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Holdfast: Nations At War
Developer Anvil Game Studios
Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server! From the Steam store page
362 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
83
LovedLoved
254 positive · 53 negative
95% range 78–87%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 254 | 53 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 18 | 3 | 22 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
18,978 of 20,983 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
83% recommend · 206 yes, 43 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 249 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (26,636 of 29,653 positive).
Players describe the game as chaotic and hilarious, with voice chat antics and role-playing. [1][2][3] Some reviewers praise the active community and frequent free updates from the developers. [4][5][6] A few players report issues with cheaters, exploits, and declining match quality. [7][8][9]
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- [7]
I had to start sending cheating reports when I started playing again. I realized nothing was happening with the reports. I got responses in global from a few of those that I had reported for: teleporting, rapid firing, headshots with every shot, etc. Only to find out: The game is full of Admins playing on secondary or tertiary accounts with their friends. The Admins either cheat or use the admin panel to cheat, for …
- [1]
> loads first match > no idea what im doing > officer is some 12 year old rambling about how we're all going to die for king george >flagbearer is playing dubstep > Senses are overloaded with the sounds of bagpipes, rap music and role-playing officers > We all die to a single artillery round cause we were trying to "form a line" the greatest vr chat game i've ever played. 10/10
- [4]
The best time to buy Holdfast is now. In the last year we've had like three major updates, Age of Sail, Scottish Christmas one (forgot name lol), and in June revolutionary war! Even had Frontlines a WW1 expansion a couple years back. All of those are the size of updates other studios would have you pay £20+ more for, all free. Devs listen to community, run events, very active on social media. Community is booming …
- [2]
Rating: 7/10 🎩 Holdfast: Nations At War — where military discipline goes to die with dignity. Imagine putting 150 armed gentlemen onto one battlefield, giving them muskets, bayonets and proximity voice chat, then expecting anything resembling organised warfare. Naturally, within thirty seconds, someone is blasting music, another chap is delivering a passionate speech about the Empire, and your commanding officer …
- [3]
It's like a war movie, but only if the script is written by 4-chan and acted out by the Monty Python actors. > Here you see a horse player blasting Sabaton music and cutting down foes. > There goes an officer that sounds like a ten year old child eating his microphone and threatening player's mothers with the most indecent invective. > There goes a medic offering free prostate exams in a way that puts the NHS to …
Summarised from 34 of the 301 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 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Holdfast: Nations At War sits at 83% positive across 307 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 362 · most liked firstI had to start sending cheating reports when I started playing again. I realized nothing was happening with the reports. I got responses in global from a few of those that I had reported for: teleporting, rapid firing, headshots with every shot, etc. Only to find out: The game is full of Admins playing on secondary or tertiary accounts with their friends. The Admins either cheat or use the admin panel to cheat, for themselves and their buddies. Makes the game unplayable in a fair environment. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"We're shutting down our game because the CEO said if we dont have 5 trillion players our games a failure" Meanwhile, one of my favorite small dev-team games, Holdfast, just released a huge content update and celebrated breaking 5,000 concurrent users for the first time since they released in 2020
positive · AI labelView post →> loads first match > no idea what im doing > officer is some 12 year old rambling about how we're all going to die for king george >flagbearer is playing dubstep > Senses are overloaded with the sounds of bagpipes, rap music and role-playing officers > We all die to a single artillery round cause we were trying to "form a line" the greatest vr chat game i've ever played. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First 5 minutes into a match and a *very* British sounding fellow charged me with a bayonet saying he was going to do vile things to me then spit on my corpse. This game did not disappoint, however it feels like a majority of the playerbase is slightly ♥♥♥♥ erotic, very historically accurate tbh.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought the game. 5 mins later. Laughing my ass off. Best game ever. Big shout out to the 2nd coalition regiment for showing me how to play in events. Would recommend them for any new players :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this game for quite some time. Cheaters exist but they're kinda rare. I always played on the official servers to avoid cheaters as much as possible but occasionally I'd run into one here and there. While playing on an official server, I reported a guy who was making impossible melee attacks WHILE blocking. Dude was murdering player after player after player after player using nothing but a flag all while dodging bullets like neo. And killing players with said flag from like 20m+ away.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rating: 7/10 🎩 Holdfast: Nations At War — where military discipline goes to die with dignity. Imagine putting 150 armed gentlemen onto one battlefield, giving them muskets, bayonets and proximity voice chat, then expecting anything resembling organised warfare. Naturally, within thirty seconds, someone is blasting music, another chap is delivering a passionate speech about the Empire, and your commanding officer has been shot before finishing the word “CHARGE!” ⚔️ The average Holdfast…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Join in game and immediately hear "Twas a bit of a miscalculation" as a rocket shoots haywire at nothing. Then I see two men get ran down by a horse only for one to stand back up and shoot the horse in it's posterior. The cavalry man survives and kills the shooter with his pistol. The cavalry man is then blown up by a rocket and someone yells "KOBE" in the distance. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s like being in the Napoleonic Wars, except there’s dubstep playing and everyone is an escaped mental asylum patient.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's like a war movie, but only if the script is written by 4-chan and acted out by the Monty Python actors. > Here you see a horse player blasting Sabaton music and cutting down foes. > There goes an officer that sounds like a ten year old child eating his microphone and threatening player's mothers with the most indecent invective. > There goes a medic offering free prostate exams in a way that puts the NHS to shame. > Here you see a group from both teams sat in church with a priest…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just a fun, quick to pick up and play game. I generally end up laughing my buttocks off. Random people talking to themselves or talkin smack to other players as they engage in 1 on 1 combat. People take the musician role very serious. Melee combat is fun, able to block and attack in 4 directions. Can also be played serious with more historical minded players. There are servers that host more organized events. The new Age of Sail update transforms the game into Pirates of the Caribbean…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has only gone downhill over the years, there is no incentive in-game to conduct line battles. Everything is a skirmish and the matches are rampant with BMers. Sappers, Officers, and Standardbears placing a spawn tent right outside of the enemy main spawn and causing disruption. Not to mention that they've ruined ballistics. Rifled Firelocks seem like a joke, the ball hits the ground at 50m and rolls uselessly toward the enemy. A far cry from the real life effective range of 300+yards.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a great game at one point but not its sucks it went downhill so bad. I ran a regiment that i have now given to someone else because I can't do it anymore. Every time I join its either getting spawn camped to the point you can't fight back or leaver spawn. Or your team beelining it to enemy spawn to make a perimeter to spawn camp them. At one point it was so much fun but ever since the update its been unplayable especially with the hackers. So this was Col brownhawk3666 of the UDC…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately my mental ilness made me to buy the BF6 before I found Holdfast. It's an indescribable feeling when you attack a fortress with your brothers in arms. Unfortunately some Fortnite kids turn on their annoying stpd music then you muted them and continue to enjoy the game. And my special thanks for the players who acts like they're on a battlefield, stands in line, follows the officers' orders, and, of course, sings songs in formation, the highest degree of immersion. This is what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best time to buy Holdfast is now. In the last year we've had like three major updates, Age of Sail, Scottish Christmas one (forgot name lol), and in June revolutionary war! Even had Frontlines a WW1 expansion a couple years back. All of those are the size of updates other studios would have you pay £20+ more for, all free. Devs listen to community, run events, very active on social media. Community is booming right now (21/5/26) for those wondering and asking is the game alive. It is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you dont see atleast one person faking an accent playing this game, you're not playing this game lmao
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And as we’ve seen, Trump et al. seem to like to use the threat of prosecution to rig the game before anyone even steps up to the plate. #holdfast
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't get the game until the exploits are fixed, melee is unplayable due to a handful of player exploiting animation cancels that the devs do nothing about. can have fun moments but are ruined by the exploits and glitches devs don't fix
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-join a game, start fighting then I hear very italian man sounding like the scout with a 2013 mic saying stuff like 'I'm walking over here' and calling all us 'New Jersey ♥♥♥♥♥' -next game get on his team and call him tony once now every one calls him uncal tony -hear uncle tony yell 'ay im bout walk on water like im ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ juese' -die infront of tony then hear him cry out 'NO LUIGI' -round end my entire team praises Tony as MVP for team spirit -next round half way through i thank you for this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most active admins got banned for no outright reason at all, the 3 warnings rule was disregarded as a personal vendetta is most likely in play, I would have recommended this game easily but the devs have shown their liability in judgement and have not cleared out the situation or disclosed the reason why. Not even mentioning the salt on the would as they tried to cover up this "small" accident by posting memes on the official discord server. Either they man up, clear up the name of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holdfast: Nations at War is the game that bravely dares to ask, What if we crossed historical reenactment with that viral Facebook plan to run into Area 51
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun game that I really loved, and had tons of friends buy, but my opinion of it is forever soured by how they handle moderation. This is a PSA. the MODERATION of this game is DISHONEST and Upsetting. If you are muted by an admin/moderator you will never be notified. Instead everything appears normal to you. But not a single person in game can hear your voice, or read your text in chat. Your custom music will not play. You will spend a bunch of time pointlessly troubleshooting. At any time…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was a marine on a schooner. We sailed past some enemies, shot them to bits with our cannons, rammed a few and boarded them, I got shot and drowned several times, and then our ship got stuck on a rock and we couldn't get unstuck because the wind wasn't favorable. 10/10. Great game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A sad example of what happens when developers neglect and abandon their core communities to make money, leading to boring gameplay and a fractured community. First off, this game used to be a lot of fun and brought me a lot of joy, but as it stands it's unfun to play and only has about 10 hours of playability before the novelty wears off (unless you're playing high all the time). Here's an honest assessment of the modes before some details. Naval mode: I find naval to be slow paced and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To me this game has no downsides, some may disagree but that is fine. The closest I had to a "downside" was just American lobbies being American with quite rude things to say but once you get into a European lobby you are refreshed with full on lads immersed in their roles
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this was a fun game but there is a clan that plays, (they are now Admins) and they cheat by teleporting places to put down spawn camps so the game is not fun to play anymore so if you play do not play the front lines version.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is fun when its unbridled autism, not so much when chat mods are around.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update#2: AGS Harper is trying to look at the evidence, but apparently what was readable by Charles and TED is not readable by Harper. o.O I tried to re-send. Since then the player in question, started playing again(as i predicted). He has already put a comment and contested his mute on the official HF discord. He also logged in with an account not blocked by myself and was spamming in VOIP. I turned it in for a suspected mute evade on a new 4th account. Will see what they do, if anything.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ahhh yes, the game for the nutjobs. Join the game. Talk in a bad Scottish or British voice. yell "fix bayonets." change beat people with a frying pan Enemies screaming in fear at frying pan man 10/10 will demoralize the enemies with a frying pan again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the best games ever created and the community is the best in the world
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The abuse I have received in this game is unlike anything I have ever seen. An old rogue likened me to a small child - the audacity! - and some jesuit doubted my capabilities as captain, mocking my name and my abilities to command a vessel - by God, this is hardly the conduct of a worthy man, let alone a gentleman in the service of His Majesty's navy. The former ran from the French before my very eyes and faced a most melancholy death to their bayonett, whilst I stood and defended the fort with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My first game. Battle rages in the distance. Find two Brits pushing a field gun. Theyre talking about their favourite types of tea which leads to talk of biscuits. I decide to walk with them and get a feel for the game. Cannon gets stuck in the middle of a bridge. Im out in front now. I see cavalry. I turn back to warn them. An enemy snuck up behind them on the bridge and fires then charges! one guys dead the other is down. I fire and kill the guy. My guy gets back up as the guy on horseback…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →War and a bunch of people with accents. Funniest thing ever
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's one of those games that is fun because of the community. The gunplay is awful, the melee is awful, but man oh man - just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with 150 other guys who are having the exact same terrible mechanics is fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lobby's always full of people and never a dull moment. just cant aim a musket for my life XD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely riveting gameplay. The melee combat could DEFINITELY use some work, but it's an enjoyable experience 8/10 times.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was gifted this game by a dapper young lad. It is very fun to stand on the line with the boys, take aim and fire! I play clash royale game while I reload. I also mute people with poor music taste while reloading. Good use of spare time I'd say.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Have thousands of hours into this game. When i first got it back in the summer of 2023 it was an amazing experience with absolute chaos on the battlefield alongside teammates knowing what to do and i had a lot of luck getting kills with the musket. Now, this game has just become completely crap. Mic spamming is everywhere, people fighting teammates to give them the class that another person is playing, the body blocking is an ABSOLUTE PROBLEM. Everywhere i go with teammates I get body blocked…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Glory to Her Majesty the Queen! One of the funniest proximity voice chat games with one of the most wholesome communities. It’s absolute comedy standing in line, musket in hand, waiting to get reduced to atoms by a cannonball straight to the forehead. But it’s a fine way to go if your musician is playing white girl music in the background for everyone to hear. Glory to the 44th!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Melee is pure mysticism, you press a button to enter melee mode, (no quick melee attack button, you have to enter an entire mode.) attacking and blocking direction are determined by either the way you are moving your camera or character, go to settings and change it back and forth 3 times until it lines up with what it says and does. (maybe), its like putting in a usb drive on the third try. if you said your prayers to King George, you might go 5-4 in melee combat in a match and feel like you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I HIGHLY recommend Holdfast: Nations At War for the same experience nowadays. There's usually 1-2 full 150 player servers running in the browser, and you start to recognize the slaughterers and shitters over time. It's a Napoleonic era musket shooting game with locational open VC that gives bonuses for teamwork and line-firing. Recently I've been talking mad shit in a ridiculous accent matching whatever faction I'm playing at the time, and people are now recognizing my name, which is kinda…
positive · AI labelView post →GET SHOOTED WITH AIMHACK IN A HALLWAY 24 7 SIMULATOR It is genuinely disappointing to have to write this review in a negative way after spending so much time playing this game but in early 2026 I don't recommend starting this game at all, its golden era passed a while ago This used to be an excellent game, but over time it has become increasingly frustrating. One of the biggest issues is how accessible aim assistance seems to have become for new players, which has seriously affected the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They don't care about the game at all. People can sit around all they want and not play. This takes up class spots and skews the game. No matter how many days i spend reporting each individual in this one group nothing happens. Don't waste your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you want to know what it was like it be in an Xbox Live game lobby in the mid to late 2000's? Join the Holdfast community with a mix of people cracking jokes, role playing and even blasting the SpongeBob theme tune down an open mic as you charge (and die, then charge again!) into the totally accurate historical battlefields of the Napoleonic Era, the games interpretation of WW1 and now the new naval arc. Where else can you see a man roleplaying as Napoleon Bonaparte shouting about how…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 Game. Highly recommend for the community and attention the dev team gives to its player base.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought game half off on a scrap bucket of a computer Load in to the Naval Combat See all classes but Musician is taken Spawn on random ship Play mix of Drunken Sailor and Wellermen Get on land Dodge several rounds of musket fire Watch as a French Vessel sends a round of grapeshot into my face Watch the Vessel i just spawned on get sunk whilst the Brits scream bloody murder at the French 10/10 just like the history books for sure also runs at like 40+ fps 720p, just some slower load…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AHOY! started playing again to when age of sail update dropped. INCREDIBLY FUN. you WILL get lost in the game. Start playing? 10 pm. next thing you know it's 6 in the morning and youre still singing sea shanties and shouting at the french as a pirate. Definitely recommend. 10/10 game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a great game but the community makes it better, I need to play more often
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing ‘Holdfast’. 150 players, renacting battles from the Napoleonic era. Hilarious. I’m on the American server and usually pick the British army. I basically spend the entire game correcting the British accent of American role-players.
positive · AI labelView post →FYI for anyone who played Star Wars Episode I: Racer on N64: yes, all the racers in the game are lore-accurate (Clegg Holdfast is my favourite).
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're looking for a hardcore military sim like Arma 3 or Squad...this is not the game for you. Holdfast is much more fast paced and, quite frankly, insane. That is not to say it's all run and gun, just more so than some other titles. The insane part comes with the constant mic spamming. I view it as people being goofy and free spirited, so it's actually nice to see people having fun in their own chaotic way, especially in this day and age. Occasionally, a chud will say a slur or something…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Almost wish there was a half rating. The melee in this game is absolutely horrendous and takes away from the experience, if it wasn't for that core mechanic being so poorly implemented this would be a perfect game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game if you get the pacing right, going with the flow and feeling battlefield and your fellow mates. It has strategic element to it so it demands some time to get into all stuff. Community is great as one can expect from a game like this. I Recommend. For history nerds a must.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holdfast: Nations At War isn’t as crazy funny as I expected, but it’s fun in its own way. The game focuses on historical battles, teamwork, and strategy, with players controlling soldiers or ships in big multiplayer fights. It’s a mix of shooting, melee combat, and coordinating with your team, which makes it pretty engaging if you like that style.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is a game, if I recommend or not depends entirely on my mood on the day. Today is a yes. Tomorrow will be a no. Who knows about in a weeks time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is brilliant I haven’t had this much fun in years! Soon as I join a game somebody has already f***ed my mam which takes me back to old school banter unless your a fairy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A spiritual successor to the Mount and Blade Napoleonic War mod, very fun especially with buddies.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute great game, 150 player lobbies, and the community is sooo funny, from role players to straight up toxic MFs haha
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is really fun. if you want to complain about the random guy every once in a while saying something that is offensive just grow up and shut up, no one cares anymore about that shi.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The community and people actually chatting in game GOATED. The game modes and objectives GOATED.. Game is fun as hell but good grief the hit registration and shooting and melee mechanics in this game is so cancerous It will make you rage at some purely bollocks deaths and then laugh 2 seconds later by a whole squad getting vaporized by artillery. Before the rant other things. The Graphics, garbage looks like a cheap BioShock ripoff with how cartoony and just bad it looks when it was made in…
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