 Richard Cobbett described the game in his "Saturday Crapshoot" series; he considered "Strife" to be an underappreciated game, but believed that it had not aged well.Paul Dean likewise concluded that "Strife" did not receive the attention it deserved back in its day, and encouraged readers to play the game.Both journalists compared "Strife" to the later "Deus Ex", a more commercially successful attempt to combine the first-person shooter formula with role-playing elements.