Strike Suit Zero

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mostly Positive · 80%Mostly Positive · 80%2013

The verdict

An arcade space dogfighter where you transform into a missile-spamming mech, with great visuals and music but repetitive missions, clunky controls and a weak finale. Skip it if you want deep sim or variety.

Great for

Fans of Macross/Gundam and Freespace-style arcade space combat who play with a gamepad and buy on sale

Main risk

Repetitive escort and timed missions with clunky controls and targeting make it frustrating or boring

What players love

Nostalgic old-school space sim feel

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“As someone that grew up with Robotech/Macross and a love for space combat, this is my go to game.”
Steam review · 34.3 h played ↗

“Kind of like an old school space sim like Wing Commander or Freespace, but with some arcade-y transforming robot shenanigans on top.”
Steam review · 23.5 h played ↗

Great visuals and space vistas

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Sometimes I forget SSZ is an indie game. It's absolutely beautiful and the game mechanics are very well done.”
Steam review · 50.3 h played ↗

“A wonderful game that attracted me from the screenshots alone, because the view of space here is very beautiful.”
Steam review · translated · 41.2 h played ↗

“The visuals are stunning given the outdated graphics.”
Steam review · 9.7 h played ↗

Fast, challenging dogfighting action

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The sheer intensity of the combat is almost overwhelming, and even on Normal difficulty it's very hard.”
Steam review · 6.9 h played ↗

“It's a fun, dynamic shooter/dogfighter that makes asks you to execute well to succeed and doing well feels rewarding.”
Steam review · 18.3 h played ↗

“The best combat I've played. Highly recommend. Thrilling fights, convenient controls.”
Steam review · translated · 0.7 h played ↗

Satisfying Strike Suit missile barrages

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“The moment you transform into the Strike Suit and unleash a Macross-style missile barrage on an enemy capital ship, you feel genuinely unstoppable.”
Steam review · 21.7 h played ↗

“At rapid pace you can lock and then launch about 40 missiles at varying targets, either severely crippling a smaller capital ship or thinning out a fighter formation.”
Steam review · 9.3 h played ↗

“It's a good game, has that anime style Macross Missile Massacre that is just so very very nice.”
Steam review · 42.2 h played ↗

Excellent soundtrack

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“the soundtrack. The blend of synthetica, ambients and old school woodwinds gives you something along the lines of space-age maritime music.”
Steam review · 18.1 h played ↗

“honestly. i bought this for the music. its amazing!”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

“Great soundtrack, I listen to it during other games.”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗

What players complain about

Clunky controls and targeting

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“I've tried to play this game for years. To balance the control sensitivity. To use different controllers. It is still chaos.”
Steam review · 4.5 h played ↗

“Terrible controls. Still 6 degrees of freedom, but it's nothing like Descent.”
Steam review · translated · 0.3 h played ↗

“Targeting is a mess, with you only being able to select an enemy directly in front of you, or the nearest "priority target".”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗

Repetitive missions and enemies

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“the mission design is extremely lacking, with almost every single level consisting of some permutation of the same handful of objectives.”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗

“It's basically defend X, attack X, or attack turrets on X to then get to attack X afterwards.”
Steam review · 7.4 h played ↗

“Monotonous missions. Stupid AI. A pile of useless flashes.”
Steam review · translated · 1.6 h played ↗

Too many escort missions and useless AI allies

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“tedious amount of enemies, combined with useless AI wingmen, sabotages any fun that might be derived.”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

“escort missions are NOT fun, and there are way too many in this game.”
Steam review · 7.2 h played ↗

Difficulty spikes and sparse checkpoints

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“with the ability to only save between missions and the very, very sparse checkpoints, I rapidly got very tired of having to repeat the long, easy parts of levels just to get another chance at the hard bit at the end.”
Steam review · 4.2 h played ↗

“I hit a difficulty spike about half way through that really killed the game for me.”
Steam review · 7.4 h played ↗

Weak, disappointing final mission

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews

“The final level feels like it is trying to be more like Star Fox and it doesn’t work out. There are no enemies, and you just navigate through tight corridors.”
Steam review · 6.9 h played ↗

“the last level is incredibly difficult and frustrating. Changing the feel of the whole game.”
Steam review · 17.4 h played ↗

Director's Cut makes this version feel obsolete

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews

“Get that one, not this.”
Steam review · 5.4 h played ↗

“This is an older legacy edition of the game. Play Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut instead.”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows Vista

ProcessorDual core 2.4Ghz

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA 250 GTS / ATI Radeon 4800 series

Storage3 GB HD space

Recommended

OSWindows 7

ProcessorQuad Core

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 560 / ATI Radeon HD5850

Storage3 GB HD space

OSWindows Vista

ProcessorDual core 2.4Ghz

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA 250 GTS / ATI Radeon 4800 series

Storage3 GB HD space

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