Apr 22, 2023 - Day 112 - NewPlay Bonus Review
Total NewPlays: 123

Game: Sudden Strike 4

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Aug 12, 2021
Library Date: Aug 27, 2018
Unplayed: 1699d (4y7m26d)
Playtime: 39m

(Housekeeping: I've said previously that I won't review sequels unless I've played the previous games, but I'm qualifying that to say I will play them if I don't own any of the predecessors. Carry on.)

Sudden Strike 4 is a real time strategy game set in World War 2.

I fell in love with RTS games with Dune II (RIP), and played through many of the Command & Conquer games, Warcraft II (I still have the manual!), and up to StarCraft.

StarCraft was where I started falling out of love with the RTS genre. I realised that I was struggling to keep up with all of the different things I needed to, and that combined with being the main strategy in multiplayer seemingly Zerg rushing, I stopped playing.

I was since diagnosed as autistic & ADHD, and (at least for me), I find complex RTS games overwhelming.

It didn't help that Sudden Strike 4 threw me into the tutorial as the Germans. I just don't play as Nazis, ever. It's too on the nose in 2023.

I got out of the tutorial, played the first match of the Allied campaign, and it's a good looking, solid RTS, but just a bit much for me to manage.

It's not bad, but just not my cup of tea.

Sudden Strike 4 is:

3: OK

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