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Hair Trigger – Education Game Review
Hair Trigger is a Education/Strategy/Simulation game from Sigma Games LLC, first launched in 17th July 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 39+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hair Trigger Stand Out
You are the newly elected President of the United States. Your job: Take 1,700 nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert in the U.S. and Russia, to reduce the risk of nuclear Armageddon.
Negotiate with Russia, manage real-life nuclear close calls, and use your political clout to prevent a global nuclear catastrophe.
Developed with leading national security and nuclear experts, Hair Trigger takes you behind-the-scenes at the White House with a set of advisors giving sometimes-conflicting advice. Come and find out: Do you have what it takes to save the world?
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hair Trigger is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th October 2020
Recent improvements include:
Fixed some minor typos
Download & Availability
Hair Trigger is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is a very good game based on true events. But why not allow for a second strike during radar suggesting that nuclear missiles were mid-air? Firing your entire arsenal just to find out it was a false alarm? That should be in the game.
We finally beat it. The game is really good at showing what would happen if nuclear war does happen or if we put all off hair trigger.
This is a very good game based on true events. One suggestion though. When North Korea joins hair trigger then you should make them one of the countries instead of just U.S and Russia.
Okay so after many failed attempts we finally got around to the happy ending of removing all nuclear warheads off hair trigger! To say the least, this game will leave you frustrated and youll feel amazing once you beat it. Love how they intertwined factual events into the game! Youll enjoy it and learn a little something as well.
It took us a while but we finally beat the game. Developers if you are reading this then good job.
Yeah it would definitely add more pressure and intensity if you could add a button that lets you fire back so that you would be in the shoes of the actual president having to make a choice either to fire back or sit it out on the assumption that's it's a false alarm.
Its a good game but its really easy to beat. Get the economy going, make deal with Russia, boost the economy and reduce nuclear weapon until there is 0 nuclear weapon left. Then wait for the Russians to do the same. We wish there were more countries to play as, and more options too. Maybe make it so it includes ALL of the nuclear power. That would make the game more fun.
You will get attacked by 2030 every time. You cannot chose to strike first or counter attack. Pointless game.
This is a great game that really highlights the dangers of the nuclear posture of the United States and Russia.
All what you can really do is take away nukes. Make it so were you can upgrade security system or defense system against mistakes and nukes and your own ability to launch nukes to. If alll kinda of stuff like is added we would be very happy and it would be a great stradegy game.
The message is good, the difficulty is almost certainly impossible. Little more is learned from this app except frustration and a defeatist attitude. If the game is able to be beaten, Ill eat our words. But Ive played it ten times with various different tactics and none of them worked out. The issue is, if the game is saying this is a problem that cannot be fixed, theres no incentive to play more than once and even less to try and resolve what is being presented by this app as an unsolvable crisis.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 320.43 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Sigma Games LLC
Last updated: 8th October 2020 | Genre: Education, Strategy | Developer: Sigma Games LLC