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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Developer Stardock Entertainment, Oxide Games
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat. From the Steam store page
198 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
61
Fresh
110 positive · 69 negative
95% range 54–68%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 110 | 69 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
2,533 of 3,364 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
62% recommend · 108 yes, 66 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 174 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (3,698 of 5,004 positive).
Players praise the game's macro-focused RTS gameplay and epic scale battles. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note the game is similar to Supreme Commander but with some missing features. [4][5][6] Some players find the game buggy, with poor pathfinding and unit AI issues. [7][8][9]
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- [7]
Seems like a fun game and I'm always up for a good RTS but it has a lot of annoying problems that need to be dealt with 1. When your logistics is approx 90% full, your AI says "we need more logistics" every 30 seconds and it gets annoying real fast. Change it to say this if trying to create more units when you don't have enough logistics to make more. People hated Navi from Ocarina of Time for less 2. The combat AI …
- [12]
Only try if it's 80% off or more, and be wary not to go over that refund limit if you still don't like it. A buggy, frustrating RTS that frequently crashes your computer, with buggy controls, poor unit pathfinding, ultimately boring action -- "Hey! You're playing the campaign, good on you, let's play through the tutorial so you can play through the second tutorial that's the same, but longer! Catch you around …
- [1]
experienced RTS player (1000< hours in the genre) and i'm still struggling with any AI level above "normal" (9 tiers of AI, 4 entire levels above normal). i find myself "solving" the AI modes of most RTS games rather quickly (getting good enough where the hardest AI never has a chance at winning) but that feels like a pretty nonexistent problem here. basically; high skill ceiling and high skill floor for the AI …
- [3]
What the Game is A very solid RTS focusing on macro gameplay. The game features based building, and epic scale battles. Its AI is extremely competent, a very powerful adversary which will offer a worthy single player challenge. The game offers a very well made army reinforcement mechanics, where you form an army and then place orders of new units to arrive at that army, eliminating the need to micro tens of …
- [5]
Not as good as Supreme Commander, but alright overall. The best thing this game does is make your rig a makeshift heater for all seasons. The more the game has action and units, the more likely it will crash or tank your FPS. The story was rather interesting but it kind of went nowhere. I still have no idea how to distinguish units or buildings. Which means the design is bland and boring. The soundtrack is somewhat …
Summarised from 34 of the 193 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
62% of the 174 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation. The complaint that keeps coming up: poor unit pathfinding and combat AI. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems like a fun game and I'm always up for a good RTS but it has a lot of annoying problems that need to be dealt with 1. When your logistics is approx 90% full, your AI says "we need more logistics" every 30 seconds and it gets annoying real fast. Change it to say this if trying to create more units when you don't have enough logistics to make more. People hated Navi from Ocarina of Time for less 2. The combat AI for units is really bad. You try to position them at the edge of a battle to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →experienced RTS player (1000< hours in the genre) and i'm still struggling with any AI level above "normal" (9 tiers of AI, 4 entire levels above normal). i find myself "solving" the AI modes of most RTS games rather quickly (getting good enough where the hardest AI never has a chance at winning) but that feels like a pretty nonexistent problem here. basically; high skill ceiling and high skill floor for the AI modes. good if you're not new to the genre as the skirmish mode WILL give you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Massive scale RTS game Ashes of the Singularity II announced for 2026 #AshesoftheSingularityII #RTS #Gaming #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I was late to watching a youtuber I like streaming playing the game Ashes of the Singularity, which has the single saddest gaggle of "posthumans" i've ever seen, genuinely hilarious. Yes, you have the computational power of a planet, but you look like this
positive · AI labelView post →First off, I have played the original Total Annihilation back then since 97/98 or so and many years after that due to the excellent mod support and active modding community. I played Supreme Commander, which was quite nice, and also Supreme Commander 2 which was not very nice. Now, I really wanted to like this game but I can't. I does not capture the spirit of TA or SC1, merely selecting units is already a pain, especially if tightly packed, trying to click a turret when an engineer is in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, my dad played it alot and he dragged me into it, I still remember starting out and spamming dreadnoughts with no resources to speak of, our main strategy was varied "Defend and build up" and "RUSH THEM WITH CRUISERS!!" very fun, still playing it to this day, I really hope this game can one day live again. Anyway I'm gonna go kill 6 Insane AI (Wish me luck ;-;)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Breath of Fresh Air in the RTS Genre Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is a pleasant surprise in today's gaming landscape. For the past decade or so, the real-time strategy (RTS) genre has largely focused on speed and aggression. Developers have made games smaller, faster, and with an emphasis on offensive play at the expense of defensive strategies. This shift makes sense in a competitive e-sports and streaming context, where players who "turtle" (play defensively) are often seen as less…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was lucky enough to get this game for free to test the campaigns before deciding whether to purchase the DLC. Honestly, I have to say the game is very disappointing. Even after all these years, it is still riddled with bugs. Units regularly get stuck on certain terrain, and pathfinding is a mess—stupid units move on their own without my knowledge, get killed off by the AI, and do not even defend themselves when attacked. I also don't understand why the offensive abilities are so restrictive.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've had quite some fun with this. The only thing is this game is a time bog. To gain resources you need to capture map points and build extraction stuff on it and also defend it, or you lose it. There is as far as I could see no rush tactic possible for you'd have to cross the map over those mappoints, which are hostile if not taken over, even if you opponent(s) didn't take it yet. It makes for a slow game, and if you don't keep an eye on the main cap points (middle-top of screen marked your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only try if it's 80% off or more, and be wary not to go over that refund limit if you still don't like it. A buggy, frustrating RTS that frequently crashes your computer, with buggy controls, poor unit pathfinding, ultimately boring action -- "Hey! You're playing the campaign, good on you, let's play through the tutorial so you can play through the second tutorial that's the same, but longer! Catch you around buddy!" and little room for strategy. -- "Also forgot! Put a tool on the wall for me,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the system is more or less the perfection of an RTS concept. i've only played the first segment so far, but there are some critical issues with the controls that i hope have been sorted out in later versions (adding units/structures to control groups, for instance). i'm also a bit worried the various factions all have too-similar units, but i've only played the first campaign so far. still, for a former competitive sc2 player, this is both a breath of fresh air and a true innovation. kudos!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →at the moment this game feels like supreme commander but without all the little quirks and things that made supreme commander awesome to play, like letting a factory produce directly into a group binding, or setting the spawnpoint to a patrolroute then saving that factory to a keybind to quickly reinforce the patrol, and i am always finding more things missing i was used to. i also miss having my commander and *being present at the battlefield* plus i prefer *open maps* to the checkpointlayout…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a bit of a gem in the rough, but some really cool concepts here such as upgrading. RTS are a bit of a dying breed and always good to see a developer still updating a game that is about 10 years old at this point. Not everything has to be perfect and I had some fun playing it for a few hours and plan to a bit more in the future.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried to like it but I just don't. You create armies, which are groups of units, that you control as one to avoid micromanaging only to end up micromanaging them anyway. The balance doesn't seems good and humans have better cruisers. If you don't rush, you can turtle but it makes the game overall harder. Campaign was fine, but I just cannot get myself to play more. Cannot recommend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You cannot do a private match without 2 human players. So no random matches by yourself. Refunded.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The 20 Best Strategy Games To Wishlist For 2026 and 2027. ### [20 – Systemic War](https://strategyandwargaming.com/2026/05/25/the-20-best-strategy-games-to-wishlist-for-2026-and-2027/#20--systemic-war) - **Genre**: Grand Strategy / Real-Time Strategy (RTS) - **Steam Page**: [Systemic War](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3270430/Systemic_War/) - **Planned Release Date**: Q4, 2026 ### [19 – Corsair…
neutral · AI labelView post →Very shallow RTS with really interesting mechanics I would like to see elsewhere. Not many unit variety or interesting/unique buildings. Uber units are there but they lack any unique traits or features other than a larger health pool and damage. Combat AI can be frustrating and damage to units can sometimes feel strange. The capture/supply line system IS a unique feature and I really enjoyed it. You are able to upgrade unit count, damage, health, Orbitals, speed and so on. Orbitals are a nice…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stardock launcher and crash after crash after crash. Might be a good game but I may never know. Bought it for $2.99 and already feel its overpriced.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slow Clunky & Frustrating Game I read the negative reviews but it looked so... flashy and it was 90% off. It is actually fun some times but then other times I just quit out of exhaustion and Irritation. Eddit: the more I play the more I think I was to easy on this game and it is in fact ♥♥♥♥ in fancy packaging. I just have so many questions like wtf. Eddit: I reinstalled and tried it a third time because I'm stupid and I was captivated by the pretty colors. It still sucks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love it! It's like a better version of Supreme Commander games, where they fixed the whole aspect of it. I also am so glad there's no "Commander" building everything by himself. I love the giant spaceships, there should be even bigger ones. The only thing I would like to see in the game is perhaps an alien faction + 1-2 more factions. I love the idea of how you control nodes, connect them to each other, it is so simplified. They perfected the resource gathering strategy in my opinion. Looking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What the Game is A very solid RTS focusing on macro gameplay. The game features based building, and epic scale battles. Its AI is extremely competent, a very powerful adversary which will offer a worthy single player challenge. The game offers a very well made army reinforcement mechanics, where you form an army and then place orders of new units to arrive at that army, eliminating the need to micro tens of buildings. Finally game merges Dawn of War region capturing mechanics with Planetary…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pathing is horrible and the design of "army blops punch eachother" is horrid. the eco is a nightmare as well. game feels like its from 2001
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's as close to a Supreme Commander that you can find from the past decade. That said, it tries it's best to not commit to being a successor by implementing a control point mechanic for resources. Overall, it's a fun skirmisher, but it lacks any ability to turtle on purpose (I like to turtle and break into shells!) Changes I would want: 1) faster juggernauts 2) better army pathing and attack logic (currently feels like units are pushed by a tide and leave range constantly) 3) allow us…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is too bright and too colourful, it is often too clunky, I don't like the art style, story so far is below the average etc. - HOWEVER - the gameplay is absolutely SUPERB :) So definitely thumbs up with hope that AOFS 2 will improve on things already mentioned and more while retaining general game loop which is really, really, REALLY great!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a big fan of Strategy games I have to say: Meh...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like RTS but this is just not what I expected. It's more of a capture the flag.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best RTS games in recent years. And a great game in general. Scenarios are about 1.5 hours ea. "Normal" mode makes you work for it, but doable once you learn the ins and outs of the game. Easy and beginner modes are there if you want to get in and out in about an hour.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →another dead game, last update make the game lagy and not fun as it used to be, thanks
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Requires third-party launcher. Note: My 6-hours playtime is from idling trading card drops.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Me and a buddy picked up this game and was gonna play it together, but for years we never got around to it. We waited so long that he even turned into a girl. I booted up this game just to see if I was missing anything not playing it all these years. Im not missing anything. "Don't waste your life, I did. Go home," -John Rambo ⣴⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣼⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⡗ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃ ⣿⣿⡇⠜⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀Got a cat here…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just no, it try to be Supreme commander but misses the point. Also Started to play the campaign to give this game a fair chance but every few seconds my camera is taken over and zooms to another part of the map. not once every few seconds.... I alt F4 and uninstalled it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This piece of ♥♥♥♥ doesn't even start. Why is it allowed to sell games that don't work on steam? It's not allowed to sell sex games but it's allowed to sell non functioning software? Literally a blatant scam.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent RTS similar to Supreme Commander. There's a lot of content and I got it on sale for like $3 so definitely worth that price. Units feel a little unresponsive to me sometimes but maybe I'm just bade. Overall, I'm happy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not as good as Supreme Commander, but alright overall. The best thing this game does is make your rig a makeshift heater for all seasons. The more the game has action and units, the more likely it will crash or tank your FPS. The story was rather interesting but it kind of went nowhere. I still have no idea how to distinguish units or buildings. Which means the design is bland and boring. The soundtrack is somewhat okay but that is about it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation Pros: + You can expand very large which adds strategy. (flanks w/e) + Combat feels like traditional oldschool rts, (Starcraft) + Races feel different without being too overwhelming, + Map design is actually good. + Easy steam integration makes it quick to start games with people you know + Zoomed out strategic view Cons: - You can only create control groups, not add to them. - Can't control click to select all units of same type, only doubleclick - All…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, this game is bad in every aspect: the UI, balance, unit behaviour, design choices, scope, performance and looks. Even at a heavy discount, I regret buying it. If you're looking for a game in which units are resistant to your commands, you've found it. Also good luck on clicking on the desired enemy building to attack it, the command will just register to something else in the neighbourhood most of the time. This level is so hilariously lame, you don't see such every day. Units are also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting concepts but not executed well. Semi Rock/Paper/Scissor sytem but more like Rock>Paper>Scissor, where stronger units are just so Strong they make smaller units obsolete. Army system is nice where you can just produce in the army and it automatically produces in an idle facility and adds later on to the army. Big problem is that every unit icon looks the same. It's just a blue blob in slightly different forms. Strategy in this game is too shallow imo.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is hardly playable, keeps crashing the entire time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game fundamentally is good, however with the single player being a relatively heavy focus in this game its severally lacking in this department. The story and dialogue are pretty bad only being held up by gameplay but this only lasts so long. From what I can gather there was an update that rebalanced the game which completely 180'd the difficulty in the campaign missions. I made it as far as the first Escalation story mission and gave up there and everything that came before it wasn't very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very replayable, even after 70 hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't remap controls, so I can't really play, so I can't really review. RTS games from 20 years ago had this feature... how did we go a step backwards 10 years ago? Wasn't looking great otherwise, though, since there are also no text/UI options and it crashed to desktop one of the 3 times I opened it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A barely alright game that made me constantly go, "When does this game get fun?" Multiple missions put you in scenarios where unless you get the perfect build order for that mission, you will not succeed. The enemies on even normal will have twice as many units as you with in seconds and will rebuild faster than you can destroy their units. I simply can't recommend this game over the many other RTS I've played because of how many unfair and nearly unwinnable situations the game will put you in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nine years after release finally had a chance to play. No secret it was a spiritual successor to supreme commander / total annihilation and there are a lot of opinions about that. But personal experience is always the best, right? :) So here is my review for 9 y.o. game: What i liked: - The music and overall soundscape are awesome. - The controls feel familiar and does not asks you to learn much, at least after countless hours in supcom. - Not yet another starcraft clone. The next list going…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good old time real strategy, slightly modernized for current generation cpus and gpus. The universe is nice enough.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a direct clone to games like Supreme Commander or Planetery Annihilation. But a worse one. The visuals are way less clear (a huge no-go for a game like this) and the controls are clunky. It adds some additional layer by introducing a ressource that you use for upgrades, increasing your army size and orbital abilities. This might be interesting, if you had a polished game otherwise. But here it is just another layer on top of already cluttered visuals and gameplay. It also has a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a below average Supreme Commander clone, with none of the charm of the Supreme Commander games. Didn't bother finishing the Genesis campaign, got bored and ended the game early. The story took itself far too seriously and the gameplay was worse than a game that came out nearly 25 years ago. Not recommended. As an example, the main defensive building for each faction "pulses" either shield repair or structure repair in an aura. I presume this was in response to the common complaints…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mostly a bunch of switch 2 ports and Ashes of the Singularity 2. Fuck rockstar.
neutral · AI labelView post →Great game with good balance. The graphics on the ultra setting I'm getting greater than 35fps. Its just that when it comes to the skirmish the player that has the most quanta and aggressively expands wins with the most upgrades. Does not matter the strength of the AI, the ai does not build quanta farms like I do.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →controls are just bad and the whole thing looks far more polished than it actually is
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →missions end in 5 minutes not very fun
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fun if a bit tedious
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →unoptimized trash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, even after 864 hours. To the developers: Bro, you better fix the saving game issues and the game crashes, or i wont be buying the next edition AS 2. Only one Ai and me on the map and the game still crashes. At least you can fix the in game save. i'm not the only one, go look online and read, look and learn. I can run all AAA games on my PC, why does the game crash almost every other game paly????
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lots of RTS fun. The main story campaigns are a little all over the place from exceptionally easy to demonic brutality, sometimes ramping up suddenly with much warning. But in a way that's what makes this title fun. The AI isn't a moron, but to help you get better you can play skirmish matches that allow you set the AI's intelligence / aggressiveness level which can help you practice and learn. For me the skirmish feature is the best part since I can play matches with different conditions…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When is there ever a significant update for this game? Never . It's long overdue for a skirmish/map update. Not many people playing this outside of a few and those that use it to benchmark on occasion. These guys still have not figured out the crashing at random issue for the past few years. Shame this has the potential to be much better
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent game, one of the best RTS games out there with the potential for enormous armies. Still coming back to it regularly after so many years. Superb.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good strategy game. If you anyone liked playing C&C games, then you'll like this one as well. I like playing the 'Skirmishes' mode.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most underrated RTS games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't stand up to modern Strategy Games, but I guess that's why they are releasing Ashes 2. Fun little time-killer.
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