Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand
Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand
Game
Game2006
Company of Heroes
Developer Relic Entertainment
Company of Heroes is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ for Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the first installment of the Company of Heroes series, and was the first title to make use of the Games for Windows label. Company of Heroes is set during the Second World War and contains two playable factions. Players aim to capture strategic resource… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
314 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
91
LovedLoved
202 positive · 20 negative
95% range 86–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 202 | 20 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 12 | 4 | 46 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 11 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
7,622 of 8,055 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 184 yes, 17 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 201 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (17,762 of 18,851 positive).
Players widely praise Company of Heroes as a classic RTS with tactical depth and immersive battles. [1][2][3] Some note the game has aged well but lacks developer support and has a toxic multiplayer community. [4][5] A few reviewers mention the absence of Steam achievements and pathing issues. [6][7]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
Don't get me wrong, this is a Fantastic game. I've been playing it on and off for over a decade but there's no longer any ingame support from the Devs. This has made it a Haven for hackers so if multi player is what you're looking for I'd give this game a miss.
- [1]
Company of Heroes is still one of the most satisfying RTS games I’ve played because positioning actually matters. Using cover, flanking enemy squads, and dealing with suppression makes every fight feel tactical instead of just a numbers game, which was something new to me coming from someone who used to play Starcraft. If you like RTS games that reward smart decisions and good timing, this one’s an easy recommend.
- [2]
Company of Heroes is one of the greatest real-time strategy games ever made. Even years after its release, it still stands out thanks to its tactical depth, immersive battles, and excellent game design. The campaign is intense and cinematic, capturing the chaos and strategy of World War II battles. Missions are varied and challenging, making every victory feel rewarding. What truly makes the game special is the …
- [3]
The legendary RTS that defined a genre and still remains the gold standard for tactical combat. The original Company of Heroes isn't just a classic; it’s a masterclass in game design that fundamentally changed how we think about real-time strategy. Before this game, most RTS titles were about gathering wood and gold to build a massive army. Relic Entertainment flipped that on its head, focusing instead on "territory …
- [6]
Great game but sadly no Steam achivements. There are some good mods to recommend however, that do include achievements more quality of life features. Please be advised to check the following: https://store.steampowered.com/app/317600/Company_of_Heroes_Eastern_Front/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/547180/Far_East_War/
Summarised from 34 of the 289 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 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Company of Heroes sits at 91% positive across 222 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Company of Heroes received a "Silver" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Upon its release the game received wide critical acclaim. On the review aggregator GameRankings, the game had an average score of 94% based on 57 reviews – making it the fourteenth highest rated PC game of 2006. On Metacritic, the game had an average score of 93 out of 100 based on 55 critic reviews – considered "universal acclaim" by the site. In June 2011, the game was ranked #51 on IGN's Top 100 Modern Games. Edge ranked the game #30 on its list of "The 100 Best Games To Play Today", stating: "From…
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Reactions
60 of 314 · most liked first-New Vampire the Masquerade CRPG -Thief remaster -El Paso, Elsewhere 2 -Company of Heroes remaster -2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces -New game from Citizen Sleeper dev -Exodus gameplay look -Hack95 -Beast of Reincarnation -About Fishing -Carcass Clad co-op game from the Mouthwashing devs
neutral · AI labelView post →Company of Heroes’ Relic Entertainment has revealed ‘Advance Wars style’ strategy game Earth vs. Mars, which is releasing this summer. vgc.news/news/company...
neutral · AI labelView post →Company of Heroes is a very nice strategic game, spent hours in here. love it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One thing I yearn for from my childhood is a well made RTS with single player campaign in mind as the main form of gameplay. I want a Dawn of War or a Company of Heroes, or a Dune 2000. I don't want a game that was made to be an esport with an 8 mission story tacked on last minute.
positive · AI labelView post →Empire at War is good but the problem is that it's not derivative enough If it had ground combat like Company of Heroes they'd still be supporting that game like how AoE2 gets more support than AoE4
neutral · AI labelView post →118) Company of Heroes 2. Relic have this odd habit of having the second game be excellent and the third game be very disappointing. This had a shaky launch but eventually developed into a great skirmish level WW2 RTS, reaching its peak with the stand-alone DLC Ardennes Assault.
positive · AI labelView post →Seriously though, the space game I want is a Halo GSG where the space combat is Sins of a Solar Empire but with Empire at War hardpoints and reinforcements, the ground combat is Company of Heroes, and the 4X galaxy map uses the board game Diplomacy's simultaneous turn based system
neutral · AI labelView post →(if you don't want to watch a whole trailer, it is a Company of Heroes movie based on the THQ series. No "based on the hit video game" or anything)
neutral · AI labelView post →There is the Company of Heroes games and the Commandos series.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Company of Heroes, it's just a zen game for me
positive · AI labelView post →(in case it isn't obvious this is game merch for Company of Heroes)
neutral · AI labelView post →lrt honestly yeah, I didn't mind the fetch quests back in ARR (certified Company of Heroes liker here) and I don't mind them now either like......that's part of the game? A game? ANY game? I was reluctant to play an MMO for other reasons but the questing part was and is perfectly fine
neutral · AI labelView post →#SeptemberWorldbuilders 29 When I’m in the writing flow, i don’t read much, unfortunately. Inside as Game Playing, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (i love it). Company of Heroes 3 (It’s relaxing). Valheim (it’s challenging, but i just want to grow my crops 😂) 🪡
positive · AI labelView post →"Company of Heroes is one of the classic RTS games set in WWII." Here you will find yourself commanding American troops taking part in the most famous operations in occupied France. You will have to prepare the ground for the landing troops, using the airborne divisions, before the Normandy landings, the armored divisions during Operation Cobra and infantry units to take the city of Cherbourg. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3592721145 The units in the game are very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Technically Doom 2 has a level based off the original Wolfenstein, and it's safe to say most of the demons from Doom in general may have been Nazis in a past life. What I'm saying is everyone should play Doom. Also now I want to play Company of Heroes again. That game was great.
positive · AI labelView post →On the 12th and final day of the 12 Days of Christmas War Gaming 2025 Edition my true love gave to me, 12 Rifleman Capturing – Company of Heroes Board Game 2nd Edition from Bad Crow Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/12/25/1...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ran an Arc A750 for a couple of years. Perfectly capable card. Don‘t expect miracles of performance@4k but it could hold its own on modern games (BG3, CS2, Helldivers2). Mostly ran 1440. (also old games like Company of Heroes.. but not really stressing the card with that one) Also ran it in Linux for quite a while. Set and forget there. It was easily a smooth card. I‘m a fan of Arc. I‘m running a 7900xtx these days as I snagged one cheap, but I‘d easily look at Arc again. I‘ve heard…
neutral · AI labelView post →explain your @ Private Duffy refers to some uncommon voice lines in the first Company of Heroes game! When ordering the British Infantry Section around they'll sometimes refer to a "Duffy", who is usually referred to as an idiot. I picked it as a gaming alias, is for kink now (for now...)
neutral · AI labelView post →We all worked on our own board game projects yesterday evening! 1. I opened up some Lorcana cards 2. @ybnormal.bsky.social punches out campaign mode for Horror on the Orient Express 3. Jeffrey plays Company of Heroes solo 4. @bingbread.bsky.social unbags the Barcelona upgrade pack 1/3
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Day Paragraph about life Insert game I'll stream on Twitch here with arbitrary time See Soon FR Idk what to do today and I have background stuff to figure out. I might play Company of Heroes 3 or Two Point if I do stuff today but I feel heavy and slow? I just want fun 😅 Hopefully live soon!
neutral · AI labelView post →any version of Blood Bowl on a computer, but i guess that's cheating really. for just-a-video-game i guess it would be Company of Heroes? had to make a new Smurf account every other week otherwise people would refuse to play me in casual.
positive · AI labelView post →“Hey, I see you are playing mewgenics, a single player game. We think you would like this other single player game Company of Heroes”
neutral · AI labelView post →Company of Heroes is still one of the most satisfying RTS games I’ve played because positioning actually matters. Using cover, flanking enemy squads, and dealing with suppression makes every fight feel tactical instead of just a numbers game, which was something new to me coming from someone who used to play Starcraft. If you like RTS games that reward smart decisions and good timing, this one’s an easy recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even some newer stuff running with Proton, like AoE4 or Company of Heroes 3. Basically these games will send each other inputs and expect the game to play out identically. If there are any slight differences due to how the math happens, the game will end because it detects a desync. Usually the solution is copying whatever DLL windows uses instead of relying on WINE.
neutral · AI labelView post →"SUCK MY BARREL JERRY!" - Random British infantry unit in one of the Company of Heroes games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Warframe or Company of Heroes 2 or Hexen: Beyond Heretic or Bloons Monkey City or ODDADA or Pony Island or Freedom Planet or Piglet's Big Game or AdVenture Communist or Boson X or Electronic Super Joy: Groove City or There Is No Game or Quake II or Tower of Guns or Just Get Through or Kairo
neutral · AI labelView post →Company of Heroes’ Relic Entertainment has revealed ‘Advance Wars style’ strategy game Earth vs. Mars, which is releasing this summer. vgc.news/news/company...
neutral · AI labelView post →Company of Heroes 3 is just worthless and all of the Allied players bitching about balance is (once again) legit. Just played a game where we pushed the Nazi team to their base. They had maybe three points total. No oil. Somehow they built a half dozen panzers AFTER that.
negative · AI labelView post →I was the game director on Company of Heroes 2 at the time and thought it was nice that they sent me scripts and the first few dailies from shooting in Bulgaria, and then I gave them feedback, and they stopped sending me stuff. God, so bad. Please burn this whole post and never mention it again.
negative · AI labelView post →Side Quests is back and so is host Josh Covel from @stillloadingpodcast.com! He is a podcaster, streamer and member of the US Army's Able Company! The game he is talking about today is Company Of Heroes by Relic Entertainment, THQ and Sega. funandgames.libsyn.com/side-quests-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Played a couple of demos on Steam Next, and enjoyed them all! Hull Breach was amazing, and the art style was delightful! Dust Front RTS had a great style, and I enjoyed the Company of Heroes style gameplay. Iron Nest was a cool nerdy math game, quite fun (should hold me over until PVKK). :3
neutral · AI labelView post →Menace isn't XCOM for people who don't like themselves. It's Company of Heroes that has watched Starship Troopers way too many times - and that's pretty cool. #Menace #StrategyGames #IndieGame www.pcgamesn.com/menace/xcom-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I want a game that plays like Dawn of War 2 / Company of Heroes 2 mixed with They Are Billions or Age of Darkness: Last Stand with the option to play together with a friend. One of my dream RTS game ideas that wouldn't be popular at all. The first design goal is diagonal gates, lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Early start today! Got a Christmas meal at my normal stream time! Going to be doing a sponsored stream of Company of Heroes 3: Endure and Defy DLC Disclosure: I received a key for this game through Lurkit! You can find a link to the new DLC here: store.steampowered.com/app/4095900/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably the best game that made a choice to include playing as Axis like this was Company of Heroes IMO, because the only German campaign has you already thoroughly lost the war and you’re a bunch of barely-functioning units against a literal unstoppable juggernaut of infinite troops, fuck you.
positive · AI labelView post →I've said it a few times but I am really chuffed with the unit voices in this game, they have some absolutely adorable lines that you wouldn't expect from this more Wargame-esque style of RTS. Some of them make me cackle and think of Company of Heroes
positive · AI labelView post →📣ON SALE📣 and FREE weekend!💥Company of Heroes 3 is FREE this weekend, and if you want to keep the action going, you can grab the game for 50% off until March 20! Give it a play ▶️https://coh3.companyofheroes.com/steam
neutral · AI labelView post →After the Company of Heroes, we brought back everyone’s OTHER favourite part of the game that they loved so much - cleansing taint
positive · AI labelView post →I don't really talk about my day job here, but a cool thing I was involved in earlier in the year was the launch of Company of Heroes 3. We created a place for history buffs and series fans to learn more about the battles in the game history.companyofheroes.com
neutral · AI labelView post →It's telling that every game with indirect artillery (BF1, World of Tanks, Company of Heroes) across a variety of genres and implementations nerfs the *shit* out of it over time because it's excruciating gameplay.
neutral · AI labelView post →peanut would love some pets and treats :) 🌸＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つ
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action. Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand is coming later this month.
neutral · AI labelView post →Given how big my library is and the fact that I rarely buy full-price, its hard to pick a single item. If I had to pick one worst, it would probably be Company of Heroes 3. I was really hopeful for the game, and got it bundled with my CPU when building a new PC, but its just not very good. The campaign, the main part I was interested in, is slow and samey and uninteresting. The multiplayer is even worse, being riddled with microtransactions, lootboxes, and other such stuff in ways that…
negative · AI labelView post →you're right, it was also one of the reasons I avoided fedora originally. Company of Heroes for example would work OOTB in any other distro, but on fedora it would crash as soon the game opened - unless I skipped the intro movies with the steam command. My guess it was the codecs, even though I supposedly had installed them. But just you know, if someday you give it another shot, you can use this link: https://nattdf.streamlit.app/ It's basically a script builder that helps you get fedora up…
neutral · AI labelView post →Both new ones are excellent. Not FPSs, but pretty much any strategy game set in either world war lets you play vs the US. Company of Heroes, Steel Division, Hearts of Iron, Great War: Western Front, etc. Of course, you'd have to play as Nazis or the Red Army, but there ya go.
neutral · AI labelView post →> Besides, if subgenre fans tend to stick to that subgenre and don’t bother too much with other things in the overall strategy genre, there is probably a good reason to keep them separate RTS fans certainly do tend to stick to RTS. In fact, [RTS *itself* has a number of distinct subgenres](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aH55sE1NQ) and many people stick to just one. Star Craft players don't often enjoy city builders like Northgard; Age of Empires players don't often switch to Company of…
neutral · AI labelView post →Nigel Farage plays Company Of Heroes as the British thus putting absolutely everyone off the game AND defying their own expectations
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting Deployment - Sniper elite 5, Company of Heroes 1 & 2, Valkyria Chronicles and Unity of Command 1 & 2. For every 10 subs a new game voted by chat! For every £50 Bean will order new arts again voted by chat!
neutral · AI labelView post →“Returning players should find the changes satisfying, and those who haven't tried the game before should be met with a classic that's now up to modern standards”. Read more about Company of Heroes: Definitive Edition, coming this September: www.pcgamesn.com/company-of-h...
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is absolutely amazing, it has definitely withstood the test of time. Gameplay, sound design , and AI are all perfect, it's also really to learn which is a plus for me. 10/10 would recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reliving the Company of Heroes era of gaming... it's like a mix of Star Wars: Empire at War, Age of Empires, Rise of Nations all into one with a theme of purely WW2 forces. Would have been cool to have more factions such as the Empire of the Rising Sun as well but hey, I'm satisfied with the polish and finesse this game brings. Sadly, it's hard to find a gem of this caliber anymore... Off to finish the campaign one last time I guess :) (Oh and I highly recommend this. Can't recommend it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A friend and I play the game Company of Heroes from time to time. We haven't played the Axis factions since '24, because we can't have fun anymore even with the remove of it being "just a game". Playing the Allies on the other hand, well, that's a time honored tradition.
negative · AI labelView post →Don't get me wrong, this is a Fantastic game. I've been playing it on and off for over a decade but there's no longer any ingame support from the Devs. This has made it a Haven for hackers so if multi player is what you're looking for I'd give this game a miss.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That's why they need to do a Company of Heroes clone instead of a Total War game.
neutral · AI labelView post →I dunno what happened since the last time I bitched about Company of Heroes 3, but the game feels way more balanced. It's pretty enjoyable now.
positive · AI labelView post →Sorry, he's from Company of Heroes The Sega Wiki page for him being 90% "his game kinda fucking sucks at being a historical war sim as intended" is really funny
neutral · AI labelView post →🔴#LIVE with a #Keymailer game today. Come check out Company Of Heroes 3 Final Stand by @relicgames . Let's see how this defense stuff stacks up! #coh3finalstand twitch.tv/aveege 🟪 and kick.com/aveege 🟩
neutral · AI labelView post →very good RTS runs well on old hardware
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →❖ Featured Discount Game ─────────────── TITLE | Company of Heroes 3 PRICE | $23.99 (60\% OFF,$59.99) RATING | Overwhelmingly Positive ─────────────── ▶ Store Page #TrendingGame #Steam #Action #Strategy
neutral · AI labelView post →We are switching gears for tonight's stream and jumping into Company of Heroes! We are teaming up for some multi-player RTS skirmishes tonight—coordinating squad micro, setting up defensive lines, and pushing armored columns together. Come hang out for a tactical night of real-time strategy with the squad! Watch live: https://www.twitch.tv/cheshire_ge #CompanyOfHeroes #RTS #Gaming #Twitch
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