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Squad
Developer Offworld
Squad is a realism-based military tactical first-person shooter video game developed and published by Canadian indie developer Offworld Industries exclusively through the Steam distribution platform. It is a spiritual successor to the Project Reality modification for Battlefield 2. The game depicts realistic modern warfare between military and paramilitary factions in large and expansive battlefields. Squad became… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
635 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
58
Mixed
260 positive · 190 negative
95% range 53–62%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 260 | 190 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 20 | 8 | 144 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 1 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
92,530 of 112,386 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
57% recommend · 143 yes, 106 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 (199,036 of 245,242 positive).
Some reviewers highlight the importance of squad leaders and team coordination for an enjoyable experience. [1][2] Several players express frustration with performance issues and a perceived decline in community quality. [3][4][5]
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Representative posts
- [3]
The developers at Offworld Industries have completely lost focus on their community. Instead of the promised optimization and bug fixes, for years we have seen only one goal - attracting new players. Old, bug-ridden problems are ignored for years! Unfortunately, OWI has no desire to handle the training of these newcomers either, shifting this problem onto our shoulders. "You train and punish them..." is their …
- [4]
squad still has 0 idea how to use a cpu, opti is straight up trash, constant 100% cpu, stutters and fps drops even on mid end hw while the gpu is just chillin at like 70% compare it to wardogs, battlefield or arma and it’s night and day. those games actually scale with cores and run smooth. squad feels like it’s stuck in 2015. cool concept but the performance is just painful ngl
- [6]
This game finds a good balance between the arcade spawn die loop of battlefield and the slower pace of ARMA. No Nicky Minaj skins and authentic loadouts. There are bugs, and there are some EPIC moments when an entire 50 man team comes together to complete an objective. Highly recommend this game in 2025.
- [12]
LONG REVIEW AHEAD – READ BEFORE BUYING! 900 hours later and honestly this game is still one of the most interesting games I've ever played. I've been from server to server, I've been banned before, I've met absolute ♥♥♥♥♥ players, try hards, complete ♥♥♥♥♥, the funniest people you'll ever meet and some of the best friends I've made through gaming. This game attracts every type of person and I mean every type. I've …
- [1]
This game lives and dies by who is your squad leader. If your squad leader sucks (no mic, no cohesion etc.) your game will suck. If you have a decent squad leader this game can be really enjoyable even if you lose.
Summarised from 34 of the 305 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
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Squad sits at 58% positive across 450 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 635 · most liked firstThis is like watching a preseason game, everyone limbering up and getting a few reps in for when It finally happens. I like what I see. Scouting report is positive. When the big game arrives, I think we’re gonna see greatness. Squad is ready.
positive · AI labelView post →I spoke to the director and top designer of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. They were remarkably candid, telling me that the experience made them dislike making games. But now they're teaming up on an indie project to get their passion back. New column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
neutral · AI labelView post →Russian military propaganda PC game Squad 22: ZOV was released on Steam. Friends, if you have Steam accounts, please consider contacting them and asking to remove the game. The game presents real military campaigns from the point of view of Russian propaganda,
neutral · AI labelView post →comm for @playmagicaldrop.com Cover Art for their game Hatsune Miku Bomb Squad 💣
neutral · AI labelView post →The developers at Offworld Industries have completely lost focus on their community. Instead of the promised optimization and bug fixes, for years we have seen only one goal - attracting new players. Old, bug-ridden problems are ignored for years! Unfortunately, OWI has no desire to handle the training of these newcomers either, shifting this problem onto our shoulders. "You train and punish them..." is their stance. There are so many new players that they cannot be taught, and they are left…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NEW: What went wrong with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League? This is the story, based on interviews with two dozen people who worked on the game, of how Rocksteady Studios went from the revered Arkham series to a $200 million flop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't believe a game called Cruelty Squad would do something so cruel.
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved squad, i was getting into it heavily. Amazing gameplay, awful developers. They made the decision to go from UE4 to UE5. Now a quarter of their player-base is hardware locked out of a game they are addicted to.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →william shatner's tekwar the video game imo is one of the crucial pieces of FPS history leading towards things like Cruelty Squad
neutral · AI labelView post →*The Mystery Squad rips off the mask of my game* Velma: "This wasn't a 3D Action Game..." Scooby: "Rit Rwas a Bullet Hell rall along!"
neutral · AI labelView post →No geekenders today, but can I interest you in 3+ hours of Scary Game Squad?! youtu.be/9SDRYWv6Sts
neutral · AI labelView post →BEGINNER PERSPECTIVE ON SQUAD: I loaded into the game and the first thing I deal with is framerate drop. So, because this game is so poorly optimized, I sucked it up and toughed out the frame drops. My next issue was my first experience in a public server. I joined a server that advertised to be "New Player Friendly," yet I felt the opposite of welcomed. Immediately, the players expected you to know exactly what you were doing without even communicating with you. I joined a squad and, when I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On this day in 2006, 19 years ago, the first Pokémon Ranger game was released. This game had you explore the Fiore Region to stop the Go Rock Squad www.serebii.net/ranger
neutral · AI labelView post →squad still has 0 idea how to use a cpu, opti is straight up trash, constant 100% cpu, stutters and fps drops even on mid end hw while the gpu is just chillin at like 70% compare it to wardogs, battlefield or arma and it’s night and day. those games actually scale with cores and run smooth. squad feels like it’s stuck in 2015. cool concept but the performance is just painful ngl
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The developers at Offworld Industries have completely lost focus on their community. Instead of the promised optimization and bug fixes, for years we have seen only one goal - attracting new players. Old, bug-ridden problems are ignored for years! Unfortunately, OWI has no desire to handle the training of these newcomers either, shifting this problem onto our shoulders. "You train and punish them..." is their stance. There are so many new players that they cannot be taught, and they are left…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's with absolute pleasure that the Scary Game Squad brings you #FearTheSpotlight! Thank you BlumhouseGames and cozygamepals for sponsoring this video! We love this game! Now on the channel
neutral · AI labelView post →DO NOT BUY UNLESS YOU HAVE A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SUPER COMPUTER Years ago I put a lot of hours into Squad until they rolled it an update that meant that I could no longer play it due to how badly optimised it became. I used to be able to play this on a mix of medium to high graphics until they released an update that made it completely unplayable on my system. Fast forward to today - I thought I’d revisit Squad after upgrading my PC to a newer spec’d build that can run most games on High. Squad still…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just another day with Scary Game Squad and @residentevil.capcomusa.com Videos up on the channel now, more to come (soon tm)
neutral · AI labelView post →TL;DR - The devs are too hindered by modern business management practices to copy the battlefield 2 mod correctly after more than a decade. They will put it on sale for 10 dollars this april, but dont bother... This game started as a mod for battlefield 2 called project reality. I played it from around 2007 (when the british faction was added and they made a huge deal about flying the audio engineers out to a base in the UK to capture real audio from real vehicles) until squad was announced…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →look how many hours I have. Ive been playing this game since 2016. I have seen this game since the grassroots. I can not recommend this game at all. This is what happened structurally with this game/development, very quick history so you can understand what took place because we have seen this take place with other games and those games are or are became garbage. There was a Battlefield 2 Mod called "Project Reality" core developers of that mod created "Squad" and updated the old…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That Suicide Squad game is on PlayStation Plus and even though downloading it costs no additional money I still am feeling ripped off
negative · AI labelView post →Please remove the stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "Welcome to Squad" video every time I launch the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. I think it's pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clear I know what game I just launched, don't you think? There is NO reason to get my ear drums blasted with this stupid English chud's voice whenever I press play. Give me a boring loading screen that doesn't make tabbing out of the game and adjusting the volume a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pain in the ass. I can't adjust the game's volume in the volume mixer. I can't tab back into the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The rest of the gnomes I designed for the card game Gnome Squad by @greencloak.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Fashion Police Squad is a wrap! Took around 7 hours to beat. This game was totally awesome! The gameplay was fast-paced and fun, and the gunplay felt satisfying! I also loved the lighthearted and unserious tone of the game, it was a nice change of pace for an FPS 😊 I had a blast playing through it!
positive · AI labelView post →After the game, Nelle and Dodie stay behind to clean up the mess because that's what responsible Squad Members do.
neutral · AI labelView post →BREAKING: Here's the latest animated trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog collaboration in mobile game Squad Busters - hitting iOS and Android. #SonicNews
neutral · AI labelView post →Bought this back in 2021 thinking id become some tactical genius, 108 hours later and honestly the fact I only got 108 hours across almost 4 years should tell you everything lol Squad genuinely USED to be special. You'd hop in, find an SL who actually drew plans on the map, people talked, coordinated, pulled off insane flanks and defenses that felt like actual war movie moments. I remember matches where our whole squad held a point we had no business holding and everyone in comms was losing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →please fix the utterly broken and toxic power grip admins have over OUR 50 dollar game with the community ban list? Most power hungry people i have ever met own and moderate SQUAD servers, 3 temp bans over the course of 2 years shouldnt block my ability to play this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On this day in 2006, 20 years ago, the first Pokémon Ranger game was released. This game had you explore the Fiore Region to stop the Go Rock Squad www.serebii.net/ranger
neutral · AI labelView post →I wouldn’t recommend this game. Squad was fun, was. Since tencent joined development, priority is no longer to create a fun game, it’s to waste players time and money in any way possible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just buy Arma instead 5k hours so think Im in an informed position to comment - 3.5k gaming around 1.5 admin and seeding Pre-ICO gameplay was more realistic than the post ICO nonsense the short sighted developers forced on the community. 2-3 years of "we wont change it" from the developers and consequential fallout from the community, the developers have finally got with the program and reworked the game again in the latest update. At the same time they introduced controller support which…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is impossible to recommend this game in its current form. I recently returned after a long time off, and this game was better when it was in early access despite there being more content now. The current version of the game has enormous technical and quality of life problems that simply didn't exist when the game was in EA and Beta. More than anything else I've ever seen, this game demonstrates that many features of UE5 are simply not production ready. Beyond the technical issues,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy Marisa Monday! The current vibe is thinking about Fashion Police Squad! ngl Fashion Police Squad was a rad game 😎 the gameplay was fast-paced and flashy, and the vibe was silly and lighthearted! It was a fun experience! I hope you have a wonderful day, I send love and positivity your way 💛☺️
positive · AI labelView post →Server simulator. Either empty or full or arrogant Russian, Polish, Ukranian only servers. Not worth the time, all the gameplays or videos you see in youtube are either clan events or just some dude going in a lucky time. This is a server and lobby sim.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6 moths ago this game was at a 1k player count and since then... shot up to a 10k player count at midnight because Galactic Contention is the new Battlefront 2 we all needed to live out the clone war life style!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Made the Verity Squad in Heroforge~ Not 100% accurate but they're close enough for use in-game
neutral · AI labelView post →When i bought this game in early access i was able to run this game in highest settings on 90 fps. When 1.0 release happened I had even better performance. Then they started adding graphical improvements that literally started killing the performance. Now on UE5, i cant even play the game on same hardware. So from highest possible settings 90fps, to basically unplayable. I would completely understand if system requirements got more demanding in early access during development. What i dont…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like Tony Soprano said "It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that and I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over." I got this game back in 2016 and have been playing it for years now. The game's had its ups and downs, but I feel like these days it's a lot less fun than it was a few years back. Creeping system requirements, controversial balance changes and long existing bugs have pushed a lot of veterans out and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Your game looks like Cruelty Squad" is a fine thing to observe because it's very easy to make a game that doesnt look like that.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Game has progressively gotten worse overtime, used to be great. You would realize most negative reviews only really came in since 2024. I don't expect the game to get better at all without change in the managment levels, because this all really boils down to bad design choice rather than technical implementation difficulty. 1. The move to upgrade to UE5 is a pretty bad one because performance is only a suggestion now. I used to have steady 60+ FPS and that's all I needed. The gameplay and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After 3,500 hours I recommend that you skip this absolute trash game. It used to be fun 4 years ago but now its just filled with complete morons who ruin the game. Its not tactical or strategic at all. Do yourself a favor and completely skip this garbage fire of a game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well kids. Sad to say that can't recommend: Devs patched out the fun / playability. Some modifications can be playable but usually lack good server perfomance and teamwork Don't buy unless heavily on sale. With the forced port from UE4 to UE5 this game could, and should be considered back in early access. The UE5 debacle brought it with various issues - Client perfomance hit - Server perfomance hit (!) - Can't see properly in game due to foggyness and weird lighting issues - etc. But even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My friend Connor Eckhart will not buy the game. Makes me very sad because all the boys could play Edit: he still will not buy the game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1. install game 2. wait 1 hour and 30 minutes for it to install 3. join a server 4. wait 3 minutes for prep time 5. hop in a vehicle 6. wait for prep time to end 7. getting screamed at by russian tm8s 8. leave the server 9. join another russian server (only russian servers) 10. get screamed at again by russian tm8s 11. get your first kill 12. get screamed at for killing your tm8 13. alt + f4 14. uninstall game 15. ptsd for the rest of your life
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RIP squad, use to my hands down fav "mil sim" game, just started playing again and man they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THRASHED this game. Its like every soldier has been replaced by overweight anxiety ridden soldiers, you run 10ft, you're gassed. Oh a enemy just ran infront of you, better put my optics up my face in the slowest possible manner while profusely wobbling the entire gun. This game is probably only fun for vehicle game play. Old squad wasn't perfect but damn it felt alot better than this ♥♥♥♥.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop www.eurogamer.net/warner-bros-...
neutral · AI labelView post →The game itself is not bad, it has some interesting gameplay mechanics and provides a nice shooting and tactical experience. But in a multiplayer game, the player base is very important, and let's say the player base in this game is the worst. First of all, you will have to wait an eternity in the lobby to enter at least a half-decent server with enough people on it to actually play the game. But after joining, you will be met with a bunch of sweats on power trips who are blaming everyone but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am a Project Reality player. The concept of Squad is PERFECT, and I love it! But the game is badly optimized and nearly unplayable. No matter what rig you have, you will experience FPS drops, spikes (at least when scoping) and GHOSTING! I feel like I'm having a stroke while playing it. I thought it's my PC or my monitor but it seems like everyone has this problem and they just suck it up because they love this game so much. The community is amazing, and devs should pay respect to them by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →>game is called Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League >Suicide Squad doesn't kill the Justice League well why bother really
negative · AI labelView post →This track is called "Like a BAUSS"! Fashion Police Squad was an awesome game! The gameplay was super fun, it was flashy and exciting with a ton of action! The game's story was also lighthearted and goofy, and the game had a rad art style and soundtrack! It was an absolute blast to play through!
positive · AI labelView post →vectrex28.itch.io/ninja-squad The demo for my PC Engine homebrew game, Special Ninja Squad, is out! Come check it out on the link above! #pcengine #gamedev #turbografx
neutral · AI labelView post →Game used to run great. now optimization has made this game unplayable. Ive tried everything to get this to run wish steam would lets users get there money back when they optimize games to the point of not playing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was talking on local chat to team and replied "mega" to one of my team. A few seconds later I'm kicked from the game, and banned. I appealed the ban. I was shown a video recording of me saying "mega" as "evidence". I replied to the mods saying you can clearly hear I said the word "mega" and not something else. Appeal rejected. Still banned. Don't recommend anyone buy this game if a single rogue mod can ban you from the entire universe of servers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly cannot recommend this game. After years of playing the game and going through rough patches where there were development issues I stayed because the game was amazing, the vision was there and it was one of the most fun experiences but after the last two major blunders I cannot recommend the game. Those blunders being ICO (I wont bother talking about it, that's beating a dead horse) and the 'New' UE5 upgrade. The UE5 upgrade has made be well above recommended specs to not be able to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(reposted) This game, Wacky Squad, screams copyright infringement all over it. #sonic #sonicthehedgehog
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks for moving the game to a un optimized engine , runs terible
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well I used to love this game but the most recent update where they felt the need to add controller Adaption ruined binding customization. I now cant bind the Helicopter controls how i want them and has made me think to just uninstall until fixed. This is probably the most infuriating update added to the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game finds a good balance between the arcade spawn die loop of battlefield and the slower pace of ARMA. No Nicky Minaj skins and authentic loadouts. There are bugs, and there are some EPIC moments when an entire 50 man team comes together to complete an objective. Highly recommend this game in 2025.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it for the Star Wars Galactic Contention mod, put in 7 hours today...been a long time since a game has made me sit for that long at once.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've started playing squad since beta, with most active phase starting from 2022. I've always tried to stay positive about the game, invite ppl to play, squadlead and organize stuff. I can no longer in good conscious say game is in good shape or stay positive. To many problems have accumulated, too few were resolved. Let me list them Bugs Since the release of UE5 upgrade (and even before) game was ridden by critical bugs. - Vehicles sinking under the ground - Helis colliding with invisible…
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