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Company of Heroes cover art

Company of Heroes

Relic Entertainment · 2006-09-11

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 12, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 13, 2020 (iOS)

Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.

Company of Heroes is an Action and Strategy title released in 2006, priced at $14.99, with an owner estimate of 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 18771 reviews).

843
playing now
94%
positive of 19k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
36
twitch viewers (latest)
18.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
95/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (250 ratings)
16
Nexus mods (36k downloads)
7h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

843 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Company of Heroes is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ for Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the first installment of the Company of Heroes series, and was the first title to make use of the Games for Windows label.

Trailer

Company of Heroes trailer thumbnail

COMPANY OF HEROES - Trailer - Out on Blu-ray and DVD March 25th

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 843 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 836 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~105/week).
  • · Review velocity up 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 755k–1.5M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 18,867 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.14 at GamesPlanet DE (2015-02-03) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39939920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 399 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 237 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 237 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 222 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.7k5542026-09-15 12:00 — 1,015 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 1,008 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 616 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 1,250 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 1,439 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 680 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 844 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 1,246 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 794 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 1,172 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 1,165 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 634 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 824 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1,353 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 1,064 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 726 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 1,259 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 963 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 659 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 1,361 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 1,384 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 691 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 843 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.2k815Apr 2013Aug 2026Apr 2013 — avg 815 · peak 1,933Sep 2013 — avg 1,506 · peak 2,797Feb 2014 — avg 1,727 · peak 3,339Jul 2014 — avg 1,631 · peak 2,936Dec 2014 — avg 1,822 · peak 3,784May 2015 — avg 1,680 · peak 3,462Oct 2015 — avg 1,586 · peak 2,997Mar 2016 — avg 1,635 · peak 3,297Aug 2016 — avg 1,433 · peak 2,544Jan 2017 — avg 1,631 · peak 2,991Jun 2017 — avg 2,207 · peak 5,539Nov 2017 — avg 1,377 · peak 2,614Apr 2018 — avg 1,236 · peak 2,277Sep 2018 — avg 1,221 · peak 2,290Feb 2019 — avg 1,209 · peak 2,190Jul 2019 — avg 1,138 · peak 2,136Dec 2019 — avg 1,296 · peak 2,239May 2020 — avg 1,607 · peak 3,038Oct 2020 — avg 1,498 · peak 2,981Mar 2021 — avg 1,363 · peak 2,440Aug 2021 — avg 1,333 · peak 2,283Jan 2022 — avg 1,411 · peak 2,409Jun 2022 — avg 1,272 · peak 2,334Nov 2022 — avg 1,227 · peak 2,098Apr 2023 — avg 1,159 · peak 2,090Sep 2023 — avg 1,119 · peak 2,069Feb 2024 — avg 1,153 · peak 2,001Jul 2024 — avg 1,068 · peak 1,866Dec 2024 — avg 1,091 · peak 1,765May 2025 — avg 1,076 · peak 2,098Oct 2025 — avg 999 · peak 1,758Mar 2026 — avg 991 · peak 1,828Aug 2026 — avg 994 · peak 1,714
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
662026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 5 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 3 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 5 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new positive2026-09-25: 1 new negative2026-09-26: 6 new positive2026-09-27: 3 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 2 new positive2026-09-29: 3 new positive2026-09-30: 3 new positive2026-10-01: 5 new positive2026-10-02: 3 new positive2026-10-03: 3 new positive2026-10-03: 1 new negative2026-10-04: 4 new positive2026-10-05: 6 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new negative2026-10-07: 2 new positive2026-10-08: 5 new positive2026-10-10: 2 new positive2026-10-11: 4 new positive2026-10-12: 4 new positive2026-10-12: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 2 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new negative2026-10-14: 3 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$22.95$1.572015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-03-31 — best price $19.992015-06-19 — best price $4.992015-10-23 — best price $19.992016-02-22 — best price $4.442016-06-25 — best price $13.002016-11-29 — best price $19.992017-03-03 — best price $19.992017-05-29 — best price $11.512017-09-15 — best price $2.492017-12-18 — best price $6.792018-04-09 — best price $6.802018-08-09 — best price $4.992019-03-31 — best price $19.992019-07-24 — best price $19.992019-11-26 — best price $3.992020-02-05 — best price $12.862020-05-22 — best price $2.312020-07-20 — best price $9.992020-10-01 — best price $16.882020-11-13 — best price $8.372021-01-04 — best price $12.352021-02-26 — best price $19.992021-04-08 — best price $16.882021-05-16 — best price $19.992021-08-13 — best price $2.762022-01-27 — best price $1.572022-10-06 — best price $2.472023-03-31 — best price $17.882023-11-08 — best price $16.572024-03-16 — best price $17.992024-06-28 — best price $2.642024-09-17 — best price $17.992025-08-01 — best price $19.992026-07-24 — best price $3.992026-08-21 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

219622026-05-28 — 100 pageviews2026-06-01 — 118 pageviews2026-06-05 — 103 pageviews2026-06-09 — 149 pageviews2026-06-13 — 96 pageviews2026-06-17 — 99 pageviews2026-06-21 — 105 pageviews2026-06-25 — 86 pageviews2026-06-29 — 67 pageviews2026-07-03 — 131 pageviews2026-07-07 — 74 pageviews2026-07-11 — 76 pageviews2026-07-15 — 77 pageviews2026-07-19 — 79 pageviews2026-07-23 — 87 pageviews2026-07-27 — 95 pageviews2026-07-31 — 112 pageviews2026-08-04 — 101 pageviews2026-08-08 — 109 pageviews2026-08-12 — 70 pageviews2026-08-16 — 96 pageviews2026-08-20 — 88 pageviews2026-08-24 — 91 pageviews2026-08-28 — 98 pageviews2026-09-01 — 86 pageviews2026-09-05 — 99 pageviews2026-09-09 — 99 pageviews2026-09-13 — 122 pageviews2026-09-17 — 70 pageviews2026-09-21 — 115 pageviews2026-09-25 — 85 pageviews2026-09-29 — 100 pageviews2026-10-03 — 91 pageviews2026-10-07 — 84 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

9302026-09-30 21:34 — 49 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 63 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 45 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 50 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 38 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 51 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 71 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 36 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian

Where its players are

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

Player tags

RTSWarCo-opActionClassicViolentMilitaryStrategyTacticalHistorical

Census log

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

Recent updates

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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