Posted on: March 5, 2025
betasso
Verified ownerGames: 95 Reviews: 1
Amazing Game!
I love this game so much! Specially the strategy part
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Phantom Doctrine
Description
Phantom Doctrine is a strategic turn-based espionage thriller set at the peak of the Cold War. Drawing on a wide variety of influences and capturing the subtle intrigue of classic spy films, the game thrust the player into a mysterious world of covert operations, counterintelligence, conspiracy and paranoia.
As the leader of a secret organization known only as The Cabal, you are charged with preventing a global conspiracy that seeks to pit leader against leader, and nation against nation. By carrying out secret missions, investigating classified files, and interrogating enemy agents, a sinister plot is uncovered. With the clock ticking, it must be thwarted in order to save the world from an unthinkable fate.
As the leader of a secret organization known only as The Cabal, you are charged with preventing a global conspiracy that seeks to pit leader against leader, and nation against nation. By carrying out secret missions, investigating classified files, and interrogating enemy agents, a sinister plot is uncovered. With the clock ticking, it must be thwarted in order to save the world from an unthinkable fate.
- A Deep Single-Player Story Campaign: the 40+ hour single-player campaign mode features a rich, gripping plot woven with numerous historical events and characters to bring the terrifying reality of the Cold War to life from a unique perspective.
- Next-generation turn-based combat: offers unprecedented flexibility of movement and actions, including variable Overwatch modes and assault-oriented Breach ability.
- Expanded battlefield: assets can be positioned around the world, enabling you to call for assistance in the heat of battle. But the enemy can also bring in reinforcements, including heavy weapons and even air support. Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
- Knowledge is power: Improve your chances of success by infiltrating mission locations with undercover operatives. Attempt to stay one step ahead of enemy agents, who are also preparing to spring their own devious traps.
- Lurk in the shadows with fully-fledged stealth gameplay: Clandestine operations can be completed with suppressed weapons, silent takedowns and cutting edge Cold War technology.
- Take charge of the crucial counterintelligence operation: Recruit from both the KGB and the CIA, the criminal fraternity, or even utilise the unique talents of subjects of secret government experiments. Weapons, resources and contacts can be secured around the globe, enabling you to command from afar. But if the situation requires a hands-on approach, you will be locked, loaded and ready to fight.
- Innovative Investigation Board: Utilizing a classic pinboard and string approach, the Investigation Board is the hub from where cases, locations and individuals can be researched to reveal new missions, resources and technologies. In Phantom Doctrine, investigation and intel is an active and vital element of success.
- Multiplayer Battles: lose friends and make new enemies in ruthless online multiplayer matches. Experience the deviousness and lethality of Phantom Doctrine in easily-accessible and action-packed 1v1 skirmishes.
- Utilize ruthless Technology: New capabilities can either be stolen from the enemy or researched yourself, and then ruthlessly used to your advantage. Often experimental and morally dubious, brainwashing, interrogation, body engineering and chemical enhancement are all fair game as you extract information by any means necessary.
- Fully customizable character creation: Operatives can be customized each time they need a new identity. Change their appearance, forge their documents, train them in the deadly arts and send them back into the field.
- Carefully Designed handcrafted levels: The combination of large, handcrafted maps and meticulous, smart design ensures great visual and gameplay variety. Travel the world of the 1980s in the grip of the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
- Replayable modular campaign: a wide array of mechanics ensures markedly different playthroughs. A unique experience is guaranteed by randomly generated character names and backgrounds, algorithmically populated and adapted maps, and randomized intelligence snippets.
- A spy thriller from two different points of view: Play as either a former KGB counterintelligence operative or a renegade CIA wet work commando. Each has to come to terms with the truth and challenge the global conspiracy. Complete the campaign to be rewarded with an additional protagonist in Extended Playthrough.
- No mission is too big or too small: whether infiltrating a busy government facility to surgically assassinate a target, or mounting a full frontal assault on an enemy base. With a plethora of optional objectives, additional loot and intelligence to collect, it is only up to you how complex each mission will be. Your decisions make all the difference.
Popular achievements
Lootcrates are Forever
Collect all loot and documents on a single tactical level.
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52.03%
Bite the Bullet
Survive an ambush.
common
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36.4%
Tailor
Change an agent's identity.
common
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46.45%
Tactical Plunder
Loot 50 containers on tactical levels.
common
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30.24%
Conspiracy Revealed
Solve a secret file.
common
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54%
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Multiplayer notice: Phantom Doctrine features crossplay matches that you can play with your friends no matter where the game was purchased (PC only).
Multiplayer notice: Please note that GOG GALAXY is required to access Multiplayer.
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.
Recommended system requirements:
Multiplayer notice: Phantom Doctrine features crossplay matches that you can play with your friends no matter where the game was purchased (PC only).
Multiplayer notice: Please note that GOG GALAXY is required to access Multiplayer.
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.
Time to beat
34.5 hMain
54.5 h Main + Sides
110 h Completionist
53 h All Styles
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Game Informer
8/10
Phantom Doctrine demands the patience and calculation of a cold-blooded assassin, but the methodical style of play is rewarding
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7.4/10
The campaign itself can feel drawn out at times thanks to a less-than-stellar story and some obviously recycled content, but there's a real thrill in executing covert missions and putting all the pieces together like a master spy.
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7/10
An inspired XCOM clone, whose spy movie atmosphere inspires an emphasis on stealth rather than action – which is a good job given the somewhat flawed combat.
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Posted on: March 10, 2025
plantdaddy1993
Verified ownerGames: 16 Reviews: 2
Turn based stealth
super cool turn base game alot like pheonix point and xcom which i absolutely love. diffeerrent atmosphire which is nice! deff would by it on sale or at full price also just dic=scovered GOG and am in love. peace friends
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Posted on: September 6, 2025
polysquirrel
Verified ownerGames: 285 Reviews: 28
More for fans of stealth than strategy
Hear me out: real-time tactics stealth, but turn-based! Do you love Commandos and Shadow Tactics, but find them too punishing, too stressful, or too save-scummy? Or maybe you have played them all, or just want something to enjoy at a slower pace? This is it. Like X-Com, the game has turn-based, square-grid tactical squad missions, and a 'whole world' part with simple base building and threat management. That's where the similarities end. The tactical part, which makes the core of the experience, is the opposite of X-Com and closer in feel to mentioned real time tactics. in X-Com, mechanics heavily incentivize you to join the fight ASAP, with the goal of defeating the aliens. In PD, the goal of the mission is almost always some sort of 'get into those places' mechanic - freeing informers, planting explosives and so on. Most can be completed without hurting anyone, although it is advisable to kill or capture enemy agents. Your squad starts in infiltration mode, and once you break stealth, infinite waves of reinforcements *will* overwhelm you if you don't get out of the way quickly. So, the safest and most rewarding approach is to patiently avoid raising suspicion for as long as possible. In reality, unless you keep reloading, combat is unavoidable, and body armor allows you to be more kinetic if you want at the cost of immediately raising an alarm when seen, even in unrestricted areas. If you intend to fight, you still need to position yourself carefully, strike fast and strike hard, and evacuate soon thereafter. Killing guards one by one will make them look for you and they won't stop. The game sells very strong spy story vibes well, including an almost purely fluffy (aside from rewards) mechanic of collecting intel during missions and then connecting it on a cork board. Overall, I enjoyed it much more than X-Com. It is, however, much less crunch-y, and your experience may be different if you just want bite-sized pieces of tactical combat.
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Posted on: October 12, 2020
esspe2003
Verified ownerGames: 82 Reviews: 3
a fun, albiet slow, romp
This game is a ton of fun. It needs to played inside of its own rules and mechanics, but i enjoyed the pace of it. The only aspect i didnt enjoy was the overtly from the start combat missions. If things get to combat you have failed already. I can add, with no reservation, that the final level of this game is excellent. It was a great crown on finale. The intelligence part of the game is worth the price of admission, i love the strings and connecting the info on the bulletin boards.
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Posted on: July 28, 2025
ZeroIce
Verified ownerGames: 563 Reviews: 7
Get Showgunners instead
I played Showgunners and like it a lot. I wanted to play something similar and bought Phantom Doctrine from the same developer. I was surprised how bad is Phantom Doctrine. It sais that it's like XCOM but with spies. Sounds fun... But it's just sounds. 1. Missions have unlimited enemies that come from the side of the map again and again and... You cannot take them down. 2. Missions have areas that you shouldn't visit or it will rise the alarm and you will fail. 3. It has base building and the game doesn't give you any idea what should you build first. Just try and see. If you fail, you can start the new game. 4. It has world map and no info how to use it, but it has warning that if you do something wrong, you have to start the new game. I think it's a bad game design if you need to google correct build order for the base, correct missions order of global map and correct walk through for missions OR try and fail many times to find the rules. Just get Showgunners from same developer abd enjoy good turn-based tactics.
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