Games like Close Combat: Modern Tactics
If Close Combat: Modern Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Combat Mission Cold War, Broken Arrow and Combat Mission Black Sea — picked from the ranked list below. 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: Modern Tactics: 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.
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Combat Mission Cold War
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Top pick for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
CM Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today.
Broken Arrow
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Second-strongest match for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
Combat Mission Black Sea
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Third-strongest match for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
First Strike
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Ranked #4 for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Wargame: Red Dragon
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Ranked #5 for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
Steel Division: Normandy 44
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Ranked #6 for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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.
Regiments
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Ranked #7 for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.
Firefight
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Ranked #8 for Close Combat: Modern Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Firefight is a World War II real-time simulation game similar in style to the old Close Combat series but brought up to date with better AI, individual soldier modelling, a faster frame rate to give more intense and realistic combat and an easy to use command interface.
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Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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.
Balatro
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Priced ~60% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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.
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~50% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~75% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~79% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~73% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~83% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~67% under Close Combat: Modern Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Steam Engine Simulator
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The Lab
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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Electoral Carnage
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NERTS! Online
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More from Strategy 3 Tactics
Other recommendable Steam games by Strategy 3 Tactics, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Close Combat: Cross of Iron
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Another title from Strategy 3 Tactics, the studio behind Close Combat: Modern Tactics. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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: Wacht am Rhein
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Another title from Strategy 3 Tactics, the studio behind Close Combat: Modern Tactics. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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.
Close Combat: The Longest Day
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Another title from Strategy 3 Tactics, the studio behind Close Combat: Modern Tactics. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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.
Frequently asked about Close Combat: Modern Tactics
- How much does Close Combat: Modern Tactics cost?
- Close Combat: Modern Tactics is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Close Combat: Modern Tactics have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Close Combat: Modern Tactics supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Close Combat: Modern Tactics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Close Combat: Modern Tactics are Combat Mission Cold War, Broken Arrow, Combat Mission Black Sea.
- Who developed Close Combat: Modern Tactics?
- Close Combat: Modern Tactics was developed by Strategy 3 Tactics and published by Matrix Games.
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