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Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is a gritty RTS that puts you in the middle of the Future Wars between humanity and Legion's synthetic intelligent machine network. Take command and lead your army to foil…

76 21 February 2024

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Slitherine, released 21 February 2024 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Slitherine and released in 2024. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is a gritty RTS that puts you in the middle of the Future Wars between humanity and Legion's synthetic intelligent machine network. Take command and lead your army to foil Legion's plan to destroy humanity or play as one of three factions in skirmish and multiplayer.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Terminator series

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance is the 45th of 50 entries we hold in the Terminator series. It arrived 2 years after Terminator: Resistance - Annihilation Line. The next entry was Mortal Kombat 1: T-1000 in 2025. Its critic score of 76 is 13 points above the series average of 63. The highest-rated entry is The Terminator: Future Shock at 84.

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How it was received

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance launched on 21 February 2024, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Balatro, Helldivers 2 and Persona 3 Reload. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Balatro, Helldivers 2, Persona 3 Reload.

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When did Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance come out?
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance was released on 21 February 2024 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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