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Gary Grigsby's War in the East cover art

Gary Grigsby's War in the East

2by3 Games · Matrix Games · 2015-07-09

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jul 09, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!

9
playing now
90%
positive of 584 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$79.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

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.

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  • · Top 41% of 6,714 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 584 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$31.99-60%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$31.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $18.39 at Fanatical (2021-12-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $79.99 · on sale 83 of 128 observed days · $13.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1642026-08-12 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 15 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 15 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 14 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 11 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 15 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$89.99$16.312015-07-092026-08-302015-07-09 — best price $55.992016-11-23 — best price $39.992017-12-21 — best price $23.992018-12-20 — best price $23.992019-07-18 — best price $79.992020-01-27 — best price $79.992020-06-25 — best price $23.992021-01-05 — best price $79.992021-06-24 — best price $23.992021-11-26 — best price $23.992022-03-23 — best price $79.992022-07-25 — best price $31.992022-11-22 — best price $23.992023-01-31 — best price $79.992023-06-29 — best price $23.992023-11-02 — best price $79.992024-01-17 — best price $79.992024-04-03 — best price $31.992024-06-19 — best price $31.992024-09-23 — best price $23.992024-11-07 — best price $23.992024-12-16 — best price $79.992025-01-27 — best price $32.002025-03-10 — best price $21.992025-04-08 — best price $79.992025-05-14 — best price $23.992025-06-20 — best price $18.792025-08-09 — best price $79.992025-09-29 — best price $19.192025-10-29 — best price $24.002025-12-02 — best price $79.992026-01-12 — best price $23.992026-02-23 — best price $79.992026-03-26 — best price $79.992026-04-30 — best price $23.992026-06-01 — best price $23.992026-06-29 — best price $79.992026-08-06 — best price $18.992026-08-29 — best price $31.992026-08-30 — best price $31.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3812026-05-29 — 23 pageviews2026-06-01 — 10 pageviews2026-06-04 — 7 pageviews2026-06-07 — 4 pageviews2026-06-10 — 11 pageviews2026-06-13 — 8 pageviews2026-06-16 — 1 pageviews2026-06-19 — 10 pageviews2026-06-22 — 11 pageviews2026-06-25 — 13 pageviews2026-06-28 — 13 pageviews2026-07-01 — 9 pageviews2026-07-04 — 12 pageviews2026-07-07 — 7 pageviews2026-07-10 — 15 pageviews2026-07-13 — 8 pageviews2026-07-16 — 9 pageviews2026-07-19 — 14 pageviews2026-07-22 — 9 pageviews2026-07-25 — 14 pageviews2026-07-28 — 18 pageviews2026-07-31 — 16 pageviews2026-08-03 — 12 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 10 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-15 — 38 pageviews2026-08-18 — 10 pageviews2026-08-21 — 11 pageviews2026-08-24 — 13 pageviews2026-08-26 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

WargameHex GridStrategyHistoricalSimulationTurn-BasedMultiplayerReplay ValueSingleplayerStrategy RPG

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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