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Game
Game2018
Expendable
Developer Rage Software
Millennium Soldier: Expendable, known in Japan as Seitai Heiki Expendable (生体兵器エクスペンダブル, Seitai Heiki Ekusupendaburu; lit. "Organism Weapon Expendable"), and in North America as just Expendable, is a run and gun video game that was released by Rage Software for Microsoft Windows in 1999. It was later ported to the Dreamcast and PlayStation consoles. A remake of the game, entitled Expendable: Rearmed, was released… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
50 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 21, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
LovedLoved
37 positive · 9 negative
95% range 67–89%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 37 | 9 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
4 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
70 of 81 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
50 of 50 · most liked firstHum... A top-down shooter with old but still decent graphics. There's some story involved and it's just a simple one. The main thing is mindless destruction and having a blast with that. No bugs or crashes. Works fine on Win 7. Now, It's a very old game and the controls are just awful. Even if you rebind the keys it's still annoying. I can't recommend any games that are easier to play than to control. The fun evaporates the moment you're busier with the mouse than with the enemies. As usual,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My childhood returned Searching for it for so long Thank you so much, Steam
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fabulously retro game from the late 90's which was already a tribute to games from the 80's from the days when lives and continues ruled the day and it even has cakes! Lego StarWars style multiplayer ( drop in, Drop out) and a ton of weapons, monsters and levels. Yes... its dated a bit since it came out 20 years ago... but for a slice of retro kitch.... it doesnt get much better. It has secret modes too... which are clearly 'in jokes' with the devteam. This game was the first with so many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The thing is, Soldiers are VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS to him, it doesn't occur to him that he needs to feed them. Dead people aren't 'really people' they are just numbers in a game. Expendable Ammunition doesn't run out ... it just miraculously replenishes itself. He is PLAYING A REAL LIVE VIDEO GAME
unlabelledView post →Thanks all for coming! I got Expendable McExpendableFace built and painted decently enough for my game tomorrow Thank you to @TheWraithWa for the raid! Sent the fun over to @marumalandra.wtf ! Catch ya'll next time! #necromunda #warhammer40k #vtuber #envtuber
unlabelledView post →Had a demo disc as a kid. The controls are as abysmal as I remember. Just how I like it. Who else thought this game was called Rage for all these years? xD No wonder I couldn't find it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, bought it out of nostalgia to remember the times and feelings when I didn't want to die in my sleep.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The controls limited the experience, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and too slow to react to the enemies. Maybe it's just me that can't bear the stiffness of the controls, but for me this issue made me give up very soon. This apart, the concept is very interesting and funny. This could be a much better game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am writing this review for my Retro Games 80´s, 90´s group. I noticed this game became available on Steam and I thought I am gonna buy it in March but the devs offered me a review copy. Please keep in mind! I recommend this game because I know it when I was younger and my brother played it over and over again - NOT because I got a copy for free!!! OK first things first you are a marine fighting an invasion of some space mutants I guess. I can´t remember the original story but I give a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Expendable is a very difficult third person shooting game. Pros: +Excellent 3D animation. It explains what are "expendable soldiers" and their final fate. +Very good 3D scene design. From earth colony to alien planet, you will explore a lot of different places. +You can use so many unique weapons and equipment. +You will fight against various alien units. Most of them are very dangerous. +There are a lot of secrets hidden in the game. +Some enemy units will do funny things if you find a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As i don't have nostalgia for Expendable, i can't recommend it even being cheap: -The game is too dark and doesn't fit the screen properly, despite the resolution and other video settings; -The framerate is too low; -The control style is terrible, the infamous "tank control". I have a good pc, with Ryzen 5 3600 and Geforce GTX1060 and coudn't stand the game for more than 5 minutes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →an android mobile port of this game with an infinitely superior control scheme came pre-installed on my NVIDIA shield portable, absolutely goated device, perfect for emulating retro games. way before the steam deck and these other off brand imitations became so popular. that's p much how i came to know about this game, that was around 2014-2015 or so lol idk this game is a solid twin stick shooter...or rather...it WOULD be a solid twin stick shooter if it didnt use PS1-era tank controls like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🛸👽[📀OFFLINE ]👽🛸 WE BEAT ALIEN ISOLATION & The Crew Expendable DLC! Im so happy i was able to play and finish this game with you all! Its been such a blast. Do NOT worry! we will be playing more DLC & survivor modes in the coming weeks! HUGE thanks to our raiders, chatters& lurkers! Yall are SO cool!
unlabelledView post →A great game from my childhood, one of the fist PC games I ever owned. Really cool late 90s/early 2000s futuristic vibe. Fun top down alien shooter, with a really cool theme, and early 2000s graphics. Love that intro video. Brings back a lot of memories ha. If you dont like the tank controls, someone posted a guide on how to play the game in third person mode, which is actually pretty dang fun. And if you are having trouble getting it to run on Win 10, you have to MANUALLY allow the game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this on sale. + Great retro fun. + nice graphics for 1999 + Hard + good value - Wonky mouse movement on higher sensitivities - Use with voodoo 2 wrapper as does not like integrated graphics and does not correctly recognize dedicated graphics. Without this graphical - Setting sound streaming to use more memory leads to a false low memory warning on Windows 8.1 64 bit machine with 6 GB RAM.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/KtEm7M39l9Y Classic top down action. This is basically mindless fun - switch off the brain and go. Plenty of guns and even more explosions. Obviously the graphics show their age, but they are at least colourful and varied. Even better is that 1080 resolutions are supported, and keys are fully rebindable. Only issue is that the mouse is still quite sensitive even on the lowest setting which can make the controls a little twitchy. All in all the game has stood the test of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember reading about this game in gaming magazine some 25 years ago but I haven't tried it myself until now. And I finally understand why I always heard good things about this game. You are a clone of a super soldier trying to stop the alien invasion. Gameplay is simple but huge fun - just run & gun! Can't help mysel but the overall feel is very Duke Nukem-like. Especially DN: Manhattan Project just from top down view. Your ingame character even looks bit like Duke and you can save…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a great game, but the movement is borked and too inaccurate with the tanky controls and the topdown perspective. One of the few games that would need to be remade but with better functioning controls. The various different mines and instantly killing laser fences can get on nerves, but it's still great fun to blast through the levels with all the flashing explosions. If you're trying this then do yourself a favor and use the cheat to change the camera angle. First turn on numpad; type…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun classic arcade game, I had this as a kid and maybe now i'll finally complete it xD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Expendable fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on, good amount of action and special effects, good game. Personal Suggested Purchase Price: $0.99 Or Less During Sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/8GkAbs9UJOs Çocukluğumda yani 4 - 6 yaşlarımdayken, bu oyunu sahip olduğum playstation 1 ile çok oynardım, eski sahip olduğum playstation 1 halen duruyor bende, rastlandı sonucu oyun ile karşılaştım 2019 yıllarında, tanıtım intro videosu çıktı karşıma ve, video izler izlemez çocukluk anılarım canlandı, o videoyu halen dünkü gibi hatırlıyorum, rc revenge gibi zamanında bir çok oyun oynadım ps 1 ile... çocukluğumu özledim :/ This game is my childhood game, friends, I used to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, arcade style blast em up, it can be a good challenge on expert difficulty !! played expendable lite for hours as a youngster
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Draw "Stroke his massive Ego" card, move forward two places. Land on Airforce One square. Pick a Paranoia Card- you get either a: "Congratulations! You are a now a blond Bimbo. Take Catering Van straight to C32A aircraft" advance 5 places or "YOU ARE EXPENDABLE! SUCKER!" retrace 5 places. Fun game
unlabelledView post →This was the first game I fell in love with and probably the start of my love for games in general. Having found it now 25 years later has unlocked my lost inner child.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The graphics are endearing, the explosions satisfying and the music serviceable. The tank controls and camera system combine to make a, initially, extremely clunky experience but it is definitely learnable and possible to get through the game. That is up until the penultimate stage where the game decides to double down on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ by swarming you with jetpack enemies that are nigh impossible to hit in time. That said the moment to moment gameplay is fun, just cheat yourself some extra lives…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →imagine its 1999 and you ve created a realy great third person shooter, and then some Idiot comes up with the idea "hey lets make it a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ top down shooter with super awfull controls" this is what the game actualy is But then you enter ONE damn cheatcode and the whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ turns into an awsome great shooter with good Controls. even the Playstation has that cheat! the Saturn also, so nobody can tell me it was to ressource hungry - i wonder who the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was who decided to turn the game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In a nutshell. Play the game in 3rd person mode. It virtually eliminates the control issues. Especially if you map movement keys to WASP.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old game (circa 1999). The graphics aged well, but the controls are wack. There's no story. Its blowing things up, destroying enemies... mindless arcade style shooting. * its a 2 AM game (actually, anytime, for messing around or wasting some time)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who was an avid fan of the demo for this game on the PS1, the PC version was something I needed to get my hands on ASAP. I'm glad I did! The game plays amazingly well, with no drops in frames or quality at all, even when everything is going absolutely nuts (running on an RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 5 3600). The gameplay is what you'd expect from a classic topdown shooter too; pure carnage and chaos with not a single thought being put into what you shoot at! Eye-candy galore too, with the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Controls are terrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bod- or bucketofcicken- Stage 3 music and blasting following rocket/laser on these flying bastards
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pure nostalgia! This game is one of the first pc games I ever played as a kid. Runs great on win10 and looks a bit better than what I remember.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lots of first shooter game play, it's a great game my friends....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a great arcade shooter from the past. im 28 years old now and i havnt played this game since i was a little kid and completly forgot what it was called but have great memories of playing it on windows 95 back in the day, i only rediscovered it after watching youtube and once i found out it was on steam i bought it immediatly and then the nostalgia hit me like a soccer ball to the face.sure it hasnt aged well in 21 years since its release but its still fun as ever to play. if you can get it to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The biggest problem with this game is the controls, everything else is secondary. Maybe it would be better with a joystick if you could get it going. It's good that there are cheats.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Expendable, developed by Rage Software and now available on Steam through Funbox Media Ltd, is a loud, unapologetically arcade-style shooter that feels like a time capsule from the late 1990s. Originally released during an era when Dreamcast and PC action games were increasingly embracing 3D technology, it carried forward the spirit of classic run-and-gun shooters—simple objectives, frantic pacing, and a heavy emphasis on spectacle. The narrative framework is mostly decorative, framing you as a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sad because this version of Rage is the 2000 release, not the 1999 release, which is a modified version of the original PC version of the game. When it was release to playstation they modified it, and this is the modified version. Funny thing is the intro in this video is the same as the 1999 version, but after you download the game, you don't get the same thing that you see in this video preview.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is extremely hard and I refuse to believe that vast majority of players beat it without cheats. Even the walkthrough I found on FAQ jokes that you cheated when you played it. You have 3 lives per credit and maybe 9 or so credits on the easiest settings to beat the entire game and it took me and my friend on CO-OP mode about 100 credits to do it. Even longplay videos on youtube cheat the credits and just hide it with editing. You can make the game significantly easier by changing into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just wish the control/controllers worked better for this game :(
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this but the movement and aiming is hardwired to one thumbstick and i cant tolerate it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jetpack Joyride but better
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a very fun game once you configure your controls properly (I play it with a ps classic controller) Feels like Contra or Shock Troopers mixed with Quake 2 or something. I vaguely remember this game being on the Sega Dreamcast but never got around to playing until I scooped this on Steam for less than a dollar, one of the better cheap throwaway purchases I've made on here. It's arcade shooter action from 1999 that slaps
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game ! loved it on dreamcast and with the 3rd person view cheat its very playable on pc
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Missed this game so much and it is so nice to max out the graphics and revisit it again without a Dreamcast emulator or tracking down all the gear with minimal wear. I highly recommend this game. My brother game me this game when we were kids and I was hooked. Simple story like Soldier with Kurt Russell, but with amusing graphics, a pretty good soundtrack, and this isn't an easy game. You'll run out of lives on your first playing experience. It has a pretty good amount of levels, too. Disable…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How do you activate cheats
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this on sale for a dollar. The controls, when modified, are bearable. Not great, either. But tolerable. Xbox 360 controller doesn't work for some reason, despite it saying it has controller support. Very classic style fun game despite the jank. Just your easy brain off "Haha shoot alien". You could certainly do a lot worse for a dollar.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is one of those games which was way too difficult for me as a kid. In those cases I am always curious how skilled I am in present times. Turns out the game is still atrociously hard. I have to admit I used cheats in the last 3 levels. For its price tag it is a good game. You get nice music, solid action, nice sci fi / 80s vibes and some interesting weapons and bosses. The levels are short and you can play this game easily in short bursts. What strikes out as annoying and negative is the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i dont think i ever get any more action in any other game this game is insane explotions and enemies everywhere i love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →brings back good memories from childhood!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is an unfortunate little mess. I love this kind of thing, normally. I enjoy video games at their dumbest - a little sugar rush I can comfortably play without breaking my concentration on a podcast, or a book, or just something more cognitively involved. This game is precisely such a thing, as honestly advertised. The major, and critical, issue is the lumpy ass control scheme. Expendable has squirrelly Resident Evil type tank controls, wherein forward and side strafing movement…
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