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Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Fantastic game! Epstein didn't kill himself”
— a player, Steam review · 84 hrs played“The game has a lot of bugs and at times it can get a little boring. However, I always have a lot of fun and it is worth it. The game doesn't do a great job showing you how to do everything, but once you figure it out it is great.”
— a player, Steam review · 147 hrs played“The "finished" state is so buggy and unpolished, and now that they have announced a new game meaning this on is going to be left abandoned like this. You WILL have a major bug every single battle, and it will probably cause you to quit the battle and start again to hope that RNG…”
— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:30 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Grand Tactician Sequel Announced
Mon Général! We are excited to officially announce a sequel to Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861–1865), expanding Grand Tactician into a full game series! The new title is GRAND TACTICIAN: NAPOLEON
DevBlog #5: Command and Control
In “GT2” (working title), in the reworked battle layer, we’ve adjusted the command and control logic a bit to allow further tactical flexibility in the gameplay. Like before, order delays (couriers ca
DevBlog #4: Combat Systems Pt.2.
This is the 4th DevBlog in a series where we discuss the work currently being done in developing a new game in the Grand Tactician -series. The new game and the conflict it covers has not yet been ann
DevBlog #3: Combat Systems Pt.1.
In this third dev diary of the upcoming Grand Tactician sequel, as well as the next ones, I’ll discuss the main changes made in the game’s combat systems. In short, this will bring a lot of further de
DevBlog #2: New Unit System.
This is the 2nd blog in our new series, which discusses developing our updated engine that will power the next title in the Grand Tactician-series. We're keeping some details, like historical setting,
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Historical · RTS · Grand Strategy · War · Real Time Tactics · Wargame · Singleplayer · Tactical · America (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.grandtactician.com/thecivilwar/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64bit Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: 2 GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: supported