Games like Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
If Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein is your kind of game, the closest matches are Close Combat: Cross of Iron, Steel Division: Normandy 44 and Steel Division 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein: Close Combat is a pausable real-time wargame series, heavily focused on historical accuracy and realistic soldier psychological profiles. Team management is crucial as every man in your team matter.
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Close Combat: Cross of Iron
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Top pick for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
In Close Combat: Cross of Iron you start off as a junior officer leading your men into battle in real-time, focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II. Earn promotions as you deal with an unforgiving enemy. Fight and survive through the frozen winter, hot dusty summer and muddy autumn.
Steel Division: Normandy 44
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Shares a challenging mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Second-strongest match for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
Steel Division 2
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Shares an immersive mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Third-strongest match for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - Enhanced Edition
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Shares an immersive mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Ranked #4 for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
The first installment in the real-time tactics series that would become known as Men of War, now refreshed and enhanced! Take command of American, British, Soviet, or German forces and fight on the battlefields of World War II in 32 single-player missions or with others in PvP and co-op sessions.
Supreme Ruler Ultimate
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Shares an immersive mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Ranked #5 for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!
Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Ranked #6 for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat – Last Stand Arnhem is part of Close Combat series. Its design is based on the critically acclaimed Close Combat – A Bridge Too Far, originally developed by Atomic Games, as well as the more recent Close Combat: The Longest Day.
Company of Heroes 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Ranked #7 for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Ranked #8 for Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
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Close Combat - Panthers in the Fog
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Reviewers of Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog details the desperate German counter-attack at Mortain, the last chance of the Wehrmacht to stave off defeat in Normandy. Can you match the tenacity of the American defenders of Hill 314? Or can you succeed where the Panzers failed, driving through to the sea and changing history?
Close Combat - Gateway to Caen
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Reviewers of Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat: Gateway to Caen is a great release in the critically-acclaimed Close Combat series. Gateway to Caen focuses on the largest, concentrated British offensive since the Normandy landings in an attempt to penetrate the German lines west of Caen and cross the Odon River to get the stalled advance moving again.
Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Reviewers of Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat – Last Stand Arnhem is part of Close Combat series. Its design is based on the critically acclaimed Close Combat – A Bridge Too Far, originally developed by Atomic Games, as well as the more recent Close Combat: The Longest Day.
Armored Brigade
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Reviewers of Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Armored Brigade is a real-time tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability. In Armored Brigade the Cold War has turned hot, and Europe is once again torn apart by conflict. An "Iron Curtain" divides the Western Powers gathered together under the NATO banner from the Soviet Union
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~88% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~63% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~65% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
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Priced ~50% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~75% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
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Priced ~50% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Balatro
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Priced ~70% under Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Free alternatives
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KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.
Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Grab the control yoke of a warplane and jump into the battlefields of World War 2 in this thrilling combat flight action game. In each of the campaigns for USA, Great Britain, USSR, Germany and Japan you will assume the role of a pilot and squadron leader of an elite air force unit.
Talvisota - Winter War
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Talvisota for Rising Storm 2 brings players from the steaming jungles of Vietnam to the frozen forests of Finland, during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War of the late 1930s.
Toy Shire: Room One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Are you prepared for a thrilling toy army tower defense adventure? Welcome to the Toy Shire! Battle diverse foes in various locations, defend your family, and repel foes from your area. Save the world by strengthening your defense with toy towers! FULL GAME AVAILABLE NOW!
Command Ops 2 Core Game
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Command Ops 2 is a wargame engine that lets you assess, plan, order and react at the operational level just like a real Corps, Division and Brigade commander. What sets Command Ops 2 apart from the competition is the most advanced and realistic model of command decision-making.
Lord of the Other World
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
This game is a more casual strategy war game, it bid farewell to the endless confrontation between players in traditional strategy games! More emphasis on collaboration between players.
Plan A
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles. Use the timeline to synchronize each door breach, grenade throw and room entry with precision. Watch your team execute your plan autonomously in epic cinematic replays. Take on challenging roguelike campaigns or standalone missions.
Gunship Battle Total Warfare
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
In a post-apocalyptic world submerged by the sea, the wake of the enemy is apparent at every turn. From turning the tides of naval warfare to dominating the skies in break-neck aerial combat, every decision you make will change the outcome of the battle.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Strategy 3 Tactics, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Close Combat: Cross of Iron
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Another title from Strategy 3 Tactics, the studio behind Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
In Close Combat: Cross of Iron you start off as a junior officer leading your men into battle in real-time, focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II. Earn promotions as you deal with an unforgiving enemy. Fight and survive through the frozen winter, hot dusty summer and muddy autumn.
Close Combat: The Longest Day
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Another title from Strategy 3 Tactics, the studio behind Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat is a pausable real-time wargame series, heavily focused on historical accuracy and realistic soldier psychological profiles. In Close Combat: The Longest Day take command of either the Allied Expeditionary Force or Germany’s Wehrmacht.
Close Combat: Modern Tactics
WHY THIS
Another title from Strategy 3 Tactics, the studio behind Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat is a pausable real-time wargame series, heavily focused on historical accuracy and realistic soldier psychological profiles. Close Combat - Modern Tactics was originally released in 2007, and re-released on Steam in 2021.
Frequently asked about Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
- How much does Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein cost?
- Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein are Close Combat: Cross of Iron, Steel Division: Normandy 44, Steel Division 2.
- Who developed Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein?
- Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein was developed by Strategy 3 Tactics and published by Matrix Games.
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