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Strategy 3 Tactics · 2020 · Windows

Steam: 80 % positive of 166 reviews, as of Oct 28

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.

24 games that play like Close Combat: Cross of Iron and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront, Faces of War and Men of War: Assault Squad 2.

Player tags

  • Simulation
  • Strategy
  • RTS
  • Real Time Tactics
  • Wargame
  • Fighting
  • World War II
  • Military
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Plays and looks like Close Combat: Cross of Iron

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Close Combat: Cross of Iron

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

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  1. Blitzkrieg Anthology89 % positive of 1,404Shared: Strategy · RTS · Real Time Tactics
  2. Trench Lord: Eastern Front82 % positive of 792Shared: Strategy · RTS · Real Time Tactics
  3. Men of War II60 % positive of 5,648Shared: Strategy · RTS · Real Time Tactics
  4. Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology84 % positive of 1,121Shared: Strategy · RTS · Real Time Tactics
  5. Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition91 % positive of 4,846Shared: Simulation · Strategy · RTS
  6. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-4585 % positive of 1,508Shared: Simulation · Strategy · World War II
  7. Theatre of War60 % positive of 302Shared: Strategy · RTS · World War II
  8. Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front88 % positive of 1,114Shared: Simulation · Strategy · RTS
  9. Sudden Strike 478 % positive of 6,264Shared: Strategy · RTS · Real Time Tactics
  10. WARNO80 % positive of 14,667Shared: Simulation · Strategy · RTS
  11. Easy Red 289 % positive of 14,688Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Wargame
  12. Iron Front: Digital War Edition58 % positive of 775Shared: Simulation · Strategy · World War II

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Looks like Close Combat: Cross of Iron

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  1. Panzer Corps Gold91 % positive of 2,235
  2. Order of Battle: World War II77 % positive of 3,186
  3. Combat Mission Black Sea80 % positive of 424
  4. Gary Grigsby's War in the East 289 % positive of 292
  5. Songs of Syx93 % positive of 9,113
  6. Close Combat: The Bloody First51 % positive of 398
  7. The Operational Art of War IV76 % positive of 290
  8. Steel Division: Normandy 4474 % positive of 4,778
  9. Panzer Corps 284 % positive of 3,533
  10. Rise of Nations: Extended Edition93 % positive of 13,459
  11. Sudden Strike 573 % positive of 680
  12. Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa86 % positive of 181

At a glance

What games like Close Combat: Cross of Iron have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Close Combat: Cross of Iron: Strategy (23 of 24), RTS (19) and Simulation (16).
  • They came out between 2006 and 2026, 6 of them after Close Combat: Cross of Iron (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Company of Heroes (94 % positive of 12,735).

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Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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