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Scourge Of War - Gettysburg
Welcome to Scourge of War, a real-time 3D computer game/simulation developed by NorbSoftDev, the company headed by renowned game designer Norb Timpko, designer of Mad Minute Games' acclaimed Take Command series. Scourge of War is the epitome of historical command simulations.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“This is an excellent Civil War wargame. It plays slowly enough to take in the strategic context and the command and control system with the Grog Mod is especially good. Think of Sid Meiers Gettysburg with better graphics and controls. Highly recommended.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Excellent game but with a crude and clunky interface. Ordering and organising troops can be needlessly laborious and frustrating, but once you find a workaround it's a great strategy game whereby you have time to think, manoeuvre and strategise.”
— a player, Steam review · 77 hrs played“I'm way late to the party with this series of games. This one is like the Combat Mission of "linear warfare" wargaming. I mean, there's no WEGO option or anything (though you can pause and survey, but not pause and issue order), but rather due to the attention to detail, the…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Scourge of War - Chancellorsville DLC Release Mar 19
Scourge of War – Chancellorsville: Relive the Most Daring Victory of the War! Hello Commander, welcome to the American Civil War! This is one of the most brilliant and unexpected battles of the confli
Update Notes 20260318
- Fixed "Units under my command" icon above commanded units - Fixed some sounds being audible all over the map although they shouldn't be - Fixed artillery firing through woods issue - Fixed evtgrade
Patch of the Patch
We had a file mixup on a shader that messed with AMD cards. Fixed now.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Wargame · Real Time Tactics · Immersive Sim · Strategy · Historical · Military · America · PvP · RTS · Grand Strategy · Artificial Intelligence · Simulation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 9 |
| Official site | https://www.scourgeofwar.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel I5 or Equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti DirectX: Version 9.0c Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 3 GB available space Sound Card: Standard