Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
Game
Game2024
Starship Troopers: Extermination
Developer Offworld
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 2024 first-person shooter video game part of the larger Starship Troopers franchise and developed and published by Offworld Industries and Knights Peak. The game released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on October 11, 2024. It received mixed reviews from critics. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
439 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
169 positive · 130 negative
95% range 51–62%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 169 | 130 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 10 | 4 | 114 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
18,926 of 23,403 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
A split verdict: many enjoy the co-op bug-hunting, but others find it dead, buggy, or abandoned.
Fans praise the game for capturing the Starship Troopers movie feel, with frantic combat, great sound design, and a strong sense of teamwork. Many say it's fun with friends and gets better with updates. [2][3]
However, many players report severe issues: dead servers (especially in SEA), long matchmaking times, poor performance after updates, and a lack of content. Some allege the developers have abandoned the game or made it worse with patches. [10][22][23][25][26][29][31][34][36]
Praised Movie authenticity · Frantic combat · Teamwork · Base building · Sound design
Criticised Dead servers / low player count · Long matchmaking · Performance issues · Lack of content · Developer neglect
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 7, 2026. Method
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Starship Troopers: Extermination sits at 57% positive across 299 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Starship Troopers: Extermination received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. On OpenCritic, the game is recommended by 11% of 37 critic reviews. IGN rated it six out of ten, and wrote: "It's a serviceable battle that can get frantic in the thick of it, but there are far more noble causes to give your virtual lives for in 2024 than this."Push Square rated it seven out of ten, and wrote: "The whole aesthetic of the missions and the menus is retro PS3 at its best, but unfortunately the game's performance tanks when too many bugs are on screen, which is most of the time."PC Gamer rated it 66 out of 100, and was critical of the…
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Reactions
60 of 439 · most liked firstI whole-heartedly encourage folks to read "Forever War" and also recreational reading isn't a survey class unless one thinks it'd be fun for it to be. OMW is in a genre conversation with Starship Troopers and Forever War and Armor and Ender's Game, absolutely. It can also be read by itself, for fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's interesting because there are far too many stories of companies releasing broken games and then patching them into a playable state so it is a refreshing change of pace to see someone release a fun and working game in early access and then break it and not fix it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The negative reviews on this game make no sense. I'm convinced most people leaving this a bad review have never even installed the game at this point. People are complaining the game is dead, but all you have to do is login and hit quick match to disprove that. You get into a game in less than a minute on a bad day, and usually in less than 10 seconds. People are complaining the game is "boring after the campaign". Wtf? The campaign is the most boring part of the game. The multiplayer is the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game WAS chaotic, it WAS great for co-op, it WAS amazing... This game IS a great example on how developers can fumble massively and stumble on the road to success, when there are virtually no obstacles in the way. This game IS a great example on what happens when the developers ignore player requests and sentiment. This game is dying fast, and they act like it is as popular as it was 2,5 years ago. Listen to your players, and stop denying the existence of glitches and hackers. Until you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This one seems wrong. I believe its a reference to Helldivers 2, where the code on the right is entered to order a 500kg bomb. The game is a satire of fascism, very much in the style of Starship Troopers, so the fascist comment also makes sense there.
neutral · AI labelView post →And before there's lots of Hellidivers hate (I play the game and love it), it should be noted that it's a satire of fascism the same way that Starship Troopers is: it shows soldiers being led by fascist ideology to their deaths, and ramps the absurdity up to 11.
neutral · AI labelView post →Credit where due, that new Starship Troopers game understands the brief. The whole thing is framed as (wildly unrealistic) propaganda software for kids aged 10 and up as their first step into joining the Forever War. Extra-patriotic developer commentary optional! Somehow less subtle than Helldivers
positive · AI labelView post →This game is beyond buggy and unintuitive. There is no point in teamplay, XP is based off of kills and almost nothing else. Medic/Engineer get practically 0 XP compared to every other class. The grenade launcher is the best weapon in this game. Completely outclasses the rest of the game's arsenal. You have to level up each gun by killing bugs, which sounds fine, but results in people refusing to do their classes' role in the squad. Medics won't heal or revive. Engineers won't place ammo or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i absolutely despise the devs of this game. from the same idiots that brought you the broken steaming pile of ♥♥♥♥ known as squad. they once again take a game that was loved at launch and decimate the player base by adding the worst updates in live service history. want new guns? too bad lets have a ui update no one was asking for and breaks the game for months. want some cosmetics to unlock? ♥♥♥♥ you. heres a $10 DLC for purple stripes on your gun. want new maps or bugs? nah well rework the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a fun game, especially in multiplayer. It also perfectly represents the original Starship Troopers movie in game format. But any game that regularly makes me sit and wait for 10+ minutes to find a match is a game I will never recommend. They could've let us have self-hosted dedicated servers with bots, but instead they chose to waste my valuable time by forcing me to wait forever for a server more than half a world away to populate with the tiny player-base this game has left. And…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game, honestly? it's dead in the water. which is a huge shame cos i just want to 'do my part' The handful of times i've had a full, competent team on ARC have been the absolute best of what this game has to offer. the rest? most players know nothing of the game and haven't played a shooter in their lives, let alone a TEAM BASED EXTRACTION SHOOTER emphasis on TEAM. the servers are a buggy laggy mess, the game chugs even on decent hardware & is just overall a slog for progression outside…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Will it do anything to stop chuds lionizing him in yet another iteration of what I am going to call the Starship-Troopers-Problem? No, obviously not, even though the chuds are currently promising they won't play the game (but absolutely will).
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is circling the drain compared to the release days. The community turned sour, no one wanted to get into the dropship so they could waste everyone's time for score padding, they got rid of cool systems like how the bombarding bugs worked. It's also amazing how much worse the game runs compared to launch. It only got worse with patches, not better. It has quite literally been updated into the ground. What drives the nail into the coffin for me is them using AI generated content. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An illustration piece I painted in 2022 of soldiers fighting a ‘brain bug’ for the proposal pitch of the Starship Troopers game for XR Games! 🔫 #creaturedesign #keyart #illustration #digitalpainting #starshiptroopers #scifi
neutral · AI labelView post →Dead cashgrab They had 16k initial online momentum and somehow decided that the smart move was not, you know, working on the actual game. More guns? QoL? Balance? Performance? Nah. Better update the engine mid-season to "get a better picture". And you know exactly where this is going. Even more lag. People who could barely play on release were suddenly not even able to load in. Low FPS killed players faster than top-tier bugs. Clipping bugs, terrible terrain, software bugs, server issues -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't waste your money! Early supporter here... Worked great on my pc up to a year ago, then they did an "update", now even opening the menu screen maxes out my computer... I check back in periodically, in case they've fixed it, but no :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wait was that on a bullet? 😅 The game is pure parody about super democracy. Think Starship Troopers but more in your face. Nothing extremist about it, it doesn't hide that it's a game about killing bugs and robots.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a long standing fan, I am utterly disappointed. The fact that the DEV's have moved on and abandoned this game despite the crazy amount of bugs and crashes is astonishing. Dont get it twisted, THIS WAS A MONEY GRAB No my PC is not the issue I have a 5070 with i9, 4TB SSD with 128GB RAM I'm certain the game is the issue
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Helldivers 2, for the normies among us, is a very popular multiplayer game modeled after Starship Troopers. Very satirical. Space soldiers from a sci-fi 'super earth' empire champion 'managed democracy' while bombing other planets. They call the aliens fascists, but it's sorta the other way around.
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Screenshots of my Games #67 - HELLDIVERS II. Greetings, fellow Helldivers! Do you love Democracy? Freedom? Liberty? Are you willing to do your part in the service of Super Earth? Then join the Helldivers today! And let FREEDOM "rain" from above! ...Would you like to know more?  Sorry, I couldn't resist. The game franchise HELLDIVERS takes the campy pro-military satire from the film *Starship Troopers…
neutral · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! - Demo up on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/4307720/... Trailer (game releases March 16th) www.gematsu.com/2026/02/star...
neutral · AI labelView post →I said and meant this when it was first announced, but after the election, I think it's just even more of a bad idea to release a 40k movie. These chuds don't understand Star Wars and Starship Troopers, and we already know they don't understand 40K the game. Just, bad vibes there.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune Foundation Book of the New Sun Canticle for Leibowitz Ender’s Game Hyperion Neuromancer The Forever War Starship Troopers Solaris
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is TERRIBLY made. The game runs like milk left in the sun for days, spoiled rotten and curdled. How they went from one of the most fun betas out there years ago to this, is outstanding levels of shooting your foot. They somehow made one of their major features, bug corpses, cause the game to run so poorly it lags a server so bad people cant even jump and bugs teleport. Ive prayed that over the years this game would get better, but its only gotten worse. The fact this game still…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Trailers are very lore accurate for the Fed Net. They lie massively and give you a sense that what you are about to experience is going to be something other than a nightmarish experience. Will concur with sentiment, this is a dead game. Less rose tinted glasses than some of the other reviews. This was never in a good state. It had promise but gameplay was always buggy and choppy. I tired this game at a number of different points and at each step of the way it was in bad shape and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the Starship Troopers game I wanted 20 years ago - And I mean that 100% in a GOOD WAY. The single player campaign is really just a tutorial - and it serves that purpose just fine. The multiplayer is where this game really shines. 16 troopers Choose your class to fit your style of play. Different gun choices Great sound design Crisp movement, decent hitboxes and reasonable player mobility Customization of your loadout/gun, perks, and utility Even on a humble medium-graphics setting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought this game with three friends. We queued for 20 minutes and could not find or start a match. Steam wouldn't offer a refund for this. It is probably a dead game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What's your "and another thing" movie/book/etc? Something you deeply disagree with, but it expresses its terrible ideology in a way that invites deep hate-analysis rather than just shunning? Some of mine: 300, Ender's Game, RENT, 50 Shades of Grey, American Psycho (book), Starship Troopers (book)
neutral · AI labelView post →AI voice acting and face's...I HATE it...Why not just have still images that change like comic book style with a VA that sounds like johnny? VA's are not pricey and you can record the lines in just 1 day or hell get a dev to be a VA and that free VA just get a human VA! AI bubble must pop.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recently installed the game for the first time, and had the game open for about 30min. Almost the entire time was spent waiting in a lobby, with 3 friends, trying to join a game. I was in quickplay with crossplay enabled, on the US east server, which is supposed to be the fastest settings to find a lobby. In practice/reality, the multiplayer is unplayable (or at the very least a gamble) unless you already have 15 other people to play with, since there is no way to force the game to start…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish there was a 50/50 option because when ST:E works. It really shines. Combat is frantic and heart pounding. The music is on point and I have genuinely not felt such ability to spark kinship with randoms than with this game. Everyone saying quotes from the movie and just having fun while shooting bugs is such a wonderful experience. It has the distinction of being a game based on a movie that seems to actually respect the source material (1997 movie. not book or CGI films. But that's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Watching a streamer quickly replaying the Mass Effect series and god damn I lose a little respect for anyone that praises the writing. Starship Troopers done straight. The game says saving a handful of politicians is objectively better than saving a hundred working class lives.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is basically abandonware now. Same game break bugs still exist, over half a year later I can't even get past the load screen without some magic voodoo that I need to execute every time. Players dropped off like hot potato's and you'll be hard put to find a group at this point to pug with, which sucks big time because the maps are designed for large groups. Don't be fooled by the cosmetic packs as content, we all saw it coming as a way to get more money, which wouldn't be a bad thing if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh, I didn't notice that a big update dropped the other day for the surprisingly neat Starship Troopers RTS. Overhauls to all campaigns with more units. And the next big update is adding a whole new game mode. Plans for expansions well into next year, too.
positive · AI labelView post →♥♥♥♥ servers bad optimization and weird balancing of content and adding new content without optimizing the old
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played 100 hours of this game on release, and had a ton of fun. Some of the best time I've ever had in gaming. Now, coming back to revisit it since Helldivers is totally broken, I'm finding Starship Troopers equally broken. I've had 3 different totally unplayable matches out of the past 5 I've played. One match, it transitioned to night and my automatic flashlight didn't turn on, making me play in darkness darker than Tarkov night for about 25 minutes until I died. Then the flashlight…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FFS, I just want to watch the Carolina game, but to do so I have to subject myself to ICE ads out of Starship Troopers.
neutral · AI labelView post →unless you live in the server areas that this game shows you, dont even bother getting it. you wont be able to play multiplayer because it will not find people. first world countries forgot we exist and that we need servers too.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was great at first but they have ruined it. Firstly the game ran better at launch compared to now. The game just constantly crashes on both singleplayer and multiplayer. 2 years worth of updates and its only gotten worse. I keep coming back hoping something has changed but it never does unfortunately. The devs seem more focused on adding things than they do fixing the issues they already have. The amount of problems I've had its just not worth it in my opinion. I'm not crapping on the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tough sell... I like the movie a lot, and this looked interesting. But in reality, this game feels like an early-access game. It's simply unpolished and has bugs (No pun intended) -The single player mode, albeit understandably simple, really just feels like mobile game quality. They're short and overly simplistic. I understand the meat of the game is the multiplayer, but this ain't it. -Mission 15 kept making my game crash to desktop, so I could not progress the single player missions anymore.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quake! Doom! Aliens! Starship Troopers! Helldivers! These are all things unrelated to this upcoming roleplaying game. OR ARE THEY?? No, they are not. Follow the link to learn more. OR WILL YOU? www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Everybody fights. No one quits. Starship Troopers, the Miniatures Game, from Mongoose Publishing. Circa 2005.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is fun with friends. Pros- 1. Even with terrible computers you can still have fun. 2. Modifiers that make each mission difficulty unique, you want to lose to a scorpion on hard with arc? look no further with scorpion attack modifier where they will laser your arc to oblivion, 3. Weapon level progression system is fun unless you hate a particular weapon based on it's modifications. 4. finding people to play with isn't hard at all. Cons. 1. griefing when players use engineer…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I live in SEA so no one was in the server so no way to play the game. Also just wanted to play with the UEVR mod. So no bot support no way to have fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought it after release. It's been through some rough patches but it's getting better and better. I think the dev team is quite small and it takes time for them to "smash the bugs" and improve the game. It's a fun game. There are several gamemodes, although I think the most liked ones are ARC defense and Horde. If you want something that doesn't require too much tactical thinking you can jump in and just shoot the bugs as they come. You get a nice selection of weapons for that. Althout…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Considering the game is about playing as a fascist (a la Starship Troopers) I’m pretty sure that quote is not actually in Helldivers
neutral · AI labelView post →The Starship Troopers games have been on point in general. The RTS from a few years ago opens with you running a mission to apprehend labor union organizers so that they can be executed on galactic national TV as a distraction from the news of a major arachnid offensive. We're TOTALLY the good guys!
positive · AI labelView post →This Game is getting better with each update and is a ton of fun in general to play, no matter your playstyle you will always find a role that fits your niche. 8/10 Would Recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40K. Judge Dredd/2000AD. Rorschach. Punisher. Squid Game. Almost all of the cyberpunk genre. Starship Troopers novel. Talking to someone about any of these will reveal their politics almost immediately.
neutral · AI labelView post →I like that it's a different 'grunt fantasy' from games like Helldivers. instead of small teams of 'elite' troopers, you are a true grunt, reliant on a large number of allied players to both succeed in the missions and keep you alive. It's very 'the floor is lava', if you haven't unlocked the skills and abilities to be on the ground, you better be up high, or you're just another dead trooper. :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/5! My first 200 hours were absolutely fantastic. I was playing with the pure joy of a child, completely lost in the experience: Real Starship Troopers thing! Game is amazing. Everything what you like is here: Bugs, starship troopers, meatgrinder. Game is not much buggy, simple controls, no rocket science mechanics. What I found problematical: No lore single player. Missions are super primitive. For tutorial it is OK, but it's not clear why there is so many missions. And almost no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its basically the Starship Troopers movie as a video game. You drop down onto a plane and do a mission against bugs, robot terminator, or alien squid zombies. You call in airstrikes by inputting a series of directions, "up right down down down" calls in a 500kg bomb airstrike
neutral · AI labelView post →I think it's an OK game, the corpse stacking tech is cool, but it's just full of bafflingly dumb design decisions that pull it down. First off, every mission deteriorates into a kill farming fest, because XP for weapons and your character are only measured to 10-20% by mission success, and the rest is just killing bugs, so it's everyone for themselves if they want to level their guns. You can probably guess how healthy this is for a team-based game. This does not emphasize team play or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“The only good bug is a dead bug” 1997 SEGA Pinball Starship Troopers pinball machine with a Color DMD. The game is pretty uncommon to see on location. No official production numbers exist but I’ve seen estimates of 1,500 units online. Continued… #starshiptroopers #sega #pinball #arcade #90s
neutral · AI labelView post →I keep seeing a lot of reviews complaining about the intro being unskippable. That's news to me. Launch the game, hear "Welcome, citizen!" then click the Left Mouse Button. Otherwise, the game does exactly what I bought it for. It lets me and 15 of my closest strangers hold the line against an onslaught of bugs, then have epic extractions back to the dropship. As an added bonus with the new update adding Tac Fighter strikes, my first map with them was filled with Tac Fighters bombing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →See the first Starship Troopers film, which heavily inspired the game, as another example. Verhoeven was clearly mocking militarism and fascism, but there are people that took it as a po-faced (if inept), sci-fi, war movie. See also Fight Club abd toxic masculinity.
neutral · AI labelView post →Great Game, Great Story, but the most important multiplayer part SEA SERVER = DEAD GAME, BEWARE for SEA Players. bought the game but got stuck in matchmaking no player base for South east Asia.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally at end game in Metaphor ReFantazio. It’s been such a fun journey and I’m going to dearly miss all the characters in the game 😭 My favorite game of 2024 🏆 Go play! Also a side game I’ve been playing is Starship Troopers: Extermination. It’s chaotic but so fun just mindlessly blasting bugs 😆
positive · AI labelView post →American Psycho, Starship Troopers are both far superior I might add the TV show 'Arcane' as a truly standout show based on a game and fandom that seemed not particularly interesting. I really enjoyed the violence of adaptation in The Wheel of Time, making a quite turgid and parochial work better
neutral · AI labelView post →True to the movie, fun classes, maps and missions. The sheer magnitude of bugs is an experience in itself. My favorite part is building a smart base and watching how my teammates utilize it, or watching how it holds up after a massive breach. Highly recommend for Starship Troopers fans and general PVE, FPS, base building fans. Also, with the correct in-game upscaler my NVIDEA 1060 3GB runs fairly well on low video settings.
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