Company of Heroes similar games & best alternatives

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Company of Heroes

PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS • 2009

Should you play it?

Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.

What works

  • Deep and rewarding tactical gameplay
  • Historical realism and immersive sound design
  • Active multiplayer and mod community
  • Well-balanced factions and strategic depth
  • Extensive replayability and content

Things to keep in mind

  • Some community toxicity in multiplayer
  • Ai can be unbalanced or cheat at higher difficulties
  • Older graphics and ui by modern standards
  • Multiplayer matchmaking and server issues reported
  • Some dlc balance and content fragmentation

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

  • Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition

  • Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

  • Call of Duty: World at War

  • Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

More fantastical

Games that feels like Company of Heroes but with more imaginative fiction

More dominating

Games that feels like Company of Heroes but with more domination over others

  • Battlefield™ V

  • Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

  • Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

  • Company of Heroes 2

  • Battlefield™ 1

  • Battlefield 3™

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition

  • Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

  • Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

  • Company of Heroes 2

  • Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

Similarity map

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Company of Heroes. These titles are not in What to play next.

Company of Heroes: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026