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Metascore
84 out of 100

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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 139 Ratings

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  • Summary: Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, "Wargames," DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare. You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker. Your mission is to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst saving your own. Points are awarded or lost depending on both the efficacy and thoroughness of your nuclear vendetta and the number of your own civilian deaths. In order to win you must wipe out the enemy population and simultaneously disable the enemy's ability to retaliate against you. This is an extremely difficult task since launching an attack on the enemy exposes the positions of your own Ground Silos, Subs and Bombers the moment they launch nuclear weapons, making you extremely vulnerable and exposed to a crushing counter-attack. Desperate attempts must be made to form fast, tactical alliances, alliances that may at any moment break-down to become the treacherous and most deadly of betrayals. Everyone looks to each other in a state of nervous suspense and paranoid accusation. In all-out nuclear Armageddon, everybody dies, everybody loses, you just have to make sure you lose the least! [Valve]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. games(TM)
    90
    Introversion's best yet – chillingly brilliant. [Nov 2006, p.126]
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  2. AceGamez
    90
    The only real issue I have with Defcon is that there's no way to do a quick rematch; you need to head back to the lobby and set up the same match if you want to get payback against the folks who out-nuked you.
  3. Edge Magazine
    70
    The developer's cleverest trick here, beyond creating a game that's worth it for the presentation alone, has been to throw open so many of its rules to player customisation. [Nov 2006, p.90]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 71
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 71
  3. Negative: 2 out of 71
  1. JasonRabb
    10
    This is a simple game to understand yet incredibly difficult to master. Kudos for a company to break from what is "in" to attempt something older yet heat-thumping in fun and entertainment. You have to love the genre of strategy and chess to understand and appreciate the brilliance of this game. Enjoy! = )… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. BillyL.
    6
    Great soundtrack, gives you a gameplay experience that makes you feel just like a general who looks at millions of casualties as just numbers on a screen or means to an end. Simple yet exciting graphics. A good bit of replayability in the fact that you can play in different theatres of war and choose allies and enemies. But, I have the feeling that in one month I will be totally bored and never play DEFCON again. The pointlessness of thermonuclear war definately bleeds over into your gameplay.… Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  3. VicT
    0
    Program keeps reproducibly crashing already in the tutorial for Win7 64bit users (see the Steam forums for user complains) for am long time now. Developers don't react at all, turning a deaf ear to the legitimate buyers. Embarrassing only.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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