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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
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?
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- Released
- March 16, 2026
- Developer
- Auroch Digital
- Publisher
- DotEmu
- Platforms
- PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S · Switch 2
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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! Reviews
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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is brief but unforgettable, its humour carrying it beyond the limits of its retro-shooter roots.
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War captures the feel of the sci-fi classic perfectly, and is just good old fashioned FPS fun.
Auroch Digital, the brilliant minds behind the bombastic Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, are back with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
Gain citizenship in the fight against invasive bugs! General Rico will also support your efforts. Want to know more?
All in all, Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War sits nicely next to the EDF series as a parody of militarism in video games. EDF does it by embracing B-grade aesthetics and bonkers attitude, where Starship Troopers instead builds on the film to deliver something sharp and more pointed. It’s sad that this game is just so intensely relevant right now, but that is the world we live in. As a satire, Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War isn’t particularly funny, because it’s increasingly our reality.
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! does a few things, and it does those things very well. You may find other shooters out there with more bells and whistles, but if you have been waiting for the immersive fascist Starship Troopers experience, Ultimate Bug War! is that game.
Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War | Review | Ready to join the space infantry and defeat those hated bugs?
If you want to shoot a bunch of bugs, cause a ton of explosions and watch some genuinely funny cutscenes all through the lens of an in-universe highly propagandized video game, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! might just be for you. While it has its flaws (namely, squad gameplay, objective variety, and the Bug mode), it's entertaining to say the least.
A retro-styled first-person shooter, Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! is excellently presented with live-action sequences that are genuinely funny. Unfotunately, it's let down by repetitive mission design and just isn't as much fun to play as it should be, with its third-person bug missions being particularly bland.
The Starship Troopers franchise has always been a strangely neglected one. The original novel and movie are stone cold classics, the latter in particular skewering the propaganda and marketing of warfare and xenophobia in a way that regrettably continues to be culturally relevant decades after their release. However, aside from some straight-to-DVD level sequels and a number of less than stellar gaming forays, the legacy has never really been continued. Of course, Helldivers 2 has very much filled that gap, taking the look, feel, and satirical approach and turning it into a huge success, but n...
Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War is dull, uninspired, and devoid of the series' characteristic wit.
It was, and still is, really common for people to think of a film and say, ‘That would make a great video game.’ It was the bedrock of the video game industry for most of its existence, for better or (mostly) worse. It became something of an assumption, maybe even a joke, that video games based on films were bad…but then something changed.