GROUND BRANCH

BlackFoot Studios / Jul 16, 2026 / Action, Indie, Simulation

windows
Steam Deck Playable

120 playing now

That's more people than live in the Pitcairn Islands.

From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.

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What's new

Build Update #068: V1.0 Hotfix 3

2026-08-25

Here’s another little hotfix to continue our pass on performance and general bug-fixing: • Rebalanced AI difficulty settings (Untrained through Veteran) to offer a better experience. • Adjusted sway, recovery, and exhaustion systems to work together. Players should see a noticeable improvement in weapon sway when not jumping or sprinting. • Further optimizations for map Outpost. • Set default value for PIP Scope Resolution Scale (Settings › Video › Advanced › Textures) to 0.5. • Fixed Docter II and RMR sights not aligning properly on MK3 pistol. • Adjusted character mesh LOD levels to improve performance. • Tweaked differences between low, medium, and high shadow quality to improve performance at lower settings. • Disabled volumetric fog in all levels — this will return as a dedicated setting.

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• Fixed blocking volume in Compound‘s main house 1st floor kitchen preventing AI from behaving as expected. • Retooled the VOIP component for GROUND BRANCH’s in-game voice system. • Removed helicopter from City. • Various minor performance-related changes. We hope to have more updates for you soon!

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What players say

Very Positive

83% positive, 17,098 reviews

Not recommended148 hrs played

Slapped a 1.0 on it and removed tons of still blank UI from features that were never included but always promised. Also terrible with the community unless you're in the clique. Operator for all it's faults in very early beta is still pulling ahead and includes features promised *well* over a decade ago from Black Foot. For those who don't know the timeline: Ground branch has been in development since Arma 3 launched....

385 found this helpful, 2026-07-31

Not recommended276 hrs played

GROUND BRANCH: AMATEUR HOUR Few games embody wasted potential like Ground Branch. Born from the minds of ex–Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon developers, it had every reason to become the modern benchmark for tactical realism — a thinking man’s shooter in the Call of Duty era. Yet over a decade later, the project remains nothing more than a tech demo. Half-finished systems, dozens of rewrites 'from the ground up', and...

366 found this helpful, 2026-08-06

Not recommended55 hrs played

The version number says 1.0 but the bipods still say non-functional and the campaign is still in development and AI teammates are still completely absent.

368 found this helpful, 2026-07-17

Not recommended