Planetary Annihilation
Shares rank 23 of 24 real-time strategy games by recommenders
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.
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.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 50%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Spherical planets add overhead
“the whole spherical planets thing is definitely bad”
Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March” “multiple planets is too much mental overhead for me”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers” “sadly spherical maps just didn't work”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers” Feels weaker than Supreme Commander FA
“incredibly disappointing. It was inferior in almost every way to supcom FA.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers” “That game always felt more like supreme commander then TA to me”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers”
Other real-time strategy games people recommend
The four most recommended other real-time strategy games, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond All Reason | 76 | 17 | 82% | 10 | 1 yr6 owners | Approved |
| Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness | 51 | 2 | 96% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Total Annihilation | 48 | 7 | 87% | 7 | — | Approved |
| StarCraft | 36 | 22 | 62% | 10 | — | — |
| Planetary AnnihilationThis page | 5 | 5 | 50% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“incredibly disappointing. It was inferior in almost every way to supcom FA.”
“planetary annihilation was cool and did some interesting things but never felt as good”
“the UI was completely broken under Linux for a while”
“multiple planets is too much mental overhead for me”
“sadly spherical maps just didn't work”
“it suffered from a lot of sequelitis”
“That game always felt more like supreme commander then TA to me”
“More than just a spiritual successor, imo.”
“Planetary Annihilation scratches the itch and reminds me that I am very bad at strategy games”
“the whole spherical planets thing is definitely bad”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.