Reviews

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  doxt

  Apr 12, 2022

  approved by Bashar Al-Assad
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  Ezzzy

  Apr 27, 2022

  "what kind of an Arab would I be if I didn't have an RPG buried in my backyard"
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  sw3a

  Jul 18, 2022

  This game is really really fun, is challenging and does require your full attention and good thinking on how to take on conflicts. My only problem with this is how the AI pathfinding is annoying to deal with, and how there could be some more missions, although the Battlefields DLC allows you to make your own. In the end, I highly enjoy and recommend this game.
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  gunnarh

  Sep 13, 2022

  Absolutely disgusting propaganda, compelling gameplay. This does not tell the true story of the war but it's intense and addictive
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  Hampter

  Oct 18, 2022

  This game has great gameplay it feels like an actual modern men of war and the story is great it tells more truth then lies i was in syria for a few years and from what i know its accurate and yes western media is dumb
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  rodionz

  Nov 21, 2022

  Russian military propoganda
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  ghostoftomchod

  Jan 9, 2023

  I love it. Very hard but rewarding
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  Warner

  Jan 9, 2023

  Based. I was expecting to see something about Iranian aid too.
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  point_Zer0

  Feb 21, 2017

  The game is surprisingly good. Ai is a bit stupid, pathways which armor and vehicles choose are not that good and sometimes annoying. But otherwise the game is fun. The mechanics of the game are really enjoyable and quite easy to understand. Graphics and the HUD are quite 2006ish, but can't call that a drawback for that price. P.S This review is just about the gameplay and not some politics bs - you can believe what you want about what is happening in Syria, but the game is nice. p.p.s About optimistion and overall performance - playing on my Asus ROG gl502vs and getting 40-60 fps with the graphics maxed. Sometimes, in dence city fights, will have drops to 30 fps.
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  vaughan.w.stephenson

  Feb 22, 2017

  Squads of al-Nusra soldiers charge up the hill, darting between pine and diving to return fire. A contingent of my men are holed up at the edge of town in the police station, the building sagging and shredded on its left side; a suicide bomber in a pickup had sped towards the outpost, dodging our small arms and pulling the vehicle to rest just beneath the windows. The blast killed several of my police officers but still was not enough to break their defence. They continues to exchange small arms fire with black masked militants crawling across the tilled fields outside town; luckily the mines I laid earlier in the woods have held back any enemy armor. In the the city there is general chaos. Civilians run for their cars and speed towards the highway, those without vehicles run for the evacuation bus. My main defensive position is the Moque looking North out of town, the main road runs up the hill from the forest and continues right past the Mosque. SUVs filled with al-Nusra miltiamen charge past our defense line and head towards the town center. Soldiers dive out and rush into buildings, setting up defensive postions, trying to cut off the police station from the Mosque. My BTR aromered personel carrier sits in the main road outside of the Mosque, it swivels its turret around to follow the SUVs which had just sped past. It drills heavy shells into the terrorists, the houses they take cover in are blown apart bit by bit. Ttheir vehicle takes heavy damage to its engine block and burtsts into flame. The al-Nusra men still on the street crumple to the ground. Small arms fire continues to harass my men in the Mosque, but a larger threat looms. Another suicide bomber is speeding up the wooded highway towards town. If I lose the Mosque I lose the town, and my family, along with the families of all my friends, may be massacred. It is essential we hold the line until the evacuation is complete. I have two squads in a house about a hundred yards beyond the Mosque, I order my BTR up the road in order to support. The truck continues speeding closer, nearly in range. My men and the BTR open up fire and I realize I've made a terrible mistake. When I moved my squads up into that building I thought briefly that the position was too far forward, too far away from supportive fire, but I did it anyways. The line of sight from the building down the road is obscured by trees, and the two lonely squads just don't have enough time to accurately hit the driver. The suicide truck races around the corner of the house and crashes direrectly into my BTR. Everything stops for a moment. I know my two squads are already dead. I assume, depending on the explosive power of this vehicle borne bomb, that my armored personel carrier will be heavily damaged at the very least. And yet I think that if those soldiers hadn't been in that forward position and I hadn't moved my BTR up to assist them, and the BTR hadn't been at that house to block its path, the suicide truck could have very well sped all the way to my main defences at the Mosque and done considerably more damage. Then again, with the more concentrated fire from the Mosque, and with the benefit of a longer line of sight, we would have had better chances of detonating the truck or killing it's driver before it was close enough to deal any damage. My men may have been sacrificed needlessly, but I will never know. After what seems like an eternity, but was just about one and a half seconds, the truck disintegrates into a ball of flame and light. The BTR is instantly enveloped in smoke and dust, the drivers all killed and its tracks splintered. My five men in the house must have died instantly; the ferocity of the blast completely leveled the building. It had been a house, but now all that remained was the foundation and a fan shaped swathe of carnage blown outwards from the crater where the bomb truck had just been. The smoke cleared and more al-Nusra militants charge out of the treeline and inch ever closer to the town, rockets and tracerfire crisscrossing the barren fields. This is the first day of the war. The government is losing its grip, dark new powers are assembling in the shadows to fill the power vacuum, they have sent these militia here, turned the police chief of the neighboring town their will, sides are being chosen, lines drawn. Something larger is looming just out of sight, Syria, and the world will forever be changed. And this was only the first day of the war.
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  magnum2016

  Feb 22, 2017

  This game is actually very well made. It focuses around the terrors of the Syrian Civil War however at no point in the game do I feel like this is an arcade game or anything similar. This game shows the terror of the Syrian Civil War and it is depressing at times. The creator of this game I truly believe did not make this game with the sole purpose of making money. I believe he created this game to spread awareness about the troubles of the war, and how people seem to have forgotten completely about the war and they act as if it is over and very little fighting is going on. This is not the case and this game represents the war exceptionally.
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  DIM

  Mar 16, 2017

  Okay, here's a no nonsense review of the game itself, leaving all the political controversy aside. Syrian Warfare is a tough-as-nails, challenging but surprisingly fun tactical RTS game that does wonders plunging you headfirst into tactical urban warfare. The player is tasked with a seemingly impossible mission at first: with his little team of a few infantry squads and an APC or two you are expected to fight and win a battle against overwhelming odds. Hell, even on the normal difficulty your forces can be easily wiped out in the blink of an eye by a sudden suicide truck attack followed by a tremendously powerful explosion, that even shatters buildings. Speaking of buildings, while they provide great cover from small arms fire for your infantry, you'll be shocked to see how well the game engine handles partial, or even full destrucion of a building. All of that can change the tactical flow of the battle, so keep an eye out and switch the positions of your units accordingly. After an intense mission like that—filled to the brim with artillery barrages and enemy suicide truck explosions—you will be treated to a picture of an absolutely destroyed city block with husks of buildings smashed to pieces. All in all Syrian Warfare provides a challenging and fun experience for fans of tactical engagements in urban warfare scenarios, especially for such a low price.
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  Dardinich

  Mar 19, 2017

  Rather realistic and very interesting game. On of the best in this kind of RTS. P.S. for "propaganda" whiners: try to remember how many times you played US propaganda like CoD, BF, C&C, CoH and so on and so on and shut the hell up)
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  *PIAF*Gottkönig

  May 25, 2017

  Glad I've found this game! Pros: - It is not an easy game. It's challenging in a good way. - It runs stable on my system. Not a single crash while actually in the game (yet a few while loading but that's not a big deal at all) - The balancing of units is well performed and certainly based on real battlefield experiences. - The physics of this game are also well performed. There are no real flaws that I noticed in the game mechanics which is something that made me happy and kept my immersion alive. - It tells the story of the Syrian Civil War from a perspective of the Syrian government and the Russian Federation which by itself is something your should have heard about. The conflict is not easily explained yet western media tends to only give easy explanations on difficult topics especially about Syria. Assad = bad. Rebels = Fighting for freedom. And it's not that easy. By looking at the details you'll notice that at least from our perspective measured by our moral values rebels in Syria are not the poor suppressed victims who are just struggling for survival and freedom but they are actually pretty bad too. Not saying that Assad and Russians are the moral winners. But I'd at least like to point out that in Syria in the last few years there were no moral winners anymore. There is no hand without blood on it anymore. There is noone who could be supported by us Westeners anymore without taking our part of the guilt of the suffering of innocents. I find it important to point that out and it's a big plus for this game because it's pointing its fingers in a direction where not enough fingers are pointing: Rebels in Syria aren't the good guys. Cons: - This game is utterly difficult sometimes which is a good thing in general but also kind of frustrating for a few moments. - You have limited ammo. Your enemies have infinite ammo. Not cool! - The biggest Con for me: The game is way too short. There are not enough missions. The actual playtime is a bit too little. Maybe it's okay for the price you pay, arguably. All in all I had 7 hours fun with this game which just wasn't enough. - The narration tends to feel a little propagandistic. The game might be and certainly is right about a few things that are important but that doesn't mean it's right about everything, from a political point of view. It's just "too much" at some points. All in all I loved this game. Game-wise there sadly is very little coverage of the Syrian Civil War. So I really enjoyed this experience and I'm looking forward for more content from this studio. Good job!
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  Dozzer

  Jun 5, 2017

  Ok this is company of heros Russian style and slant( not as polished) so if you don't accept their point of view this is not the game for you. The good points are that it is challenging very challenging in places, its always good to take down suicide bombers, VBIED and terrorist and you can save the civilian which I like. Its pretty cool to play with Russian kit and the lack of real quality equipment makes it tougher especially at the start. So I have not finished it yet but I must say I like it; but there are a few niggles. Yes it crashes and my god the voice acting in English is bad, I also take exception to the bad guy having a English accent but hay after what happen yesterday in my captial city then its not to farfetched ( also it appears that all the voices have an English accent ) . So give it a go shoot em up. Time for payback. PS if you are a member of the white helmets don't play this game, try company of heros.
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  LordEskild

  Jun 6, 2017

  This game while controversial is a great one in terms of gameplay. The AI is intelligent And the game is just challenging enough to be fun without being unfair. My main gripe with the path finding of the units you control (I think the next dlc in development fixes this). Also I find it strange that a lot of the arab characters sound British (not all) but other than that it's a great game would recommend
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  BigBoss

  Jun 24, 2017

  [h1]This is a great strategy game. I would describe it as a mash-up of Blitzkrieg (1-2), Men of war and CoH[/h1] [h1]The Good[/h1] [u]Mechanics[/u] It takes the features from Blitzkrieg such as resupplying and refuelling your forces and reinforcing your troops, the squad cover mechanics (albiet simpler) from Company of Heroes and the squad and vehicle control from Men of War also with the vehicle destruction model (i.e Engine destuction and the sort). All this combined offers a enjoyable game with a strategy layer that forces you to use combined arms warfare to overcome your enemy. [u]Story[/u] Without Spoilers, the story takes place in the current and ongoing [spoiler]Syrian Civil War lol[/spoiler]. It tells the personal Story of a Police lieutenant called Anwar and follows his operations through the conflict (Almost everyone is voiced by English/Americans which i personally dont have a problem with). The game does a really good job of making you feel hopelessly surrounded and outgunned at points, much like the real conflict, with reinforcements arriving before you are completely overrun [spoiler]never thought i'd be so happy to see Russian Marines out of nowhere.[/spoiler] [u]AI[/u] From what i have seen the AI seems quite competent. It will outflank you to retake objectives you have presiously taken, push up on you without warning and attack side objectives if you take too long to complete them. It turns into a game of "can i spare my already limited forces to take these objectives and risk the enemy gaining another position to attack me from?". All in all it makes it very intense during the campaign. [h1]The Bad[/h1] [u]First Impressions count![/u] When i first saw this game on the Steam Page, i thought it was a shovelware game using controversial topics to sell copies. The logo is not a good first impression of the game, which is a shame because its actually a really good game. I would advise the developers to get some stylized logo and artwork to move away from this. [u]UI[/u] The UI and main menu could use another pass to being it up to a decent standard, it does the job and even has rollovers to explain all the small details in the HUD that the game throws at you, but i would like to see it given the production quality polish it deserves. [u]Path finding[/u] The path finding of vehicles is not very good, they will get stuck on topography and do the classic forwards and backwards stutter trying to overcome the obstacle, while funny it loses its charm when RPG, 30mm shells and mortars are tearing up the other vehicles patiently waiting their turn to dance on the edge of a wall or a small rock. [u]No Mulitplayer[/u] To be honest this doesnt bother me at all, i play RTS games exclusively for the single player campaign. But just to clear it up for potential buyers, this does not have MP. [b]Summary[/b] A great hidden gem (rough around the edges) RTS game that has potential to become a great series with DLC on the way. If you are a Armchair General, and enjoyed games like Blitzkrieg and CoH and wanted to see in translated into a modern setting, this is for you.
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  Von Surschnitzler

  Oct 13, 2017

  Great RTS Game in a delicate setting I really enjoyed playing this RTS and can't wait till the DLC (Return to Palmyra) comes out. I found the story told in the missions as well the other features and short stories between them really exciting and informative about this conflict. Though I do understand that the setting is highliy controversial and some people might feel being offended, particualrly those who have a closer relationship to people who live(d) in this conflict zone and do have a different oppinion to the current government - but let's be hounest - the setting of other conflicts might hurt some other peoples hearts too - even if those conflicts already ended some 100 years ago. If this disturbs you, then just don't play games with the offending setting. This being said, i would like to point out what I found great about this game: - Great catching story for a RTS Game covering the conflict from 2013 - 2016 - Interesting background and general information about the ongoing conflict (through pro Syrian Government and Russian viewpoint however) and single Units - Setting is unusual for this genre (no WW II, medival or fantasy) - Good graphics and physics - Interesting gameplay - Rarity of units - no base building - you have to look after your troops - Acceptable micro management - Challenging - you have to pause often and are advised to save often. - I like the music - it supports the autenticity As the game consists of a great single player campaign only, I would like to have the following features added to the game: - Skirmish mode on selected maps or parts of them - Improved pathfinding for vehicles - A strategical map with a dynamic campaign - Probably other playable fractions Thank you for reading :)
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  Buzztr0n

  Jun 10, 2018

  This game has some cool features that I would love to see in other RTS games. CQC, units actually moving around in buldings to find the best spot, and entering them fully animated (not just teleporting to windows...) , infantry climbing fences and walls. The logistics are similiar to games like Sudden Strike, Blitzkrieg, etc. You got supply and fuel trucks to rearm and refuel your troops, engineers to plant/clear minefields and explosives. Specialized infantry teams such as assault squads, RPG/ATGM/Sniper teams and more. There are controls to change infantry formations, taking cover, set up smokescreens, close gunner hatches, turn on/off "fire on the move" ... So why do I NOT recommend this game? Because the AI/pathfinding is so terrible, it simply kills the fun factor for me completely. I can't even play for a couple minutes without screaming at my unit because some BMP decides to make a 180° turn (rear facing enemy) to move back 1mm, then halfway going back the right direction, then standing still for a few seconds, then actually following my order to face the enemy. Infantry and trucks love to to take big detour and end up running into minefields. This game claims to be hardcore, where each single unit can change the outcome of the mission. I don't understand how a game, where keeping the units alive is so vital, can come up with such horrible AI & pathfinding. Tried to play this again after all this time -- still absolute garbage. Pathfinding makes game unplayable, units don't even know when to fire - if there is a building in their line of sight, they will still shoot & waste all their ammo. And just watched a T90 mbt wasting its last AP rounds on a single infantry dude... Btw the game crashes all the time and I am not running any mods. Stay away from this TRASH.
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  Colonel Taff

  Jan 8, 2019

  Good game for a very small development team, the negative reviews are largely made up of people who have political issues with the game, there are some with legit issues like startups failing, but for someone whos game has no issues, it is fun,