Insurgency: Sandstorm

The community is great. The game feels hard, but not too hard. Just enough to make you feel like an operator, but not too much this it ever felt too hard to play. I never touched PVP tho.

>Be me >Enjoying game >Hear phone ringing >wtf.jpg >Turns around >Explodes 10/10 game, hoped I could play as the c4 bomber as the insurgent

This game is alright. Perhaps even good, or great. But with Embracer group firing every single developer that was a part of NWI I can't recommend you buy it. None of the funds go to the devs anymore, it all just gets funneled into Embracer group, Focus Entertainment, etc. Anything new you'll get from this game is going to be made via outsourcing to another company.

If Call of Duty is a theme park, Sandstorm is a haunted house run by ex-marines and Twitch trolls. I hate it. I love it. I can’t stop.

great game for when the missus kicks you out of the bed fro the night.

One of the best tactical FPS shooter out there. Serve both PVP and PVE Coop. The game features multiple mode as well. If you play PVE Coop, your team will be line up against enemy bots or AI. For casual players Normal Check Point is really fun, but if you are looking for challenge and even more fun, try Hardcore Check Point. A heads up though, hardcore is not for the faint of heart or people who complaining/bitching too much about the game mechanic or taking PVE TOO SERIOUS.

I love this game, it reminds me the times when I was in the army... Times when it was ok to shoot my own workers when they didn't want to work overtime for no payment. 10/10 made me nostalgic

It's a shame to see a mod which started with a wealth of originality, saw success because of it, became a standalone game and even a sequel - descend into the kind of poorly planned emulation of borrowed game elements Sandstorm now exhibits. From oversized and under-balanced maps to just plain broken game modes, NWI really let themselves and their still dwindling player base down. It's like they blended all the worst bits of the newer Battlefield games, the obsession with unlocks of CoD, and the poor hitreg of early CS:GO. You know it's dripping with cheese when a Push game can be ended by a level-locked airstrike, completely bypassing the attack-defend essence of the game. The worst of it is, the original mod inspired most of those games (does "Modern Warfare" sound familiar to you?). Stop trying to do too much and go back to your roots, NWI - maybe you shouldn't have ditched Andrew Spearin?

If you're playing with friends, it's some of the most fun you will ever have. However, if you're playing random lobbies, its full on tactical nightmare. I loaded into a match, and randomly got turned into Swiss cheese by a "sewerslide" bomber. all being said, 9/10

This game is a huge disappointment compared to its predecessor in every aspect. Poor map design, crappy visuals, the addition of dumb mechanics and even the sound design sucks by comparison. I don't know how you can go from the GOATed maps of Insurgency 2014 to the randomness they puked out for this game. Every map has way too many paths and rooms that add an absurd level of unneeded complexity. They even butchered Tell, the only map they held onto from the original game. Bigger maps with more rooms, hallways, doorways and clutter is not an improvement in the slightest. I can say the same for the visuals in this game. More does not equal better. The original game had a consistent style where everything looked like it belonged on the screen while playing. Nothing stood out or looked like it didn't belong. Sandstorm's visuals much like its level design looks like they just puked out a bunch of random assets and through them into their game. The mechanics they added make no sense for this game. Attack helicopters, mortar barrages and rocket strikes have no business being in an Insurgency game. Especially the attack helicopter when playing on a map with huge open areas where you don't even stand a chance of survival. It's unfortunate because when I first heard that this game was in development I was really excited for it. They took a good game threw it into a box with a bunch of random garbage, shook it up and called it a sequel.

>We are terrorists running inside a cave >My teammate yells to not "go up there" >Teammate looks at him >He says "don't go up there" again >Teammate looks at objective zone and back to the guy >Yells "I'll do whatever I damn well please" >Runs up there >Explodes from a IED 10/10

Notoriously runs terribly, bots are terrible, leveling system is terrible, way more micro-transactions than the OG.

bug on ambush, depleted waves as either team, teammate last alive clutches a point capture as last alive with 0 remaining waves, it used to then spawn the team, now its broken and respawn circle endlessly spins. verified 3x othwrwise greatest game of all time. add more maps

Bought the game and ultimate edition, since I loved the first one so much. I cannot even launch the game. Appealed for a full refund since it's not playable let alone launch-able.

quick and fast paced tactical shooter definitely recommend, if you like games like ghost recon AW and it's multiplayer mode and wanted a game that's similar to that mode.

Played this game on xbox gamepass, one of the best milsims to play where you just kill hordes of enemies in co-op

My computer handily exceeds the minimum requirements but the game frequently stutters. I am running an i5-6600K @ 3.50 GHz, and a GTX 1050 Ti Also there's $80 of cosmetics but no female insurgents LOL

Developers have been adding maps and rarely new weapons instead of fixing the notorious bugs and unpolished gameplay that this game has.

Dated controls and bad servers from my experience. Player base is down to the very few people who still enjoy it. While it was a great upgrade from the previous Insurgency game, it has become very dated amongst modern shooters in this genre. Players are better off playing more successful titles such as Squad, Arma Reforger, or even Call of Duty to get the same appeal this game has.

I have 500+ hours on PS5 and while my friends and I had our fun with the game, the lack of updates focused on improving the game has killed our interest. Even the content updates are often a joke with new guns that re-use assets (i.e reload animations) and you're lucky to even get a new map. Ever since NWI was bought out and this game was passed off to eastern European contractors, they're just doing the bare minimum at this point to continue selling season passes and rake in easy money. They make little to no effort to actually improve or modernize the game. All the attachments are outdated and based on airsoft guns. Hard to enjoy a "tactical shooter" when you're using the same optic that a twelve year old uses irl to shoot his uncle in the ass. Thus what was once me and da bois go to game, a group of eight of us, we've now all grown long tired of it and it's a shame because the PvE can be really fun when a bot isn't butt f*cking you through a wall, through smoke, and from 100 yards away while sprinting.

One of the best shooters on the market. I first played it for 100+ hours on gamepass and decided to just buy it when it was on sale on steam. Its a perfect blend of Tactical hardcore gameplay and arcade shooter. you get punished for being reckless but can get away with it if you're good enough. And ofcoure, VERY fun. :Y

Bigoted crowd from COD have ruined the game. Servers are just filled with racist dbags.

In a world of game bans for saying a bad word, this game stands as one of the last pillars of free speech in gaming.

I don't play this game a ton, but when I do I have a blast. And listening to some music while you play genuinely makes the game 100x better.

I'll put it this way, when the game is fun it's fun. But that's unfortunately 25% of the time considering the community, the games design, and other factors. It's trying to do too much at all times. And now the original devs are all gone. Don't buy this game. Buy the original if you want the insurgency experience with the better parts of the communit

Very immersive and fun expierience,worth every penny that i spent Need some work to do with the modding but altho the game is fun and i would like more weapons to choose from instead of the default ones

Strapped C4 into a car and drove into the insurgents. 10/10 game, even the non-terrorists are terrorists

Good game. Definitely worth playing. The gunplay is great and the games realism is really cool.

this game has trained me for whatever war is about to happen I am now prepared to die for absolutely nothing

so far im left traumatized on those f**kahh IEDS but either than that the community isnt as really toxic really good people most games are hilarious and the intensity this game gives is great will recommend it just be ready to smash your desk a couple of times

Best combat sim out there other than the Arma games. This is more at the firefight level, where as arma is actually less realistic in that regard because of how big the map is. the game organizes the spawns and map sizes well to create a unit driven experience. not as structured as squad but thats a bit boring and restrictive.

too late to fight in the middle east, too early to fight in the middle east, just in time to fight in the middle east and the middle east in game. You can also experience ✨PTSD✨

Does several things better and worse than the original insurgency. Would give this a mixed review if I could.

Good game, but people mostly playing only for Co-op these days, which is good for casual player, but for PvP you can go play another game, maybe in the future with more update and mode, people will back and PvP more active

I've played 120+ hours this game, is pretty good for "war simulation" game with a more arcade approach, regardless, I would not recommend to enter multiplayer from the beginning, there are too many tryhards playing, otherwhise, the game is pretty fun to play and sometimes challenging.

If you want the ultimate dopamine hack, split screen Insurgency with youtube and play against bots. The best youtube vids to watch while playing are Offending Everyone, and SnipingSoup Dhar mann reactions.

Game is pretty good and is still being supported which is nice but the best thing about the game is the guns and the most enjoyable gun is arguably the M82 Barret. This beautiful hunk of metal, polymer and hatred teaches a very clear lesson in the difference between cover and concealment. There's a paradox known as "Schrödinger's insurgent" where if you fire the Barret while standing you have no way of knowing if the insurgent is dead or alive until you pan your scope down at least 60° to see if you hit the your shot. Using the M82 Barret is like dating a fat girl. She's big, she's cumbersome and it would suck to carry her over your back for a 10 mile march through Afghanistan but you better believe when things start to heat up she's going to have some serious stopping power behind her Obviously, there are far more guns than the M82 and they all feel amazing but I would have bought this game for the Barret alone as I can feel my testosterone slightly increase everytime I annihilate an enemy through the side of a pick up truck.

do not listen to these negative reviews all they do is cry and cry. Multiplayer is still there and is as difficult as ever. if you buy this game expect to die ALOT, your time on sandstorm will be fun if you make the right decisions and pick the right places to position yourself especially against real people. The Modding community alone makes this game worth it especially if you enjoy PVE. The Star Wars Mod Sagas has made me play this game alot more recently

this game is awesome it was the gunplay of something like ready or not or ground branch but a faster movement and easy to learn controls it has awesome gamemodes and a loyal community however the commuity is so loyal that pvp is REALLY hard so i mostly play pve on hardcore checkpoint, 10/10 game to get into tacti shooters

It is a good game but I have one question , Dose the bots in this game has aim bot XD . Sometimes they move in unbelievable way .

Great graphics. Intuitive control. Though a bit arcade, still fun to play with friends. AI enemy isn't extremely smart, but does remain as somewhat challenging. Good game to have some fun and adrenaline pumping when you do not have too much time to spare.

Solid HC FPS shooter with multiple modes including COOP. Good maps and cool non cartoony skins (mostly).

Amazing how long this game has been going with a decent enough player base to make matches. Good tactical shooter that plays like COD MW 1 Hardcore mode.

Insurgency Sandstorm is truly one of the best FPS games in modern day gaming (2025). The combat punishes you for mistakes, but there are game modes that allow you to spawn back into the action and each game mode has different pacing. Insurgency also offers a Co-op mode if you are not a fan of PvP. Since launch, plenty of content has been added to the game. There are plenty of maps, weapons, customization items, and fun available to ALL players. Weapon sound design and recoil are executed excellently and other games should take note. I would love to have a game mode that offers larger scale maps and a higher player count, with the ability to control helicopters and other/more armored vehicles. TO THE DEVS: A 3RD PERSON MODE WOULD BE PHENOMENAL!

This is the best most realistic FPS game i have ever played. Some of my favorite gaming memories have come from this game.

Run Welrod, put the most obscure attachments, get randoms in lobby involved. Welrod gang 10/10 would welrod again

good for sniping and lots of fun for most game styles and pushing the adjective.

i said wow what a great game the best game you quite frankly i play this game and you should play this game ...if you dont play this game you are a loser

The AI is no joke in this one. I have been gaming on PC for decades now, and I find this title to be one of the top 1st person shooters I have played. I checked all the boxes with the exception of the cheesy evacs at the end of survival. Should be like the Division 2!

Great game, hard AI and hard players in a tactical shooter with some pretty solid customization