Supreme Commander

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.

Teaches patience and strategy

old but a great game

Still holds up today and is an excellent example of how wonderful RTS games were before companies focused the genre around competitive game play, and pushing out casual players.

If you love RTS games, this game is a must-play. Growing up with Red Alert 2 as a kid and later discovering Supreme Commander in a local game store, I bought it, played it, and was blown away. The battlefields are massive, the gameplay is fun, and there's an incredible amount of depth. For instance, you have multiple modes for units, and you can manually fire or aim certain weapons. The strategic possibilities are endless—enough to intimidate any seasoned general. Truly one of the best PC games ever made.

robot

Played campaign, was fun enough. Just save game once in a while, because as you reach next objectives - the map expands often. You may end up having enemy very close to you from an unexpected side.