Fit check
Is Joint Task Force worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Real-time strategy players who want combined-arms military battles
- Campaign-focused players seeking five war-themed mission arcs
- Groups of up to 8 players who want cooperative or competitive strategy modes
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking turn-based planning rather than real-time battlefield command
- Players looking for a small, single-scenario game instead of 20 missions across five campaigns
- Solo players who have no interest in the game's multiplayer modes
Our take on Joint Task Force
Its defining structure is combined-arms command: infantry, armor, artillery, reconnaissance, and helicopters are intended to operate together across real-time battlefields.
What is Joint Task Force?
Joint Task Force is a real-time strategy game built around commanding infantry, tanks, artillery, reconnaissance units, and helicopters in combined-arms battles.
Its 20 missions span five campaigns and a tutorial, with settings including deserts, winter valleys, rocky mountains, jungles, and caves. The campaign includes a continuing hero system, civilian and media interactions, satellite reconnaissance, a news channel, dynamic weather, destructible terrain objects, and physics affecting units and buildings. Multiplayer offers Domination, Deathmatch, and cooperative modes, supports campaign play, and accommodates up to 8 players over LAN and the internet.
How Joint Task Force plays
- 01Combined-arms battles
- Infantry, tanks, artillery, reconnaissance units, and helicopters operate as parts of the battlefield force.
- 02Five campaign arcs
- The mission structure includes 20 scenarios across five campaigns plus a tutorial.
- 03Persistent heroes
- Selected heroes can be developed and carried into later missions.
- 04Changing battlefields
- Dynamic weather, destructible terrain objects, and physics for units and buildings affect combat environments.
- 05Eight-player multiplayer
- Domination, Deathmatch, cooperative, and multiplayer campaign modes support up to 8 players over LAN and the internet.
Joint Task Force compared to similar games
Joint Task Force focuses on real-time combined-arms command across military campaigns and multiplayer modes. Anomaly: Warzone Earth also combines action and strategy, but uses a reversed tower-defense structure centered on defending cities from alien forces. Phantom Doctrine is a strategy game with an espionage setting rather than frontline battlefield command.
Joint Task Force: platforms & release
Is Joint Task Force worth it?
It is worth it if: real-time strategy players who want combined-arms military battles. Skip it if: players seeking turn-based planning rather than real-time battlefield command.
Where can I download Joint Task Force?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Joint Task Force's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Joint Task Force on?
Windows only.
