Company of Heroes 2

A great, action packed RTS game that's fun to play even in 2025. Very few RTS games makes the player feels like each squad, each tanks and each building are so precious and versatile. It's also a very beautifully realized representation of World War 2, with each factions playing very differently from one another. A shame that most of them a sectioned off as DLC, but at this point they are cheap enough anyways.

Great game. Good fun. Some of the modes can be played coop, which is also fun. Highly recommended.

The game is fantastic, but if you play it online, you will have a horrible experience. Long story short, it's occupied by the kind of people who wouldn't go amiss on 4chan.

I think that says it all.

Game is really average now after all the "balance patches". back when i played in 2014 game just felt different now all these commander nerfs are kinda sad.
coh2 in 2014 8/10
coh2 in 2025 4/10
commanders that once had purpose are now gone AT conscript, partisans, stg44 shock troops, t34 60 fuel cost, tiger ace and many others now just boring and kinda garbage but you can spam penals now for AT thats good right?

Go play company of heroes 1 or 3 at least those games have some good balance and story modes this game just sucks.

my girlfriend almost sold my steam account because of this game get this game without a girlfriend you will have a better experience

One of my favorite RTS games. It doesn't offer as much in the way of defensive base building, but the tactical squad command is great. I love the cover system for units as well as the line of sight system which creates more tension in tight urban maps. The game is what I would hope and expect a modern RTS brings to the table. My only desire would be more/better base defensive options.

Best RTS game I've ever played! would suggest to a friend who's into war and strategy.

Game is buggy and crashes maybe 1 out of 3 times. It's a fun, short game but with somewhat shallow play patterns. Online matches with humans seem to be rare.

A friend of mine plays this game I got it because of that.
It'S really a great game. But do yourself a favor and buy it on sale cause it will be much cheaper since it is this old.

its a fun game with a interesting campain and fun with friends

great game dawid maz is a turkish bot from bydgoszcz

Almost as good of a campaign as the first CoH. Almost as good graphics, mechanics, and QoL as the third CoH. All around the best CoH. Enjoying the multiplayer.

Game is very enjoyable,campaign is pretty fun and multiplayer is very competetive. Sadly game lacks any penalty for being AFK or straight up leaving the game,which even though you get Bot to play instead of player,it still is guranteed loss,unless your enemies are playing game for first time. Also due to small playerbase it is often big skill gap youll be facing,one game you have newbies against you and next day you have full blown veterans who will decimate you. I would still recommed game to users who enjoy RTS with WW2 theme

Great game, recommends buying eastern front armies pack

Built MG nest. Enemy walked around it.
Called in penals. They died.
Conscripts threw molotov at a tank.
T-34 rammed a tree and exploded.

rng/10

Honestly, I wasnt expecting much from the game. Its an older game, and I thought it would be just an ok playing experience. However, I was not expecting the amount of fun I was gonna have. The levels are challenging in both campaigns, and the skirmishes are more fun than I was expecting. Overall a great game

ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND!!! Especially on 75% sale, cop the british forces as well. VERY FUN!

Soviet campaign is basically "Enemy at the Gates" the game, but the actual gameplay is pretty fun nevertheless

Bit sad that CoH went from a great series to, alright and then to kinda bad - if your not interested in multiplayer its tough luck I suppose

I tried persevering, but the point and click, point and click mechanics are just so boring. Sorry.

For a game that's 11 years old, it runs absolutely terribly, especially considering how outdated it looks, even by 2014 standards. Instead of quickly taking cover in this game, I’ll be quickly taking a refund.

Nice game was ruined by greed - if You wanna win, You better buy for extra packages. Not enough that you paid for the game, now pay for extras. Please don't, this game is nice example to say no to extra payments.
Use your brain.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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When you play in custom game vs. the computer...you can't win 'cause the computer can create a tank quickly while you are still in your level 1 with foot soldiers.....one of the stupid game invented

Great game, really fun. Shows interesting parts of the war that otherwise weren't covered. A bit inaccurate with some of the Soviet stuff, but generally pretty good.

If you're looking to do the Ardennes Assault story, don't. It's riddled with game-breaking bugs.

Main game is great, the campaign, multiplayer and faction variety makes it a game you'll be playing for hundreds of hours. Some might say it's better than Company of Heroes 3.

The "review" is really just an outlet for my frustration over the game-breaking bugs in the Ardenne DLC campaign. Some enemy units are literally unkillable, in my case a light tank that was following my units and dealing damage, but for some reason couldn't be destroyed, making the story impossible to complete. This is 11 years after release, so a bug-report is pointless.

Ivans butt cheeks are incredibly lathargic, PLEASE FOR GOD SAKE WE NEED MORE RNG

FOMO, unobtainable steam achievements, and in-game purchases adding up to over $181. This is the only game that ever crashed my GPU (twice) necessitating a hard reset. Decent idea for a game but absolutely needs TLC and better monetization.

This community is genuinely the most toxic conglomerate thing i've seen. I'll keep playing for 500 more hours

Funny lines and decent gameplay but boring story.

Not my cup of tea. I'm not a big RTS fan so my opinion is quite biased. I found the controls quite confusing. The tutorial was useless. I didn't know how to do anything that was asked of me and my men. Even after finding the appropriate group and corresponding buttons, I had difficulties at the last step because I didn't know to L or R click or if my command even worked. Too many commands and various troops spread across a zoomed in landscape that looks the same everywhere is not helping. All of this in real time is just a frustrating clusterfck.

The goat. I don't think any amount of content can bring company of heroes 3 to a playable state. The core gameplay, visuals and atmosphere is too flawed. Until we get a company of heroes 4(probably never considering the failures of relic), this is the game to play.

COH1 is better, but this is still worth the buy IMO. The modding community makes up for what the vanilla game lacks.

RNG bullshit game. Observe how a grenade or howitzer shell lands in the middle of a group of infantry, and only 1 or 2 units die. Or conversely, watch your elite infantry get wiped from 100 meters away while retreating. Also, online play is terrible. Inept teammates, salty messages in foreign languages...you get the idea.

Way way way too fast paced "strategy" game. I call it a click fest, and let who ever enjoy this to play it. Moving to other games.

Still great gameplay. Obviously missing a few QoL, but overall what an RTS should be.

Campaign stories themselves absolutely suck tho
Despite having consistent characters, you literally would not remember that if it wasn’t spoon feeding the story. Not a single meaningful character.

This s really a landmark game. I play it repeatedly; the timing and sense of consequene to bad decisions is really perfect.

This game is littered with bugs, random bullshit, factually incorrect tooltips, countless hidden stats/mechanics, loads of rng, and alot of paywalls, and somehow is still good

10/10 would watch my tank driver get his driving permit revoked again

concept is good, actual game is not. Ai cheats like crazy with more resources and recruitment than you can possibly keep up with. The main campaign is boring and handholdy even at max difficulty. The actual mechanics behind custom battles would be great if the ai didnt cheat and ruin the whole experience.

The ai also doesnt use cover... ever... which is the main mechanic for almost all units. It takes what should be a strategizing game and throws all that out the window.

Game is great, but it made me realize I am not into RTS games. Very stressful. This game is difficult. Only for diehard RTS fans.

This game is really fun for 1v1's with friends. Just hands down, its a great time. The matches are relatively quick, and the ww2 setting is great. The only "notes" I have are these:

1. It feels very different from any other RTS on the market that I am aware of. Its NOTHING like starcraft / age of empires.
2. The UI is confusing

Other than that, this game is great, and once you get used to the different feel its very fun.

Played game, got called a slur, changed to garden, smashed keyboard. 10/10 game, would recommend to anybody with anger issues so they become anger catastrophes.

I never win multiplayer matches. Good game though. :]

Compared to the first game it improved in some aspects and lost in others. I'd rather have a remaster of the first game

One of the best strategy games I've played and improves a lot on the first game. Everything about the mechanics is better, more fluid, and less stiff than 1. That is not saying 1 is bad either, 1 is a classic, but 2 really adds a lot more to the scope of ww2 than 1 did. Russia, the eastern front, multiple armies, lots of gameplay, dlc, modes, achievements, good and frequent and fast matchmaking, active community. You get what you pay for a great strategy ww2 game that is authentic and realistic. But not some complicated map strategy with turns and all this complicated stuff. This is a lot more like starcraft, but with a system less focused on resources, and more taking and holding points. That doesn't mean you don't build structures and bases though. Its a fun game, love the armies, I recommend getting UK first, wermacht is a lot of fun but they come with the game, russia is also good. OKW is good, but not as good imo as the other nazi army.. Usa is a clump army that spits out lots of army men with bazookas and stuff, usa is my least fav army.

This game just doesn't get boring to me. If you're a fan of Tactical games, RTS games and WW2/ WW2 movies, you're going to have fun with this game. Hands down. There's a reason it's a classic

The unit pathing can be a struggle to come to terms with in the beginning, but once you start getting better you learn to work around that. The game more than makes up for any of those shortcomings with the gameplay alone though.

Company of Heroes 2 is the best real-time WW2 strategy video game. It's the next level of any RTS games that on the market.
As more you play this game as more you want to play. Highly recommended to everyone.

stick to coh1, coh1 has better mods and gameplay, if your planning on playing against ai on coh2, expect a infinite rush of troops and tanks within 5 mins, without mods coh2 is dog water

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☐ 1
☐ 2
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☐ 10

Great balance, strategy, game-play, and there is only a slight problem with building structures too close to one another and then tanks can't get through and paths get blocked. Other than that this game is 8/10 easily, if not higher.

the campaign is fun but otherwise just go play dawn of war 2
i genuinely think dawn of war 2 did the mecanics alot better