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Uprising: Join or Die cover art

Uprising: Join or Die

Cyclone Studios · Ziggurat · 2016-05-19

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Uprising offers more strategy than a military sim, and more action strategy than a shoot'em up. Using your hi-tech assault tank, loaded with powerful weapons, you need to establish tidal bases, mine for power, build factories and direct legions of allied units against the enemy

83%
positive of 118 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$1.39
steam price (US)
Uprising: Join or Die is an action real-time strategy video game by American developer Cyclone Studios, released in North America on October 14, 1997 and in Japan on July 24, 1998 for Windows. The player controls a powerful combat vehicle known as the Wraith that transports rebel units onto the battlefield, fighting against the military. For the first few months of its development, it had no script written for it and as the release date neared, gameplay videos were created to demonstrate its support for the 3dfx graphics card. It received a port to the PlayStation as Uprising X, which was released in December 1998; and before that, a sequel, Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy, was released for the PC on December 9, 1998.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 22,230 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 118 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

ActionClassicStrategy

Census log

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