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Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 cover art

Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2

2by3 Games · Matrix Games · 2021-12-10

Steam

SimulationStrategy

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

Releases: Apr 09, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

War in the East 2 is the most comprehensive, most realistic, and most advanced wargame modeling Eastern Front warfare in World War Two.

91%
positive of 478 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$79.99
steam price (US)
Gary Grigsby's War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a 2010 computer wargame developed by 2 by 3 Games and published by Matrix Games. It simulates the German–Soviet War of World War II. Two sequels were released: Gary Grigsby's War in the West in 2014 and Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 in 2021.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 17,397 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.6k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 478 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$79.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $30.39 at Fanatical (2024-06-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $79.99 · on sale 64 of 111 observed days · $49.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$79.99$0.002021-12-102026-10-162021-12-10 — best price $79.992023-01-05 — best price $79.992023-04-03 — best price $79.992023-05-15 — best price $66.392023-07-17 — best price $51.512023-08-29 — best price $66.392023-11-17 — best price $47.332023-12-21 — best price $50.392024-02-12 — best price $47.992024-03-25 — best price $39.992024-05-02 — best price $47.992024-06-11 — best price $47.992024-08-02 — best price $27.482024-09-16 — best price $37.592024-10-25 — best price $63.192024-12-03 — best price $79.992024-12-31 — best price $32.632025-01-19 — best price $47.192025-02-08 — best price $42.222025-03-21 — best price $79.992025-04-28 — best price $39.992025-06-09 — best price $39.992025-07-17 — best price $61.732025-09-01 — best price $79.992025-10-23 — best price $79.992025-11-21 — best price $31.992026-01-06 — best price $79.992026-02-03 — best price $79.992026-03-09 — best price $31.192026-04-17 — best price $79.992026-05-18 — best price $31.992026-06-19 — best price $31.992026-08-03 — best price $39.992026-10-09 — best price $39.992026-10-16 — best price $79.99
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-playerSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-11-10 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DWarWargameHex GridStrategyTop-DownHistoricalSimulationMultiplayerSingleplayer

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