Stormgate

As a Warcraft III and Starcraft II mapmaker who has tens of thousands of hours in RTS games, I can say that after playing this, I have abandoned all hope in the future of RTS, With so many devs from War3 and SC2 working Stormgate, I thought it would be the next big RTS game, but I couldnt be more wrong. The Devs continue saying "We have left early access now", I dont know what they are thinking. Nothing in this game is complete. Their main focus and the only well developed part of this game seems to be the 1v1, which I couldnt care less about. The editor after 2 years of early access can only make melee maps. Maybe if they released it with the editor there would be hundreds of custom games and a real player base but they still refuse to just complete the editor instead of giving attention to literally every other game mode. The co-op mode has only like 3 maps and the commanders are so uninteresting, especially with the 9 dollar price which is even more expensive than the high quali...

Pre-release game was promised the campaign, which never happened, now I find out that I paid in order to own a free-to-play version while the campaign costs additional $$? WTF

I've been a big supporter of this game for a while so it feels sad to write this review. I bought the basic version of this game for 24.99 thinking I was getting all the missions. Instead I got 3 missions and a "hero" for a game mode that isn't even complete. I can't get a refund because of my playtime from early access. Feels like I got scammed.

The game has absolutely nothing to it, and they want to charge more money to play the campaign. Cannot recommend, disgusting cash grab. Avoid at all costs.

Aug 05: Bought the $32CAD basic edition to play the campaign, and somehow this only includes 1/3 of 1/3 (missions 4-6 of just the Vanguard race) of the campaign. Literally 3 extra missions for $32. Mistake on my end I guess for not reading the fine print, but when there are multiple axis of paid content (the options in Steam versus In-Game are different) for a game like this.... just wow. For the quality of what you get, I was already considering $32CAD to be generous for one third of campaign, but this is predatory slop. In reality, it's $39CAD for just the Vanguard campaign at a minimum and there are tons of ticky-tack extras that you can pay more for. The 'recommended, basic bundle' is anything but. I expected better from a studio who marketed themselves as making a spiritual successor to StarCraft II. edit (Aug 11, 2025) -- noting that the monetization was completely changed 48h after launch, with no compensation for folks like myself who burned and beta tested the live game wit...

"The Stormgate Deluxe Early Access Pack includes the complete Vanguard campaign with all three chapters, each featuring three story-driven missions, plus exclusive cosmetic items and supporter recognition rewards. By completing campaign missions on Brutal difficulty, players can unlock unique pets: Fuzzy Moth (Mission 6), Terror Byte (Mission 9), and Bobble BOB (Mission 12). The pack also provides access to all three exclusive hero characters. " Well that's was a lie

the game definitely has potential and has shown improvement but it is still very rough around the edges rn, I would recommend it just to try the pvp but campaign and co-op are a scam I spent 25$ for the early access campaign (3 missions) and now I have to spend another 25$ for the rest? and 10 whole dollars for each co-op commander, and only 1 free one? I understand needing to make money off a f2p game but this is just a complete rip off, especially for a game with such slow and honestly lackluster development

What a criminal waste of opportunity. The campaign is being sold piecemeal by a series of microtransactions. My $25 purchase got me 3 hours of campaign missions, and then it just became an app for spending more money. Plus the missions weren't even very good. Not terrible, but the voice acting is terrible, the characters are forgettable, the lore is so thin it's practically absent, and some of the campaign objectives are clunky and hard to interact with. Then I find out the devs want me to pay more money for it? They know darn well their players overwhelmingly play the campaign only and not multiplayer, so this is a clear calculation to string along as many of their players as possible. What a slap in the face -- and I don't think that's a hand doing the slapping.

Giving a negative as there is no meh option. Note I am only reviewing the campaign as I do not play multiplayer and all other modes are not released as of yet. Campaign: balance feels all over the place on missions. First few are very easy. I am sure to get into the swing of the faction and units. Mission five has a major flaw which they have not fixed in the past year it has been out. You can build up a full base, max out your army, and research all upgrades before beginning the defense part of the mission. This of course makes it extra trivial. Episode six is still not extremely difficult and has a "boss battle", but even on brutal is laughably easy, though at least the team had enough common sense to only take your heroes into the zone. Chapters 2 and 3 have some pretty challenging missions which actually feel brutal defending waves from all sides and then laughably easy and frankly boring missions where you roll around the map with an HQ doing basically nothing until the very e...

Payed fullprice for an indie game with lazy animations @ Played for 6 boring missions about building 1 type of unit to win @ If u want to play 7+ missions - pay us more I strongly do not reccomend this crap for it price, it is done worse then mods for SC2, and cost x2 of what u see when purchase