Considered the best RTS ever, still unmatched
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“I genuinely believe that this is the greatest RTS ever made, and it is the benchmark by which a hold all other RTS titles.”
Steam review · 304.7 h played ↗
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%Gas Powered Games2011RTS · Base Building · Strategy
$12.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
The verdict
A massive-scale, deep RTS with huge maps and thousands of units, kept alive by the FAF community. Skip it if you want a stable, beginner-friendly game on modern Windows.
Great for
Patient strategy fans who like huge maps, macro economy, experimentals and nukes, especially with friends or via FAF
Main risk
Crashes, freezes and audio bugs on modern Windows, plus a brutal learning curve and slow matches
What changed in the last 30 days
29 recent reviews
The few recent negative reviews cite broken audio, crashes and a bad interface on modern PCs. Evidence is thin.
29 recent reviews
What players love
FAF community keeps it alive with mods and multiplayer
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Get the Forged Alliance Forever Client and you'll get a game that is actually loved, supported, played by thousands, and moddable.”
Steam review · 258.5 h played ↗
Unmatched scale and strategic depth
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The map sizes, army capacity, faction diversity, match length; everything is at a scale so perfect for the genre”
Steam review · 32.5 h played ↗
Cheap and still holds up
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“I bought this game when it was on sale for 3$ compared to other experiences like it that are much more expensive.”
Steam review · 7.9 h played ↗
Great economy and balanced factions
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“It's more of a balancing act of consistently spending as much mass and energy without going into the red”
Steam review · 27.2 h played ↗
Fun campaign and co-op
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“The campaign especially is masterfully done”
Steam review · 10.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Crashes and freezes on modern systems
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Audio doesn't work or breaks constantly, you can't close the game without task manager, games can randomly crash with no warning.”
Steam review · 12.3 h played ↗
Dated, clunky interface and fixed controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Absurd, unusual key bindings that cannot be changed without editing text files out of game.”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗
Toxic, thin multiplayer community and netcode
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“The last 100 people in this game won't let you play online, kicking without reason or on a flimsy pretext.”
Steam review · translated · 213.2 h played ↗
Won't launch or audio broken on modern PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Sound does not work on modern PCs unfortunately.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Slow, drawn-out matches and campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“matches dragging on forever and ever until you have to be unemployed to finish a game”
Steam review · 26.9 h played ↗
Steep learning curve, unfriendly to newcomers
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“If you're not willing to dedicate dozens of hours to practice, you're not getting past the bar of entry.”
Steam review · 167.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported8 GB
Minimum
OSWindows® XP Service Pack 2, Windows® Vista
Processor1.8 GHz processor
Memory512 MB RAM
Graphics128 MB video RAM or greater, with DirectX 9 Vertex Shader / Pixel Shader 2.0 support (ATI 9600+, Nvidia 6200+)
Storage8GB available hard drive space
Recommended
OSWindows® XP Service Pack 2, Windows® Vista
Processor3.0 GHz Intel or equivalent AMD processor or better
Memory1 GB RAM or better
Graphics256 MB video RAM, with DirectX 9 Vertex Shader / Pixel Shader 2.0 support (Nvidia 6800 or better)
Storage8GB available hard drive space
OSWindows® XP Service Pack 2, Windows® Vista
Processor1.8 GHz processor
Memory512 MB RAM
Graphics128 MB video RAM or greater, with DirectX 9 Vertex Shader / Pixel Shader 2.0 support (ATI 9600+, Nvidia 6200+)
Storage8GB available hard drive space
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