Company of Heroes 3 Reviews

Pathetic game with no anticheat, chinese hackers will activate their no destruction hack on their tanks and then you wont be able to kill any of their tanks despite them being literally 1HP. Uninstalled and good riddance

I bought the game for the Campaign....but even till now a game breaking bug still exist...checking the Discussion page seems like I'm not alone. I've wasted 19 hours into the Campaign now it's all a waste. No matter what i did, I tried reloading very earlier saves doesn't work. When I reach the Turn 69....the game Campaign map just stop responding... Don't buy this rubbish.....no wonder the game is sitting at Mixed Reviews, I should have known better... Also some of the gameplay / Company in the Main Campaign is a DLC...

Here’s the deal, the game has balance flaws and they get updated and fixed all the time. If you want a game that will evolve and grow then this is the one you will want to play. If you want to be an old bag of anti social hackery then go play something old and leave your negativity to yourself. I hope that more new people like those of you reading this will play this game and love it for what the amazing work the devs have put into have made it to be. It’s been a long journey for them and who knows what crap they had to endure since the whole thing about Sega and THQ before them has happened. Consider this; all of the work they have done has made the game significantly better and they’ve added more content to it than the two games previously combined and if you don’t think so just wait another 6 months for the next DLC it’s gonna have more content. Content doesn’t seem the be the issue and balance is going to ebb and flow. If the campaign is not to your taste then I understand. But if multiplayer is what you like I’d say you should give the game 6 months and a few hundred hours before saying it’s horrible. I do think you should wait for it to be on sale but that’s just because no video game should be $60 imo. Cheers! Go blow some stuff up on the battlefield!

Retarded out of touch developers scammed us to buy this game , balance is garbage , and if you play axis your game play will be a continuous grind just to have a small chance of stopping the allies steamrolling you. I deleted the game

Honestly, two is still better. I'm a little let down honestly, even for 30 dollars. theres just no soul

I don’t understand the hate for this game at all. It plays really well and it has a much more interesting campaign that almost feels more like a 4X game with classic CoH battles mixed in. I look forward to more updates and expansions. I’d love to see a new theater added even!

This is the worst experience of the coh series. Now in coh3, everything boils down to bolengu, preferably universal units, or abusing machine guns. In 1 on 1, it often boils down to bloating 2 armies across the map, or abusing a bunch of machine guns. In 4v4, the situation becomes absolute: whoever doesn't play blob will be destroyed first. I want to believe that they will balance the game and stop banning people for criticism. If I had the opportunity to get a refund for this game and the DLC, I would do so.

Too bad that game is ruined with shitty matchmaking and rush of Asian (mainly Chinese) players. After many updates and hardwork of the developer, game is in a good state, there are some serious issues regarding balance and gameplay but they could be ignored after all. However, developer is insisting on the worst matchmaking. If you ask for regional servers and tell you do not want to play with Asian players who doesn't understand the concept of teamwork, doesn't speak English, can't even write their name with our keyboards for a quick shoutout on chat; they act like you are racist. Until regional servers come and I can play with players who can speak English, I won't be installing this game and buy additional content.

i tried ... i waited 2 years after release before buying. I was a big fan of coh2 and still is. But man ... Coh3 just looked visually horrible and insulting at launch, i waited 2 years and tried maybe 30 games multiplayer.... it's just horrible. I wanted it so bad to be good, but its not. I loved coh2 so much and was so excited and hyped for coh3 but everything is a let down... this artistic direction of a weird mobile looking game is just awfull. At least in coh2, even when loosing a match, it looked and felt epic, it felt dark and WW2 ish... now it just looks like a plastic skeleton of a game concept

“CoH3 is not a strategy game. It’s a tactical tragedy—barely held together by the modding community.” I have a long history with Company of Heroes, and CoH3 had every opportunity to be the triumphant return this franchise deserved. Instead, what we got is a bloated, overpriced, and half-baked product that relies entirely on its modding community to make the game even remotely worth playing. Let’s break it down. Core Gameplay (Vanilla) - a Mechanical Failure - The blob meta is not just alive- it’s the only viable strategy for most players. - Light tanks spam the field like it’s Mad Max, rendering positioning and counterplay irrelevant. - Damage models are comically unrealistic—a Panther can bounce endlessly off an M3 Lee, while AT guns tickle open-top vehicles like they’re firing Nerf rounds. - The balance is all over the place. There’s no tactical depth—just numbers, zerg rushes, and "hope the game doesn't desync." Game-breaking Moment: I had my Panther rounds ricochet off a convoy of M3 Lees that looked and moved like jet-powered Lego bricks, while the enemy blobbed tanks and infantry like they were playing whack-a-mole. When I punished them with a well-placed V1, they rage quit, called it OP, and blamed me—for countering their skill-less spam. That sums up vanilla CoH3. It rewards bad habits and punishes tactical play. Spearhead Mod — The Game’s Only Redeemer Without the Spearhead mod, this game is unplayable if you value tactics, combined arms, or anything remotely resembling historical warfare. Spearhead: - Fixes balance - Adds meaningful unit variety - Reintroduces suppression, armor logic, and fear of death - Encourages real tactical gameplay, not arcade chaos It’s the only reason I—and many others—still have this game installed. Broken Community + Broken Support - The multiplayer community? Toxic, spammy, and allergic to tactics. - Enemy players blob and rage quit the moment they lose. - Devs? MIA. They either don’t understand the issues or actively ignore them. - No real modding support—despite promising "CoH1-style mod tools", we’ve seen nothing but vague talk and empty roadmaps. - Cosmetics and overpriced DLC are prioritized instead of fixing the core gameplay. I paid €22 for the King Tiger and V1 doctrine, and it barely justifies itself. Pricing is a Joke - €60 base price - Overpriced cosmetics - DLC that feels like content ripped from launch - A game that still feels unfinished All while the player count is steadily dropping, and the dev team pretends like everything’s fine. *** Final Thoughts I still love the core idea of Company of Heroes. That love is the only reason I stuck with this game and gave it multiple chances. But it’s clear now: CoH3 is not a finished game. It's a shell, and it’s being propped up by passionate modders while the developers pretend their roadmap and battlegroups will save it. If you’re buying this game, let me be brutally honest: - Only play it with the Spearhead mod + Advanced AI. - Do not expect competitive or balanced multiplayer. - Do not expect Relic to save this game. - And don’t give them a cent for cosmetics. ***If Relic doesn’t open up modding support further, this game is dead by the end of 2026. ! Modders are the reason this game still breathes. Relic, if you’re reading this: Wake up, get out of the spreadsheet cave, and start listening. Because right now, you’re being outclassed by people doing it for free—and doing it better.