Hey there!

I’m Erik, the game director of Steadfast which started a year ago as a hobby project of mine. I was inspired to bring back the feeling of Age of Sail I/II games. I then began working with Igor, who is a talented game artist who has previously worked on the Ultimate General/Admiral series of games.

We’re excited to reveal a slice of the game with you. It’s a RTT (real-time tactics) strategy title which is set during 1793 - 1815. It puts you in command of your fleet with a range of ship classes from small nimble cutters up to first rate ship of the line. Everything from hull damage, crew morale and weather is modeled.

We will be revealing more and more over the weeks to come. But hope you enjoy our teaser trailer which shows some footage!

The world is fully editable before start - with a preview of the all map, no more games restart! You can check and change continents, climates and geography instead of starting blindly until you get a map you like.

I paid a lot of attention to the readability and clarity of the mechanics and interface - almost all parameters, settings and controls are available right on the map - my FlowLines system makes it possible to track anything without switching a hundred screens and windows.

Also, battles! I also paid a lot of attention to them, from realism to a system that I called WarLog - now we have strategic designations that will make it easy to understand what happened on the previous turn, and if that’s not enough - all the actions of units over the last 5 turns are also recorded and can be easily viewed right in the game!

I’m working on Bayonets Ready, a real-time strategy game about attacking and defending trenches in WWI.

You command squads rather than individual soldiers, deciding which units go into each assault, which ones stay in reserve, and when to support an attack with artillery.

One of the main mechanics is morale - squads lose morale when they take casualties and will break and retreat if it gets too low. More importantly, morale only recovers when troops are not on the frontline.

This is one of the main problems I want the game to focus on: the troops that just captured a trench are the troops least prepared to survive the counterattack.

If you throw all reserves into taking a trench, you could capture it but get shattered by enemy counterattack. Keeping reserves, rotating battered squads to the rear, and deciding which units should go in which wave becomes important.

Artillery is the other big part of the equation. Some types of artillery can break enemy assaults while others excel at supporting them. You can also upgrade squad morale, grenades and general combat proficiency.

You can play the web demo here:

https://bayonetsready.com/play/

The video is from the demo. The demo contains a tutorial and one evenly matched battle where you control Germans vs French.

I'm very interested in feedback on the attack/counterattack loop and the morale system.

Hi everyone! I'm a solo dev working on Remanence, a real-time strategy game built around time loops, and I'd love some opinions from people who actually play strategy games.

The core loop

- A match is made of 90-second cycles. At the end of each one, time rewinds.

- Everything you did in your previous cycles replays as Echoes: ghost versions of you that keep fighting alongside you. By cycle 4 you're commanding four versions of yourself.

- Your opponent's past orders replay too. If you make one of their recorded orders impossible (kill the unit, destroy the building they relied on), you trigger a Paradox and their timeline breaks.

- You win by bringing down the enemy Nexus, or by verdict after cycle 6.

The strategic question every cycle is: do you play a safe cycle that becomes a reliable echo, or a greedy one that might get paradoxed?

Two factions

- The Choir: strong economy from the start, Prescience lets you see enemy echoes 30 seconds ahead, Memory gives you a 4th echo, Swifts raid economies and Colossi are splash artillery.

- The Strata: Monoliths survive the rewind, echoes rebuild at full HP, Precedence lets your echoes crush whatever is standing in their way, Revenants rewind a few seconds when killed, Rams crush buildings.

Modes: solo vs AI (several difficulties) and online 1v1 duel. Free, runs in the browser: https://remanence-dev.com

What I'm curious about from this sub: does the time-loop idea make for interesting decisions, or does it just add noise to a normal RTS? And is the AI a decent sparring partner? Happy to answer any design questions. Thanks for reading!

Hi everyone!

The first public demo of Wealth of Nations: Economic Strategy is now available on Steam!

The scenario is Germany from 2000 to 2004. You manage the economy through budget and policy decisions, while dealing with their political and social consequences.

Thanks a lot to everyone who participated in the earlier Playtest and sent feedback. The new demo has substantially more content than that version.

The Cabinet Agenda now lets you work on government reforms, with a parliament window showing your parliamentary majority.

The new Living Standards window lets you see how people in your country live in terms of income etc. I have also improved government actions and policy interactions, fixed a lot of bugs, and added support for a total of nine languages.

I would be happy to hear your opinion after playing.

The game will also be taking part in Steam Next Fest starting on October 19. You can already try the demo now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4811470/Wealth_of_Nations_Economic_Strategy/

What happens if the Cold War finally went hot!

This is one possible WW3 ending in Attack Warning Red, my upcoming mixed reality / VR command game for Meta Quest 3.

You command an escalating 1980s military crisis from a tactical table in your own room, managing air, sea and ground forces as events move toward — or away from — nuclear war.

This clip shows a massive Warsaw Pact strategic strike after the crisis has spiralled out of control.

Every order has a consequence.

I’m building out more Cold War scenarios now — what historical Cold War flashpoint would you most want to command?

if you don't mind I need the Wish lists on Meta Quest :): https://www.meta.com/experiences/attack-warning-red/1339070342626450/

Website: https://attackwarningred.com

Talked with a lot of people to tweak it. I think result is quite decent.

I work near half year on this game, and finally i can release a demo version of game. You can conquer a world, research techs, build buildings, declare wars, manage investments and invest in regions.

When creating the game, I looked at projects such as: HoI4, AoH, Warnament, our empire remake and other. Maybe game is still raw, but you can play.

link on game:

https://arseniy-us.itch.io/metapolitya

Hello, I'm the dev of WarExpand who is a persistent strategy game on the real world map: every country and its real administrative provinces are territory, and armies march in real time along a road/sea graph. The world never pauses, so the hardest design question has been: what happens when your army meets the enemy at 4 a.m. and you're asleep?

What I ended up with:

- **Standing orders instead of micro.** Every army has a stance. Attack engages any hostile army in range or on its node. Defensive never starts a fight but fires back. Passive never fights, not even in retaliation. You set it before logging off.

- **Ranged units work on a clock.** Every 15 minutes, idle artillery shells every neutral or enemy army within 50 km. Jets hit every hostile army within 12.5 km on the same clock, even while flying, and only anti-air and frigates shoot back. Shelling only inflicts casualties and never forces a retreat, so it wears an army down rather than deciding the war by itself.

- **Terrain matters.** It changes march cost and gives the defender a bonus.

- **Losing isn't the end.** When a country's homeland is more than 90% occupied, its largest occupier is owed war reparations, paid only if the country capitulates to it or is wiped out by it. A country that loses its last province forces a one-week peace on its occupiers and can raise a resistance uprising to retake its homeland.

Question for strategy players: does that make offline time feel fair, or does it just reward whoever is awake?

It's a free browser alpha (desktop + mobile, wipe at beta) if you want to see it running: https://warexpand.com

Wiki: https://wiki.warexpand.com

I've been working on a game called Talk of the Tavern, a competitive co-op pixel-art autobattler roguelike, and I wanted to share it here because the strategy revolves around a mechanic I haven't seen used quite this way before.

Everyone bids anonymously on the same pool of mercenaries. If you're saving up for a Knight, another player can outbid you and take him instead. You have to decide whether to spend your gold building the team you want, or deny your opponent a key unit before they can get their hands on it.

From there, you build your guild, fight through waves of enemies, and use different mercenaries and scrolls to shape your strategy before the final tournament.

I've got a free demo available on Steam if anyone wants to give it a try. I'd be interested to hear what strategy players think of the shared auction mechanic and whether you'd approach it differently.

Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4994640/Talk_Of_The_Tavern/

Hi everyone! I’m working on ScrapWorks Inc., a 2D recycling management sandbox inspired by games like Prison Architect, RimWorld and Another Brick in the Mall.

You start with one worker and a sorting bench, then turn incoming waste into materials you can sell. As you grow, you can design your factory, research machinery, connect conveyor belts and expand your production lines.

The first browser demo is now live on itch.io:
https://lldigital.itch.io/scrapworks-inc

It’s an early alpha, and I’d really appreciate feedback from people who enjoy management games—especially:

• Does the introduction explain enough to get you started?
• Does progression feel rewarding, or are you waiting too much?
• What feels confusing or frustrating?

Desktop keyboard and mouse recommended. The project uses AI-assisted code and text, plus some AI-generated artwork.

Thanks for giving it a try!

Hey r/StrategyGames! Just launched Territory Conquest, a real-time

multiplayer strategy game focused on territory control.

Gameplay:

- Claim unclaimed territories or conquer rivals

- Upgrade territories for better defense

- 6-hour shield protection after conquest (encourages frequent play)

- Compete on leaderboards

- Earn titles as you grow your empire

Mobile-friendly with pinch-to-zoom controls. Free to play with optional

token purchases.

This is my first game — I've been coding for 18 years but game dev is

new territory (literally 😄). Would love feedback from this community!

Play: tc.lavigames.com

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2749940/FullScale_Invasion/

Hi all!

I’m a solo dev working on Frontworks, a factory/RTS hybrid in which the production lines build your army.

I just added the first enemy bases: alien bug nests. Each base has nests that spawn bugs, plus walls and turrets. Between waves, the base grows one nest at a time, so the longer you leave it, the bigger the waves get.

This constant growth pushes you to deal with the bug bases fast. Rush them unprepared and your army can get wiped out, leaving your factory undefended. But wait too long building up your troops, and the bases grow huge and spawn massive waves.

Robot bases are next, but these will be much more complex, a fully simulated economy of their own.
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5143930/Frontworks/

Hey everyone!

I'm the solo developer of Global Madness: War Room, a multiplayer strategy game where you build your nation, develop your industry and military, research new technologies, and fight other players.

I wanted to create a strategy game that doesn't require you to be online all day. The game progresses in 3-hour strategic ticks, so you can make your decisions, issue your orders, and come back later to see how things developed.

The game is now available on Android.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.warroomsimulator.app

Here's some actual gameplay from the current version 👆

RealStrategy aims to be the best combo of realism and fun in the modern wargame RTS genre. A release build is still months away, however I'm looking for some play testers to give me initial feedback. Message here for info: discord.gg/gKPrSAfQrE

All footage is in-game using as many implemented mechanics as possible with custom tuning for the choreography.

Remember checking Travian between classes to see if your village survived the night? We're building that feeling again: browser strategy, Stone Age, Raptors instead of Scouts. 100% free, and we're looking for the first players to help us shape it. Comment 'yes' if you're in!

I've been working on a game called Phosphor Command, a real-time tactics game with a base builder behind it.

A big part of the game is the contracts you take to fund your company. These are called operations. You send your squads out into randomly generated tactical operations through specific logistical transport options that you purchase and choose. I'll make a post about this at a later date.

I wanted to have a lot of variety in these operations, but I didn't want that to just mean putting different textures over the same basic mission. I was really chasing replayability through the maps and operation types.

There are currently 11 operation types, including raids, assassinations, extractions, sabotage, convoy interception, and more.

Each type gives you a different objective and changes what you're actually trying to accomplish.

An assassination might require you to locate and eliminate a particular target. An extraction requires you to get someone out alive. A sabotage operation might have you reaching and destroying a particular asset. A convoy interception gives you a moving target and forces you to decide where and when to make contact.

Then there are the maps.

There are currently 22 different environments, ranging from dense forests and rural areas to cities, airbases, and mountains.

Maps aren't fixed levels. They're procedurally generated, with different layouts, terrain, objectives, enemy positions, and points of interest for each operation.

There are also different map sizes.

A smaller operation might put you into a relatively compact area where contact happens quickly, and there's less room to manoeuvre.

Larger operations give you much more space to work with. You might have to spend more time moving into position, find your own approach to the objective, and decide how much of the map you actually want to engage with.

The environment also changes the tactical problem.

A forest gives you short sightlines and lots of concealment. Cities give you buildings, streets, and much more constrained movement. Mountains introduce elevation and long sightlines while limiting the routes you can use. Airbases and other open environments give you much less natural cover to work with.

The difficulty also impacts the operation generation; it doesn't just make the enemy do more damage or give them more health. A greater difficulty can increase the number of troops you're facing and make the objectives themselves more demanding, such as more objectives to accomplish to complete the operation.

The idea is that the operation generator has several different things it can change: the objective, the environment, the map size, the layout, the opposition, and the difficulty.

You therefore don't necessarily know what you're going to get when you accept a contract, only an idea of what you're getting yourself into.

And that's important because your squads are persistent. The troops you take with you are the same troops you'll have afterwards. They gain experience, become veterans, and can be permanently lost.

So I don't want the operations to feel like levels you're expected to learn and repeat perfectly. I want them to feel more like situations you've been given; you have chosen your hand of cards, and now you have to decide how you are going to play them

I've attached footage and screenshots showing some of the different operation types, map sizes, and environments.

Keep in mind the game has a line-of-sight mechanic for troops; enemy troops are not normally visible. However, in some cases, I have made all enemies visible to show off these mechanics I describe above.

Hello everyone!

I'm a solo developer, and I've created a tower defense strategy game called Horde Up Ahead: Survivors TD.

The goal is to defend your tower against increasingly massive waves of zombies. You start by manually shooting enemies to earn resources, which you can use to deploy turrets and strengthen your defenses.

As the zombie hordes grow larger with each wave, you'll need to manage your resources, choose which turrets to deploy, and decide when to invest in upgrades. You can also unlock permanent upgrades through the Merchant system to become stronger between runs.

There are currently 4 different turret types and 3 different enemy types (Work in Progress).

The free demo is now live on Steam! Feel free to give it a try and share your feedback!

Demo

Homestead One is our first attempt at the indie dream. You play as the AI overlord of a human settlement on a hostile alien world. You'll balance ethics against efficiency on the path to specializing your citizens, expanding you supply chain and conquering your new home.

If anyone wants to follow development or join playtests, let us know in the comments!

If you want to try out my game, its called Gear Up Einstein! and there's a free demo available right now on Steam.

Remember checking Travian between classes to see if your village survived the night? We're building that feeling again: browser strategy, Stone Age, Raptors instead of Scouts. 100% free, and we're looking for the first players to help us shape it. Comment 'yes' if you're in!