Jagged Alliance: Rage!
Jagged Alliance: Rage!
Game
Game2012
Jagged Alliance: Crossfire
Developer Coreplay GmbH
The island of Arulco is free; however, there are other countries under the shadow of war that are ignored by the rest of the world. From the Steam store page
309 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
58
Mixed
80 positive · 57 negative
95% range 50–66%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 80 | 57 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 28 | 7 | 77 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 0 | 26 |
| Mastodon * | 6 | 1 | 23 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
91 of 151 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
59% recommend · 81 yes, 57 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 138 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (207 of 336 positive).
Players who like Back in Action will enjoy this standalone expansion, which offers similar gameplay with new environments. [1][2][3] Fans of the classic Jagged Alliance 2 may be disappointed if they expect a clone, but the game has its own merits. [4][5][6]
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- [12]
Forewarning: this game has been abandoned by the developer, who is no longer in business. I bought it anyway because I thought it would be a decent expansion to Back in Action (BIA). Unfortunately it isn't. For the most part, the engine is the same, gameplay is more or less the same, but there are a few differences. Here's a list of points that I think are worth mentioning: 1. The map is much smaller. In terms of …
- [13]
I loved JA 1 and 2, so i bought JA:BIA. It grew up on me, ok. Not much like JA, but it's an ok game. But what really made me play the game for over 300 hours was not the difficulty. It was the bugs. An awful lot of them. And i don't mean cockroaches in boxes. Crossfire, is an expansion to that. A whole new lot of bugs, but a lot shorter campaign. And i mean a LOT shorter. I finished it in about half a dozen hours, …
- [7]
After the failure of JA: Flashback, I came back to Crossfire to assure myself that not all JA after JA:2 were bad. And no, they were not. Crossfire (and it's predecessor) are good games. It maybe takes some time to get used to the new system (space stops time to let you plan your actions), but it works very well all in all. + Combat is challenging + a variety of weapons with different ammunition tomake the gun …
- [4]
Almost 130 hours spent on two back-to-back playthroughs says everything you need to know about this brilliant, maddening, flawed gem of a game. There is a trick to enjoying Crossfire. And that is trying very hard not to grumble throughout like some crazed octogenarian that "it isn't Jagged Alliance 2". Judge this game on its own merits. Try hypnosis, try alcohol, try beating yourself about the head, try anything to …
- [1]
Enjoyed it just like JA:BIA. Gameplay is the same, but new environments. Shorter than JA:BIA, but it costs less too. Recommended if you liked BIA
Summarised from 34 of the 286 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 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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The crowd is split on Jagged Alliance: Crossfire: 81 recommend it, 57 don't. Which camp are you in?
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60 of 309 · most liked firstMilitary history and tactics are nominally cis male coded, but queers and women will become Napoleon if it means we can make two dolls kiss in a video game. I feel like there has to be a way to weaponize this. Have the Pentagon pay the Jagged Alliance guys to make a game with a romance system.
neutral · AI labelView post →Old image from a few years back. Mouse from Jagged Alliance 3. Cool game! Recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →Forewarning: this game has been abandoned by the developer, who is no longer in business. I bought it anyway because I thought it would be a decent expansion to Back in Action (BIA). Unfortunately it isn't. For the most part, the engine is the same, gameplay is more or less the same, but there are a few differences. Here's a list of points that I think are worth mentioning: 1. The map is much smaller. In terms of sectors, it's maybe half or less than half of the sectors in BIA. 2. There are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A videogame design thing I recently appreciated is I. Jagged Alliance 3, which starts with a disclaimer that the game is supposed to be hard and you might mess up your entire playthrough but then gives you the option to make everything easier with a tag saying “not recommended”
positive · AI labelView post →I honestly love this game but it got abandoned by the developers and there are so many bugs and broken quests/achievements that I can't say I recommend it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the failure of JA: Flashback, I came back to Crossfire to assure myself that not all JA after JA:2 were bad. And no, they were not. Crossfire (and it's predecessor) are good games. It maybe takes some time to get used to the new system (space stops time to let you plan your actions), but it works very well all in all. + Combat is challenging + a variety of weapons with different ammunition tomake the gun enthusiasts happy + the graphic is quite okay for the time and the genre - the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The screenshot is from Midwinter, a very ambitious 1990 Mike Singleton game for microcomputers and DOS PCs that evolves what he was doing with Lords of Midnight into a strategy-management-RPG-FPS sim. Jagged Alliance crossed with Far Cry.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's also another XCOM/Jagged Alliance tactical game called Warhounds (lol) but it's by a Russian developer and is (apparently) a reskin for Western audiences after the previous release, set in RUSSIA'S CURRENT WAR IN UKRAINE WHERE YOU PLAY THE WAGNER GROUP, found little interest overseas FUCK^2
neutral · AI labelView post →You didn't say "shoot Nazis (or fascists)" in shooter games specifically, so I'm going to interpret your question broadly. In *BioShock Infinite* (story-heavy shooter game with some RPG elements), the main villain is some turbo-racist Nazi who runs his own "utopia." The prior releases in the series have you facing objectivist villains, which I guess is Nazi-adjacent. In the *Jagged Alliance* series (a turn-based strategy game), you control a small band of mercenaries fighting a totalitarian…
neutral · AI labelView post →Anybody played Jagged Alliance 3 yet?. I haven't! But it is tempting me because JA2 sure was cool...
neutral · AI labelView post →An underrated tactical gem. Tactical mode, added by the developers according to the feedback from gamers, makes all the difference here.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →5/10 I really, really wanted to like this game. Let me start with the good stuff so you can see that this was a worthy effort. When the game started up it felt like JA2. The look and feel, the music, all well done (even though I prefer the music in JA2, but that might be nostalgia). I liked: - The graphics - The Guns - The locations - The Music - The mechanics (mostly, getting to that) - Stability. I did not have one crash No for the bad stuff I disliked: - Artificial experience duration…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you enjoyed "Back in action" you'll enjoy this more. if you thought back in action had afew too many problems, this is basically the same game but with alot of the issues patched. i also reccomend starting with only blood as your squad, he honestly works best alone and if you will level quickly like that, this should give you an easier start if you know how to sneak (The pistol isnt too loud even unsilenced, and you can ambush the enemies. just dont aim for the head, just the torso.) if you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I guess I'm a little goofy myself for looking for a morally clean game where you play bloodthirsty mercenaries, like "the good ones" like Jagged Alliance that were mostly lead by Americans sent into "unstable countries", mostly places evoking countries that the US knocked over in the 80s.
neutral · AI labelView post →Next BitComposer game on the same engine they used in Back In Action. You can check my review on it [URL=http://steamcommunity.com/id/Whiteswart/recommended/57740] HERE, if you are wondering how Back in Action connect with the previous titles, especially with the most praised and decorated Jagged Alliance 2. JA Crossfire is not taking us to Arulco. New country, now somewhere in Africa, but the drill remains the same – you are a leader of a mercs group, and you were hired to win a little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can keep going too Every New Blood game Pathologic 2 Mount and Blade AtomRPG Troubleshooter WW1 Game Series (Verdun, Tannenburg) American Truck Sim Jagged Alliance 3 Art of Rally EYE Divine Cybermancy Dread Delusion Pacific Drive
neutral · AI labelView post →Enjoyed it just like JA:BIA. Gameplay is the same, but new environments. Shorter than JA:BIA, but it costs less too. Recommended if you liked BIA
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That's That! Big thanks to @rugalb98.bsky.social for playing Jagged Alliance Deadly Games with me. ITs a rough game, but I do want to finish it! Also, here's a Grit by @ancelwolf.bsky.social #Vtuber #Twitch
neutral · AI labelView post →Paradox is the new owner of Jagged Alliance 3 and Surviving Mars developer Haemimont Games.
neutral · AI labelView post →What the hell is Jagged Alliance: Crossfire? Well, it's a turn based action, tactical game, similar to Commandos, Desperados, X-Com Series.... Once more you are in control of a Mercenary Organisation Killers for Hire :D, select your mercs carefully amongst many available to you, some will work well together others dispite each other so pick them accordingly. You mission (Campaign) if you accept it, is to liberate a country (somewhere in the Middle East) from a tyranic Warlord (terrorist,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would not recommend this to anyone that has not played Jagged Alliance 2. Both are being sold in steam for the same regular price and JA2 has much more of everything (gameplay, character depth, item details, replayability, blowing up walls... alot). JA:Crossfire is ok but don't get it unless its around $7 or less.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Almost 130 hours spent on two back-to-back playthroughs says everything you need to know about this brilliant, maddening, flawed gem of a game. There is a trick to enjoying Crossfire. And that is trying very hard not to grumble throughout like some crazed octogenarian that "it isn't Jagged Alliance 2". Judge this game on its own merits. Try hypnosis, try alcohol, try beating yourself about the head, try anything to forget JA2 ever existed. Jagged Alliance 2? Never heard of it. There. The key…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →their new tactics game really does look great, haven't snagged it yet but it's very much a game made by people who obviously loved X-Com and Jagged Alliance 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Jagged Alliance 3 Reviews | OpenCritic.
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved JA 1 and 2, so i bought JA:BIA. It grew up on me, ok. Not much like JA, but it's an ok game. But what really made me play the game for over 300 hours was not the difficulty. It was the bugs. An awful lot of them. And i don't mean cockroaches in boxes. Crossfire, is an expansion to that. A whole new lot of bugs, but a lot shorter campaign. And i mean a LOT shorter. I finished it in about half a dozen hours, with everyone hired, and every side quest finished. The rest of the play time…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old and broken, like how you feel after playing it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A lot of this is the increasing costs of game development, though. It was way cheaper to bake in colossal amounts of reactivity in the era when level design was playing with a tileset and you creating a fully voiced Jagged Alliance mercenary meant putting Janet the secretary before a microphone.
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neutral · AI labelView post →Great game. One of its kind. Only issue I have with the game is the camera at some times, not a big deal however.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really really wanted to like this game. Jagged Alliance 2 is one of my all time favorites. But this game falls short of it's lineage. It's not terrible, but's it's missing some of the personality that made JA2 great.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →CRPG list I stole and condensed from Reddit. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57203969 > Credit where credit is due: [MEGA CRPG RECOMMENDATION LIST](https://old.reddit.com/r/CRPG/comments/136zqua/mega_crpg_recommendation_list_work_in_progress/). Tasty comments full of people disagreeing on the OP's categorization. Seems to have deleted their account, so no u/ I can direct you to. I left all the recommendations and categorization alone, but took out some of the color commentary (which…
neutral · AI labelView post →Game- Jagged Alliance 2 Song - Laptop Theme Year- 1999 Genre- Tactical Role-Playing Developer - Sir-Tech Composer - Kevin Manthei
neutral · AI labelView post →This the absolute worst of the Jagged Alliance games, and I own and have played every single one. It is very buggy, and we're talking game breaking bugs here. It is very short. the final city is only a couple of battles away from the starting city. Basically avoid at all costs...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's too buggy without mods. I was able to finish it after about 5 restarts, but I had to settle for the bad ending due to quest items not showing up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jagged Alliance 2 (especially with the [1.13 mod](https://1dot13.github.io/documentation/)) is the most ludicrously detailed tactical RPG you'll ever find. It can be a nightmare to actually _play_ until you spend many, many hours learning all its systems, but nothing else comes close immersion-wise. You can customize every mercenary's loadout down to individual weapon attachments, capturing different parts of the map gives bonuses that actually make sense (like being able to ship in weapons…
positive · AI labelView post →hi hello good people, i'm a 3d game artist student who specializes in character sculpting, i love watching long videos on games, and i'm a hopeless Jagged Alliance fanboy here's some of the work i've done over the last year! ps. i'm also a HUGE fan of aster arcadia from nijisanji en
positive · AI labelView post →Here's Jagged Alliance 3's Accolades Trailer - and the Demo!. Two weeks ago, Jagged Alliance 3 burst onto the gaming scene, captivating the hearts of thousands of players eager to embark on the mission to free Grand Chien. Haemimont Games and THQ Nordic are beaming with pride and relief as it seems we have struck the perfect chord.
neutral · AI labelView post →While I did have shooters in mind, I did leave it open for interpretation for any genre of game! Never heard of the Jagged Alliance series before, but I do enjoy my turn based games. I struggle with RTS games, I like to take my time and be methodical. It's on sale right now for quite a bit so I will consider this, seems similar to XCOM. All the other games I've played before but are excellent suggestions. HOI4 has become too feature bloated imo, but it is great fun playing as Canada and…
neutral · AI labelView post →I like that they're trying to argue that Jagged Alliance 2, a game from 1999, should be treated as woke... because it hints that two characters are in a lesbian relationship. Two characters that are absent from the game and only appear in an in-game "wall of fame".
positive · AI labelView post →In short, don't expect a clone of the classic JA / JA2 games. It is a different game with far better engine. I love it. I also love turn based games and hate RTS so don't be put off; this game is a very good hybrid of JA: BIA Just my gameplay hours for a standalone DLC of JA: BIA would be more than enough for a big big big big big recommendation of this game. Loved the game so much, I am gonna straightaway jump into the JA series continuing from this point.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is even more bugged than JABIA ive finished Temple in day 3 and don't get achievement 2 of 10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good game for any Jagged Alliance or strategy game fans
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Carbon copy of Jagged Alliance: Back in Action with a new map and none of the bugs fixed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →> could have been a cool turn based JPRG Yall know that ‘Fallout’ was originally turn-based? No need for anything Japanese in there, the RPG system was pretty good. The nineties had some cool turn-based tactics games, like the ‘Jagged Alliance’ series, ‘X-Com’, ‘Incubation’. Even realtime tactics were very nice in the isometric view, e.g. in ‘Commandos’. Now that everything needs to be in either first-person or third-person from behind, such games rarely pop up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Get interesting offer to early access an XCOM x Jagged Alliance inspired tactical turned based game. Check their Steam page and... God fucking damnit.
neutral · AI labelView post →CRPG list I stole and condensed from Reddit. Credit where credit is due: [MEGA CRPG RECOMMENDATION LIST](https://old.reddit.com/r/CRPG/comments/136zqua/mega_crpg_recommendation_list_work_in_progress/). Tasty comments full of people disagreeing on the OP's categorization. Seems to have deleted their account, so no u/ I can direct you to. I left all the recommendations and categorization alone, but took out some of the color commentary (which to some might just be blandifying it, lol). # "Where…
neutral · AI labelView post →It's possible for a bad video game to still be enjoyable. Jagged Alliance: Back in Action was objectively not a good game. Not *terrible* but not good by any means. It is my seventh most-played Steam game, at roughly around 335 hours.
neutral · AI labelView post →Busy weekend, I'm going to be releasing build 0.1.5 of Ultima VII Revisited and also a video tutorial of how to script objects in Lua! I'll also be doing a stream, and I need a game to play! So help me choose, please! 1. Jagged Alliance! 2. Master of Orion! 3. Powermonger! 4. Settlers 2!
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't dislike it, but I want a game structured more like mainline Fallout. And Bethesda has been determinedly not making those. *Fallout 4* was released a decade ago, and their next release isn't going to be a Fallout game. That is a *very* long time for a franchise to go without any entries. Since then, they've done a live-action multiplayer game, *Fallout 76*, which was not a single-player, plot oriented *Fallout 5*, despite players complaining that they wanted it to be more like that,…
neutral · AI labelView post →wanna fight an unlimited amount of scaling enemies go ahead any progress you make is meaningless as you will keep losing your stuff.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play JABIA Cross Fire if you are a fan of Back in Action. Its a stand alone game not DLC. Just use Killatomate rebalance mod first thing which is still available. If you like JABIA you will like Crossfire. If you hate it then no. I find the graphics quality in Crossfire a little better than Jabia when you max them out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First thing which get me into Jagged Alliance series when I tried it, and it was Jagged Alliance 2, was voice acting (Steroid - obvious inspiration and mocking of Arnold Schwartzenegger and roid guys, big, strong, stupid, you know), Dr. Q (stereotypical accent and B movie wise Chinese with proverbs), Ivan (stereotypical Russian accent, Communist, Steroid don't like Communists), Meltdown (remember George Constanza's bad date from Seinfeld or Howard's mom from TBBT?), Grizzly, Barry…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game for people who think Jagged Alliance 2 is for filthy casuals.
neutral · AI labelView post →[Help]Update : gave up on fo48u kvm because it is crap. Aorus FO48U KVM switch disconnects mouse and keyboard when playing games.. Hello, I am having this weird issue where my mouse and keyboard will stop working when playing games. They are both plugged in the monitor's KVM My setup is as follows : Kubuntu (Ubuntu 23.10) NVIDIA RTX 3060 TI Aorus FO48U monitor (with the KVM causing the issue) I am not sure what other info is pertinent to my issue, so let me know what info is needed. So to give…
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a Modders World: Jagged Alliance 3 Gets Free Content Update Today | THQ Nordic GmbH. [full patch list](https://thqnordic.com/article/patch-notes-15)
neutral · AI labelView post →Jagged Alliance: Crossfire is a standalone expansion to Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, which uses the same engine and delivers a more tightly contained mission on a smaller map, but suffers from being abandoned by the devs as it has a fair amount of quality of life issues and buggy quests that with a little more work could have made this game better than marginally ok. It plays fine, but I’d only recommended it to those who really love the JA series or are planning on using 3rd party…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish there were so many more games like this and Back in Action. The real time strategy and the sorta rpg and the tactical map and gameplay like there needs to be more games like this. Wonderful game, recommend JA Back in Action too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to admit for a stand alone expansion its really good, to be honest the new JA games don't come close to the awesomeness that was JA1 and JA2 but they provide a great tactial combat game for all to enjoy. I personally love this game as I'm very much into games where you can recuit and select equipment yourself for you Mercs. The enemy AI can be a little buggy at times espically when they come rushing you rather than try and flank. but its something I can get over. The game is great.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →XCOM Meets Jagged Alliance In Tactical Strategy RPG Warhounds.
neutral · AI labelView post →The most exciting new turn-based strategy game of 2025, [Menace], throws together Jagged Alliance and Warhammer 40,000 in a dark sci-fi sandbox.
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