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Insurgency: Sandstorm

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.

Developer
New World Interactive
Publisher
Focus Entertainment
Franchise
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Release date
Dec 12, 2018
Store page updated
May 28, 2026
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

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

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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)

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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

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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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