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: —
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 74% of 368

All time 😄 Very Positive 85% of 133,316

“perfect blend between realism and arcade, leagues more fun than current FPS games”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+1.61

Controls & feel +2.18 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle

“snap of bullets and loud gunfire create satisfying gunplay” (33)

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Story & World

+2.48

World +2.75 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

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Content Volume

-0.06

Variety -0.73 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

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Visuals & Sound

+3.15

Audio +3.96 · Music, sound effects, and voice acting

“weapons have great sound design and solid methodical shooter mechanics” (31)

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Multiplayer

-0.28

Playing together +1.78 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

“fun with friends, chaos and depth in multiplayer” (43)

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Pricing & Fairness

-2.26

Matchmaking -3.17 · Skill gaps, team balance, and queue times

“zero team balancing, rank 1-20 vs 200-2000 players” (17)

Игра умирает. Играют полтора земплекопа все 1000+ лвла, не дают даже шага сделать, все сидят по клумбам. Косметика имба. Систему респауна для быстрого режима настраивал идиот, тебя спавним перед врагами, живешь часто менее 5 секунд. Когда-то была крутой игрой, но сейчас увы

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Tech & Support

-1.91

Developer support -2.66 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players

“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

Nov 2018Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 362 reviews, peak 26/day

Aug 21Sep 18

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