# Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a near-perfect real-time strategy game and the stronger follow-up to the original Supreme Commander.

## Why people recommend it

- Better than the original Supreme Commander (2 comments): "Forged Alliance is a better game because it was made 10 years later." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046513)) "It was inferior in almost every way to supcom FA." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060714))
- Near-perfect, beloved strategy game (2 comments): "Supreme Commander (and Forged Alliance) were near-perfect games" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213092)) "I LOVE the Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049613))

## 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, "Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance", https://hackerapproved.com/p/supreme-commander-forged-alliance/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).