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7.4 hours at review395 people found this helpful
Black Squad
Black Squad offers competitive and casual modes alongside solo and multiplayer matches, suiting players after variety in a military shooter. The game is free to play, so $0.00 at 
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01About Black Squad
Black Squad is a free-to-play military first-person shooter where you battle across varied maps in modes such as Team Deathmatch, Demolition, and ranked matches. Choose from a broad weapon selection and play solo or with others. Steam players rate it 75%% positive across 81,196 reviews. The Steam PC version was released on June 26, 2019. The interface supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese-Brazil, Japanese, Thai, Turkish, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish-Latin America.
Credits
Developer
VALOFE · NS STUDIO
Publisher
VALOFE
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$0.002023-08-12 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| German | Yes | Yes | — |
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| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | Yes | — |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Thai | Yes | Yes | — |
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| Korean | Yes | Yes | — |
| Portuguese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Spanish-Latin America | Yes | Yes | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Modes
Black Squad is a free-to-play military first-person shooter with solo and multiplayer modes, including competitive play, Team Deathmatch, and Demolition.
Language and controls
The Steam PC version lists English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese interface support. Full English audio is listed; controller support is unspecified.
03Frequently asked questions
Can I play alone?
Yes. The description mentions solo ranked mode as well as solo performance.
Does it have multiplayer?
Yes. The description lists clan wars, team modes, and duo competitive play.
Can items be earned through play?
The description says every item can be earned by playing.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Not recommendedSteam player
Update 1/24/2018 Neowiz hired CMs aka gestapo who have no knowledge of the game and probably dont even play it to police the social media and community in the game. 5 months later still has been 0 actual patches to the game other than shipping skin related content from korea. NA scene is all but dead and servers have degraded to an almost unplayable point. Pretty sure BattleEye is not working or even on anymore they probably stopped paying for it since it's expensive and they clearly don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about this game. I would need to see some serious evidence to show BE is actually implemented and working because when I do occasionally hop on there are pretty blatant togglers/wallers going on. Neowiz Paid streamers to play the game but continue to ignore their already existing streamer base who been at it since day 1. They did finally add a section on discord that tells you when partners are streaming but it's in an obscure location with no notifcation so unless you scroll all the way down to see it you'll never know it's there. Meanwhile if any staff go live on their "personal channels" that have nothing to do with the game theyll tweet that ♥♥♥♥ out and spam it all over partner/official disord in everyones face. I highly advice anybody looking into this game to stay away. Neowiz has made their intention as a company clear and BTW this game has been dead on Korea since 2016. They had a 4 month contract to broadcast the competitive matches but it died out because no one gave a ♥♥♥♥ about it. This game is as DEAD on Korea server as it is NA. Just brought this up because seen lot misinformed people talking about how this games a Esport in korea. IT was for 4 months.. 2 years ago and their game has drastically different mechanics than our which include weapon tagging that we don't have. Any streamers who got contacted about streaming this game please actually research the kind of ♥♥♥♥ you're advertising and read. Subject to change. So after 300+ hours decided to finally do a review. Also keep in mind most of the positive reviews are people with Sub 3 hours play time. That's like... 5-6 Games and some menu camping. Also lot of the higher hour reviews are done by the developers and Moderators trying to fluff their own reviews... Atleast change your names and try to hide it's you.. NOTLIKETHIS. positives: -Free -Will have steam market integration soon hopefully so I can sell my skins and get my money back for wasting so much time with this game. -Has potential to be a great game. -Great for Casual players who don't want a game with high learning curve like CS or OW Negatives: -Korean company that almost tanked after ruining the original game in korea farming money with this version -Early access despite Korean version being out for 2 years so just another excuse to deliver half finished product and slowly milk money out of us -Competitive scene is 5% known cheaters 94% failed rejects who couldn't make it outa ESEA open who quit CSGO/Siege/OW to be mediocre in this low skill ceiling FPS. 1% are actually good solid players but they know better then to take this game overly seriously. -QM has no rating system and half time you're 1v5ing. Solo players get qued into full 5 stacks pretty much on regular -Game has progressively gotten worse with every update and last 2-3 updates were nothing but Skins/Gun additions/Cash Box changes. While the servers get worse and worse and NA server is riddled with Asian players despite them having their own server -Ping... so the netcode in the game caters to high ping compensation allowing people with 80+ ping to have a peeker advantage over everyone else. This is why the Asian community feels its necessary to play on the NA servers despite having 300+ ping because it allows them to basically see you first and shoot you first through walls and other objects not to mention they teleport across your screen and damage dump you. Developers seem to be at an impossible junction where if they Region lock QM servers they lose a majority of their games playerbase which is Asia by all accounts. -Game was more competitive and Esport ready in the early beta phases and has progressively become more and more casual with the removal of recoil patterns and Tagging. Skill ceiling for the game is extremely low which is why there are so many self proclaimed "pros" in the game atm who are C- 8 RWS career ESEA players in a real game called Counter strike. -Tactical depth to the game is severely lacking as the Maps designs are some of the worse I've ever seen. Questioning whether the map designer for this product has even played a competitive shooter before. Smokes and Flashbangs have limited use making the majority of the game 1:1 Aim duels. Meaning the compeitive potential for this game is extremely low and most likely will get boring and old after a 2-3 month binge then die out. -Community managers ♥♥♥♥ ride established well known streamers and content producers who play the game for maybe 1 day then never touch it again. They also ♥♥♥♥ rode a team of known Cheaters who cheated people out of cup wins for almost a month and were given free items only to later be banned by Battle Eye *FacePalm*. Let's not even start at the unprofessional weekly twitch stream they do where they spend 60% of the stream ♥♥♥♥ talking negative reviews on the steam page. -Instead of taking feedback from the higher level competitive players they continue to just do random game changes that make 0 sense like removing Tagging from all the guns in the game during the Closed beta and making 80% of the guns laser beams. -Early Cash boxes were extremely rigged and later the developers even admitted to it and slowly began increasing rewards drastically from the boxes but failed to compensate any of the early box openers who spent money basically screwing over a large majority of the community. -30 tick rate servers... Word is the new competitive channel will have higher tick rate and be better overall servers than whats currently been given to us but every patch the servers get worse and worse and I've even teleported randomly with 20 ping before. Not sure if this is related to the extra strain the server goes through to host all the 300+ ping players who still haven't been locked out of the server they dont belong in yet. -Community expresses how much it hates SMG and how they ruin the game and Developers respond by adding another SMG into the game a week later and actually somehow messing up a patch that was literally 95% skins + 1 gun and the gun had old coding from closed beta where tagging was still implemented. Overall: I've invested into the game and hoped for its pontential to shine through. Things started off great but it's becomming more and more clear that the priority for Neowiz is the Korean version. This is just a cash grab in order to get the Korean version pumping again. How Steam can allow them to market this as Early access when all the content is already created and existing in the Korean version that has existed for over 2 years is beyond me. The games skill celing is low and to be honest most of the actual good players have already quit. The only people who are gonna continue to grind this game are going to be the casual players and the low skill players who find success here because of the low skill ceiling. Most of the predictions I made about this game have come true. Playerbase is slowly decreasing more and more everyday and I don't see this Game making it past January with any more than 3-4k players which is a 70% decrease from what it started with. By the time the game maybe becomes competitive ready and starts actually hosting competitive leagues and tournaments with proper Anti cheat and prize money it'll most likely be too late and this'll just become another AVA or SF2 and have a very small dedicated competitive scene of slightly above average players who seem to flock to these f2p shooters like flies to a steamy pile of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.Show moreShow less
414.8 hours at review554 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
-Starts game -Does Tutorial -Ok -Sees in-game money -200k ok i guess guns are 400k-600k -Guns 80k-192k -WAT!? -Buys 2 super good guns who already have everything on them (scope,grenade launcher) -Didnt have to play the game to get good guns have them already at lvl 1 -Still have 30K left -Everyday by just playing 15k in-game money -Ok -Easy 10/10 After checking ♥♥♥♥ out i can assure u EVERYTHING AND I MEAN EVERYTHING "cough" except skins "cough" CAN BE BOUGHT WHIT IN-GAME MoneyShow moreShow less
6 hours at review321 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
Review from a competitive style player, +400 hours played. Positives: +Free +No pay to win +Responsive movement and aim +Generally the game runs well with good fps (couple map exceptions) Negatives: -Incompetent devs on a mission to make money by porting empty content from the Korean version instead of actual development -Toxicity increasing and clunky clan mechanic instead of proper ranked matchmaking -High ping gives you advantage (+ping limit is over 300 before they [sometimes] get kicked) -Broken sounds (game-breaking silent falling, horrible positional audio) -Mediocre, even horrible map designs -No map queue, no map veto -Unrewarding, basically nonexistent (ranked) rank system -Recent spike in amount of cheaters and abusers, devs slow or don't act -No in-game reporting -No spectate -Poor practice opportunities for teams due to custom game limitations -Laughable skin system with horrible drop rates, no steam marketplace, 100% useless pity currency (BS coins) from boxes (couple percentages of the craft value as the best drop) -Totally unrewarding and poorly planned community events, prizes for winners are insulting, often equal to couple euros in monetary value (to give more context, proper skins in this game take upwards of 100 euros to acquire per skin, and they can't be sold for any money back) -Often awful quick game match balancing -Flashbangs are totally useless If you look for a competitive experience, do yourself a favor and don't make the mistake of investing time and money in this game.Show moreShow less
413.3 hours at review381 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
TL;DR at the bottom! Ah yes, yet another Free-To-Play online FPS game... I'll be honest, I wasn't really expecting a lot from this game, that being said, I was pleasantly surprised. Let's address the elephant in the room, that being the cash shop and premium items. Yes, there is premium stuff, no, there is nothing you can buy to give you a stat advantage. The only thing money will buy is a currency called Bullets, which are just skin crates. that's it, so far. It's wayy too early to tell if this will evolve into something more sinister, time will tell on that front. Since that is out of the way, on to the rest of my unduely long review! Graphically this game looks pretty nice, animations are good, the maps follow their own colour palettes, some are brown and grey, some more colourful. Overall map design is all very simple and easy to get a hold of, the maps are easy to learn and navigate. Textures look good, haven't seen anything blurry or that stands out as weird, the graphical design is all very coherent if not a bit dull. The guns look very nice and tacticool. Sounds are good, there are a couple music tracks and they're decent enough, mostly rock\metal style music, some songs sound a little bit quiter than others but it's nothing major. Gun sounds are everywhere from unique and good sounding to mediocre and bland. The starter pistol sounds like an airsoft gun. However you can generally tell the weapon type being fired pretty easily. Footsteps are loud as hell, making walking a very important tactic to employ since it'll make you completely silent. Gameplay is very reminiscent of Call of Duty meets Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. If you played any of these titles, you'll feel very comfortable in this game. The guns have almost no recoil making assault rifles feel very samey, they mostly are the same aside from varying stats, such as one rifle might do more damage with a slower rate of fire and smaller magazine size, while the other has a much large mag size, and fires faster but has lower damage. The available primary weapons are Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Sniper Rifles, LMGs and Designated Marksman Rifles (DMRs). They're all very straight forward, however shotguns in this game are brutal, they can take someone out with a single shot from quite far away, they have barely noticable recoil, and they fire quickly. Basically, matches, especially in Demolitions, will come down to who has the most KSG shotguns on their team, and who sees who first. Game modes are fairly straight forward. You have good ol' Team Deathmatch which is addictive. Demolition 8v8 & 5v5 which is identical to DE defuse game modes in CS:GO, minus the buying. Assassination, where one team defends a VIP (controlled by a brain dead AI, mind you.) that can die in like 4 shots, as he waddles to a helicopter. The other team has to kill the enemy team and the VIP, or kill the VIP and extract from their own helicopter. This mode is very... meh. It's out of place and not fun. And last, but not least, Battle Match, where you have to work with your team to destroy the enemy base, which are giant supply crates or something. This mode is where classes come into play, and it's pretty hectic and clearly the main gamemode. It's okay, it's certainly one of the better modes. The maps for it are quite large as well, which is nice. The combat is very, very fast. The time-to-kill in this game is intensely low, and fire-fights rarely last more than a couple seconds. Pretty much every weapon kills in 2 - 1 headshot, in some cases like the shotguns and close range, headshots aren't even needed to take someone out in a split second. Grenades in this game, unlike CS:GO, are lethal. While easy to avoid, catching one will seriously injure or just outright kill you from full health. There is "sprinting" in this game, but it's just pulling your knife out ala CS. However the interesting thing here is you have the option to hold a button to take your knife out, and then swap back to the last weapon you had upon button release. It acts like a sort of sprint button, very different feature I've never seen before. Knives themselves are just 1-hit kills if you manage to land a stab, 2 - 3 hits if you just swing it. In-Game Store is where you purchase weapons and stuff like that, and I was pleasantly surprised with it. There is really nothing to buy with actual money, and they give you a LOT of cash to start with. You get 215k just for starting and doing the tutorial, guns range from 96k - 192k, and they are permenant, no repairs or anything like that, once you own a gun, you keep it forever and can use it forever. Cash is very easy to earn, you get 15K just for logging in each day, 20K or so for dailies, and around 800 for each match completed. You also have weeklies. They award Medals which let you purchase more novelty items, like player cards, side-arms, skins and stuff like that. A Desert Eagle costs 1,500 medals, after only about 15 matches I had a little over 1,000, so it's not hard to obtain. Overall, the store is quite nice, the menus are a bit hard to navigate, though. It remains to be seen if this game will turn P2W, only time will tell. Community ohhhh boy, the community... It's already really bad. Very toxic, a vast majority of the people you play with are actual children, racial slurs, hostility at the slightist provocation, you name it, this community has it. I highly suggest not interacting with the people in this game, for your own sanity, and the safety of your braincells. TL;DR It's very nice if not a little graphically bland, it's a very small game (only 4.3 gigs) and doesn't require a sign up, the combat is pretty intense and fun, it runs fairly smooth, no pay-to-win as of yet, no timed guns or BS like that, the guns are easy to earn, the gamemodes are alright, but the community is incredibly immature.Show moreShow less
18.5 hours at review303 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
3000+ hours in Black Squad,and i don't recommend playing this game. Devs don't care about cheaters. Don't even try to play competitive,there are like 30+ wallhackers and minimum 10 aimbots. If you're trying to report a player,devs need like 2 months,to check the player and ban him. But it's only if he's aimbot. Wallhackers never get banned in black squad. Noregs- there are always no-registered shots,and they won't fix this. If your ping is 100+ You will get like 10 + noregs every game. Updates - always the same updates,skins,skins,sometimes new guns,new map.. New maps and weapons always bad. NA servers are dead. There is only Left EU AND ASIA. if you're NA player,you gonna play in EU server with 120+ ping. About competitive - there are always the same rewards,same calling cards. If you're top100 you will get different knife,but same calling cards with same text,everything same.. I reported like 5 cheaters,but no one got banned,because they answer me " We will investigate the player further" After 3 months,player still not banned and using clearly wallhack. It was the trading system , everyone traded the skins,it was amazing! But they removed the trading system. Good luck everyone! have a great day!Show moreShow less
2,975 hours at review226 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☑ Human ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☑ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovley ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☑ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs Amazing Game.Show moreShow less
36.3 hours at review288 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Not recommendedSteam player
It took me a while to write this review as I was on the fence on whether I could recommend this game to a friend, or not. I eventually came to the realization that I cannot recommend this to a friend in it's current state. I really enjoy this game personally, but due to certain issues which arise in competitive game play that this game does nothing to address I cannot in good faith recommend anyone pick this game up, when the competition this game has (other titles) address these issues. Black squad is a free to play competitive tactical shooter developed in Korea with the goal of not offering an edge to those who chose to support the game with money. Everything aside from cosmetic items can be earned inside the game with enough playtime. This, black squad does well, and I have no complaints with as they've done a good job in doing so. Nothing is too unbalanced, and the devs change guns as needed to keep this balance. The main con this game has going for it, is the same con that most free to play shooters have. They allow access to players not included in their region allowing an unfair advantage to those playing outside the server area, and they have a poor anti cheat system in place. These seem like small complaints, but when the game markets itself as a competitive tactical shooter those two aspects need focused more than the next weapon or map being added. On any given day during morning time in NA, 250 is the average ping of the people playing on NA servers: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1117520323 Their also also quite a few cheats floating around for the game, that have been here since launch. I'm not here to point any fingers, but those who are blatant stay active within the game with no seen repercussions. The worst part about this is no in game offered support to report said players. We all know cheats are a thing when it comes to any game, but at least give us the option to tell the devs which players are suspicious, so action can be taken against those players instead of having to fight them multiple times through matches throughout game. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1113860532 I know the game is still in early access, but if the devs implement changes to these regards I will update my review accordingly. The game has potential, but is in a pretty bad state at the moment. IF these issue don't get addressed soon, I don't forsee a future for this title. I can't honestly say I want to invest too much time into a game that might not exist in 6 months. Most of the time, what keeps this style of games alive is the community. With the state the game is in now, there isn't much of a community. TL:DR Game play is awesome, but is suppressed by the issues that community makes clear that development doesn't address. Without serious changes I cannot recommend this game with other titles like Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Rainbow 6, Dirty Bomb and Blacklight Retribution exist.Show moreShow less
114.4 hours at review193 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
RecommendedSteam player
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8.5 hours at review275 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
This was a very good FPS, but i started to think the devs acidentaly made a good game bcuz they have the worst support ever, now they don't fix the game, is only skins, skins and skins every update. Game is full of hackers, bugs and netcode problems. I miss the good times of Black Squad, but looks like it will be just memories, sad but i dont recommend anyone right now to play this gameShow moreShow less
769.5 hours at review138 people found this helpful
Written during Early Access
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/14/2026.