Sega has announced that Company of Heroes, the much beloved RTS from Relic, will launch on the Nintendo Switch this year.

The Company of Heroes collection will include the original game and its two expansions, Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor. This will be the first time that the World War 2 RTS has been available on a console, which does raise the obvious question of whether it will also get ported to PlayStation and Xbox.

This new version is being developed by Feral Interactive which has done various other ports, including the Switch versions of Alien: Isolation and the Lara Croft Collection. Nintendolife were very impressed with the Switch port of Alien: Isolation, commenting that “Feral Interactive has done a really solid job with this Switch port. Besides those very minor wobbles with regards to the framerate in docked mode, some slightly longer loading times between levels and a little bit of waiting for doors to open here and there as parts of the station load in sneakily behind them, this version of Alien: Isolation is closely in-line with the PS4 edition of the game.”

The Lara Croft collection, which was released in June, also seems to be a solid port, so this updated version of Company of Heroes should be in safe hands.

“With a bespoke user interface and controls designed for play on Nintendo Switch, the full battlefield will be under the player’s command,” Sega said. “Intense tactical combat takes place across 41 squad-based missions, with moment-to-moment encounters shaping the course of each battle.

“A customisable Skirmish mode is also included, with unique factions, multiple game modes and a wealth of maps, offering enormous replayability and rewarding bold experimentation.”

Company of Heroes launched in 2006 for PC to wide critical acclaim and is often held aloft as one of the best RTS games of all time. An iOS version was released in 2020, but the original game has otherwise remained on PC until now.

The latest game in the series, Company of Heroes 3, was the first game in the series to arrive on console when it launched on Xbox and PlayStation in May of this year. It was a pretty fun game, as my review can attest.

If the Company of Heroes Collection does well enough, perhaps we’ll see it and Company of Heroes 2 get released on more platforms.