Company of Heroes 2

Company of Heroes 2

Fair · Strategy · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hourS
$0.32/hr
Reviews▼
79% of 113,455
Critics
80 players 1 lower
Genre rank
Top 11% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews

Score at full price

Fair$19.99

Score today

−75%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
15.8h
To 100%
61h 3.9x the story
Achievements
452

Price and sales

Sales
91 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.00 October 2020
Sale every
45d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1,571 now
Recent reviews
77% 30 days
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
76% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

42% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.00, set in October 2020. 91 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Its score puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor ($3.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault ($4.99, scores 1).

More about Company of Heroes 2

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 3,106 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 15.8 hours. Doing everything runs 61, 3.9 times as long.

113,455 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.32/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $1.27/hr
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds7 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Genuinely the greatest game ever, was the reason i met my best friend. Thank you for blessing me and my friends and having a miraculous obscure free weekend.
FleshgoblinRecommendedafter 204h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
best RTS of its time, in par with WC3...just wished the other factions/nations werent paylocked
TetRecommendedafter 120h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
If you are looking for a tactical RTS where skill and strategy determine the winner, look elsewhere. Company of Heroes 2 could have been a masterpiece, but it is utterly ruined by severe, long-standing faction imbalances that make the multiplayer experience incredibly frustrating-especially if you prefer playing as the Allies. The game heavily favors Axis factions (Wehrmacht and OKW) across almost every stage of the...
ffcoolrNot recommendedafter 3355hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Experience the ultimate WWII RTS platform with COH2 and its standalone expansions. This package includes the base game, which you can then upgrade by purchasing The Western Front Armies, Ardennes Assault and/or The British Forces. More info in the "About This Game" section below.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB Direct3D 10 capable video card (GeForce 8800 GT or Radeon HD 2900XT), 30 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Company of Heroes 2 scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/231430/company-of-heroes-2
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-1
Critics80
Players79
Metacritic critics · 113,455 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRelic Entertainment
PublisherRelic Entertainment
GenreStrategy
Released2013
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements452