Insurgency: Sandstorm
FPSRealisticShooterMilitaryTactical

Insurgency: Sandstorm

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Review Analysis Score

66.0/ 100

Based on 385 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 73% of 368
All time 😄 Very Positive 85% of 133,295
“perfect blend between realism and arcade, leagues more fun than current FPS games”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.69
Controls & feel +2.18
“snap of bullets and loud gunfire create satisfying gunplay” (33)

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Story & World
-0.92
World +2.75

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+0.83
Variety -0.73

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Visuals & Sound
+3.18
Audio +3.96
“weapons have great sound design and solid methodical shooter mechanics” (31)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+0.05
Playing together +1.78
“fun with friends, chaos and depth in multiplayer” (43)

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Fairness
-2.53
Monetization -1.66

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.48
Developer support -2.66
“single update broke community servers and mod downloading, game neglected” (35)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
60%70%80%90%100%
Nov 2018Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 368 reviews, peak 26/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 17

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 370 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English48%
  • Russian16%
  • Chinese13%
  • Portuguese7%
  • Turkish5%
  • Spanish4%
  • Other8%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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