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Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles 1846-1905

Strategic Simulations · SNEG · 2023-12-19

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: 1996 (DOS), Dec 19, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build armies and participate in endless battles fought all over the world between 1846-1905. Age of Rifles features 8 campaigns, 65 scenarios. You can create your own battles - Game Editor allows for custom scenarios, campaigns, maps, uniforms and weaponry. You’ll never fight the same battle twice.

97%
positive of 35 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)
Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles 1846–1905 is a turn-based computer wargame for MS-DOS, written by Norm Koger. It was published in 1996 by Strategic Simulations. It is the third game in the Wargame Construction Set series, following Wargame Construction Set (1986) and Wargame Construction Set II: Tanks! (1994).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 65% of 16,661 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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