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From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Sixยฎ and Ghost Reconยฎ games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.

GROUND BRANCH is a tactical, realistic and military game developed by BlackFoot Studios and published by MicroProse Software.
Released on August 14th 2018 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 21,676 reviews of which 19,351 were positive and 2,325 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

The game is currently priced at 24.99โ‚ฌ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-8350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 30 GB available space

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July 2025
---{ Graphics }--- โ˜ You forget what reality is โ˜ Beautiful โ˜‘ Good โ˜ Decent โ˜ Bad โ˜ Donโ€˜t look too long at it โ˜ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- โ˜ Very good โ˜‘ Good โ˜ It's just gameplay โ˜ Mehh โ˜ Watch paint dry instead โ˜ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- โ˜ Eargasm โ˜ Very good โ˜‘ Good โ˜ Not too bad โ˜ Bad โ˜ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- โ˜ Kids โ˜‘ Teens โ˜‘ Adults โ˜ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- โ˜ Check if you can run paint โ˜ Potato โ˜‘ Decent โ˜ Fast โ˜ Rich boi โ˜ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- โ˜ Floppy Disk โ˜ Old Fashioned โ˜‘ Workable โ˜ Big โ˜ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive โ˜ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it โ˜ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- โ˜ Just press 'W' โ˜ Easy โ˜ Easy to learn / Hard to master โ˜‘ Significant brain usage โ˜ Difficult โ˜ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- โ˜‘ Nothing to grind โ˜ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks โ˜ Isn't necessary to progress โ˜ Average grind level โ˜ Too much grind โ˜ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- โ˜‘ No Story โ˜ Some lore โ˜ Average โ˜ Good โ˜ Lovely โ˜ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- โ˜ Long enough for a cup of coffee โ˜ Short โ˜ Average โ˜ Long โ˜‘ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- โ˜ It's free! โ˜ Worth the price โ˜ If it's on sale โ˜‘ If u have some spare money left โ˜ Not recommended โ˜ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- โ˜ Never heard of โ˜‘ Minor bugs โ˜ Can get annoying โ˜ ARK: Survival Evolved โ˜ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- โ˜ 1 โ˜ 2 โ˜ 3 โ˜ 4 โ˜ 5 โ˜ 6 โ˜‘ 7 โ˜ 8 โ˜ 9 โ˜ 10
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April 2025
---{ Graphics }--- โ˜ You forget what reality is โ˜‘ Beautiful โ˜ Good โ˜ Decent โ˜ Bad โ˜ Donโ€˜t look too long at it โ˜ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- โ˜ Very good โ˜‘ Good โ˜ It's just gameplay โ˜ Mehh โ˜ Watch paint dry instead โ˜ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- โ˜‘ Eargasm โ˜ Very good โ˜ Good โ˜ Not too bad โ˜ Bad โ˜ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- โ˜ Kids โ˜ Teens โ˜‘ Adults โ˜ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- โ˜ Check if you can run paint โ˜ Potato โ˜‘ Decent โ˜ Fast โ˜ Rich boi โ˜ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- โ˜ Floppy Disk โ˜ Old Fashioned โ˜‘ Workable โ˜ Big โ˜ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive โ˜ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it โ˜ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- โ˜ Just press 'W' โ˜ Easy โ˜ Easy to learn / Hard to master โ˜‘ Significant brain usage โ˜ Difficult โ˜ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- โ˜ Nothing to grind โ˜ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks โ˜‘ Isn't necessary to progress โ˜ Average grind level โ˜ Too much grind โ˜ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- โ˜‘ No Story โ˜ Some lore โ˜ Average โ˜ Good โ˜ Lovely โ˜ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- โ˜ Long enough for a cup of coffee โ˜ Short โ˜ Average โ˜‘ Long โ˜ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- โ˜ It's free! โ˜‘ Worth the price โ˜ If it's on sale โ˜ If u have some spare money left โ˜ Not recommended โ˜ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- โ˜ Never heard of โ˜‘ Minor bugs โ˜ Can get annoying โ˜ ARK: Survival Evolved โ˜ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- โ˜ 1 โ˜ 2 โ˜ 3 โ˜ 4 โ˜ 5 โ˜ 6 โ˜ 7 โ˜‘ 8 โ˜ 9 โ˜ 10 ---{ Author }--- โ˜‘ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template
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Feb. 2025
Ground Branch... I love you... but I also hate you... Obviously I've played a decent amount of this. It's a blast. However, it feels like it's regressed a bit. When I first bought this I honestly didn't have a lot of complaints. The gunplay is completely unique. It's probably the only time I've played a game where it feels like my character is actually holding the weapon. Bringing the gun from low ready to firing position feels weighty, it feels like your arms are actually proportional to your body. It's honestly hard to understand if you haven't played it. With that being said, the AI come in 1 of 2 forms: -Brain dead -Brain dead with aimbot It's not very fun. They move awkwardly, they are inconsistent with the difficulty, it's just frustrating and breaks immersion. Now if you play with friends, you are good to go, just run some drills in the shoot house or do some PVP. That's always fun. But I play solo, and the lack of AI development was discouraging. Even with that though, I still dumped hours into this game. I've kind of stopped playing, but there are two things that will bring me back: 1. Please please please address the multiplayer servers. There is so much potential for fun PVP lobbies, but it is a mess. There is no map rotation, the game modes don't ever change, and there is almost never any active servers for PVP. It's so frustrating because the multiplayer could be good, but it's just not. Please just create some sort of vanilla server or two where it's PVP and it rotates maps and game mode. That's all I ask. 2. Just a little more blood and gore. I could live with the AI for a bit longer if there was just a little bit better gore. I don't want to sound crazy, but for me at least, it would add a tiny bit more immersion that would make the AI bearable. Overall, so unique, so fun, very talented team, please don't ever let this die.
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Dec. 2024
To be honest with you, idk if I can recommend buying this unless there's a sale. Gameplay is very immersive and realistic, but there's no coop bots. Good luck playing this without having irl friends to play this with you. This is a very solid game though, but this is mainly a game you play with close friends who happens to be into realistic shooters. EDIT: Okay after playing more hours into this, I should add that there's actually official dedicated servers that Ground Branch themselves set up for different regions via Bluefangsolutions, apart from non official ones. I see that the official New York server is usually the more populated one, but since I live in the Philippines I try to connect to the Singapore server since that's where I have the least ping. I'll take what I can get, a few hours or so there's about 1 to 2 other people in that server lol, but I can join the other servers if I can stomach the 200-300ms ping. If you live in the west, you'd have a better online experience than me I'd wager. That's pretty much it. You can definitely play with randos online (technically), but really, I recommend buying this only when there's a sale.
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Nov. 2024
The game is good Graphics good The gameplay good It tactical game But if youโ€™re about to buy the game And you from Asia Forgot about it Thereโ€™s no players on Asia servers I play like 1+ hours and all the servers are 200+ pingโ€™s
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Frequently Asked Questions

GROUND BRANCH is currently priced at 24.99โ‚ฌ on Steam.

GROUND BRANCH is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99โ‚ฌ on Steam.

GROUND BRANCH received 19,351 positive votes out of a total of 21,676 achieving a rating of 8.73.
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GROUND BRANCH was developed by BlackFoot Studios and published by MicroProse Software.

GROUND BRANCH is playable and fully supported on Windows.

GROUND BRANCH is not playable on MacOS.

GROUND BRANCH is not playable on Linux.

GROUND BRANCH offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

GROUND BRANCH offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

GROUND BRANCH does not currently offer any DLC.

GROUND BRANCH is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

GROUND BRANCH does not support Steam Remote Play.

GROUND BRANCH is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for GROUND BRANCH.

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GROUND BRANCH
Rating
8.7
19,351
2,325
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
371
Developer
BlackFoot Studios
Publisher
MicroProse Software
Release 14 Aug 2018
Platforms