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Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Developer The Artistocrats
Starship Troopers: Terran Command is a real-time strategy video game developed by The Artistocrats and published by Slitherine Software in 2022. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
377 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
189 positive · 50 negative
95% range 73–84%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 189 | 50 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 12 | 4 | 110 |
| 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
6,299 of 7,261 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
79% recommend · 174 yes, 47 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 221 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (10,544 of 12,070 positive).
Players praise the game for capturing the atmosphere and spirit of the Starship Troopers movie. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game focuses on tactical squad management rather than traditional base building. [4][5][6] Several players criticize recent updates for breaking balance and introducing frustrating stealth missions. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [7]
Used to be a great and fun light real time tactics game. Now its an annoying slog with massive balance issues due to the devs being unable to stop messing about with the units which used to do their roles effectively and now are absolutely useless.. As if that was not bad enough half the community created content is now unplayable as the nerfs have ruined the balance of most of the maps. Seriously, this is the last …
- [11]
The game started out as a decent RTS that I was obligated to buy as a fan of the movie... not movieS, MOVIE :) But the strategy is deep, you can TURTLE and defend, my preferred method or run and gun! Both of which can be costly if you have no clue. But the point is, you can make BOTH work with decent strategical choices, which is so rare for this type of game. Its not a steep learning curve, and the unit choices are …
- [1]
From the very first mission, Starship Troopers: Terran Command nails the Starship Troopers aesthetic. The environments — dusty deserts, mining colonies, and bleak frontier outposts — evoke the movie’s satirical depiction of humanity’s expansionist future. Between missions, the game uses faux propaganda broadcasts and recruitment ads that perfectly mimic the film’s “Would you like to know more?” tone, blending dark …
- [12]
RTS in which base building is really basic and the focus is on correctly working with your squads and vehicles. Shooting thousands of bugs is real fun and you get that feeling of fighting against never ending hordes of arachnids with a dim hope that maybe just a few men will survive. Service guarantees citizenship!
- [2]
I don't think I've ever seen an RTS game capture the spirit of an older movie as well as this game has. Would you like to know more?
Summarised from 34 of the 337 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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Starship Troopers: Terran Command sits at 79% positive across 239 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Starship Troopers: Terran Command received mixed reviews on Metacritic. IGN called it "a competent asymmetrical RTS" but criticized the lack of multiplayer or a scenario editor because they felt the first half of the campaign was unchallenging. Rock Paper Shotgun said that to get more than a moderate recommendation, there would have to be more content or satirical commentary influenced by the films. Though NME said the developers "absolutely nailed the look and feel of the game", they felt it "just isn't that much fun to play".
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 377 · 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Used to be a great and fun light real time tactics game. Now its an annoying slog with massive balance issues due to the devs being unable to stop messing about with the units which used to do their roles effectively and now are absolutely useless.. As if that was not bad enough half the community created content is now unplayable as the nerfs have ruined the balance of most of the maps. Seriously, this is the last game i am buying from these guys.
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 →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 →It's not Terran Ascendancy. That 2000 game (you can only get it on abandonware websites) was absolutely amazing - full 3D graphics, excellent music, coherent storyline, unit variety, RPG elements (including promoting soldiers, choosing their gear and abilities), and just tactical goodness. Terran Command is basically... "Heroes of Annihilated Empires + bugs". If you know what that game is... now you know what this games looks and feels like. For everyone else: there is no real story. There is…
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 →The game started out as a decent RTS that I was obligated to buy as a fan of the movie... not movieS, MOVIE :) But the strategy is deep, you can TURTLE and defend, my preferred method or run and gun! Both of which can be costly if you have no clue. But the point is, you can make BOTH work with decent strategical choices, which is so rare for this type of game. Its not a steep learning curve, and the unit choices are not set in stone if you want to win... you can chose the units that appeal…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Everybody fights. No one quits. Starship Troopers, the Miniatures Game, from Mongoose Publishing. Circa 2005.
neutral · AI labelView 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 →“Come on, you apes! You want to live forever?” Starship Troopers Terran Command is a surprisingly smart and satisfying RTS that understands exactly what makes the Starship Troopers universe work. The Aristocrats and Slitherine Ltd. deliver a balanced, highly replayable experience by stripping away a lot of the genre’s usual busywork and focusing almost entirely on tactical decision making and battlefield awareness. Unlike traditional RTS games, Terran Command doesn’t revolve around base…
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 →Not Happy or impressed with the new changes implemented in the latest update. I've played through the campaign twice before and it was enjoyable, but Devs have completely changed the campaign and broke the balance, scale, speed & fun of the campaign. I honestly don't understand why they felt the need to change everything so drastically. This isn't the game I originally paid for and now I feel completely cheated out of my money. Please don't buy this game or support developers that will change…
negative · 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 →“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 →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 →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 →Starship Troopers: Extermination got a new patch that adds in #SteamDeck specific settings to optimize the game and staged reloads: steamdeckhq.com/news/starshi...
neutral · AI labelView post →the commercials for the US military during the White Sox game are borderline Starship Troopers ("a relentless warrior ethos!") and also: we're literally losing to Iran?
neutral · AI labelView post →Same level of media literacy that missed the satire of the Starship Troopers movie. Watching the US Government unironically propose Starship Troopers-inspired uniforms for the Space Force had me in stitches.
neutral · AI labelView post →They didn't show that on TV that I saw - though maybe I stepped away for a moment. Seemed odd to swear in new recruits in the middle of an NFL game. Felt somewhat dystopian in a Starship Troopers sort of way though.
neutral · AI labelView post →After 10 hours of gameplay the introduce STEATH ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MISSIONS in an RTS with NO STEALTH MECHANICS. Who on Earth thoiugh that would be a good idea????!!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card Can't say I knew I was getting into kiddie Starship Troopers when I added it to my classic sci fi list, but the bits about using inflammatory fake identities to rile up geopolitics sure aged well since the 70s. 48/
neutral · AI labelView post →From the very first mission, Starship Troopers: Terran Command nails the Starship Troopers aesthetic. The environments — dusty deserts, mining colonies, and bleak frontier outposts — evoke the movie’s satirical depiction of humanity’s expansionist future. Between missions, the game uses faux propaganda broadcasts and recruitment ads that perfectly mimic the film’s “Would you like to know more?” tone, blending dark humor with militaristic fervor. This attention to atmosphere makes every campaign…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And 2 "boomer shooters" •Starship Troopers, based on 1997 movie www.myabandonware.com/game/starshi... •Vivisector: Beast Within,one of the best Slavjank shooters www.myabandonware.com/game/vivisec... P.S.If you like MAW, you can support us with a coffee buymeacoffee.com/myabandonware #abandonware
neutral · AI labelView post →The amount of times i hit Attack Move and watched my troops run through the enemy without engaging them only to be chopped to shreds makes this game soo frustrating at times.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starship Troopers: Terran Command I am not a fan of this one. It's like they took Aliens Dark Descent and They Are Billions, put them together and then created over-scripted missions that require advanced knowledge of what's going to happen and where to realistically beat them. They took the worst parts of each game - both of which I really like - and created a mash-up that I think has the potential to be a great game but they made some stunningly unfriendly decisions that suck the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So this evening's film doubleheader is Robocop + Starship Troopers. Both are re-watches. Also, there a surreal quality that a middle class family is playing Nukem as the family game night game. Miguel Ferrer makes a great asshole executive. And Kurtwood Smith plays Kurtwood Smith.
neutral · AI labelView post →the only real problem with every Starship Troopers game is that they apparently have the rights to everything but the ludicrously, absurdly perfect Poledouris score?
negative · AI labelView post →I’m pretty sure more or less the entire game is a Starship Troopers reference, including the parody of fascism that an unfortunate number people consume with no sense of irony.
neutral · AI labelView post →there’s a game about Starship Troopers that’s popular? sorry but I’m only playing if we keep the politics out of it & you fire the beloved community liaison that is a significant part of its success because the Firefall Bus guy might follow me back
neutral · AI labelView post →I've recently been playing a bit of the 1996 MS-DOS game Terra Nova. I didn't really play this one growing up, but I've grown to love the unique hybrid mech/soldier feel. It reminds me of book Starship Troopers or The Forever War. The FMV addition throws me back to Wing Commander III (laudatory).
neutral · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers game tonight. Trying out Jonathan Ellison rules using 6mm figures and terrain. Photos of the setup, the last two being enhanced photos using AI. Added a lovely Martian style sky! Do you want to know more? #6mm #wargames #wargaming #shedowar
neutral · AI labelView post →Helldivers 2 is a VERY popular game, and makes fun of the kind of world that certain people want, a bit like Starship Troopers, and of course that flies over some heads.
neutral · AI labelView post →This collected dust in my library for a long time. I had to get back into the RTS mood, but once I did it was a nice change of pace. Classical RTS, not too intense (most of the time).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually do like the game but the pathing ai is so bad in this game I can't recommend it. You will watch as you squads clump, stop shooting, and die so many times and its just not worth the rage. If you try to use big units they will get stuck on your infantry and do nothing until they are being swarmed and die. I never played an rts where I felt like the humans had bigger death wishes then the hive minded insects until this game. It's impressive how much they wanna die. If you can get past…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We've been blown away by the wave of positivity after the release of Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! ❤️ It's been great to see so many of you enjoying the game and putting those bugs in their place. We can't thank you enough! 🫡
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep. Reference to the 500kg bomb strategem. It's a great game that reminds me of Starship Troopers.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's games like this that assure human civilization, not insect, will dominate the galaxy now and forever.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a good RTS overall; stylistically it looks a lot like Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars down to the rifle and rocket squads. Most people that rate this game negatively are generally upset because there is no base-building, no resource extraction/mining to build large armies, and no multi player. In ST - Terran Command the bases are already set up (defensive walls and all) and you only select base upgrade nodes on pre-placed hubs to gain access to different units. You can pick up…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are workshop mod that allow you to play as the bug ... if you a traitor!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played a great narrative game today. Recreated the Starship Troopers Outpost 29 battle with #Ultramarines making a last stand against endless waves of #Tyranids. They lasted until round 10. Random spawning & objectives granting special buffs made for many exciting moments. #WarhammerCommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →On the Starship Troopers PC game's 20th anniversary, I've written an ode to the lost art of terrible movie tie-ins: kotaku.com/starship-tro...
neutral · AI labelView post →Halo's politics have always been dangerous, it came out during the Bush era, worshipped the military, and basically asked, "What if Starship Troopers wasn't a satire?" Natural endpoint for this game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Throughly agree. Adding Starship Troopers to that list. Verhoeven had a real talent for pointing out the systems, methods, and end-game of the horrific regimes he lived through.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the Starship Troopers movie and had high hopes for this game. I was really looking forward to strategic game-play and a kind of "kill them all" experience as you fight off endless waves of tatic changing bugs. I was expecting something closer to a fleshed-out Command & Conquer or StarCraft-style RTS. Unfortunately, the game disappointed me almost immediately. Before I could even get invested, I was being reminded about DLC I didn't own, which gave me a bad first impression. The gameplay…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RTS in which base building is really basic and the focus is on correctly working with your squads and vehicles. Shooting thousands of bugs is real fun and you get that feeling of fighting against never ending hordes of arachnids with a dim hope that maybe just a few men will survive. Service guarantees citizenship!
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