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R.U.S.E.™

Eugen Systems · 2010-09-09

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Strategy

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

Releases: Sep 09, 2010 (PlayStation 3), Sep 10, 2010 (Mac), Sep 07, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 10, 2010 (Xbox 360)

A one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game that allows players to bluff their enemies to lead their nation to victory. The Definitive Edition — includes all DLCs and Steam Deck support.

R.U.S.E.™ is a Strategy game released in 2010, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 4603 reviews).

135
playing now
96%
positive of 4.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
6
Nexus mods (1.1k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

135 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

R.U.S.E. is a real-time strategy video game developed by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft which was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, in September 2010. The game was subsequently released for macOS through Steam on November 15, 2011. R.U.S.E. is a strategic war game set during World War II and focuses on the invasion of Nazi Germany during late 1944. The campaign includes many historical and some fictional events. It focuses on information warfare instead of a brute-force approach. Players can use a series of ruses and decoys to trick their enemies and change the outcome of the battles. However, the outcome of the battles in the game also relies quite heavily on how a player manages their economy and which units they use. In December 2015, Ubisoft pulled the game from Steam due to the expiration of the military license. In 2018, the Xbox 360 version was released on Xbox One via backwards compatible release. On May 5, 2026, R.U.S.E. was re-released on Steam with all of the previously separately sold DLCs as well as most Ubisoft Rewards now being included in the base game for everyone.

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 135 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,120 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~140/week).
  • · Review velocity up 153% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 14,087 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 186k–372k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,648 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
73973920102026Week of 2010-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2010-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2010-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2010-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2010-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2011-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2011-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2011-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2011-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2011-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2011-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2011-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2011-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2011-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2012-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2012-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2012-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2012-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2012-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2012-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2012-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2012-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2012-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2012-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2013-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2013-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2013-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2013-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2013-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2013-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2013-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-12-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 739 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 40 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

375912026-09-15 13:00 — 184 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 263 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 101 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 228 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 375 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 124 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 134 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 277 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 160 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 200 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 252 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 144 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 98 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 230 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 271 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 113 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 235 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 239 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 110 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 281 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 298 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 113 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 135 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
68564Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 510 · peak 977Dec 2012 — avg 524 · peak 1,235May 2013 — avg 470 · peak 1,032Oct 2013 — avg 346 · peak 804Mar 2014 — avg 381 · peak 858Aug 2014 — avg 335 · peak 615Jan 2015 — avg 434 · peak 1,015Jun 2015 — avg 343 · peak 667Nov 2015 — avg 289 · peak 655Apr 2016 — avg 214 · peak 459Sep 2016 — avg 179 · peak 408Feb 2017 — avg 173 · peak 365Jul 2017 — avg 141 · peak 290Dec 2017 — avg 139 · peak 299May 2018 — avg 129 · peak 280Oct 2018 — avg 130 · peak 285Mar 2019 — avg 124 · peak 266Aug 2019 — avg 116 · peak 237Jan 2020 — avg 118 · peak 257Jun 2020 — avg 114 · peak 244Nov 2020 — avg 112 · peak 242Apr 2021 — avg 109 · peak 241Sep 2021 — avg 89 · peak 186Feb 2022 — avg 97 · peak 213Jul 2022 — avg 93 · peak 190Dec 2022 — avg 88 · peak 175May 2023 — avg 83 · peak 186Oct 2023 — avg 83 · peak 174Mar 2024 — avg 81 · peak 187Aug 2024 — avg 75 · peak 158Jan 2025 — avg 77 · peak 178Jun 2025 — avg 78 · peak 173Nov 2025 — avg 72 · peak 156Apr 2026 — avg 71 · peak 168Aug 2026 — avg 230 · peak 433
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
13132026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 4 new positive2026-09-24: 2 new positive2026-09-29: 7 new positive2026-10-05: 13 new positive2026-10-09: 13 new positive2026-10-12: 4 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.42$2.492015-01-012015-12-182015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-01-07 — best price $15.122015-01-23 — best price $19.422015-02-07 — best price $17.972015-03-05 — best price $16.792015-03-16 — best price $15.392015-03-28 — best price $15.412015-04-09 — best price $16.392015-04-23 — best price $15.012015-04-30 — best price $15.412015-05-09 — best price $16.802015-05-15 — best price $3.932015-05-27 — best price $15.862015-06-11 — best price $5.992015-06-20 — best price $18.372015-07-08 — best price $15.422015-07-24 — best price $17.312015-08-04 — best price $15.582015-08-14 — best price $2.492015-08-21 — best price $9.992015-09-08 — best price $9.992015-10-01 — best price $9.992015-10-12 — best price $9.992015-10-25 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $2.492015-12-02 — best price $9.992015-12-07 — best price $9.992015-12-18 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

79242026-05-31 — 70 pageviews2026-06-04 — 47 pageviews2026-06-08 — 50 pageviews2026-06-12 — 58 pageviews2026-06-16 — 40 pageviews2026-06-20 — 72 pageviews2026-06-24 — 72 pageviews2026-06-28 — 48 pageviews2026-07-02 — 41 pageviews2026-07-06 — 68 pageviews2026-07-10 — 37 pageviews2026-07-14 — 42 pageviews2026-07-18 — 42 pageviews2026-07-22 — 43 pageviews2026-07-26 — 62 pageviews2026-07-30 — 61 pageviews2026-08-03 — 52 pageviews2026-08-07 — 44 pageviews2026-08-11 — 58 pageviews2026-08-15 — 47 pageviews2026-08-19 — 44 pageviews2026-08-23 — 40 pageviews2026-08-27 — 42 pageviews2026-08-31 — 51 pageviews2026-09-04 — 32 pageviews2026-09-08 — 32 pageviews2026-09-12 — 49 pageviews2026-09-16 — 51 pageviews2026-09-20 — 57 pageviews2026-09-24 — 40 pageviews2026-09-28 — 65 pageviews2026-10-02 — 43 pageviews2026-10-06 — 44 pageviews2026-10-10 — 46 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

402026-10-05 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 23:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-10 05:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 11:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
77.8%
earned "First Contact"
9.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed Input

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish

Where its players are

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

Player tags

RTSWarActionStrategyHistoricalMultiplayerSingleplayerWorld War IITouch-Friendly

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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