Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
Strategy 3 Tactics · 2020 · Strategy, Simulation, World War II, Wargame, Military
PC
Very Positive83% · 71
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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 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
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
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Still worth playing in 2025. The post 2008 (Matrix) remakes are better than the originals in AI, path-finding, animations, graphics and multi-layer options. they are usually better at joining the tactical and strategic maps to make the campaign flow as well. Buy them here or at Matrix whichever has a sale on (when you buy @Matrix you will will still get a STEAM key and an option for a physical disc).2 found this helpful
The A.I needs improvement as it does in any game but it is still enjoyable.
I used to like these games because I played them as a child, then I started to have mixed feelings and the more I played I started to realize that it is a really bad game. Aalmost as enjoyable as removing the skin from your backside with a cheese grater. The older titles are better, even though they are also not that good and time has moved on. The AI is so bad that they gave it some frustating advantage and now you can't target them but they can target you, and by targeting I mean every enemy unit that has LOS on your unit will lock on to it, instantly fire with all weapons from every direction often annihilating it immediately or if the unit doesn't get wiped out immediately then they will just become suppressed -> pinned -> panicked and annihilated. Only way to deal with the enemy is to shoot at the muzzle flashes with tanks and hope you get the enemy unit killed by targeting and shooting at different points of the building/trench/forest/whatever where the enemy is hiding and shooting you from. However enemy AT guns, even the light ones, can frontally pen your best tanks and they can't be located even after they fire at your tanks and even destroy them, so good luck! It is a r…
Top down simple game. or is it? Real tactics work. Charge headlong into attack, without support and you will die. Takes a while to master.
Long ago CC player coming back with the steam releases. I had a BLAST with Cross of Iron. That one I really recommend. So I figured id try this one (completed all campaigns in Cross, and some of those are nail biters with a lot of back and forth. The fights feel like a real unit action over time). The campaign in this version is like playing 10+ operations at once with very little incentive to actually play them. You bounce from fight to fight with completely different units with no briefing and its just so disjointed. The programming is also MUCH worse in this version. Unit types feel like they dont do their roles well at times, and the units behavior feels bugged and doesnt make sense at times. Infantry dont move to get good vantages like in Cross of Iron and will "seek cover" but wont use the damn trench next to them you literally deployed them in. I played this version of CC for 4 hours and im uninstalling it after I finish this review its just so unresponsive compared to the older Iron Cross that had much better unit behavior and control. Even right clicking to bring up the menu (if your not using hot kets all the time) is buggy. The "topography" of this versions ma…
Good stuff!
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