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strategy video game
Risk: Factions
By Stainless Games, released 1 Jan 2010
- Microsoft Windows
What it is
Risk: Factions is a strategy game from Stainless Games built around world-conquest battles. Players choose among five armies—Human, Cat, Robot, Undead or Yeti—each with different abilities, and can play with classic rules or objective-based and world-conquest scenarios. A campaign mode unlocks factions, while online matches let players invite friends and check leaderboards. Battles also introduce maps with terrain that can change, including flooding territories, nuclear fallout and missile silos to manage. The game adds dice-based Overkill moments and a drag-and-drop fast battle attack. Steam lists single-player and multiplayer, achievements, partial controller support and Family Sharing. Its Steam release is for Windows. The combination of recognizable territory-control rules and faction abilities gives players both a familiar conquest framework and scenario variations.
What players like, and what they don't
- Five factions with distinct abilities
- Classic and objective-based scenarios
- Online matches with friend invites
- Terrain effects add tactical choices
- Steam version is Windows-only
- Controller support is partial
Who it suits
It suits strategy players who want territory-conquest matches with several factions and scenario types. It also fits groups looking for online matches and friend invites.
Risk: Factions brings faction choices and changing map conditions to a world-conquest strategy format. Its online matches and varied scenarios suit players who want to take their battles beyond solo play.
