Supreme Commander

Game keep crashing

It's great.

Worst One Yet

I would have thought I would love this game. Loved Warcraft 2 back when it was normal, command and conquer was pretty fun. This is just...well I get bored. I stop caring after I build the first base. If you like those games I mentioned, you SHOULD like this...I dunno what my deal is, I just space out, don't care. I guess its just to slow paced...also odd since I like turn-based. I dunno, I just don't like it...I think other people do. Not enough fire for sure. I try to play it, but it just doesn't work out.

First of all, there are a few bugs when playing on a modern system. I had to update my drivers which is weird because this game is very old and I also needed to launch the game in Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility mode otherwise it would stutter and potentially crash after every line of dialogue.

There is essentially no tutorial unless you consider a menu with about twenty different videos to watch a tutorial which I don't. The campaign tries to ease you into the game's content but it does not go very deep in teaching the controls or fundamental systems like resource management or unit ferrying, you will need to take the time to figure those things out yourself.

Full disclosure: I didn't even finish the second mission because I was getting too frustrated. The whole appeal of Supreme Commander is that you can build massive armies in the hundreds to crush your foes. The problem I was having is once you've built them, which already takes a long time even with plenty of factories constantly producing, actually moving them into place is a tedious nightmare. A group of a hundred units will always clog up before eventually forming a single file line. This is disastrous because the enemy will be able to pick your army clean as they struggle to even navigate an open field. Not only that but it also means moving units often takes several minutes. I'm not sure what to do about this, there are no unit formations like in other similar games, nor do units respond to commands quickly, it takes them a few seconds before they react. The poor unit AI make it a serious struggle to complete objectives even when you've taken the time to amass a proper force.

Finally, the missions themselves feel endless, just when you think you're done you get a new objective and the map literally expands revealing more enemies and more terrain to march your troops through. I was already getting tired of the length of missions on the second level so I cannot imagine how the game progresses. I'm sad because the game is loaded with cool content but I'm not putting up with its crap to actually see it.

Guess, welp. Nothing explained. I have no clue what mouse and keys do nothing is explained. Build more is all i hear. Well if there are a million ways to right click and so many unknown shortcuts and missions not explained. I mean the tutorial? WTF was that? Wanted to like it but just terrible controls.

Never played a strategic game that was so easy to get into, when so complex at the end.
Love it! Played more then 200h CD-Version

Fun Game. Old, but gold

simple, easy, and fun, what more is needed

Entertaining commanding units of the different factions. The attack in mass or plan ahead. Prepare for attacks. Defend and attack with different types of units for land, sea, and air. Story is good and play to find out every different ending..

Supreme Commander — RTS on a whole different scale.
If you’re into real-time strategy games, this one hits different. You’re not just building a small base and sending a few units to skirmish — you’re commanding entire armies, managing fronts, building experimental units the size of buildings, and planning logistics like a true war commander. Some matches can go on for over an hour, and I love that.

The graphics are a bit dated by today’s standards, sure, but the visual style and effects still hold up surprisingly well. What I really appreciate is the freedom: you’re not locked into “this is the way the devs want you to play.” You place your bases wherever, create your own paths, decide if you want to rush, turtle, dominate airspace, or build a navy the size of a small country.

The three factions actually play differently, not just a color swap.
The story? Eh, it’s there. Basic sci-fi setup: three sides fighting for what they believe is right. Doesn’t matter much though — you’re not playing this for the plot.

Downsides? Yeah, when there are hundreds of units on screen, things can get a bit laggy or unresponsive. Especially annoying if your Commander (ACU) bugs out at the wrong moment. Happened to me once — never again.

Bottom line:
🔹 If you're an RTS fan who loves big, complex battles — this is a must-play.
🔹 If you're into short, fast matches — maybe not for you.
🔹 If you’re like me and love building up a fortress base and watching enemies crash into your layered defenses — this game is perfect.

P.S. Forged Alliance is basically essential, and the Forged Alliance Forever community mod/launcher is awesome and keeps the game alive.

would recommend. fun rts. i am incapable of doing anything but turtling desperately so this game is perfect for me. going to buy forged alliance when i next have spare cash

Sound does not function on Win10.

I will always come back and play this modern classic.

I really enjoyed this game. It allows you to build bases with impenetrable defenses, basically my favorite thing to do in an RTS game. The plot is okay, but super basic. It gives enough of an explanation to justify the 3 factions fighting against each other, which is all it really needed to do. The factions play relatively differently, which offers a good gameplay variety.
Not a groundshaking RTS, but good fun and at a reasonable price.

classic

good

9/10

great relaxing game

oldy but goodie

An oldie, but a goodie. If you prefer throwing armies at each other over micro-ing a small band of units, Supreme Commander is your style of game.

Good game for its time. Can't recommend it at full price though.
One major problem I had with the game is when commanding 350+ units, they cease responding and sit in the field like lemons. This is a mild annoyance unless said unit happens to be your ACU... in which case, you simply end up losing the game. :P

Good Game Favorite Game

There is no RTS game like Supreme Commander. The micro and macro scales, the hour + long matches against cheating AI or screwing around with friends, the ability to place almost any building almost anywhere instead of being confined to select areas, its a 10/10 if you are a die hard RTS fan, especially if you play Forged Alliance and play the Forged Alliance Forever multiplayer mod/launcher thing.

So sad we will probably never see SC3, and most imitations of the game just aren't the same.

Crashes but cool

love the game

GG

Let me paint a picture for you.

late 2000's RTS consisted of essentially 2 franchises, Command & Conquer and War/Starcraft.

Total Anihilation burned out after TA Kingdoms fell. it suffered the fate of corporate sabotage and sell outs from it's studio leading to an eventual spiritual successor that is Supreme Commander.

I have been playing RTS games since I was 8 years old. I know almost all of them. Supreme Commander, in that era was essentially a dead game because no one played online, it didn't have good marketing, but it was a Genuinely Good Game.

Fast forward to now, EA is a shitshow, Blizzard couldn't even remaster their own game themselves, and the only other RTS games are either franchised slop, souless cash grabs on pretty engines, or uninteresting clones of better games made cheap and adding nothing new or worse stripping out what made their originators better.

Supreme Commander still is a genuinely Good Game, with tism elements overlooked and a generally misunderstood cycle, but protip: increase your unit cap significantly and you'll have a better time.

Games does not work on Windows 11. Alt-Tab crashes the game.
Whenever audio cut scene occurs (i.e. commander gives you an order), the game stutters.

Good Game

The spiritual successor to Total annihilation, the very first PC game i ever bought (and the expansions) the game kicked it up a notch when it dropped it payload back then. Today it still stands tall as alot of AAA studios phone it in. Anyone not versed in the RT Strats is gonna leave angry and dejected in the OFFLINE mode! This game brings the unfairness and requires you to know how to use your units well. With mods you get new life to this game and can expand your "what can i build" to 11.

my "unbiased" view is 25/10, but my review gives this a 7/10. You wanna relive your glory days, shes stillhere waiting commander.

I know this game from the first release in 2007 and I still play it when I do have the time. Despite the fact that Forged Alliance is the more complete game from my perspective I play the original campaigns because they also are great and give a lot of fun.

Very good game :)

very good

This game is good, but just go get Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

The game overall is good, but Forged alliance is the better version, that said, the entire game is like 15 years+ old. so a rehash or a remaster is needed

A grate rts with alot to think about and very well made.

For being an RTS game, the actual unit AI does *NOT* hold up. You will not be able to do formations, you will not be able to move units competently across the battle field. Troops will relentlessly slam into each other which creates a massive traffic jam, with the only solution being to micro-mange your entire army. This singular, but massive flaw has completely turned me off from playing this game.

The game is absolutely amazing. I've played it multiple times.

GREAT RTS.

gg wp thnx

Watching units move in this game is about as entertaining as watching hair grow, or an ice cube melt, I don't say paint dry because that's more satisfying to watch. You must see it to believe it. I have never seen an RTS with such a horrible pathfinding and it's compounded by an extremely slow unit movement speed.

The game supposedly compensates this by giving the player the possibility to queue unlimited actions for every unit, but it turns the game into a semi-automated waiting simulator, where you just need to have bomber / fighter jets ready to intervene in case of an attack on your automated military transport airships.

The process of taking ground units into cargo planes ( air transport units), which is mandatory to mitigate the broken pathfinding / sluggish movement speed and make this game playable takes so long, I thought it was a joke. You just queue orders for every transport airship to go back and forth from base to wherever you want to send your army / workers then you just sit there as you watch them slowly move your army across the map 2 units at a time for what feels like an eternity. What used to take a split second in C&C / RA from 1996 takes a solid 15 minutes in supreme commander and is more tedious by a factor of x10.

The second mission took me 2 hours and 41 minutes, and it's not like a lot of stuff happens in that mission, it's just tedious, repetitive and excruciatingly slow. The economy system is unintuitive, but I admit I skipped half the tutorial because it is drawn-out and so boring I fell asleep halfway through it in each of my 3 or so attempts at going through it. Engineers (worker units) are also pain to manage effectively.

On a positive note, it is satisfying to mess around with a squadron of 200 bombers.

GLORIOUS, JUST GLORIOUS. I got the game because i remembered when i was younger i played the sequel on the xbox 360 so i wanted to see what the original was. All i can say is that i will never regret getting this.

An excellent RTS.

Had a good friend not introduced me to Supreme Commander, I'd have never known about it!

It features a great storyline with three fantastic factions to play as.

The main thing that sets Supreme Commander apart from other RTS, is the larger sized maps, as well as a wider arsenal of units including massive experimental units that you can build. The way you build units is also unique; you can queue units from multiple factories in order to create gigantic armies - there's a wide array of land, sea and air units to choose from.

The economy of Supreme Commander is you trying to maintain a delicate balance of mining as much metal as possible with being able to produce enough energy in order to keep churning out armies non-stop.

You really have to play Supreme Commander in order to experience it.

Great game, better if you buy expansion as well.

This is game is great.

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The original before Forged Alliance came out and more or less made this game obsolete. An epic game that holds a huge amount of nostalgia for me. A must have for true RTS fans

There's a lot to like here, but it does not run well on modern systems, & the keys are not re-bindable.