Silica is a crossover of FPS and RTS where up to 3 factions battle for control over the planet of Baltarus. Lead from above as commander, or experience the action first-hand, either alone, or with friends. Join one of two human armies, or hunt them down as the territorial aliens.
Mostly Positive
26 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
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| English | — | Y | Y |
Highly misleading game when looking at the pretty screenshots from the Store Page. The game might look good, but simply ♥♥♥♥ like a proper reloading mechanic for SMG's are lacking, and the soldier isn't even animated to hold the weapons properly. That just off the top of my head, there are so many more problems with AI, pathing behaviour and so on that just makes it's a horrible experience.
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Best wel leuk
I bought it a long time ago, and it seems to still be in the same state of polish and development.
The last time I played, it was a desert walking simulator.
The idea is great, but so far very slow and poorly executed - but it's worth remembering that it's done by just one person (as far as I know)
Very good game and never trust a crab, even if they hand you a krabby patty.
This game is honestly pretty good, I love what was done to diversify the two human factions, now it would be nice in an update that the bugs get an overhaul as well considering their defenses can often get one shot , yknow, a rebalance. Other than that though, I look forward to the development of this game. Also AI is brutal ;w;
I got this game soon after it released and I liked the concept. I love hybrid RTS and FPS games and this one had good visuals (I love the lighting at night) and some good vibes.
However, AI pathfinding back in 2023 was very rough.
Nearly 3 years later I boot it up for the first time and its a ****show for path finding.
My small vehicles are getting stuck is the silica fields and I have to manually move them out, and my harvesters are too busy staring at each other to get resources. Nothing paths around each other. If something is in something elses way, one thing will just back up until it hopefully is out of the way and the other thing will just slowly follow. Now imagine all your harvesters doing that. The harvesters do not have good enough pathfinding to be so large.
At least on the map I played on, the sand was so bright it was hard to see details while in RTS mode from up above, especially depth of field. The game could really do with some shadows on the sand dunes or something to help with depth. I am sitting here wondering why my units aren't shooting at another unit a arms length away and when I go into the FPS mode it turns out there is a small sand dune between them.
Refineries *MAY* have the on off ramp on the left side of the building, right side or both the left and the right, if terrain allows for it. And this is what made me throw in the towel. Here I am trying to place a refinery that will FACE TOWARDS THE SILICA and it will not place the ramp on the right side. I believe it has to do with the hilly sand dunes. and no matter how I rotate it, the ramp is facing into my base where the harvester cannot actually fit around my buildings/the cliffs nearby to get to the silica in any reasonable time.
I really enjoy the battles in this game, and I love RTS. However, when you cannot see what is happening due to how bright the sand is during the day time (night time it is perfect!) and when your spending 50% of your time microing harvesters, its a bad day.
What I would like to see from this game is harvesters that actually go around one another. For example, they run into each other and the both go right slightly and thus drive right by each other.
And if they harvesters cannot be figured out within 2026, I would scale them down so they are smaller, a bit speedier and carry less resources.
Also I saw a thread from 2024 asking why RTS mode cannot get infantry loaded into transports and why you had to use FPS. I do not understand why this is still a problem.
I am extremely disappointed in this game and am ashamed I bought it back in 2023. I would have rather bought executive assault 2. I hope to come back in a year and see the harvesters doing better and the ability to tell depth of field while in RTS mode on sandy maps. I hope to change this review as this is the only negative review I have ever done on steam.
Great fun
I love the concept and execution, the ai might be janky, but there are ways to work around it. Development seems reliable and I fully hope the developers will fix the few issues and expand on the game. Similar to Helldivers with Termanids, but with a base building aspect. If you are reluctant to buy, deny your doubt.
The game has great elements, but in its current state seems to be unplayable. Harvesters keep flipping and therefore are unreliable. AI seems to have cheatcodes and just spams units in an endless cycle.
very fun just wish more people played it
the game is still in development, but it is an amazing RTS, units, maps, buildings are all amazing! can play as any unit you make, which is very fun! the concept is everything you would want in an RTS. the only frustrating thing are the harvesters and their routs. and sometimes friendly units routes can cross paths leaving the units stuck on one another. but thats the only thing wrong with the game, other than that this game is really fun!
Played it when it first came out, not many maps, a lot of the gameplay itself was bad, but coming back to it recently it has improved some much. There is still some annoying bugs such as troops just getting stuck, but you can now take control of them and fix them. Before when you did that you were stuck playing as them but now can switch back to the commander. The game reminds me a lot of the halo wars franchise which i loved. With the improvements that ive seen since launch I would say the game is perfect but its in the right path. Would give it a 7/10 .
Re: General FAQ on the discussion board from 2023 needs updating as 2025 launch date has gone. Also No update yet in early March 2026 since December 25 is one due please?
el mejor rts, solo le falta que pongan el español please.
I love the game play as a dude who gets run up on by 20 big old bugs or play as the titans is very nice, also for a game that's not even finish yet and is this big is crazy we don't got more people on this absolute peak.
O jogo sensacional, o pouco que joguei jogo eu já posso imaginar a grande capacidade e qualidade que traz ao mundo de RTS E FPS, que pra mini foi uma uma junção de dois mundos que reviveu a capacidade de unir dois tipos de jogadores que as vezes não são adepto ao estilo do outro, EU sou amantes de jogos de RTS e não gosto muito de FPS, mais eu sou da velha guarda, que jogava CS, BF, COD e outros, então pra mim é um jogo formidável com ideias excelentes e mecãnicas legais.
Eu recomendo o jogo de olhos fechado, não sou muito de jogar online ou quase nunca, então trazer a ideia de uma jogo skirmish sempre será uma boas vindas para pessoa como eu.
Com essa nova facção no jogo amplia bastante a jogabilidade e acredito que não pare por ai, trazer uma nova raça de mostro fecharia com chave de ouro um lançamento oficial.
Estão de parabéns pelo jogão.
Sempre terá o meu apoio
not even 30% finished
I love this game and love the updates. Yes, some stuff is not operational yet, but it is in EA! Optimization has been getting better. The ballistics system is excellent and makes the game more fun. I hope he keeps going with this and makes it into what it could be! (2080TI and 9900k processor)
まだまだしょっぱいゲーム。ただ、アプデ次第で大作になると思う。
それとなくDUNEっぽくて、DUNE好きなら雰囲気だけで楽しめる。
難易度調整がなくて、AIは弱すぎるし、オンラインのプレイヤーもすくない。
今後に期待
This game is amazing and gets better with every update! Been incredible to follow for its development.
This game is fun as long as you don't play commander. Being a troop as bullets fly by is amazing. Commander is god awful tho. Instead of being a war commander half of your time is spent fighting the Harvesters pathing.
1: there is no proper guide for this game, how do i gain more money ? how do i expand my base borders ? how do i order my forces to move in the same pase ? i searched in google and found not answer.
2: this blasting balls of lights whenever a new strucutre is made is hurting my eyes.
3: the developer made the genius decision to show "path of unit that was ordered to go somewhere" with light cyan color which is nearly invisible on the color of the sand
4: harversters path finding is good most of the time but sometimes they get stuck, and I can't order them to "go harvest from X"
Seems like a nice game with interesting ideas, but i can't relax with it after a day's work, which was all the goal in the first place.
Tons of potential but the game crashes a lot in steamdeck.i will wait for fixes.in the current state it has to be no but lots of potential.
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围攻模式角色模式进去了啥也选不了。。。。
