Apple Arcade review #94: Stellar Commanders

Stellar Commanders is a relentlessly grim strategy game about global thermonuclear war that always seems to end with planetary destruction. Granted, I’ve only played the tutorial plus two matched multiplayer games, but as the minutes ticked down and the rockets flew, it all felt pretty apocalyptic. The game runs in real-time, with different phases — from preparing for war to fighting war to watching everything go kaboom — and each match is only seven minutes long.

There’s little positivity or hope here, and that’s the point: it’s all out war, and it’s just a question of building your rockets and tanks and defensive batteries as quickly and smartly as possible, before the nuclear missiles start flying. The world is pretty grim as it is right now, and I don’t have a lot of patience for more global death and destruction. Fair or not, this is not the game I want to play.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/stellar-commanders/id1469802393