Strategy · March 19, 2020

Panzer Corps 2 (2020)

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Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards. The king of wargames is back Easy to play and at the same time extremely deep, its fine-tuned turn-based gameplay style means that it’s the quality of your decisions, not the speed of clicking, which will determine the outcome of your battles. Don’t outpace your enemies, outsmart them! In-depth gameplay mechanics model unit movement, combat, spotting, encirclements, weather, capturing enemy equipment and much more. A massive amount of content Panzer Corps 2 is all about content. You can play for every major power in the European theatre of the Second World War, and unleash over a whopping 1000 unique different units on your enemies! Every single unit in the game has been painstakingly modelled and animated. No other game covers as many authentic World War II vehicles as Panzer Corps 2! All of World War II at your fingertips Panzer Corps 2 comes with a massive branching campaign including around 60 scenarios: lead the Wehrmacht in the entirety of World War II, carrying over your battle-hardened veterans from one battle to the next. 4 additional single player scenarios are available and another 10 scenarios carefully designed for a balanced Multiplayer experience. On top of that there is an advanced random map generator for Skirmish mode, offering six distinct map types and four mission types. The ultimate wargame online experience Challenge your friends or play on coop against the AI. Panzer Corps 2 offers a wide range of Multiplayer options: hot seat, server-assisted play-by-email (Slitherine’s PBEM++) mode, and a true online Multiplayer. In the latter mode it is even possible to play your turns simultaneously with your coop partner, which basically reduces waiting times to zero! A comprehensive editor Modding was always big with Panzer Corps series. For this reason, Panzer Corps 2 includes the most powerful Scenario Editor we have ever created, which is also very user friendly and easy to use. Using the Editor, you can create your own campaigns, single scenarios and multiplayer maps in no time, or you can enjoy content created by fellow players. If the prequel game is any indication, literally hundreds of user-made scenarios will be available for Panzer Corps 2 in no time, for unlimited replayability!

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Strategy · 298
  • World War II · 200
  • Turn-Based Strategy · 192
  • Military · 163
  • Turn-Based · 160
  • Hex Grid · 157
  • Wargame · 153
  • Grand Strategy · 146
  • Historical · 136
  • Management · 128
  • War · 127
  • Turn-Based Tactics · 123
  • Tactical · 119
  • Artificial Intelligence · 107
  • Multiplayer · 102

Position in Strategy

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume3.8k Steam reviewsTop 68% in Strategy
Positive rating84% positiveGenre average: 84% — this title sits in top 64%
Metacritic86/100Genre average 79 — top 21% of Strategy titles
Concurrent peak559 playersTop 30% in Strategy by live player count
Engagement hours28 h averageTop 35% for session depth among Strategy

Reception Metrics

Steam community

84%Mostly Positive · 3.8k reviews

3.2k positive · 604 negative

Metacritic

86/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

5.7/10

Curator recommendations

3.3k

Peak concurrent players

559

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen PvP
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player

Peer Strategy titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (8)

  • English volume_up
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • French
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Portuguese - Brazil

Strategy releases from 2020

10 Strategy titles launched in 2020 — top 6 by review volume.

Press Quotes

“Panzer Corps 2 delivers the experience of being a General like little else” PC Gamer “If you even only mildly liked PC2s ancient ancestor SSIs Panzer General, you are going to really, REALLY like the sequel to its successor Panzer Corps the First.” Wargamer “The Best WW2 Strategy game of 2020” Alex The Rambler

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 19, 2020
DeveloperFlashback Games
PublisherSlitherine Ltd.
Base price$15.99 -60%
DLC / Add-ons17 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

28h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

9h

Typical completion time

Achievements

120

Steam unlocks available

Editions & Packages

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