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Sudden Strike Gold cover art

Sudden Strike Gold

Fireglow · Kalypso Media Digital · 2017-05-22

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 22, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Set in World War 2, Sudden Strike offers revolutionary real-time-strategy gameplay. Command Russian, German, French, American and British armies in large scale battles including urban warfare, beach landings and aerial invasions. Whichever tactics you choose, you will find it in Sudden Strike!

26
playing now
88%
positive of 508 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

26 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Sudden Strike, also known in Russia as Confrontation III, is a real-time tactics computer game set in World War II and the first game in the Sudden Strike series. Released in 2000, the game was developed by Fireglow based in Russia and published by CDV Software of Germany. In Russia, the game was marketed as a sequel to the 1996 real-time tactics game Counter Action, made by many of the same developers.

Health check

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  • · Top 43% of 5,944 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 508 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.37-60%
GOG$2.39-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.55 at AllYouPlay (2020-10-26) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 102 of 156 observed days · $1.84 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

62132026-08-11 18:00 — 47 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 31 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 13 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 44 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 24 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 18 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 49 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 47 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 13 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 48 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 19 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 39 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 25 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 17 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 51 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 35 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 30 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 55 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 24 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 25 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 42 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 17 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 23 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 49 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 28 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 26 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 62 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 26 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.122015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $7.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992018-09-08 — best price $2.392019-03-08 — best price $5.992019-08-12 — best price $1.492019-11-30 — best price $5.992020-03-22 — best price $1.492020-07-13 — best price $5.992020-09-19 — best price $5.392020-11-19 — best price $1.792021-01-22 — best price $5.392021-03-17 — best price $1.792021-05-09 — best price $5.992021-07-10 — best price $5.992021-10-24 — best price $5.032021-12-13 — best price $2.632022-02-28 — best price $2.992022-05-25 — best price $5.992022-08-12 — best price $2.692022-10-27 — best price $2.992023-01-07 — best price $5.162023-03-28 — best price $5.192023-06-24 — best price $5.992023-08-28 — best price $2.992023-11-03 — best price $5.272024-01-08 — best price $5.992024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-06-06 — best price $5.032024-08-12 — best price $1.992024-10-24 — best price $2.822025-01-03 — best price $4.952025-03-19 — best price $2.992025-05-19 — best price $2.692025-07-21 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $2.692025-12-04 — best price $5.392026-02-17 — best price $2.192026-04-17 — best price $2.402026-07-13 — best price $2.402026-08-30 — best price $2.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

RTSClassicStrategySingleplayerWorld War II

Census log

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

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