RUNNING WITH RIFLES

Very Good

RUNNING WITH RIFLES holds a nostalgic value for me, mostly because of the time it took me to achieve a 100% completion rate, which wasn’t really difficult as I thought it would be. Another reason is that it was recommended to me by a friend, and we ended up playing it together for hours in 2018, which was probably the best year of my life, thus, it has become a core memory for me. However, after taking off the nostalgia glasses, this game leaves a lot to be desired.

The initial and most crucial problem starts with the lack of sound effects/notification blips in-game, which indirectly feeds into the lackluster training section. The game tries to teach you how to play upon encountering whatever it tries to teach you, but it does so in an extremely impractical way that you literally need to click on the notification that appears on the top right and read it. If you’re playing the single player campaign, it pauses the game so that you can read it, but the game is meant to be played with other people; therefore, trying to learn how to play could lead to your demise pretty quickly. The orders you get for what you’re supposed to do also barely make any sound, and on top of that, they appear on the top left, and this could be another discouraging point for the newcomers.

It also tries to be realistic with an isometric view, and it doesn’t work really well. You’ll have to walk or crouch to be more accurate with your shots, and if you carry too much stuff on your backpack, your aim gets worse. The only “realistic” aspect of it that *kinda* works is the fact that your character changes to someone else upon death, but you retain your rank. The vehicles, on the other hand, are a huge part of the game, but their handling, along with their speed or the camera positioning when you’re driving them, are horrible. It’s also very easy to get them stuck somewhere with no way to get them out because they can’t even run over weak fences, let alone the trees.

RUNNING WITH RIFLES offers many game modes along with great mod support, but the most popular and the only active game mode is the Invasion. The campaign is also based on this game mode. Its goal, as its name suggests, is to capture all enemy bases on the map by weakening their structures and by reducing their numbers. It has a very niche and an extremely loyal player base that I haven’t really interacted with, but it’s possible to find players every day, even today. The game itself is fun for a few hours after you learn it, but all that stashing rare weapons, destroying radio jammers, and capturing enemy bases gets old very quickly. The game lacks something fundamental to make itself fun and engaging, but I can’t really put my finger on what it is. I don’t know, maybe it’s not for me, this is a subjective review after all. Also, if you’re colorblind, don’t even bother buying this game because my father, who is colorblind, couldn’t understand why I was staring at a moving screen.

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GUNS GO BRRT

Amazing game!

Maybe I went into this wanting the wrong thing but this feels really close to an immersive war sim where you play a soldier on the ground rather than top brass, which is exactly what I like in a good shooter. It just feels so hurt by the top down perspective. Can't tell when I'm visible to an enemy, can't tell when they're visible to me, and can't get immersed if I'm 300 ft above the action.

Everything on top of the top down shooter is great, it's just the top down shooter foundations I couldn't get on with in the end.

Think foxhole but simplified and more quick action. totally worth it especially on sale.

Reminds lot of call to arms, but its much more cartoony, i just love it.
Since theres so many weapons to pick from, theres something for everyone, and i bet it can run even on ur grandmas potato pc (Though i dont have potato pc). The ai in this game kinda good, but if its too hard u can change the % of the enemys health, teammates health, accuracy, health boost for you and the amount of resources you get for kills and objectives. 10/10.

i DONT THINK THIS GAME WILL EVER GET OLD! If you like a hack and slash but wish you had a m16 this is the game for you

Foxhole, YEARS before foxhole, and far less focused on being a simulation of a war machine, and more focused on ground-level combined arms warfare.

A good game for playing at night

fun

Fantastic sandbox shooter that is excellent to mess around with. Especially when you turn up the unit counts

Amazing Game

Ram Ranch is under siege, under lock-down.

Basically ARMA but top down... kind off. It's fun for what it is and the DLCs are fun addition (especially Edelweiss <3). My only complain is due to FOV sometimes its hard to judge terrain elevation. For example one time i aim enemy BTR with a Gustav, straight clear aim without obstacle ahead, recticle is green then i took the shot and it went over it. If i look closely where i stand kinda slightly higher than the BTR but during active combat quick decision making is crucial so some error judgement like this can affect the whole fight. Maybe a some dynamic lighting could fix this imo. Even tho like this game, also can't wait for East Front DLC

good

I love this game there is not anything like it and if anyone knows any game like this let me know

Fuck this game fun for 4 hours maybe get on sale only

I had a lot of fun playing this with friends, think of it as the old battlefields, each team has to conquer areas in which you can spawn, except isometric view. And as you rank up, you can also lead up to 10 soldiers, which is pretty simple, there's no complicated menus or something like that. Another cool thing is that there's like a "bigger world map" that you can use to move to the next stage of your choice after going to an "extraction point" once you won the current one you're in, making a campaign a conquest rather than just separate battles.
That aside, the biggest pro this game has is its shooting, it feels pretty nice, and fun, once you pick it up you can waste enemies quite easily, but they can do the same to you too, so you'll never feel too op. There are no classes, but you can buy weapons. The arsenal at your disposal is pretty varied, all weapons feel unique and do something different, sometimes you might even find especial weapons.
And there's quite a bit of interesting mods you can get on the workshop and try, so it's definitely a good purchase.

yes

Played the demo, figured it was alreight but never bought it becasue 12$ was too high of an ask.
The price dropped to 4$, you're speaking my language now
HOWEVER the game ran worse than the fucking demo!
Load up the game, spend 5 minutes tweaking the options and match settings
Spawn into the game, walks north and immediately get domed by the AI first shot, 1 hit I'm dead
Now I can't respawn.
Okay I guess that's unfortunate but not too bad I'll just start a new matc- FILE ERROR CAN'T START NEW MATCH
Give me my fucking 4$ back.

Good game

What a fun game! Really good for a LAN party. Pro tip! Once you win your first battle in campaign mode, the campaign isnt done! You can "extract" from certain points on the map and win the whole game world!!!

Had a good time.

Isometric squad building chaos, and I'm here for it.

Its fine but with pretty much every mod being broken or requiring straight up manual file editing pretty limited on what you can do

The game is great, the community is awesome, and I keep coming back from time to time. The first to install and last to uninstall in every machine I have. Still, own all DLCs for a reason. This game is just the BEST in its genre...

Absolutely a little fun game to entertain, love it and can't wait for the RwR II

boring and only played it a long time ago because my computer couldnt run anything else at the time

Normal game but boring style, gets boring quickly and the bots have aimbot.

I`m a general who kills. Not a general who loves.

I just love this game and the effort the devs put into it, as well as the community and their fantastic mods! RWR 2 has been announced on June 6th, 2024 and I'm looking forward to it. The game itself can be addicting from time to time because of it's enormous replayability potential. The graphics are simple voxels but it still looks awesome and the sound is superb for such a game. There are also some easter eggs/jokes present in game such as funny jokes told by the soldiers or funny names for AI units such as "Cheeseburger" McDonald :D

Just an awesome game and lots of fun guaranteed!

Great fun!

The re playable value in this game is insane. I enjoy countless hours playing with other players in multiplayer and trying out new weapons. Ngl this is the most friendliest player community I have seen so far.

Shit

isometric shooter that reminds me of games like battlefield 1942 and battlefield vietnam. fun game overall, with a good workshop modbase that gives plenty of content to try as well. nice

Fun at the beginning and better if you have mods, but the requirement to level up in order to use more weapons sucks. Probably worth it on a big sale to get it with friends to mess around for a few hours. The mods are pretty cool though and the game does get substantially better with a group of friends. Only worth it if getting it with friends

DO NOT BUY IF COLORBLIND

This is a fun game, but unplayable for anyone colorblind. Two of the three faction colors are green and brown, and for colorblind people these will likely be indistinguishable. The Devs have been aware of this issue since release, and have not attempted to fix it. Their "solution" is to (1) suggest enabling windows color correction, and (2) linking a mod that has been deprecated since 2020. They have knowingly ignored this issue for 10 years, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. So, colorblind people, do not buy this game.

122 hours so far and not a minute spent in multiplayer

solder

Mediocre but captivating.

The game is not bad but it is meh. I would probably recommend you look at foxhole instead.

Games fun! lots of replay potential

Ran by part time dev's that make a straight banger of a game 10/10

dont let the look fool you this game is the violence, 10/10 it beat me up a bit.

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This shit bussin

better than you expect

Turn up the gore level to 100% You'll thank me later.

Tanks/Vehicles can't go through trees and thin fences. gets quite repetitive without simple destruction physics.