First Strike: Classic

14K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 7
500K+
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Free with a Play Pass subscription Learn more
Content rating
PEGI 7
Implied Violence, Mild Violence
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About this game

Millions of commanders already played First Strike all over the world. Now it is back as First Strike: Classic: The complete rebuild of the iconic strategy game about blowing up the world in the nuclear armageddon. This remaster is more stable, more cunning in its enemies and the best First Strike we ever made.

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Escalation is a downward spiral.

A nuclear armageddon is no one’s dream scenario. So choose your steps carefully, it’s a small path between war and peace. FIRST STRIKE is a great strategy simulation featuring snappy gameplay and an intuitive interface that makes dropping the big one as easy as ABC. But be sure to take the right measures to guarantee your people’s safety.

Pick one of the big nuclear players – from known Superpowers to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and plan your strategy wisely: Limited but clever options let you as the leader of your superpower steer your nation’s fate: Expand to other countries, build bombs or debuild in order to restructure your arsenal. Or use research to widen your options, such as: Ability to act quicker and build bigger bombs, better recon on your enemies actions, automated self-defense-sequences and many more.

Whether you’re a bloodthirsty warmonger or a tree-hugging hippie – it’s time to put your cards on the table. A quick and fun game with beautiful graphics, FIRST STRIKE shows you how little it takes to heat things up. With the tip of your finger you can control the destiny of the precious and vulnerable rock floating through space, the rock we call mothership Earth.
Play the escalation in an action-packed nuclear strategy game!
Updated on
Nov 13, 2025

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    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

12.2K reviews
A Google user
January 12, 2019
Great game, difficult to manage manufacturing & defending. Nice amount of civilisations, great abilities & design. Worth a try and buy, a steal at the current price. Would be great with simplified building & defending, however it does add an edge to the game. I think it would be great to highlight your own nation at all times, found it hard to see where I had control without the reveal. Couldn't look away while playing!
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Gareth Childs
December 16, 2020
Great game. "Would you like to play a game?" 😂 However I've rated 3 stars as the continue saved game does not work. A game takes a while and requires focus, so not being able to resume a game in action is bad. If you leave the app running in background and go back to it it's fine. Also I won the game and it froze, gutted as I started as NK hard mode. I've posted the same review in the free version as I guess it's the same.
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Nathan Sobel
October 31, 2020
Lovely game but the save game function doesn't work. Sometimes it shows there is a saved game but has no way of restoring it and sometimes it just doesn't save. The gameplay itself is fun but when you have a lot of territory you basically spend the entire game making missiles. It is tedious then but i still like it. If they fix the save bug I'll give 4 stars
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Blindflug Studios AG
November 2, 2020
Thank you for your feedback! We apologize for the inconvenience. We are aware of that bug and we are working on fixing issues like that. Please stay tuned for First Strike news in the future. Make sure to subscribe to the First Strike mailing list on www.firststrikefinalhour.com and follow us on Twitter/Facebook.

What’s new

Service Update
We’ve updated the game to fix a security issue in the Unity engine.