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Game
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Six Days in Fallujah
Developer Highwire Games
Six Days in Fallujah is an upcoming tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Highwire Games and published by Victura. Set in the Second Battle of Fallujah of the Iraq War over the span of six days in November 2004, the game follows the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) as they fight the Iraqi insurgency in the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Its campaign follows two perspectives: a… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
323 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
40
Mixed
118 positive · 178 negative
95% range 34–46%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 118 | 178 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
9,379 of 11,635 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
38% recommend · 100 yes, 162 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 262 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (13,040 of 16,533 positive).
Players praise the game's intense, realistic combat and authentic portrayal of the Iraq War era. [1][2][3] Many reviewers report that the game is buggy, with poor AI and performance issues. [4][5][6] Some players feel the game has been abandoned, with no updates for months and a dead player base. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
Big labor of love in this game. still in EA, so let it cook. Needs some work on graphic optimization, and some AI reactivity. Otherwise the game is perfect. If you buy this, use your mic for comms with others. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry …
- [2]
I was not in Fallujah but in OIF 09-10, this is the most accurate war game I have played for that era, except the sandstorms are not dense enough, IRL Iraq you can't see more than a few feet ahead in a real sandstorm, but it's probably not good for gameplay, hell it wasn't good for real life. Who doesn't love blowing mud out of their nose? EA game, still needs work, but I'm looking forward to them adding more …
- [4]
Buggy laggy mess. I have alot more than time in game than it says I do. I love the idea of a realistic modern conflict shooter. I was the Marines 2014-2018 and was in Iraq for a short spell. I really want a good game from around my time when I was in but this just isn't it. Even the loading screens lag for crying out loud. AI teamates are more akin to a boyscout troop playing airsoft for the first time. The callouts …
- [7]
Ai fixes haven't fixed AI. Nothing changes, nothing gets better. No new content. No hope. No future if they don't do something. So much potential. So many stories that need to be told in this game and the devs are wasting this opportunity through inaction and indecisiveness. I am beyond disappointed and frankly I am sad. The bones are there; they just have to do something with literally anything. If Grey Zone …
- [12]
It felt like there was something here once. In 2023/4 this had all the makings of a quietly intuitive and grounded experience. Among the amalgam of similar-ish titles, this one for me had the edge. Ballistics felt tight, point fire in particular felt exceptional- sound staging was excellent. The AI felt dynamic; sneaky; alive. Performance was solid, and it felt as though left but to the whims of time and effort we'd …
Summarised from 34 of the 293 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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Players who liked Six Days in Fallujah talk about realistic and intense CQB combat; those who didn't talk about buggy and laggy performance. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 323 · most liked firstBuggy laggy mess. I have alot more than time in game than it says I do. I love the idea of a realistic modern conflict shooter. I was the Marines 2014-2018 and was in Iraq for a short spell. I really want a good game from around my time when I was in but this just isn't it. Even the loading screens lag for crying out loud. AI teamates are more akin to a boyscout troop playing airsoft for the first time. The callouts are useless. Your AI will scream "hostiles on the roof" cool bro there are 47…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I want to like this game because this era was all the pictures, propaganda, gear, and training standards when I joined the Marines. I came in shortly after Fallujah. But I just cannot like it, it is a poorly executed shooter, and the mechanics in game still leave so much to be desired. I bought it, hated it, gave it like a year to develop, still hate it. Point shooting mechanic- I understand what they are going for, because when I first was trained in CQB, I was taught this exact thing.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This WAS a phenomenal game. Played it a lot with mates, had a blast, then one day an update released and it went from a fun sim-like experience to pure arcade shooter. Enemies die only after half a magazine like they have a health bar, sometimes the guns dont even do damage, and my mates n I lost all interest. No point in playing when enemies have health bars and down you from half the map away in a single shot. Would love to see this game come back, but I waited 6 months and nothing. Maybe…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ai fixes haven't fixed AI. Nothing changes, nothing gets better. No new content. No hope. No future if they don't do something. So much potential. So many stories that need to be told in this game and the devs are wasting this opportunity through inaction and indecisiveness. I am beyond disappointed and frankly I am sad. The bones are there; they just have to do something with literally anything. If Grey Zone Warfare devs can remake their game from the ground up then so can this game. I pray…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this on day 1 release and loved it. Having a tactical shooter set in the Iraq War and the second battle of Fallujah is something we need, but as time went on and they started rolling out updates, the performance started to tank, I went from being able to run it on ultra to low 10 minutes apart after a update. the controls are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful, games from the early 2000s have better controls than Six Days, Men of Valor, Ghost Recon Island Thunder, Delta Force Black Hawk Down to name a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It rules how many people (correctly) thought that the game Six Days in Fallujah was in really bad taste but don't bat an eye at a Russian developer making a game where Russians invade the Baltics, a thing their government masturbates about doing
positive · AI labelView post →Not sure what happened. On release this game looked great and ran even better. it was so much fun. Now as the updates roll out everything just doesn't look as clean or sharp, even when I'm getting 60 fps it FEELS like 20, animations are fully bugged out, everything just feels so much jankier. less enjoyable. they had something fun, unique, and special. I'm just not sure where it went wrong.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Uggghhhh. I REALLY want to love this game. Great concept, obviously really passionate devs behind it, but it's just not playable yet. AI is buggy, graphics and audio have glitches often. I will eagerly be checking the progress of this game but I can't recommend it in this current state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access? “We’re aiming for a Full Release towards the end of 2025. Please see our roadmap, which describes additional content we plan to release during Early Access.” ...6 months past the target release and pushing one year since the last update. Do not get this game, it is a buggy mess with little chance of improvement or ever achieving "Full Release"' UPDATE: I was banned from the Discord by Ampercamper without warning. My offense? I called…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great concept but due to developers never doing updates adding content or anything at all since feb. this year the games basically dead and feels like my money was taken on false promises
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It felt like there was something here once. In 2023/4 this had all the makings of a quietly intuitive and grounded experience. Among the amalgam of similar-ish titles, this one for me had the edge. Ballistics felt tight, point fire in particular felt exceptional- sound staging was excellent. The AI felt dynamic; sneaky; alive. Performance was solid, and it felt as though left but to the whims of time and effort we'd arrive some place fairly satisfying. Playing it today in contrast is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great concept, sad execution, stuck in early access limbo. After suffering so many setbacks through controversies and whatnot, the game finally managed to come out. There hasn't been an update in a hot minute, the controls feel kinda janky and the AI is clinically braindead... Shame cause this game could've fit a particular niche that no other game really touches.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Zero updates in months, the game is dead. It plays like a perma early access build.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It ran well until the last update. I was playing on "High" settings with no issues and I had a great time. Also the documentary style intros and all that stuff where right up my alley. It was a flawed, but very intense shooter that was able to create some genuinely scary and stressful moments with a lot of potential. I was looking forward to what would come next very much. SInce the last update though, my game is completely broken. The loading times are INSANE now and the game crashes every.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay loop is ok, although other games do it better. Kinda like Ready or Not. The AI is pretty dumb. The game is also pretty bare bones. no gun customization or character. last major update was about a year ago and I'm pretty sure all it was for was ai teammates. (which are awful) Personally I feel a bit scammed tbh, so I wouldn't recommend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Big labor of love in this game. still in EA, so let it cook. Needs some work on graphic optimization, and some AI reactivity. Otherwise the game is perfect. If you buy this, use your mic for comms with others. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game, could have been an even better game. It has almost been a year since the last major update, and we have almost had more sales than updates in the last year. Why is communication either such an issue and/or locked mainly to discord nowadays?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dont ever not try a game because of what other people say. Play it and see...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy it. Dev is being sued by the publisher taking too damn long to finish. $52 million spent, the game still isn't done. This isn't a case of the publisher being greedy, its literally just trying to stop loss at this point. Why this game takes so hecking long to complete is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disgusting. Dev was grifting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dead game, horrific AI, and permanent early access
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is hard to recommend… i would love to but..... Clearing houses one by one feels incredibly tense. Every step is crucial, and one small mistake can put you in a situation you never want to be in. The game really captures the horrors of FIBUA and CQB combat. Gunfights are intense — every bullet matters in each magazine counts. The audio and visual presentation are phenomenal, especially the sound design. Back around release, matchmaking made it easy to find people to play with. In…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game had a lot of potential back when it released, but has since had hardly any content added besides team AI (which should have been in the game in the first place). Decided to pick the game back up after a long hiatus, and now the game just crashes with a different error every time I load a mission and causes my PC to have an aneurism. Don't waste your money on this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Curiously, in our society, killing is less of a taboo than sex, especially in fiction. Since the aughts, I feel it is a disservice we do to censor out the horror of warfare in games like _Call of Duty_ or _Medal of Honor._ I haven't seen what they did with _Six Days In Fallujah_ (by a vet of the Iraq War who experienced Fallujah and wanted to share his experience) but we'd have more respect for the gravity of war if the tragedy and immediacy of combat was properly expressed. In the _Arma_…
positive · AI labelView post →I really wanted to like this game, but the performance completely ruined the experience for me. No matter what settings I tried, the game struggled to maintain a smooth frame rate. Stuttering, inconsistent performance, and poor optimization made every firefight feel frustrating instead of immersive. It's hard to enjoy a tactical shooter when you're fighting the frame rate as much as the enemy. There are some interesting ideas here, and I can see the potential, but performance is the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cash grab, lots of chronic issues in the game and they haven't updated it in 6 months.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →last update screwed the game completely its now basically unplayable with constant crashes or infinite loading screens i used to love this game but each update breaks it more and more without adding hardly anything of substance to the gameplay or "campaign" which is just multiplayer maps with ai aside from the intro. so for now this one is a hard pass and a waste of money if you buy it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is fun and the proceduaral creation is something no other game has. Makes it truly replayable... however game is dead. No more updates
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was not in Fallujah but in OIF 09-10, this is the most accurate war game I have played for that era, except the sandstorms are not dense enough, IRL Iraq you can't see more than a few feet ahead in a real sandstorm, but it's probably not good for gameplay, hell it wasn't good for real life. Who doesn't love blowing mud out of their nose? EA game, still needs work, but I'm looking forward to them adding more missions. Not mad that I bought it. AI needs some work, I die in a room, get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game used to be great had many good interactions and now its been abandoned AND FORGOT ABOUT WHAT A SHAME !!!!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems to be abandoned. Very disappointing, really cool idea for a game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →honestly this is a fun game to play for an hour or 2 burn some time. pro: it definitely has some potential. the introduction of the AI teammates makes it a lot less difficult. the game is as challenging as it is rewarding. the "GO!" commands make play much more enjoyable and bearable. cons: it gets stale very quick. the maps are small. the teammate AI can outright be retarded at times. the game is developing VERY slowly, don't expect much change rapidly. things I'd like to see (as a former…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They nerfed the AI, and the game has completely lost the image of what it was supposed to be. This has changed from a tactical shooter where you had to actually think to a Ready or Not reskin with worse AI,
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The fact that this is 40 bucks now is insane its nowhere near worth that money, missions & changing environment are serviceable but good lord the ai is brain dead. Your team mates will just sit there as you bleed out half the time, run into oncoming fire, not shoot a guy literally staring them in the face or cost you the whole mission in some other way. The game is ok at best, youll get sniped by a dude with iron sights but somehow miss when im aiming right back at him, only get this if its on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Picked up the game today, played through training and the first mission. I have to say it really made me "Miss the clowns" I wanna thank the devs for their work on this game so far. I enlisted in 2008 so after the Battle. But the Marines of Fallujah would be my Drill Instructors and NCOs. This game truly honors them in a way movies and shows will never beable too. It puts you in thr hot seat and makes you make the calls and choices. Thr AAR at thr end of missions is an amazing touch (and a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game good, i went to clear room, accidentaly killed teamate, thenn i went home and played six says in fallujah
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really buggy with content being changed constantly for a fully priced game. Great intros and concept but this at the current pricing is not playable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →> its creator, a Brazilian man named Nidal Nijm OH MY GOD IT HAD TO BE A FUCKING BRAZILIAN!!! 😆😆😆😆 Also, as many on the thread pointed out, so did the creator: > Nijm has a point about the violence normalized in the video game industry; many of the most famous, lauded and widely-played video games feature graphic violence, often directed against Arab enemies. Call of Duty has several installments featuring Arab militant enemies, and it’s the entire plot of games like Six Days in…
positive · AI labelView post →The development of this game originally started back in 2009. Then came bankruptcy, a long pause, and a change of developer in 2016. Early Access, if I’m not mistaken, began in 2023? In those sixteen years, I’ve graduated from university and climbed to a high corporate position — yet the core game mechanics still feel stuck in the embryonic state of 2009... I do like the fact that the gameplay is slow-paced. In fact, that slow pacing often helps the sluggish allied AI make fewer mistakes and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its been 2 years since release and the state of the game isnt very much different than at launch, it still feels like the same buggy mess like it was at launch with little to no replay value. Anybody still defending this game is delusional
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah don't buy the game at its current state. It's use to be fun in coop, but they broke it with the recent updates. Teammates will teleport out of the mission area, had one become a ghost and was able to go through walls after vaulting. Sometimes I'll spawn in and the ammo counter is missing all of the 40mm, mags, etc. The second AAVP will sometimes get stuck outside the mission area as well. Even the radio VOIP sounds like crap now. The game was fine a year ago, but the recent updates broke…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing with friends is phenomenal. If you wanna play by yourself, the friendly AI is actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god awful. EDIT: The reason development has stopped is due to a legal battle between the devs and the publisher another typical case of a greedy ass publishing company that makes money by screwing over devs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THE GAME IS APPARENTLY NOT ABANDONED, IT IS FROZEN IN A LEGAL DISPUTE. Hoping it gets resolved soon, I truly enjoyed this game and want to see it become the full vision.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is my game. I don't like run and gun, cartoon, bullet spray FPS. I want to like ARMA, but dang it can wear me out. SDiF really is the perfect blend of realism and quick action. The best "war of my generation" game I have ever played. I look forward to future developement.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Logged on, joined my friend. Got put in a lobby with a actual drunk and a guy who was playing like he was drunk. Peak gameplay.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I LOVE this game - but its dead if you wanna play online. Plus the devs seem to have walked away from. Its such an awesome game, which is a shame
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love a lot of things about it but I hate others, Improvements in the AI would go a long way.. But something I have to highlight is how genius the hearing loss effect is- So basically if you're too close to an explosion you hear a little *eeeeeeeeeeeee* for the rest of the mission. And yes it's basically Ready or Not if judge was in the marines instead of the LSPD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game deserve way more interest, its sad to see it being left behind. a lot of veterans and civilians who witness thoses battles needed a way to put you in their shoes, and theres not ten thousand ways to manage that... guys we need to save this, for everyone who lived the real thing...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool concept, but the AI is the WORST. Its a buggy mess, i wish i could refund this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wonder if the developer of Six Days in Fallujah still blocks you on the birdsite for asking if they’ll add insurgents as a playable faction? Because playing as irregular militia or insurgents in Squad and executing an ambush is some of the most fun you can have in a video game
positive · AI labelView post →This game is both enjoyable and frustratingly irritating Cons: - AI teammember may patch you up while you are still returning fire with your sidearm resulting in you shooting him in the face when he suddenly turns you around by your d1ck. - AI teammembers can get stuck from time to time ignoring your orders, if you then investigate, they are just stuck on the stairs and can't move. - I was patching up an AI teammate after which I was stuck inside a wall and had to restart the mission. - AAV's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoy the combat aspect of this game, but the AI need serious detail done. I can be in need of assistance and the ai bot not in combat will just stare at me and watch me bleed out. I have lost several times on one mission to that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would really love to rate this game better since the framework is actually really well done. But the game right now is pretty much unplayable after the most recent update due to constant crashing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good bones, no meat, only gristle... The shooting feels ok, the movement is not the greatest, and the AI is downright dumb. Have you ever played Blackhawk Down on PS2? That's what this game feels like. It needs a lot more work before paying $40 for, I got it for 25 on sale, and that still feels like to much. For a game made in the 2020's this is quite disappointing considering how long its been in EA.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The AI in this game is stupid, the gameplay is quite repetitive and in the end you will be clearing buildings from stupid AI everyday.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game needs to cook. Wanted to try to new update due to some of the things they added, I sense no difference in the game whatsoever from the last time I played. It just feels way too horde shootery to be called a tactical shooter, I feel like I'm barely trying half the mission, then randomly get barraged and die immediately. This is my own fault for not paying attention, but I feel like the game doesn't require my attention for most of it. It's also just hella jank, the friendly AI are hella…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →English Six Days in Fallujah has a good concept, but right now the game is very unfinished and still needs a lot of work. Despite using Unreal Engine, the graphics look below expectations, with poorly polished environments and weak detail. Performance is one of its biggest issues: FPS drops are terrible due to very poor optimization, even on capable systems. On top of that, the game is full of bugs that directly affect the experience. The AI is quite bad: there are “ghost” enemies that shoot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its too hard for beginners - More "hints" needed - i get that its a realistic game, thats why i got it. But if i have to spend more than 5 minuets trying to figure out what to do / where to go next it gets frustrating. Again, i love the realism, i want that. But im sitting here trying to get through one mission solo and i cant. Maybe it me, but i bought this game when it first came out, love it. But i need help even through beginning missions
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keep at it, fellas. Game is better every time I come back to it. Y'all are gonna have something really special if you keep at it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game on release and it was fun for an hour or two. I stopped playing for couple years and just picked it back up. Its more fun now but its still a work in progress. you can beat the campaign in a few hours and theres not much to do after besides replay the missions. I would still very much reccomend it as the dev team posts updates frequently and sound very passionate about this project. Ai is very wonky but they are currently reworking it to fix that. Also not many commands and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been hyped for this game for years, and its super sluggish, AI sucks, and super repetitive... As a Marine Corps Vet I'm disappointed and had high hopes, save your money and buy something else...
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