Sudden Strike 4 Command the troops you are given

There are no resource depots to capture and no barracks to queue units from. Each mission hands you a fixed force and a job, and the rest is on you: flank with armour, occupy buildings with infantry, pull damaged tanks back to engineers, or call in an air strike when the line finally cracks. Vision matters as much as firepower: your units shoot further than they can see, so scouts and officers who spot the enemy first let you land the opening shots untouched.

Three campaigns cover the Allied, German and Soviet sides of the war, across more than 20 singleplayer scenarios plus a challenge-focused skirmish mode. Before each battle you pick one of nine commanders, from George Patton to Bernard Montgomery, and each one opens up different approaches with unique abilities, which is what keeps a second run of the same mission from playing out like the first. How you take each objective is genuinely up to you: a frontal push, a quiet ambush or a smoke screen and a wide sweep can all work.