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Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance (2024)

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance cover
Developer
Slitherine Ltd.
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Strategy
Rating
4.2 of 5, 4,363 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 29 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A tense, methodical real-time strategy game where every decision carries weight as you manage a fragile army against a relentless machine foe in a bleak future war.

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What players say

Players praise the campaign choices and unit persistence between missions, but warn about punishing difficulty spikes and timed missions pushing them to save scum. Performance problems and the need to micro-manage many units split the community.

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