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The Operational Art of War IV

TrickeySoft LLC · Matrix Games · 2018-10-15

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 15, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Operational Art of War IV is the new generation of operational wargames. With more flexibility than before and with a new array of exciting features, it will make you relive the most iconic battles from the dawn of the 20th Century to modern day, including the ones that never occurred!

81%
positive of 383 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$39.99
steam price (US)
The Operational Art of War (TOAW) is a series of computer wargames noted for their scope, detail, and flexibility in recreating, at an operational level, the major land battles of the 20th century. A Norm Koger design, TalonSoft published the first of the series in 1998. Matrix Games bought the rights to the franchise and re-released the game in 2006 as TOAW 3.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 17,397 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.6k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 383 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $15.99 at Steam (2026-09-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam WorkshopRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

WarWargameCold WarHex GridStrategySimulationTurn-BasedWorld War IWorld War II

Census log

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

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