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Steam app 1272110 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 22:40 UTC

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.

Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein Steam header artwork
Strategy 3 TacticsMatrix Games
5playing now
1024-hour peak
31all-time peak
5average, last 30 days

The last 30 days

+0.5Gain+10.06%% gain12Peak

281 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.

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Daily peakEvery hourly sample

All time

77 months, May 2020 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.

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Monthly peak

The last four months

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The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.

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Monthly peakHas finer data

July 2026

31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.

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August 2026

31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 167 hourly samples from 14 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.

036101301 Aug06 Aug11 Aug16 Aug21 Aug26 Aug31 AugSaturday 01 August 202610 peakSunday 02 August 20269 peakMonday 03 August 20267 peakTuesday 04 August 20268 peakWednesday 05 August 20269 peakThursday 06 August 20268 peakFriday 07 August 20269 peakSaturday 08 August 20266 peakSunday 09 August 202612 peakMonday 10 August 20267 peakTuesday 11 August 20265 peakWednesday 12 August 20268 peakThursday 13 August 20267 peakFriday 14 August 20268 peakSaturday 15 August 20267 peakSunday 16 August 20268 peakMonday 17 August 20266 peakTuesday 18 August 20268 peakWednesday 19 August 20267 peakThursday 20 August 20267 peakFriday 21 August 20266 peakSaturday 22 August 202612 peakSunday 23 August 202610 peakMonday 24 August 20269 peakTuesday 25 August 20268 peakWednesday 26 August 20266 peakThursday 27 August 20267 peakFriday 28 August 202610 peakSaturday 29 August 20267 peakSunday 30 August 20268 peakMonday 31 August 202610 peak

September 2026

12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 114 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.

03581101 Sep03 Sep05 Sep07 Sep09 Sep11 SepTuesday 01 September 20269 peakWednesday 02 September 20268 peakThursday 03 September 20268 peakFriday 04 September 20268 peakSaturday 05 September 20268 peakSunday 06 September 20268 peakMonday 07 September 20267 peakTuesday 08 September 20266 peakWednesday 09 September 20267 peakThursday 10 September 202610 peakFriday 11 September 202610 peakSaturday 12 September 20269 peak

October 2026

Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein was released on 7 May, 2020.

Not out yet.There is nothing to draw for this month.
Nothing here is interpolated or estimated; where a sample is missing the line is broken.

Game information

Updated 12 Sep 2026, 22:40 UTC
App ID
1272110
Last updated
04 Mar 2025 build 17338735
Developer
Strategy 3 Tactics
Publisher
Matrix Games
Release date
7 May, 2020
Platforms
Windows
Download size
560 MB
Install size
1.32 GB
Genres
Simulation, Strategy
Game modes
Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP
Controller support
Unknown

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StrategySimulationWorld War IIWargameRTSMilitaryClassic
About this gameFull description from Steam
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 teams matter. In Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein, you take command of US or German forces and either retrace the last steps of Hitler’s army in one desperate attempt to turn the tide of the impending allied victory or ride to the rescue with General Patton and push back the German offensive to reclaim Bastogne. Winter 1944, the Last Blitzkrieg. This is Close Combat, you are in Command! Based on Atomic Games’ award-winning Close Combat series, Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein brings the classic top-down tactical gameplay from the original series. The Wacht am Rhein remake comes with a Grand Campaign including a strategic map with 64 gorgeous hand-drawn tactical maps, over 70 scenarios, and much more! Take command of US or German forces and either retrace the last steps of Hitler’s army in one desperate attempt to turn the tide of the impending allied victory or ride to the rescue with General Patton and push back the German offensive to reclaim Bastogne. FEATURES • One Grand Campaign with a strategy level map as well as 64 gorgeous hand-drawn tactical level maps • 70+ scenarios based on real-world battles, operations and campaigns • An easy-to-use but powerful Scenario Editor - Create your own "what if" Scenarios • Largely expanded moddability: all strategic layer features, all campaign details including weather, turns per day, scoring, support mission (artillery, airstrike) capabilities for both Germans and Americans, battlegroup recycling, battlegroup retreat/disband, supply and much more! • Accurately depicts World War II tactical warfare and its challenges • Realistic soldier psychological profiles during combat
Content & age ratings2 regional ratings

Regional ratings

DEJUS10Violência
IGRS13Kekerasan · Interaksi Daring
System requirementsMinimum and recommended hardware

Minimum

Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/10 Processor: 133 MHz CPU (300 MHz or faster recommended) Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: 1MB Video RAM (8MB recommended) DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: 16bit DirectX 9.0 compatible soundcard

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Supported languages1 languages
LanguageFull audio
English

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3 developer announcements, May 2020 to May 2021 · times in UTC

May

  1. Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein - v5.50.33 Update

    We're releasing a new update for a few games of the Close Combat franchise. It contains a few fixes for The Longest Day, Wacht am Rhein and Last Stand Arnhem. You can find the full changelog down below: Changelog: • Fixed potential crash…

    Patch notes

April

  1. Close Combat: Modern Tactics is now available on Steam

    Back in 2004, Matrix Games proudly presented Close Combat: Modern Tactics. A detailed, real-time war simulator based on an actual tool developed for and used by the United States Marine Corps. This fondly remembered classic still holds up…

    Alberto

May

  1. Close Combat - Wacht am Rhein is available on Steam

    The Battle of the Bulge or Hitler's last gambit is the bloodiest battle fought by American soldiers in WWII. If it had succeeded, it would have led to the destruction of 4 Allied armies and, possibly, a separate peace with Germany.…

    SlithFox

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