Tempest Rising

Tempest Rising is an excellent real-time strategy game, inheriting the best traditions of '90s RTSs. It offers two highly entertaining, varied campaigns with well-designed missions, and two distinct factions. Its gameplay is deep and full of possibilities. A triumph that evokes the best sensations Command and Conquer offered in the mid-'90s.

Tempest Rising is the game we’ve always been waiting for, ever since EA stopped working on mainline C&C games. It has great factions, a really interesting story and there weren’t any major performance issues for me, either. The game runs great, the music is extremely good, and the visuals are up to par with what you would expect from this type of game. Should you try Tempest Rising? If you want a fast-paced strategy with a bunch of tactical options, it’s certainly a great option to consider. I enjoyed my time with Tempest Rising and low-key hope they will do an expansion soon. This type of game is not as common these days, but it’s definitely a breath of fresh air amongst all battle royales and free to play, battle pass-dependent titles.

A nostalgia kick that doesn’t simply copy its inspiration, it improves on it. Tempest Rising is the RTS return that genre fans have been waiting for.

A new RTS that evokes classics like C&C and StarCraft. Its familiar UI and layout are impressively reworked to be accessible even for RTS newcomers. However, Tempest Rising still lacks defining elements to establish a unique identity, and the absence of features like replay support leaves something to be desired in terms of polish.

A rock-solid real-time strategy game bringing tons of old-school fun to a new generation. It is heavily inspired by C&C, for sure, but since that franchise has been dormant for ages, Tempest Rising is pretty successful in filling the gap.

Tempest Rising works as a stand-alone game, but does not come close to the brilliance of its role model C&C.

Anyone that was a fan of the original Command & Conquer games or similar RTS from the early 2000s can't pass up Tempest Rising. The look, sound and upgrades to a system that changes things up just enough will appease classic fans. Anyone expecting an elaborate amount of depth akin to what some of the recent RTS games have incorporated, however, won't find it here. There's not much to do, just the campaign, skirmish and multiplayer. There's only two factions and not a ton of maps. Once each faction is figured out in a month, the game will turn into a rush game online. This was a complaint of the legacy C&C games and this gets carried over with it. It won't be about strategy, it'll be about what works. There's a lot here that any fan would want in a modern C&C game, but it doesn't check every box on the wishlist.

Best RTS to come out in a loooooong effin time. Soundtrack, graphics, units, voice lines... everyting is so cool! Battles are big fun :)

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Once again, we get these clunky, plastic-like models that look like Playmobil or Lego in a post-apocalyptic 1997 were soldiers use space helmets and not even one of them can't enter buildings to protect themselves they just sit in an open field and waiting to die. Everything is so uninspired and bland this is like being part of a B-movie made for little kids. Most of units in this game are not even useful and the weirdest thing you have even to micromanage in real time if you want to use most of their boring abilities. When it comes to gameplay, I miss the days when I could build bunker bases and hold my ground there was tactical depth—you could break through enemy defenses using tunnels or take out key structures with special weapons. Today? The moment you start building, you’re immediately overwhelmed by brainless waves of enemy units that spam from the corner of them map and try to attack your base just to get slaughtered funny thing in this game all your defense structures are so weak that feel pointless. There’s no real strategy anymore just mindless unit spamming and attacking. If Tempest Rising featured more realistic tank models and a more thoughtful tactical system and a smarter AI i would recommend. Unfortunately this is another Playmobil-style strategy game with childish units and weird unrealistic ideas. No, thanks. I was briefly hyped, but after playing few missions that excitement is long gone. A disappointing C&C rip-off made for the modern masses.

Its so annoying, like the game itself is fine. But the AI is so fking annoying. You cannot leave your troop alone for 5 secs without it doing something. The enermy attack, you'll think all the troops around the same spot will attack or will defend together. No, never! they always go in one at a time, and get killed. You'll think the AI will go, lets not send the weak armour against the tank first, but no, always the first one in. Its so stupidly annoying.

This 2025 multiplayer game was release half completed and without a party system so you can't even play with friends in matchmaking. Botched launch and the devs/publisher tried to cover by changing artwork on steam page. Suspect as hell EULA. missing 3rd faction. missing replays. missing multiplayer functionality. Tons of bugs.