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Insurgency: Sandstorm

$29.99
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Metacritic:
78
Publisher:
Focus Entertainment
Platforms:
Windows
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About the Game

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a team-based, tactical FPS based on lethal close quarters combat and objective-oriented multiplayer gameplay. Sequel to the indie breakout FPS Insurgency, Sandstorm is reborn, improved, expanded, and bigger in every way. Experience the intensity of modern combat where skill is rewarded, and teamwork wins the fight. Prepare for a hardcore depiction of combat with deadly ballistics, light attack vehicles, destructive artillery, and HDR audio putting the fear back into the genre.

An intense atmosphere putting the terror into modern combat

Move with speed and caution as you push through the war-torn environments of a fictional contemporary conflict in the Middle East. Death comes fast, ammunition must be carefully managed, and the environment must be tactically navigated at every step toward victory.

Insurgency: refined and expanded

For the first time in an Insurgency game, customize your character to show your veterancy with diverse sets of clothing, uniforms, accessories, and character voices. Coordinate fire support with your team, engage enemies with vehicle mounted machine guns, and go head to head in small scale high speed PvP and co-op matches. Wield new weapons and new upgrades to outmaneuver, outflank, and outsmart the enemy.

War at its realest

Continuing Insurgency’s acclaim as the most atmospheric shooter, Sandstorm is built on Unreal 4 to bring its gritty close-quarters combat into a whole new era of realism. Skill is rewarded, and survival is paramount. Feel every bullet, and fear every impact.

Key Features

  • Sequel to the indie breakout FPS Insurgency, now with 5 million units sold. Sandstorm is reborn, improved, expanded, and bigger in every way.
  • Character and weapon customisation to show your battle-hardiness.
  • Unprecedented audio design with positional voice-chat for realistic teamwork, and heart pounding ambient audio to bring you into the battlefield.
  • Peek around corners, tactically breach doorways, use smoke to cover your team’s advance, and call in air support.
  • Battle across expansive maps in up to 14-versus-14 player game modes, or 8 player co-operative against AI, now with machine gun mounted drivable vehicles.

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User Reviews

Mostly Positive
99 user reviews
78%
Positive
418 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Utterly irresponsible and incompetent devs. What's the point of selling cosmetics if you don't even have the basic competency to actually save my outfits???

35 helpful 4 funny
42 hrs at review
Recommended

Best gunplay among even the most modern FPS shooters. Not a lot of players tho, braindead people prefer to follow loud advertisements, lootboxes and battle passes.

20 helpful 1 funny
28 hrs at review
Recommended

Long review, but bottom line, totally worth it. I recently got back in with the disappointment that is battlefield 6 system requirements and the anti-cheat. The game features two main ways of playing: PVP and PVE. PVP is fun and the domination is a lot more COD-like, with instant respawns and, by extension, your life being worth less. Push is the "core" and features wave-like gameplay with an attacking and defending team. PVP is extremely fun (just don't take it competitively and rage) but is somewhat overwhelming for new players. You will often find yourself shot or sniped through angles you would never have thought of. Or one-shot by an enemy which is nothing more than a pixel on your screen. Or mag-dumped by a guy who jumped out of that one window you could have sworn you checked. Or shot in the back by someone coming in through the entrance you had guarded for a whole minute before the tiktok part of your brain got bored and you looked behind you for two seconds. PVE, thankfully,...

16 helpful 1 funny
321 hrs at review
Recommended

Overall, yes it´s a good game. But the playerbase has devolved into either players that know every detail and dominate matches or extremely toxic and racist. ...but other than that? A good game. Shame that it´s effectively dead. In my opinion.

9 helpful
18 hrs at review
Not Recommended

In 2025, the community of this game will teamkill you until you leave. There is no punishment to them. If you don't play the way the level 1000 people want, regardless of your kills and team participation, expect to not be allowed to play. They will gang up on you based on being new. There is a culture of toxicity.

9 helpful 2 funny
222 hrs at review
Recommended

The best FPS out currently. Wish there were a sequel in the works considering the game is almost 7 years old now

7 helpful
178 hrs at review
Recommended

7 Years later, better than Battlefield 6. Best close range gun play that actually requires some manner of strategy to win games.

5 helpful
95 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Despite my low hours, I was in fact a beta player, fan of the original insurgency, and was encouraging all my friends to try the game after launch. The combat was visceral, sound design was intense, guns felt powerful & responsive, and there was enough looming danger that battles - even versus AI, were scary. There was a genuine sense of imminent doom - and 9 times out of 10, dying was result of a misstep, a slightly delayed reaction, or just plain bad luck. I fell in love with the game during the beta for all of these reasons - it was an intense experience that rewarded cohesion and made you rethink your approach after every mistake. I hardly find myself enjoying the game anymore. - Bugs (like disappearing cosmetic presets) that have been around for months now are still present and, in the case of disappearing cosmetics, necessitate 5-10 minutes of reassembling your loadouts periodically. Multiple months of DLC drops and things like this still exist. There are bugs that have be...

5 helpful
99 hrs at review
Recommended

Amazing game with active developers, so much potential, incredibly intense in some moments, especially if you have patient friends and can come up with strategies on the go. All in all this game is incredibly well made and just a perfect follow-up for its predecessor, Insurgency. No more words to say here just a beautiful game, 10\10.

4 helpful
155 hrs at review
Recommended

Some of the best PVP and PVE out there in "recent" years. More shooters need more tactical movement/gameplay nowadays not whatever spastic movement warzone has or whatever the new annual call of dutys that activision is pumping out nowadays and releasing skins or cosmetics that don't even fit the overall theme of the game, atleast the insurgency team tries to add skins and cosmetics that fit the overall theme and environment.

4 helpful

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System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10/11 (64 bits)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-4440 (3.10GHz)/AMD FX-6300 (3.50GHz)
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/AMD Radeon HD 7970
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 40 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10/11 (64 bits)
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 (3.20GHz)/AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (3.20GHz)
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980/AMD Radeon R9 390X
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 40 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD is recommended.

FAQ

How much does Insurgency: Sandstorm cost?

Insurgency: Sandstorm costs $29.99.

What are the system requirements for Insurgency: Sandstorm?

Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 (64 bits) Processor: Intel Core i5-4440 (3.10GHz)/AMD FX-6300 (3.50GHz) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/AMD Radeon HD 7970 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 40 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 (64 bits) Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 (3.20GHz)/AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (3.20GHz) Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980/AMD Radeon R9 390X DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 40 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD is recommended.

What platforms is Insurgency: Sandstorm available on?

Insurgency: Sandstorm is available on Windows PC.

Is Insurgency: Sandstorm worth buying?

Insurgency: Sandstorm has 78% positive reviews from 99 players. Metacritic score: 78/100.

When was Insurgency: Sandstorm released?

Insurgency: Sandstorm was released on Dec 12, 2018.

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