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Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2014

Should you play it?

Experience a true classic! This Gold edition includes the original Jagged Alliance plus the add-on Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games. Take a trip into retro land and learn why this is considered to be one the best turn-based games of all times.

What works

  • Deep tactical gameplay and strategy
  • Memorable mercenary personalities and voice acting
  • High replayability and nostalgia factor
  • Complex resource and team management
  • Includes original game plus deadly games expansion

Things to keep in mind

  • Dated graphics and user interface
  • Steep learning curve with no tutorial
  • Some bugs and technical issues
  • Slow pacing and clunky controls
  • Limited multiplayer and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Home Behind 2

  • Those Who Rule

  • The Three Kingdoms: The Tales of Jian An

  • 7,62 High Calibre

  • Silent Storm Gold Edition

  • Rebel Cops

More fantastical

Games that feels like Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition but with more imaginative fiction

  • Dark Deity 2

  • Our Adventurer Guild

  • Horizon's Gate

  • Queen's Wish: The Conqueror

  • The Iron Oath

  • Kingsvein

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Disciples Sacred Lands Gold

  • Disciples II: Rise of the Elves

  • Disciples II: Gallean's Return

  • Space Empires V

  • Mirror Mysteries

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026