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Game
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Jagged Alliance Flashback
Developer Full Control
Jagged Alliance: Flashback is a turn-based tactics video game developed and published by Full Control for the PC via Linux, OS X, and Windows in October 2014. It is part of the Jagged Alliance series. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
194 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Mar 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
37
Rotten
72 positive · 122 negative
95% range 31–44%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
364 of 777 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Negative: unfinished, buggy, and fails to capture the magic of Jagged Alliance 2.
Many players find the game unfinished and buggy, with some calling it a 'Work In Progress' (R4) and others reporting crashes and glitches (R10, R31). The AI is widely criticized as dumb and ineffective (R17, R21, R32). [4][10][31][17][21][32]
Some players acknowledge it captures the spirit of the original games (R7, R13), but most agree it lacks content and polish compared to JA2 (R1, R16). The developer's alleged behavior, including threatening to stop support if negative reviews weren't removed (R15), and the studio's closure (R14) further sour opinions. [7][13][1][16][15][14]
Praised combat mechanics · atmosphere
Criticised unfinished · buggy · poor AI · lack of content · developer behavior
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 8, 2026. Method
Reactions
60 of 194 · most liked firstAs Full Control has come to an end, not too long after the game's release, I cannot seriously recommend this game to anyone, not even hardcore JA fans or enthusiasts of the genre. If anything, this half-finished game will make them bawl their eyes out. The devs didn't deliver on many of their promises for the game, and it shows in the lack of features and game world interactions. Painfully minimal, there's no more banter between mercs, NPCs are jokes or avatars of backers who serve no real…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Small budget Kickstarter-funded game that is missing a lot of what made prior games in the series what they were. Underwhelming, but playable, ultimately completely undermined by the behavior of the studio behind it who have engaged in things like threatening to stop supporting the game if customers didn't remove negative Steam reviews. While those who backed this $20 USD game on kickstarter had to pay $25, I would say this game is worth buying perhaps at $5 and only, then, if you have nothing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1. Has about 15% of the content in JA2. 2. No feeling or caring about the mercs at all as done so well in JA2. 3. About the only real thing this has in common with JA2 or JA is some artwork and names of the mercs. 4. Not even a finished or complete game as a stand alone product, and a galaxy away from the awesome JA2. 5. One product I wish I could just get my money back. Now jaded about backing or early accessing anything at all. 6. It should be a crime to take a classic title of ANY…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok let's be honest here, I love Turn-Based games and I remember playing Jagged Alliance 2 when I was a kid.. But this here.... I tried, I really REALLY tried to like this game, but there is nothing to like about this game. It is shallow, not only shallow it is bare, empty... it is a empty void with few shells that are the "game". AI if one may even call it that way is next to non-existent. Enemies will just charge you head-on. Shops are only on several places, almost no loot, no interaction…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After reading all the negative reviews, I still decided to pick this game up, a year after its release - it's was on sale for about $4. It's arguably still not worth it, but is perhaps a better execution than Back in Action. The good: - Looks "better" than BiA, but also just barely better than JA2 - Improved camera over JA2, imho, ability to change perspective is a plus - Can create your own character, which make the story slightly more bearable - For the first hour or two it felt similar to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the first Jagged Alliance game I've played that I wanted to be over. At one point, I was only playing just for the tactical combat, which is a sad thing because as any JA fan knows, the game was about much, much more. Where the original franchise shone (JA, JA2, Deadly Games) was the attention to detail, the amazing voice acting and characterizations, the humor, strategic depth, the fact that all the mercs and NPCs felt "alive". It felt like you were in an interactive movie, not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could've been a good game. I love turn based strategy and have tried this a few times. I have fun while playing until the game starts sending enemies to my locations. Then a full on random number generator decides the fate of the battle. You might win, you might not, doesn't seem to depend too much on the skill nor gear of your troops. Quit a few times I needed to run across the whole map to reclaim my territory because my veterans with excellent gear were massacred. That made me stop…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought a box version of this today as it was on a 2 euro sale - not worth it... Pros: - a tactical shooter - some nice reference to characters from the classic JA2 - +1 to my game counter on Steam Cons: - dumb AI (just running in, shooting from miles away, not taking cover) - simple character stats and in some cases poor leveling mechanics (walking on an empty road incresed my stealth... yay?) - cover mechanic seems to work for you but very poorly for the enemies which makes it even easier to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What happened to Jagged Alliance: Flashback? What happened was that it didn't have a chance. Two things were working against this game: The sub-standard budget ($360,000 Kickstarter budget + however many sales this game got on Early Access at $30 minus royalties) and Full Control's developers, who have in the past turned the board game Space Hulk into Space Suck through a ham-handed understanding of the mechanics and lack of polish. The former is unfortunate - because of this, features had…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nothing would make me happier than knowing that nobody else ever bought this game. This is worse than Jagged Alliance online. This is worse than every other game made by this now defunct (thank god) company. It has the tactical depth of a visual novel and the visual style of your 4 year old brother's finger painting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I funded this game via Kickstarter, because the developers seemed to have understood what made the old Jagged Alliance such a great game. Unfortunately, they forgot about this very soon. This game does not feel like Jagged Alliance at all. As far is I understood the Kickstarter Updates, they never really finished this game. All the developers were put into the next project and one guy remained to somehow control the damage. So as a consequence, the game feels unfinished in every aspect. Even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i'll post a short one since many people already said what i wanted. As a backer i'm really disapointed. yes, it should have been a cheaper/smaller / not as sophisticated as JA2 was BUT i did not expect a crappy game that came out in a level of a late Alpha version. thank god for Wasteland 2 and maybe inexile will do justice one day and buy JA franchise and save it .
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I backed this on Kickstarter. As a long, long, long time fan of Jagged Alliance and Jagged Alliance 2/Unfinished Business, I plopped down $75. Now, I wasn't expecting a great game, keeping the Jagged Alliance legacy alive was worth it to me. I've crowd-funded several things (sleeping bag hammock, several movies, hiking gear, other video games, etc) and this is by far and away the only one I regret. I'm not a luddite, but there isn't the same intuitive feel to the game that JA demands. There's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even though I quite enjoyed playing this tilte, I simply cannot recommend it. Yes the combat was pretty good when attacking sectors but defending them was a chore. The AI was'nt the best, the interface clunky to say the least. I suppose it due lack of money and sales. The developer this week has annouced they are stopping developing more titles, and mainly supporting there other title Space Hulk Accession. You may get some enjoment if the title is dirt cheap, ie if like squad based TBS. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not a negative review, because I am a long time fan of the JA series and hate every developer that tries to innovate the formula and give us a game with more modern mechanics. I gave it a try, after all. This is a negative review, because it is a bad, unsupported (read: dead) and therefore overpriced game. And the fact that it is still up on Steam shows, that the devs still hope for unsuspecting fans to buy it. Don't buy this game for nostalgic reasons or for some of the positive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished it (on Hard and as a JA veteran) but despite "Thumb up" one of those games you rationally can't wholeheartedly recommend; 5/10 game and it has some serious problems: Really bad: - inventory! (in all possible levels) Bad: - AI - looting (lack of it) - interactions - feels unfinished - lack of content (about ~25% vs. modded JA2 GOLD) - lack of immersion via content Most of the salty JA veteran reviews are correct in a many parts. So how and why did I finish it and even recommend it?…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished, abandoned and what's there is not impressive. Save your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Following the recent release of Jagged Alliance 3, I thought of revisiting some of the spin-offs of the series that have come out through the years. Flashback was key among them. A kickstarter project promising a return to "the true spirit of this legendary series". Promising to let you, once more, manage a squad of unique mercenaries with crazy personalities through intense turn-based tactical battles. Promises, promises. So many promises. But making promises is easy, actually delivering is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quite horrible experience, in less than 2 hour test had 2 CTD's, there is no sidesteps, no ability to walk backward, interrupt doesn't seem to work very well, if at all. Even very buggy 7.62 HC is far better game than this. My final opinion is that if you love guns and JA2 like I do, you should stick with JA2 1.13 and hope that someday there will be worthy sequel! I mean how hard it is to make new graphics and some minor tweaks, you don't have to invent wheel again, it is already there!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't believe I forgot to downvote this piece of waste. People should stay as far away as possible from anything by FullControl. Disattended promises, blatant lies by the deves, and a "get it out and disappear" policy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I fell for the "more like the JA2 then the other new stuff" story. The truth is that its not even close. Can't climb rooftops, can't open or close doors, trees block your view so you can't even see what you are doing, Spirit's voice sounds like alien sex robot in stead of an african lady, AI is not even close to JA2.. which ran on a pentium 1.. If you are a fan of JA2.. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.. play JA2 again because the graphics of this one aren't even that much better and although the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does not live up to the Jagged Alliance experiance. While the 3d graphics were cool, the game play mechanics fall just short of JA1. If you are looking for something comparable to JA1 or JA2 this game is not for you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't understand how this game was EVER worth $20, and certainly not now that it's dead and unsupported. And I paid $85 to allegedly name a villain in it (via Kickstarter) and I'm betting that name never made it into the game, as so many other pledges went unfulfilled.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To Play or not to play? Hi Folks as a big JA Fan I testet the game and here are the results: JA Flashback is not as bad as the reviews say. I tell you the reason. First thing: as a JA2 fan you'll definitely get the Jagged Alliance gameplay Feeling .... that is for sure!!!!!!! negative: - I discovered some minor bugs; femals mercenaries go phrone on every start.... but you can change them easily ;) - you can not flee from combat, when enemies reenter a sector, therefore you have to play…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not quite what I was expecting from this franchise. Can't help but be annoyed when you're in a town that's attacked and, for some reason, you're no longer in the good cover position you put yourself in, but out in the open, laying down, facing away from the enemy that's spawned right behind you. Oh, and there's no chance to move before combat starts, so the goon gets free shots before you can make your move. When you finally take him down, rather than dropping the FAL, VSS or M82 he's been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jagged Alliance Flashback, Is a game that recieved a lot of beating due to the fact that it doesn't really feel like the first ones. Well, I can't agree with the fact that it's a bad thing. During a game of Jagged Alliance Flashback you do basically the same as in all other Jagged Alliance games. Free some poor nation from their evil ruler. Although it sounds corny and isn't very creative, it does work and provides a good environment for such a game. To free this unlucky nation, you've got…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i bought it $2 in Summer Sale, it's like XCOM for poor people :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →JA Flashback: Unfinished, Unsupported & Unloved. This is a turn based (JA1/JA2 style), squad size command, Turn-based RTS game using the Jagged Alliance theme. JA Flashback will forever be a Work In Progress. The game suffers from the small budget, funded by mostly JA fans in a tiny kickstarter campaign, and unloved by the Steam gaming hordes. Unable to port to console, Harsh Steam forum reviews and poor sales revenue have forced the developer to abandon the game. The only reason you would…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst Jagged Aliance ever!!!! That game is not worth a broken penny.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Complete and utter failure to deliver a playable game or any of the pledge items from the Kickstarter campaign. The game plays and looks like a high school project. The 1999 (!) original looks better and plays better in every way. Dark and ugly visuals, terrible story, limited game play options--there is literally nothing good to say about this game. Find V1.13 of the original and see what can be accomplished by unpaid community members compared to "professionals" paid $400, 000 to make…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →=> Linux version is BROKEN with infinite loading screen, IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAY<= => YES you read correctly, the game is UNPLAYABLE since it won't load <= Hit and run, they even managed to fully break the game (infinite loading) on their last patch they pushed "in between other work". It just shows how much they give a f c u k. Do Not Buy. There is cheaper and better out there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't even think of buying this. This game was the biggest waste of money and most disgusting early access ripoff in all my Steam history - and I made some really bad purchases. This bearing the name "Jagged Alliance" is just wrong. Shame, developers, shame!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished, incomplete and buggy. Developers have abandoned the game and won't open it up to the modding community. Deeply flawed storyline cannot be completed in some cases.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok I don't write reviews very often....I'd rather be working on my overflowing game backlog. But this one deserves some love since it seems to be getting a ton of hate. I've been a HUGE JA fan ever since I found a boxed copy of JA2 in a clearance bin over 12 years ago. I was really looking forward to this game but then was turned off by the horrid reviews that it received upon release. I decided to just wait for a Steam sale and pick it up cheap. I picked it up a few days ago and I'm…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →compared to jagged alliance returns, this is horrible ui and game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please someone do a decent JA or similar. That has COOP included. I think at the moment JABIA feels better. JA:F Feeks clunky, basic and fast paced. My mercs feel like they're in fast forward. UI is weird, but some ideas are good like the squad inventory and backpacks, legbags. Graphics are kinda cool but not sure they suit this game. Feels like playing Jagged Alliance Tropico. The Dev team for this has fallen apart sadly, but if it was fully completed it would be alright. Needs some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hi, i was playing in the 90s ja1 and so on.... this game is really a joke ! the old ja2 is much better ! you can demoliton walls or something there is no tnt in the game or other heavyweapons ( so the explosives skill is not even used only to throw granades ) you can not open doors or chests or build some kind of updates for you weapons ( so the mechanic skill is also not even used only to repair weapons ) the medic skill is not based on skill if you have 1skill point you can use bandages with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately compared to the old Jagged Alliance games this is quite simplified and has much worse usability. If you e.g. fell in love with Jagged Alliance 2 and want to relive that experience, this game is not for you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure why the reviews for this game are so bad, I liked the first two Jagged Alliance games and this one seems to capture the spirit of those games reasonably well in atmosphere and combat. The voice acting is a lot worse, the comedic/hammy accents of the mercs have been replaced with a lot more serious and boring dialogue. This doesn't make JA: Flashback a bad game, in the series I'd slide it into second place behind JA2 which was a phenomenal game. The combat difficulty seems to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sub-par to say the least for a Jagged Alliance game. Practically no mercenaries to choose from. Horrible camera system. You can't free move camera as it is set to one of four DIAGONALLY ANGLED views. Zoom in is limited to up and down; useless as it literally just goes on top of a merc's head and blocks out any possible chance of seeing anything. Being zoomed up as far as one can go still gives you such a barely visible field of view you're luckily to get killed because you can't see anything,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even that i only played around 1 hour..... it is enough to say as JA veteran player that this feels like an unfinished product and is still an early access game. Though it is playable, there seems to me not much development done since release. Unfortunatly the game deserves the negative reviews, but feel free to make your own mind, like i did.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just broken!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not ready yet. So unpolished. This is a shame. I beyond love JA series, and have replayed JA:2 many times and honestly I felt at first like this had a real chance and still does. They just aren't working on it. Did they get too much money? Did they decide to just say it's finished and walk away? This game could be amazing... Could be. It's not. Save your money, for now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros : Graphics look pretty Cons: Can't kick in or open doors, no roof top climbing to get a better shot, character pathing is abit wonky. I got it on sale so not really complaining but this game seems to lack the soul of the previous titles! Even Jagged Alliance Back in Action after it was modded got better so hopefully this one will to over time. Though thankfully GOG <Good Old Games> has the entire run of the past JA's in their library and I bought and play them alot.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I won't waste a lot of time or space on this one. This game is quite literally 'abandonware' in that the company making it released an unfinished, buggy, terrible version of this game before promtply going out of business. Avoid this one at all costs and just play JA2 instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The least worst JA title in 15 years? Where to start... It was an amateur Kickstarter that spent only a year in development. Unfortunately, that shows just about everywhere. The game opens with you as an the sole survivor of a covert CIA mission to assassinate a drug kingpin on his island. A servicable plot, but rather than use a cut scene or even a slideshow, this is presented in a popup. *All* of the non-essential NPCs were given away as Kickstarter rewards, so towns are populated by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At the least its something to play but pretty garbage compared to the original even the updated graphics kinda suck theres isnt any stealth. The weapons and inventory management is alright I guess but the specialties are no longer like auto weapons or night ops theyre pretty garbage too. Cant open and close doors or interact with the environment like you could in the original. Control feel weird too overall im happy i paid 75% off because I had paid full price for this I would be mad right…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Want a preview of the quality of this disgrace of the Jagged Alliance name without wasting your money on it? Take a look at the graphics for the steam achievements.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game should have been removed from Steam. It's early access abandonware that has tarnished a once solid brand (JA).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play JA2 with Mods or Brigade 7.62 with the Blue Sun Mod http://www.bluesunmod.webs.com/ Jagged Alliance Flashback is a waste of money and time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried twice to get into this game. I could not force myself to enjoy it, even if I really wanted to. I am a huge fan of the original games and the wild fire expansion/mod. This game has NOTHING to do with the original- just a vague similarity in the overview map and type of game. This was a stinker of a game that only has the large variety of guns going for it. Uninteresting and unengagin story, no humor ( despite the admittedly awesome original trailer for the game), bland, boring,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the worse game I've ever played. The graphics are not very good and the promises the developers have made have not been delivered
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just after one hour one thing is clear: I'm gonna go play JA2 1.13. Right now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a Kickstarter backer I had a lot of hopes for this project, but I also tempred my expectations with the knowledge that a small team which only just made it's KS target was going to have a hard time pulling off the 'game of my dreams'. The beta process was excellent, and being able to provide direct feedback has I feel made this a better game, bugs were fixed and gameplay improved drastically due to our testing. Now that it's out I'm happy to say its an eminently playable Turn Based squad…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute rubbish. This has totally ruined the JA games!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is dissapointing, I feel bad for supporting it. JA:2 With the community patch is thousands of times better than this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Considering my high expectations this game is a complete failure. Lack of everything if you have been enjoying Jagged Alliance 2. A waste of time and money for sure...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DONT BUY IT! It is not a good game at all....I bought it in hopes of being JA2 with some better graphics, but NOPE! Not even close....This was just designed to rob poor JA fans and abuse the title....DISGUSTING!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A poorly finished and undeveloped promise of a game...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All in all, this game really conjures up the atmosphere of the classic Jagged Alliance 2. That said, there are lots of small annoyances, that hopefully get patched as time goes by. First of all, the game crashes regularly on my Mac. Secondly, there are several minor annoyances in-game: Whenever my soldiers enter a sector, their order is randomized and some are standing and some are crouching. Some icons are really small and barely clickable (like sector information/militia training). The UI…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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