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Lock and load into the Starship Troopers universe and join the Mobile Infantry in the most realistic depiction of war ever made! Experience an original story in this action-packed, first-person retro shooter. Would you like to know more?
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is a boomer shooter, fmv and singleplayer game
developed by Auroch Digital
and published by Dotemu and Game Source Entertainment.
Released on March 16th 2026 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian.
It has received 1,361 reviews of which 1,252 were positive and 109 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 14.39€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! into these genres:
Boomer Shooter
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War
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First-Person
Shooter
1990's
Aliens
FPS
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Stylized
Futuristic
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- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780, 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 6400, 4GB or Intel Arc A380, 6GB
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — A CITIZEN’S DUTY TO EXTERMINATE BUGS Would you like to know more? I enlisted in Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! expecting to defend humanity against the most vicious, disgusting, eight-legged menace the galaxy has ever produced. Instead, I discovered something far more terrifying: The campaign ended. That's right, citizens. After years of preparation, rigorous training, patriotic indoctrination, and purchasing the game with my hard-earned Federation credits, I was deployed to the front lines— —and then command told me: “Good job, Trooper. That's all the war we have.” THAT'S ALL?! Do you have any idea how many bugs are still alive?! The Federation has billions of citizens, an infinite supply of propaganda, and enough ammunition to level a small moon, and you're telling me we've only got this many missions?! THE GOOD NEWS: BUGS ARE STILL VERY SHOOTABLE Ultimate Bug War! is exactly the sort of gloriously stupid, violently patriotic retro FPS that the Federation would develop after deciding that subtlety was an enemy of democracy. The game absolutely nails the presentation. Johnny Rico is back. The propaganda is back. The absurd military enthusiasm is back. The bugs are back. And, most importantly, the bugs are still extremely killable. You get guns. Lots of guns. The bugs get legs. You can probably see where this is going. The combat is fast, crunchy, ridiculous and satisfying in precisely the way a Starship Troopers game should be. There is something deeply therapeutic about standing in front of an advancing wall of Arachnids and responding to their carefully coordinated military offensive with the strategic deployment of AN ENTIRE MAGAZINE DIRECTLY INTO THEIR FACES. Military science has truly peaked. THE PROPAGANDA IS WORKING The presentation is one of the game's biggest strengths. Everything is presented with the enthusiastic confidence of a government that has absolutely no interest in letting you know how badly the war is actually going. You are not being sent into a hopeless battlefield. You are being sent into a GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENSHIP. You are not surrounded by thousands of hostile insects. You are experiencing AN EXCELLENT TRAINING EXERCISE. You are not screaming internally because twelve bugs just climbed over the wall. You are demonstrating TACTICAL INITIATIVE. And if you happen to die? Well, citizen, perhaps you should have exercised more initiative. BUT THERE IS ONE SMALL PROBLEM... I WANT MORE. No, Federation Command, I am not suffering from exhaustion. I am suffering from insufficient bug extermination. The campaign is so much fun that finishing it produces the peculiar sensation of being handed a delicious steak, taking one bite, and then having a government official appear and say: “Congratulations! You have completed your nutritional requirement.” I HAVE NOT COMPLETED MY NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT. I have barely begun eating. Give me more planets. Give me more missions. Give me bigger swarms. Give me stranger bugs. Give me increasingly irresponsible weapons. Give me a mission where the entire objective is simply: “There are approximately 40,000 bugs in this valley. Make the number smaller.” I will accept this mission. I will complete this mission. I will die completing this mission. And I will do it FOR THE FEDERATION. BUG MODE? MORE LIKE BUG MODE: PLEASE MAKE IT LONGER The ability to play from the Bug perspective is a fantastic idea, and naturally it raises the most important question any responsible citizen should ask: WHY IS THERE NOT MORE OF IT? If you're going to let me become an enormous murder-insect capable of turning Federation soldiers into organic confetti, I would like this privilege to last considerably longer. Give me an entire Bug campaign. Let me evolve. Let me unlock increasingly horrifying biological weapons. Let me command swarms. Let me destroy increasingly ridiculous human fortifications. Let me become the reason some terrified Federation propaganda announcer has to go on television and explain that everything is completely under control while an enormous bug is actively eating the broadcast studio behind him. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? YES. THAT IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM. FINAL VERDICT Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is a fantastic little slice of Federation-approved bug genocide. It's funny, it's fast, it's suitably ridiculous, and it captures the spirit of the movie wonderfully. The presentation is dripping with propaganda, the combat is satisfying, and every part of the experience makes you want to scream: “COME ON YOU APES! YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?!” My only serious complaint is that I DON'T WANT TO BE DONE YET. I want more. More missions. More planets. More bugs. More weapons. More propaganda. More Johnny Rico. More opportunities to commit heroic acts of violence in the name of vaguely defined democratic principles. The Federation has apparently determined that this is enough war for one soldier. I DISAGREE WITH THE FEDERATION. And since I am a loyal citizen, I shall be submitting my official request for additional content immediately. Not because I am dissatisfied. Not because the game isn't excellent. But because THE BUGS HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETELY EXTERMINATED. And until the last Arachnid has been reduced to paste, my service is incomplete. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Would enlist again. Would request DLC. Would happily pay for an unreasonable amount of additional bug-killing content. FOR THE FEDERATION. FOR DEMOCRACY. FOR CITIZENSHIP. FOR GOD'S SAKE, GIVE ME MORE BUGS.
Yeah, I would recommend this game. But it is a so-so recommendation; the 93% positive it currently sits in is way, way too optimistic. To start, Ultimate Bug War does a lot of things REALLY well. Shooting feels great, weapons have a punch and impact (and there's a solid selection, too), and just shredding chunks off of bugs is awesome. Sound effects are fantastic, too. Visuals are particularly lovely, the style impeccable. All in all, presentation & gameplay are top-notch and hard carry the rest of the game. Short, in-between videos are lovingly schlocky, and I'm especially happy to see Casper Van Dien as Rico again. However, there are also quite a few downsides; the entire structure of the game feels unfinished, more of a proof of concept, rather than an actual game; the free roam on large, open maps is fine, but also clearly done in a way that requires the least dev time. This is further exacerbated by the fact that the game is EXTREMELY (and I can't underscore this enough) short - I have finished it in under 5 hours, and that's all the content there is, including copious wandering around, checking stuff up (and few deaths on the third highest difficulty). This alone sours the experience quite a lot. The structure of the missions is suffering from the same problem, too; there's virtually no story whatsoever, and missions are stitched together more or less randomly (especially two missions on Earth). One of them also shows how much better it could have been if devs had gone with more linear, scripted missions. This gives me a vibe of a game that was reworked a couple of times, devs not really sure of what to do with it. It would be nice to see a proper campaign for the Ultimate Bug War in the future - the open maps are alright, but as it currently stands, it's a very short one-and-done kind of deal.
A brutal parody of a Call of Duty Campaign. A loving tribute to early-2000's FPS classics; but a geunine masterpeice of mechninal storytelling as satire on par with Spec Ops the Line. This is the besT SST game. The idea of having it as a playable peice of in universe propaganda is brillant; the full motion video cutscenes are hysterically funny and its combat sandbox is soild with crunchy gunplay, Will be short and simple for some; but that is 100% the point of its mechnical satire. Would reccomend.
I need the best Starship Troopers game. You're it, until you're obsolete or I find something better. Being a fan of Starship Troopers franchise is hard these days. A lot of good attempts were made, but every single video game installment carrying its name has been okay-ish at best. In last 5 years we had an RTS, an Online Coop PVE and now a proper single player FPS. This one by far exceeds every other game , mainly because it went self-aware. Just so you know, this game is used in the universe of ST as a propaganda piece to indoctrinate youth into enlisting. It even uses my man Casper Van Dien aka Johnny Rico in FMVs, which are the highlight of this game. Remember when FMVs were popular btw? All the quote unquote "cringy" and "quirky" dialogue is made so on purpose to create a feeling of jolly military service. Have you seen those before and after edits of the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" on social media? This entire game is "before" turned to eleven . It's funny how bad some people are at detecting satire these days. After 100%ing the game and planning on replaying it with developer commentary on I can fully assure you, this game was made with incredible amount of love for the source material . It's hard not to wojak point every couple of minutes as you play, would it be after seeing a familiar location like Whiskey Outpost, facing an iconic bug like Tanker and disposing of it with Rico move™, receiving an achievement called "Never pass up a good thing" after visiting the outer rings or overhearing one of the troopers shout "Aim for the nerve stem". It's a marvelous fan service product. Don't get misled by the Boomer Shooter tag . This game is more reminiscent of something like OG Rainbow Six with its limited weapon slots, reuse of objectives, open ended level design, emphasis on usage of various equipment and cooperation with other troopers. It's not overly tactical, but smart play is rewarded, especially on higher difficulties when bugs come in dozens and hit hard. Talking about troopers and bugs . Unfortunately game has problems , for some it would be a defining factor whenever they like this game or not. AI in this game is terrible, on both sides. Friendly troopers are keen on ignoring bugs around them and bugs often beeline towards you specifically. It gets blatantly obvious YOU ARE the center of the universe and you carry the entire planet on your shoulders. You never see any spectacle made by the Federation, nobody comes to help in a pinch ala airdrop with a cool weapon or mass M7 reinforcement, hell they even managed to ignore the most obvious part - support troopers. Even Half-Life 2 had those. Even in the movie they call for medics! You get all your equipment either from the ground or from Helldivers-like capsule drops on demand which are basically infinite. Meaning it's rare when you find yourself low on ammo or HP and forced to retreat to the nearest group of troopers for support or backtrack to find resources. If you for a second stop to analyze game as an actual game and not fictional propaganda piece, the feeling of "Ultimate War" is lost in mere seconds. And to top it off, the game is extremely short. Unless you are willing to replay the game, either to get the remaining achievements, beat it on harder difficulty, listen to developer commentary or find all secrets (which are hidden on humongous maps btw) it's not worth the full price. I still highly recommend this SPECIFICALLY for ST fans, to which I say "C'mon you apes, you wanna live forever?"
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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
No, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! received 1,252 positive votes out of a total of 1,361 achieving a rating of 8.72.
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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! was developed by Auroch Digital and published by Dotemu and Game Source Entertainment.
Yes, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is not playable on MacOS.
No, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! does not support VR.
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is a single-player game.
No, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! 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.
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