025-09-29 — best price $11.992026-02-16 — best price $11.992026-04-13 — best price $11.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-29 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian

Player tags

WargameHex GridStrategyHistoricalTurn-BasedWorld War IGrand StrategyTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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