Play Patton Strikes Back - The Battle of the Bulge Online

Patton Strikes Back: The Battle of the Bulge was a 1991 MS-DOS release from Strategic Simulations, Inc., a company well known for its detailed war games. It arrived during a period when complex strategy titles were finding a dedicated audience on PC, offering a serious, turn-based simulation of a critical World War II campaign rather than fast action or simple arcade thrills.

You control American armored and infantry units, tasked with halting and then reversing the German offensive in the Ardennes. The game proceeds through detailed hex-based turns where you manage unit movement, combat, and fragile supply lines across a snowy, unforgiving map. Key mechanics include coordinating combined arms assaults and constantly worrying about fuel and ammunition levels, as a stranded tank is a dead tank. The pacing is deliberate and the difficulty is steep, punishing rushed decisions with devastating counterattacks. It feels like a tense, exhausting chess match played out in the freezing mud of a real historical struggle.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".