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Steam cuts Company of Heroes to €2.79 until 19 November. Company of Heroes 3 is cheaper as a Steam Key: €12.34 (€13.76 with fees) at Gamivo.
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Steam has put the whole Company of Heroes series on sale, games and DLC, with discounts of up to 80%. The sale runs until Thursday 19 November at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET). This morning the three Relic Entertainment games cost €2.79, €4.62 and €18.14 on Steam, with no fees. Key shops beat Steam on two of them, and on the oldest one they don't.
The three games, Steam against the shops
| Game | Steam sale price | Cheapest Steam Key | Cheaper option |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company of Heroes | €2.79 (-80%, no fees) | €2.81 (€2.94 with fees), Difmark Digital Keys | Steam, by €0.15 |
| Company of Heroes 2 | €4.62 (-75%, no fees) | €3.02 (€3.16 with fees), Difmark Digital Keys | Key, by €1.46 |
| Company of Heroes 3 | €18.14 (-67%, no fees) | €12.34 (€13.76 with fees), Gamivo | Key, by €4.38 |
The Difmark prices include the coupon Gocdkeys; the Gamivo one uses GCDKGamivo. Buying all three on Steam comes to €25.55. Picking the cheaper shop for each brings it down to €19.71.
The original: get it on Steam this week
We don't often say this, but for the first Company of Heroes Steam wins. At €2.79 it's 15 cents under the cheapest key once fees are added. It's also the best-rated of the three, with a 93 on Metacritic, and the campaign follows Able Company from the D-Day landings in Normandy across Europe. Outside the sale Steam asks €13.99, while the key usually sits around €2.99 (median, no fees), so after 19 November the key shops take over again.
Company of Heroes 2: cheaper outside Steam, though not at its best
The sequel moves to the Eastern Front, with the Red Army pushing the invaders back from Moscow. It has an 80 on Metacritic. The Difmark key at €3.16 with fees undercuts Steam's €4.62, but it's 15% above its own usual price: the median is €2.63 and it dropped to €2.04 on 11 February (both without fees). If you're in no hurry, set a price alert for Company of Heroes 2. If you want it now, the key is still the cheaper route.
Company of Heroes 3: over €4 less at Gamivo
This is the newest game in the series and the only one that needs a recent PC: Steam lists 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1660 or RX 5600 as recommended, plus 40 GB of space. Steam has it at €18.14, down from €54.99. The cheapest Steam Key is €12.34 (€13.76 with fees) at Gamivo with GCDKGamivo, and that's 46% under its usual €22.92 (median, no fees). The all-time low, €3.74 without fees, goes back years.
You'll also see a Steam Account on G2A at €8.03 (€8.32 with fees). That means logging into someone else's Steam account: the game is never yours, and any expansion would go onto an account you don't control. For about €5 more, we'd take the key.
Picking one by how you play
- Campaign, classic style: the first game, on Steam, for €2.79.
- Online with friends: buy whichever one your group already plays. The first two cost under €5 each right now.
- Modern graphics: Company of Heroes 3. Bear in mind its Steam reviews are "Mixed", with 59% positive out of 25,071, and its Metacritic score is 81.
All the shops are on the Company of Heroes 3 key page. The DLC is discounted too. Fire & Steel, for the third game, is €16.09 on Steam (-30%), and CDKeys has it as a Steam Key for €14.99 (no fees). Final Stand is €19.19 (-20%) on Steam, and no shop beats that with a key today.
Prices checked on the morning of 13 November.
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