Kampfgruppe was among the first inductees into Computer Gaming Worlds "Hall of Fame" section in 1988, and remained readers' highest-rated strategy title by that time. In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Kampfgruppe the 101st-best computer game ever released. The magazine's wargame columnist Terry Coleman named it his pick for the eighth-best computer wargame released by late 1996. In his 1989 computer wargame survey, J. L. Miller of Computer Play dubbed Kampfgruppe a "classic".
