Games like Close Combat: Modern Tactics
Below are 11 hand-picked alternatives to Close Combat: Modern Tactics for fans of strategy, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Close Combat: Modern Tactics also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from Strategy 3 Tactics. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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
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.
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Broken Arrow
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.
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Combat Mission Black Sea
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
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First Strike
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.
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Firefight
Ranked #5 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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Regiments
Ranked #6 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.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Ranked #7 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.
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Steel Division: Normandy 44
Ranked #8 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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Strategy 3 Tactics, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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Close Combat: Cross of Iron
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.
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Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
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.
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Close Combat: The Longest Day
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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