Strid

Strid

kelkk · October 26, 2018 · Free to Play, Indie, Action

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Mixed50% · 28 📉 Recent reviews down 33%
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About Strid


Summary
  • Vehicles - Use vehicles such as tanks and helicopters to destroy the enemy.
  • Modifiable terrain - Construct or destroy terrain to your advantage.
  • Fog of war - Out-maneuver your enemy by utilizing the fog of war.
  • Unlocks - Each kit has a variation with some new items that can be unlocked. Expand your arsenal by unlocking new weapons with increasing experience.
  • Squads - Invite some friends and play as a squad in intense battles.
  • Online or LAN - Host or join games on LAN or online.
  • Bots - Play with humans or bots.
  • Kits - Choose between 7 different kits, each holding 5 unique items with varying tactical purposes.
  • Conquest - Capture flags and reduce the enemy team's tickets to zero to win the battle.
  • Tactical Items - Use smoke-grenades and flash-bangs to distract enemies in close quarters firefights. Call in air strikes using laser target designation and radio.

The game was built with organic, home-grown C++ code, OpenGL and a few open source libraries by a one-man team.

Though I have limited time for this, I try to update the game from time to time.

I've found that the best way to play this game is to play 1on1 or more with a few bots on each team.
If you try it alone you probably want to play with a few bots on your side versus many more bots.
Maintain control of the most flags so the enemy tickets will bleed out.

I have one server hosted in France, so if you live in Europe this should be okay, but you can always host your own LAN server.
To host a public server you need to port forward:
UDP Port 17112
TCP Port 17113

Discord server:
https://discord.gg/AXxCAQu

Strid — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Online PvP, Online co-op
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Apr 12, 2020
[strike]Perfect Great Decent Painfully Average[/strike] [h1]☑☑☑ Garbage ☑☑☑[/h1] [h1] Steam needs to remove dead games from store...[/h1]
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 7, 2022
Strid was an attempt at making a PvP only 2D retro pixel platformer/shooter. The game featured ugly 2D pixel "art" instead of professionally developed contemporary PC graphics. The game is broken and does not launch, providing some error about shaders being removed then displaying a menu that can't be navigated (probably related to that unfixed bug). The game hasn't been updated in around a year. The game was intended to host up to 64 players in large, military themed platformer arenas. It failed. SteamDB shows the game peaked at only 15 concurrent players, not even enough to fill one map, a pitiful number, and now the game has practically no players. Why did it fail? It's video game autopsy time! First up the game visuals are terrible, the overall quality here is woeful, and of course it's broken and doesn't launch properly. PvP gamers have literally thousands of games to choose from, hundreds of AAA games that are either free or cost next to nothing. Games have to actually offer something if they want to compete for players time. The developers made the fatal, lazy mistake of believing that PvP, other players, would be an acceptable substitute for doing the difficult …
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 6, 2021
Guns go pew bombs go boom i made sand with a gun pretty good job so far
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 3, 2025
Игра "Strid" — это атмосферный экшен с элементами RPG, где игрок управляет воином в мире, разрушенном войной. Геймплей сочетает динамичные бои, исследование локаций и развитие персонажа. Графика выполнена в стиле 16-битной эпохи, но с современными улучшениями. Сюжет захватывает, а музыка добавляет эмоциональной глубины. Однако сложность управления и частые баги могут оттолкнуть новичков. Рекомендую для фанатов классического стиля.
Not recommended Sep 15, 2020
its .. hard to explain its like finding your favroite snack in the copbard and findiing out it was expired . a dissapointment ,, just like me
Not recommended May 13, 2020
It its Bad game . Do not play it is a scrap

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