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First Strike cover art

First Strike

Blindflug Studios AG · 2017-05-30

Steam

ActionIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 11, 2014 (Android), May 30, 2017 (Mac), May 30, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 12, 2014 (iOS)

FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.

9
playing now
75%
positive of 2.0k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 51k–122k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,029 total reviews — how this is computed.

Players online

1002026-08-12 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 6 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 09:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 11:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$2.992017-05-312021-03-172017-05-31 — best price $8.392017-10-14 — best price $8.392017-10-26 — best price $8.392017-11-22 — best price $7.192017-12-21 — best price $5.992018-02-15 — best price $5.992018-06-21 — best price $5.992018-07-27 — best price $4.072018-10-16 — best price $5.992018-10-30 — best price $5.992018-11-21 — best price $2.992018-12-21 — best price $5.992019-02-04 — best price $5.992019-04-17 — best price $5.992019-06-05 — best price $4.792019-06-26 — best price $5.992019-07-22 — best price $5.992019-10-28 — best price $2.992019-11-26 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-01-23 — best price $2.992020-06-11 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.992020-07-27 — best price $2.992020-12-22 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-03-10 — best price $8.992021-03-17 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

53
achievements tracked
59.3%
earned "Played as the USA"
16.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing3 DLC

16 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Arabic…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9838%53

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

PvPRTSWarActionModernWargameCold WarMilitaryStrategyTactical

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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