Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Game
Game2007
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Developer Pyro Studios
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a 1998 real-time tactics video game developed by the Spanish company Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. The player controls of a group of six Allied Commandos, who conduct a range of missions across wartime Europe and Africa, using small unit tactics. Each mission's objective varies, but ranges from sabotage, assassination or rescuing captured allied units, with players… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
261 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
88
LovedLoved
146 positive · 20 negative
95% range 82–92%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 146 | 20 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 2 | 71 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
376 of 434 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
88% recommend · 151 yes, 21 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 172 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,002 of 1,130 positive).
Players praise the expansion for adding new mechanics like non-lethal options and cigarette lures. [1][2][3] Many find the game extremely difficult, with some unable to complete the first mission. [4][5][6] Technical issues like crashes and black screens are reported by several reviewers. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [16]
Good continuation of the first game with awesome new features. But the difficulty gets to absolutely insane levels and it's no longer about tactics but more about figuring out the only trick to actually progress in the level. This version on Steam is missing the tutorial levels, which is tragically bad in such a difficult game.
- [10]
This was my childhood game, although I cracked it back then. I didn’t dare to play it at the time, just sat and watched my dad play. Back then, I was like his biggest fan. Now I can afford to buy the full version of this game and confidently play it, but unfortunately, he’s no longer here to see it. I bought this game to play again and to keep some memories of my childhood. I wish he were still alive to play this …
- [13]
This add-on took everything I loved from the original and made it even more intense. It’s harder, no doubt, but that’s exactly why I keep coming back to it. The missions feel tighter, the pressure is real, and pulling off the perfect plan? Chef’s kiss. I still boot it up on weekends and play it for hundreds of hours. Same setup ->pizza, cold soda, and that classic Commandos soundtrack in the background. Pure …
- [17]
Legendary game. Expansion of the first Commands game. Seems harder but game is maybe easier because you can throw cigarettes and lure/kill guards like that. Positives: - Greatest realistic graphics for 1998. Graphics still hold up in 2024, they were mind blowing in 1998. - Gameplay was tactical, stressful and satisfying. All the commandos were good and could clear small areas by themselves. Green Beret maybe was/is …
- [6]
Having just come off finishing Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines for the first time 25 years after it's release I found myself wanting more and booted up Beyond the Call of Duty. I found a new difficulty mode and opted to play on Hard. I had figured I just pounded through 20 missions from the first game in the past couple weeks. Surely I could handle this? Well I did, but it was a very painful process. The first initial …
Summarised from 34 of the 251 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty talk about new mechanics like punching and cuffing enemies are appreciated; those who didn't talk about the game is extremely difficult, often frustrating. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines received "favourable" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Next Generation gave a high praise to the game, citing its graphics as "gorgeous", and its gameplay "tough" and "challenging". The game was a significant and unexpected commercial success. Designer Gonzalo Suarez attributed its sales to word of mouth, as the game received little promotion and said that they were aiming to sell around 15,000 copies. In the German market, it spent 16 weeks at #1 on the computer game sales charts, taking the position from Anno 1602 and holding it through Media Control's rankings for the second halves of June, July and August 1998. The game's…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 261 · most liked firstI try not to pay attention to them because I find it far more worth my time talking about games I love. We could be talking about anything else, but they're impossible to ignore. Like, did you know there's a new Commandos game coming in just over a week!? store.steampowered.com/app/1479730/...
neutral · AI labelView post →2. Shadow Gambit Speaking of my favourite games from last year, I still can't recommend Shadow Gambit highly enough and deserved so much better, a stealthy strategy murder-puzzle in the vein of the old Commandos/Desperados games with an undead pirate crew. store.steampowered.com/app/1545560/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is 50% off right now which I think is a historic low, and it is criminally underrated, deserved way better. A Stealth/Strategy game in the vein of Commandos but with undead pirates and a more open ended mission structure store.steampowered.com/app/1545560/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Epic Store giveaway: The Stone Of Madness! The Commandos-esque stealth tactics game from the Blasphemous devs, set in a historical jesuit madhouse monastery. It's hideously undersold but every bit as gorgeous and detailed and DRIPPING with religious animosity as you'd expect from the team.
neutral · AI labelView post →Be honest, how many folks are finding out about the new Commandos game for the first time from this?
neutral · AI labelView post →We just published Sumerian Six (sumeriansix.com), a WW2 stealth/tactics game that carries the torch for classics like Commandos. With that in mind, I designed the manual to look like something you'd find in a '90s big box PC game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eriksholm : The stolen dream. The best isometric stealth game since Commandos 2: Men of Courage. They Nailed everything Stealth. Visuals and sound design 👌🏻 There's also a great story here. A Flawless masterpiece because I literally can't think of any. 10/10. A lovely surprise. 🥹
neutral · AI labelView post →Two new imsim-adjacent games to be on your radar: - The Stone of Madness (by Blasphemous dev), an RTT stealth game in the vein of Commandos but more reactive - Eternal Strands (by former Dragon Age dev), imagine Dragon's Dogma with more physical and elemental magic interactions
neutral · AI labelView post →I was playing The Stone of Madness on stream tonight, and it's very neat so far, 2D isometric stealth game along the lines of Commandos but with a sanity system and a hand drawn art style about inmates escaping a secret monastery/sanitarium, and it has a demo! store.steampowered.com/app/1309710/...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Stone of Madness is a stealth tactics game in the vein of Commandos from the developers of Blasphemous, and I really must revisit this because it's incredibly visually and thematically striking, this year has just been completely overwhelming with releases store.steampowered.com/app/1309710/...
neutral · AI labelView post →27. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun With this game, developer Mimimi singlehandedly resurrected the stealth strategy genre that started with the likes of Commandos and Desperados, and it's every bit the successor to that legacy you could ever desire, nobody did it quite like them. Play it!
neutral · AI labelView post →28. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Developers Mimimi did something incredible with this and brought a whole subgenre back to life; real-time stealth tactics as pioneered by the Commandos series. It's seriously worth your time if you like stealth games and an incredible gem at such a discount.
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming soon to Game Pass: Ultimate: -PowerWash Simulator 2 (10/23) -Bounty Star (10/23) -The Outer Worlds 2 (10/29) -Football Manager 26 (11/4) Premium: -Commandos: Origins -Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 -Halls of Torment (10/28) -1000xResist (11/4) PC: -Super Fantasy Kingdom (10/24)
neutral · AI labelView post →Stone of Madness is basically Thief meets Commandos. If you like games where mistakes aren't instant game overs, but instead create emergent scenarios where you have to improvise, you'll love this one. And it's dirt cheap right now. store.steampowered.com/app/1309710/...
neutral · AI labelView post →There's the best deal yet on Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew + DLC. Probably the best stealth-tactics game (Commandos, Desperados, etc) of its kind. There may not be another like it, as the studio disbanded immediately after release. Really fun Ghost Pirates versus Magic-Hating Inquisitors setting.
neutral · AI labelView post →One game I'm quite keen to go back and play is Prisoner of War. A WWII themed stealth game that feels part Bully, part Commandos. Frustrating in places, but with lots of sleuthing, basically.
neutral · AI labelView post →As the new title (under the name Origins) is being developed and set to release this year, I thought I'd revisit the classics. I didn't have much success with Destination Berlin as it simply crashed whenever launched, but it was fun checking out the very first episode and its expansion. Beyond the Call of Duty was released a year after the original Commandos. How many of you remember those times? With expansion packs, not DLCs. Strategy games often had one before the sequel came out. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personally, I remember - and can reliably quote - every word uttered in in the PC strategy game Commandos Behind Enemy Lines and will often say to myself “finally, some action!” In a very bad cockney accent
neutral · AI labelView post →The NFC LEAST this week! Cowboys: lost at home to a winless team starting undrafted rookie QB Eagles: had lead kicking off with 8 seconds, lost Giants: 3 missed field goals, fumbled to avoid a fourth Commandos: ensured that no team would win a game in the division today despite playing Giants
neutral · AI labelView post →The Extraordinary X-Men "Creature Commandos variant cover." These are the pc's from an #X-Men DND game my friends and I play. Characters belong to @adacor.bsky.social, @circuit4short.bsky.social, @frostyalmighty.bsky.social, @mishamike.bsky.social, @goof.bsky.social, @looch.bsky.social & Myself.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally starting my @warlordgames.com British & Inter-Allied Commandos! These are very fiddly to put together but have tons of character! Excited to play my first game soon! #WIP #BoltAction #Painting #PaintingMiniatures #WarlordGames #nerdlings
neutral · AI labelView post →There is the Company of Heroes games and the Commandos series.
neutral · AI labelView post →why its so hard
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great delivery before the long weekend - Dice Commandos by Solo Game of the Month. They creat small, neat solitaire titles which you enjoy regardless of the final result (and you lose often). More to come! #wargames #tabletop #solitaire
neutral · AI labelView post →Magazine advertisement for Star Trek: Away Team, a PC game from 2001, at the height of Commandos fever. It translates pretty well into isometric real-time tactics gameplay The game wasn't very well received, but has since found a crowd on GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/star... #gaming #retro #PC 🎮
neutral · AI labelView post →Delta Squad done for Star Wars #Shatterpoint. It’s a squad of Republic Commandos from the video game “Republic Commando”. Not sure how much I’ll play them, just glad they’re done.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fair play, Commandos: Origins, this is classy as hell
neutral · AI labelView post →The game dev group was nicknamed the VIC Commandos, due to their being established as part of the marketing team for the VIC-20 computer under Michael Tomczyk. But now the follow-up called the Commodore 64 was in development, announced in Jan 1982 alongside a game machine called the Ultimax.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ticket redemption arcade games are fun but for like over a decade I've been unable to unassociate them with the bit from that one Cheat Commandos cartoon "So, you've made a game for eight-year-olds slightly more of a rip-off?"
neutral · AI labelView post →This was my childhood game, although I cracked it back then. I didn’t dare to play it at the time, just sat and watched my dad play. Back then, I was like his biggest fan. Now I can afford to buy the full version of this game and confidently play it, but unfortunately, he’s no longer here to see it. I bought this game to play again and to keep some memories of my childhood. I wish he were still alive to play this game with me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Someone is making a furry Commandos game! 🤩
neutral · AI labelView post →> could have been a cool turn based JPRG Yall know that ‘Fallout’ was originally turn-based? No need for anything Japanese in there, the RPG system was pretty good. The nineties had some cool turn-based tactics games, like the ‘Jagged Alliance’ series, ‘X-Com’, ‘Incubation’. Even realtime tactics were very nice in the isometric view, e.g. in ‘Commandos’. Now that everything needs to be in either first-person or third-person from behind, such games rarely pop up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Delta Squad form up! Just finished the Commandos from Republic Commando. This game seriously needs a remaster #StarWarsLegion #MiniaturePainting #DeltaSquad #RepublicCommando
neutral · AI labelView post →I am big fan of commandos series and am happy they are on steam now :)) This is an epic oldskool game but still very playable. BCoD has eight missions that are slithly harder then the earlier BEL. All the commandos characters are there. If you played it back in the days you know this is fun game and if you never played it you should really really try it !!!! Recommended 9/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the first commandos game that I played 19 years ago when I was in senior high school, and It was a very very hard game. I failed so many times even on the very first part of first mission (on the boat). But after I know how to play the game, I start to enjoy the game. Unfortunately this game was very short (only 10 missions) compare to Behind Enemy Lines or Commandos 2. I always want to cry everytime I hear the main menu music.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this one. Commandos, back in the 90s https://www.gamepressure.com/games/commandos-series/zff9
neutral · AI labelView post →Spoiler alert: yes. Markets think this is a game of Commandos that will conclude overnight just once someone figures the game out.
neutral · AI labelView post →Played some Battlefront, man I forgot how awesome Republic Commandos are in this game, the grenade launcher hits like a truck, and the Repulser sometimes gets you some very cheeky hero ledge kills. 🥲
neutral · AI labelView post →I first played this game back in 2001, but I couldn’t manage to finish it at the time. Flash forward to today, and I bought it again on Steam to finally cross that finish line. I’m happy that I completed it just before the release of the new game in March 2025. The experience was incredibly nostalgic, but there was one thing that really bothered me: the end-game video refused to play. I tried reloading my save multiple times, but the cutscene still wouldn’t trigger. It’s such a small issue in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →20 Day Video Game Challenge. 20 video games that greatly influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just pictures. Day 10: Commandos II #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev
neutral · AI labelView post →Brb, renaming all my units/armies in every future strategy game I play as "The Trando Commandos"
neutral · AI labelView post →Commandos: Origins is now launching for PS4/PS5, Xbox, and PC on April 9. (Read more: Game Watcher)
neutral · AI labelView post →Got in a game is Bolt Action yesterday to practice for an upcoming tournament. I managed to win for once! British Commandos victorious!
neutral · AI labelView post →Dice Commandos is a solitaire tactical dice game - and a true tribute to 1980s action films. We shall present its components as well basic game mechanics. Enjoy! Link: theboardgameschronicle.com/2026/06/17/d... #wargames #tabletop #solitaire
neutral · AI labelView post →I used to watch my elder brother play this game in 2005. Amazing game with amazing memories!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#nowplaying Steröid - Chainmail Commandos - bizarre punk project from Gordo Blackers (the genius iconoclast behind Gloomy Reflections and Quest Master). Out now on Crypt of the Wizard. Sounds like 80's computer game music. Bandcamp link here: cryptofthewizard.bandcamp.com/album/chainm...
neutral · AI labelView post →This add-on took everything I loved from the original and made it even more intense. It’s harder, no doubt, but that’s exactly why I keep coming back to it. The missions feel tighter, the pressure is real, and pulling off the perfect plan? Chef’s kiss. I still boot it up on weekends and play it for hundreds of hours. Same setup ->pizza, cold soda, and that classic Commandos soundtrack in the background. Pure tactical comfort. If you grew up with the original, this one hits just as hard. Maybe…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It doesn't run on modern PCs well and crashes often. Even then, it is really playable on the 800x600 resolution size and if you even try to play it on windowed mode to accommodate this limitation, the game freezes and becomes unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When a kid playing this I couldn't even get through the opening mission, now as an full grown adult, waddaya know, I can't even get through the opening mission. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You cant beat gameplay this good even 20 years on.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good continuation of the first game with awesome new features. But the difficulty gets to absolutely insane levels and it's no longer about tactics but more about figuring out the only trick to actually progress in the level. This version on Steam is missing the tutorial levels, which is tragically bad in such a difficult game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As great as Commandos: BEL
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible! In this day and age, this game should be deemed unplayable and dropped by Steam. By grabbing our money on 'games' like this, Steam does a terrible disservice to its own brand. We forgive...But we don't forget! I recommend you do what I should have done before buying: Go watch any videos or play-through, and ask yourself if you really want to play this 'game'. Nostalgia my a** !
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cheat Commandos tactical game when
neutral · AI labelView post →They should make a Commandos/Desperados style strategy game about fighting other people for bargains on Black Friday or somesuch
neutral · AI labelView post →While I wait for Doom to finish whatever the hell its doing, I figured I'd try "Commandos: Origins"... and, man, this game is buggy as shit.
neutral · AI labelView post →Commandos: Origins [PC - 72] www.metacritic.com/game/command... "Meticulous, difficult, and demanding, it will test your patience as much as your tactical insight, but when you finally get it right, Commandos Origins is rewarding." - Ed Smith, PCGamesN
neutral · AI labelView post →What are the difficulty levels of #CommandosOrigins and how is the game different compared to the originals ❓ These and MUCH more will be answered in our Commandos: Origins FAQ – time to loot the answers before the game's release on April 9th, Commandos! 🔥 👇👇👇 blog.kalypsomedia.com/en/commandos...
neutral · AI labelView post →Legendary game. Expansion of the first Commands game. Seems harder but game is maybe easier because you can throw cigarettes and lure/kill guards like that. Positives: - Greatest realistic graphics for 1998. Graphics still hold up in 2024, they were mind blowing in 1998. - Gameplay was tactical, stressful and satisfying. All the commandos were good and could clear small areas by themselves. Green Beret maybe was/is overpowered. - Memorable missions that ended in a plane escape, truck…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An explandalone for Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines. More of the same but with lots of extra mechanics and small improvements. Ball-crushingly hard.
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