# Supreme Commander

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/supreme-commander/

13 people recommended Supreme Commander in Hacker News comments, 3 had mixed feelings and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 7 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Deep real-time strategy with economy, controls and scale that many still rank among the best; critics note it is dated and slows late in games.

Summary written by Claude from 19 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Widely called one of the best RTS games (4 comments in the sample): "Supreme Commander (and Forged Alliance) were near-perfect games" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213092)) "SupCom is one of my favorite games of all time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047188)) "I was a big fan of supreme commander" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619698))
- Deep economy, controls and physics (2 comments in the sample): "SupCom then came close to the absolute peak of RTS for me in terms of controls, physics, and economy management." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50056796)) "For me the 3.5 teirs of units in Supcom feels better then the TA style." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047311))
- Massive scale and map size (2 comments in the sample): "I have fond memories of turtling on massive maps that would crash after hour 4" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623017)) "The scale of those games was already nuts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706169))
- Zoom and 3D view aid scaling (2 comments in the sample): "SupCom Zoom was the single greatest UX improvement to strategy games" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428080)) "Really made use of the 3D for scaling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856036))

## What people warn about

- Poor threading causes late-game slowdown (2 comments in the sample): "every time we played at like 2fps in the end" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046382)) "Supcoms downfall was the poor threading support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046362))
- Dated with known technical issues (2 comments in the sample): "it's a bit dated now / has some technical issues" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218055)) "many of supcoms old technical issues can be addressed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047141))

## Other real-time strategy games people recommend

- [Beyond All Reason](https://hackerapproved.com/p/beyond-all-reason/): 59 recommend, 15 mixed, 15 criticize
- [Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness](https://hackerapproved.com/p/warcraft-ii-tides-of-darkness/): 42 recommend, 8 mixed, 1 criticize
- [Total Annihilation](https://hackerapproved.com/p/total-annihilation/): 41 recommend, 4 mixed, 7 criticize
- [StarCraft](https://hackerapproved.com/p/starcraft/): 26 recommend, 8 mixed, 19 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Supreme Commander", https://hackerapproved.com/p/supreme-commander/ (13 recommend, 3 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.