Direct control and deep micromanagement
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Direct control – Jump into any soldier or tank and manually aim every shot.”
Steam review · 134.2 h played ↗
Men of War: Assault Squad
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 88%Very Positive · 88%Digitalmindsoft2011RTS · Real Time Tactics · Strategy
$9.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
Deep, hardcore WW2 real-time tactics with direct control and detailed damage, but skirmish-only with repetitive missions, dead multiplayer and crashes. Skip it if you want a campaign or online play.
Great for
Patient fans of hardcore, micromanagement-heavy WW2 tactics who play solo and buy it very cheap
Main risk
Repetitive capture-the-flags missions, no working multiplayer, and runtime errors or crashes
What players love
Realistic damage, ballistics and destruction
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“accurate hit-detection (you can shoot off every part of a tank basically)”
Steam review · 134.8 h played ↗
Challenging, replayable skirmishes
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“The new skirmish missions offer an incredible amount of replayability”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗
Editor and mod support
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“+Complex Editor for building your own missions or let simulate a fight between the AI”
Steam review · 134.8 h played ↗
Great value for a classic
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“I pay 1$ for this game, absolute final boss of budget ww2 rts game.”
Steam review · 44.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Repetitive missions, no real campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“its fun for the first couple of missions then you realise that they are all the same”
Steam review · 27.4 h played ↗
Multiplayer is dead
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Friend got it for me as a gift to play multiplayer, we saw later that they don't support multiplayer anymore.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Crashes and runtime errors
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“It crashes non stop on every mission and every fraction”
Steam review · 31.5 h played ↗
Assault Squad 2 is a better buy
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“There is no reason whatsoever to buy Assault Squad 1 anymore because the sequel includes all of its content.”
Steam review · 22.4 h played ↗
Dumb unit AI and bad pathfinding
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Units do not attack things right in front of them and seem to get stuck often even though they have ammo.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗
Brutal AI spam and unfair difficulty
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“I summon 1 tank, they summon 2, plus 3 companies of grenadiers and 3 of infantry.”
Steam review · translated · 2.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable4 GB
Minimum
OSWindows XP/Vista/7
Processor2.6GHz Processor or higher
Memory1GB or higher
GraphicsDX9c compatible GPU
Storage4GB
OSWindows XP/Vista/7
Processor2.6GHz Processor or higher
Memory1GB or higher
GraphicsDX9c compatible GPU
Storage4GB
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