Fit check
Is Strife: Veteran Edition worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy classic first-person games with role-playing elements
- Fans of resistance stories set across interconnected adventure levels
- Players seeking an older game with modern display and control options
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a purely first-person shooter may not want the added role-playing, dialogue, and objective elements.
- Players looking for a compact linear campaign may find the 28 connected levels and broad setting too expansive.
- Players who prefer contemporary settings may not want this game's medieval and industrial world.
Our take on Strife: Veteran Edition
The store page emphasizes the game's historical status, technical updates, and epic scale, including a claimed 200-square-mile environment. The practical experience is more specifically a 28-level FPS-RPG campaign combining combat, objectives, resistance plotting, and voice-over narrative.
What is Strife: Veteran Edition?
Strife: Veteran Edition combines first-person combat with role-playing adventure in a world threatened by an evil presence.
The player acts as a spy, assassin, warrior, or thief while working with a resistance movement against a fanatical order. The campaign includes 28 connected levels set across medieval towns and industrial complexes, with objectives marked on the auto-map. Weapons include a crossbow and flamethrower, while allies, voice-overs, and the Sigil shape the narrative. This edition adds high-resolution and widescreen support, an OpenGL video backend, dynamic lighting, remappable keyboard, mouse, and gamepad controls, Steam Achievements, and Steam Trading Cards. It also completes unfinished original elements, including the Capture the Chalice multiplayer mode and a special HUD for the Torpedo weapon.
How Strife: Veteran Edition plays
- 01Interconnected level structure
- The campaign contains 28 linked areas, including medieval settlements and industrial facilities.
- 02Role-based adventure
- The player takes on roles such as spy, assassin, warrior, and thief while opposing the ruling order.
- 03Varied weapon arsenal
- Combat includes a crossbow and flamethrower, alongside the pursuit of the Sigil.
- 04Modern display support
- The edition adds high-resolution, widescreen, proper-aspect-ratio, and OpenGL video options.
- 05Rebindable controls
- Inputs can be reassigned across keyboard, mouse, and gamepad controls.
- 06Steam extras
- The release includes Steam Achievements and Steam Trading Cards.
- 07Restored original content
- The edition completes unfinished elements including Capture the Chalice, objective markers, and a Torpedo weapon HUD.
Strife: Veteran Edition compared to similar games
Alpha Protocol™ follows an agent cast out by his government and focuses on stopping an international catastrophe, while Strife: Veteran Edition combines first-person combat with resistance activity in a medieval and industrial setting. Ghost of a Tale centers on a mouse in an animal-populated medieval world, emphasizing stealth, disguises, conversations, and exploration. Blood West also uses first-person stealth, but places its action in an eldritch Wild West with an undead gunslinger.
Strife: Veteran Edition: platforms & release
Is Strife: Veteran Edition worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy classic first-person games with role-playing elements. Skip it if: players seeking a purely first-person shooter may not want the added role-playing, dialogue, and objective elements.
Where can I download Strife: Veteran Edition?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Strife: Veteran Edition's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Strife: Veteran Edition on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
