Games like Commands & Colors: The Great War
If Commands & Colors: The Great War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scythe: Digital Edition, Curious Expedition 2 and Chaos Reborn — 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 Commands & Colors: The Great War: The Great War allow players to portray important engagements throughout WWI history. The battles focus on the historical deployment of forces and important terrain features of trench fighting in scale with the game system.
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Scythe: Digital Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Top pick for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Scythe transports you to an alternate reality in 1920s Europa, one ravaged by the First World War. Take up the role of leader by assuming command of one of 5 factions, and set out to conquer the coveted "Factory". Lead your mechs to war and your people to victory!
Curious Expedition 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Second-strongest match for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.
Chaos Reborn
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Third-strongest match for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
Faeria
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Ranked #4 for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
With its unique living board, Faeria is also the only card game where you can gain all 300 cards in less than 50 hours.
Greed Corp
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Ranked #5 for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Turn-based strategy at its finest.
Ogre
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Ranked #6 for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".
Civil War: Atlanta 1864
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Ranked #7 for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Refight the battle for Atlanta during the American Civil War in 1864.
Second Front
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Ranked #8 for Commands & Colors: The Great War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Second Front is a tactical WWII turn-based strategy game. Craft & share your own scenarios and maps or use your strategic prowess in 48 scenarios set in iconic locations. Command over 40 types of infantry and 216 tanks, vehicles and guns. An infinite tactical sandbox experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Commands & Colors: The Great War at current Steam store prices.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~63% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~69% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
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 ~60% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
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 ~75% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
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 ~50% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~75% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~75% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~75% under Commands & Colors: The Great War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
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100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Tank Battle: Normandy
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Land your troops on the beaches of northern France, lay bridges to cross flooded enemy defences, avoid tanktraps, clear the area of dangerous minefields, overcome the enemy and claim the beachhead for the Allies!
Civil War: Bull Run 1861
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Bull Run recreates the first major battle of the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate armies. Take command of an Union army of Northeast Virginia or the Confederate army of Potomac and Shenandoah and engage in the largest battle fought on American soil to date.
Battles of the Ancient World
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
The ‘Battles of the Ancient World’ game system is a tactical simulation of some of the greatest and most important battles from 1457 B.C. to 378 A.D.. Each scenario features one of these great battles and players may play as either side. The game has been designed to ensure maximum playability and historical accuracy, in that order.
Wellington's Victory
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
At dawn on June 18th, the torrential rain which had soaked the Belgium countryside the previous day began tapering off.
Tank Battle: 1944
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Instantly get involved in the action by joining the Allied invasion of Europe during the Second World War. Take command of an American battle group during WW2 in this turn based strategy wargame and help liberate Europe from the evil Axis power-base!
1775: Rebellion
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Shares a challenging mood with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Command the armies of the British Redcoats, English Loyalists, German Hessians, American Regulars, Patriots, French Regulars and Native Americans to decide the fate of the Americas!
Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge is a Decision Games card game that recreates the famous World War Two battle (16-31 Dec 1944) in which the German Army mounted a surprise attack on the thin U.S. forces deployed in the Ardennes region.
Civil War: 1863
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Another title from HexWar Games, the studio behind Commands & Colors: The Great War. Shares Strategy with Commands & Colors: The Great War.
Relive iconic battles of the American Civil War. Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces in this exciting turn-based strategy game.
Frequently asked about Commands & Colors: The Great War
- How much does Commands & Colors: The Great War cost?
- Commands & Colors: The Great War is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Commands & Colors: The Great War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Commands & Colors: The Great War are Scythe: Digital Edition, Curious Expedition 2, Chaos Reborn.
- Who developed Commands & Colors: The Great War?
- Commands & Colors: The Great War was developed by HexWar Games and published by Hunted Cow Games.
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