# Planetary Annihilation

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Planetary Annihilation and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Fans call it a spiritual successor to Total Annihilation with interesting ideas. Critics say spherical planets add too much overhead and rank it below Supreme Commander FA.

## What people warn about

- Spherical planets add overhead (3 comments): "the whole spherical planets thing is definitely bad" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630246)) "multiple planets is too much mental overhead for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049030)) "sadly spherical maps just didn't work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047519))
- Feels weaker than Supreme Commander FA (2 comments): "incredibly disappointing. It was inferior in almost every way to supcom FA." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060714)) "That game always felt more like supreme commander then TA to me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046682))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Beyond All Reason](https://hackerapproved.com/p/beyond-all-reason.md): 76 recommend
- [Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness](https://hackerapproved.com/p/warcraft-ii-tides-of-darkness.md): 51 recommend
- [Total Annihilation](https://hackerapproved.com/p/total-annihilation.md): 48 recommend
- [StarCraft](https://hackerapproved.com/p/starcraft.md): 36 recommend
- [StarCraft II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/starcraft-ii.md): 32 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Planetary Annihilation", https://hackerapproved.com/p/planetary-annihilation/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).