ICBM: Escalation

I genuinely love this game but cannot find it in myself to leave a positive review as the developers have introduced a DRM scheme that regularly interferes with your game even if you are online. Every time I try and play a single player round the game keeps spouting: STEAM CONNECTION PROBLEM and proceeds to prevent me from playing or make it as painful as possible for me to play by constantly pausing the game every few seconds, every second and then eventually even microsecond so I cannot unpause anymore.

DRM disables the game if you have a small hickup in internet connection. Can make the entire game unplayable

Buyer beware! The DRM on this game is atrocious - any connection issue, going offline in your steam friends, the date changing at midnight. All of the above will immediately brick the game, forcing it to stop every 2 seconds and pop up a warning saying it can't connect to steam.

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Unplayable, it keeps pausing the game with a steam error. ♥♥♥♥ you devs disgusting DRM ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

I am annoyed. I really enjoy the game but now when I launch it from steam, it says it cannot connect to steam cloud to confirm my copy of the game is valid. When the game is started it keeps pausing saying I need to sync to steam cloud. Remove this from the game please. Its unneeded and annoying. If people are going to pirate the game they are going to pirate the game.

With the AI rework, the game has just become a ragebait simulator. The new AI just does the most mindbogglingly stupid things which inconvenience the player at absolutely no strategic gain to the AI. This makes singleplayer just completely unplayable if you have any sort of respect for yourself.

cant play becuase the game keeps on stopping every 2 seconds for it being unable to connect to steam when playing single player

I can no longer recommend this ICBM Escalation to anyone. This was a great game up until the recent DRM fiasco that causes continuous pauses. The game is now unplayable for anyone but hardcore masochists.

Got betrayed by my ally, they then gave the tech that i shared to my enemies and i got teamed on by the middle east, europe, china, and central asia. 10/10 game would kill millions as revenge before capitulating again