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Radio General

2020

Should you play it?

It's WWII. You're a general sitting in a tent. All you have is a map, and a radio. Can you win the battle? Radio General is a unique strategy game where you interact with your units over the radio using speech recognition. Test your mettle and relive famous battles as a WWII general.

What works

  • Innovative voice command gameplay
  • Strong historical accuracy and archival content
  • Engaging tactical strategy with fog of war
  • Co-op mode and map editor for replayability
  • Immersive atmosphere and unit progression

Things to keep in mind

  • Voice recognition can be inconsistent with accents
  • Campaign length is relatively short
  • Some minor bugs and ui quirks
  • Limited unit customization and expression
  • Occasional repetitive audio and voice acting

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Medieval Kingdom Wars

  • Hex of Steel

  • Expeditions: Viking

  • Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

  • Field of Glory: Kingdoms

  • Fire & Maneuver

Less social

Games that feels like Radio General but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

  • Total Tank Generals

  • Master of Command

  • Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg

  • Strategic Mind: The Pacific

  • Unity of Command II

More fantastical

Games that feels like Radio General but with more imaginative fiction

  • 8-Bit Invaders!

  • Colony Siege

  • Popup Dungeon

  • BattleGroupVR

  • Zero-K

  • Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

More dominating

Games that feels like Radio General but with more domination over others

  • Rising Lords

  • Oriental Empires

  • Making History: The Great War

  • Steel Division 2

  • Making History: The Calm & the Storm

  • ICBM: Escalation

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Radio General: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026