8.8 /10 1 Votes
Release date(s) INT: 1993 Developer Strategic Simulations Genre Strategy game Platforms DOS, MS-DOS | 4.4/5 My Abandonware Initial release date 1993 Publisher Strategic Simulations Mode Single-player video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clash of Steel is a grand strategy computer game released in 1993 by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) for MS-DOS. It covers World War II in Europe on a grand strategic scale between 1939 and 1945. Three major powers are playable: Germany (Axis), the Allies and the Soviet Union. In the game each player in charge of his chosen major power and its land, air and naval forces. Each player also controls production and research of military equipment.
This game contains a number of bugs that were fixed in the follow-up game, Clash of Steel: Future Edition. Buyers of the original version were given a discount when upgrading to Future Edition.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that Clash of Steel was reminiscent of Hitler's War and "a gamer's game—quick-playing, entertaining and reasonably accurate. An entire campaign ... can be played in as few as six hours". It concluded that "COS should not be missed." A survey of wargames by the magazine gave Clash of Steel four-plus stars out of five, calling it "strategic and eminently playable ... everything that Storm Across Europe should have been and wasn't".