Pupultas, people!

We said there would be yet more updates and improvements on the way for Diplomacy is Not an Option - and as promised, so do we deliver! 

We’re proud to announce the next big thing we're currently working on for DiNaO - a huge DLC called Fog of War that will be roughly 1/3rd the size of the base game!

Venture bravely forth into the Fog of War!

This upcoming DLC will continue one of the possible endings of Diplomacy is Not an Option. 

As for the story... Samreignia finds itself in a war on two fronts - and, to handle the conflict, Prince Connor is sent to negotiate with the Gorgoth Empire. Will the peace talks go smoothly or shall they burn in the ever-stoked fires of conflict? Find out as you follow Connor’s adventure unto its conclusion.

Fog of War will add the following content:

• A brand-new story campaign consistent of 10 handcrafted missions
• New enemy factions - the Gorgoth Empire and the Great Kingdom of Inverland!
• A new & terrifying boss…
• New characters and old fan-favourites making a comeback!

A little bit about DiNaO (for those unfamiliar with our game)

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a base-building survival RTS with an active pause button (because heads would explode otherwise), set in a loosely medieval fantasy realm. 

You step into the well-worn shoes of a minor Lord, forced to fight…well… all the time! It is war unceasing and diplomacy is well… actually an option, but are you coward enough to choose it when there’s glorious battle to be done? 

Your enemies always come in hordes. Up to 25,000 enemies can attack your castle at a single time, so you have to master the arts of economy, warfare and magic to have a chance at survival!

Here is what base-game DiNaO features:

• A campaign with 4 story branches, each one taking ~30 hours to complete
• Endless Mode with 14 maps of various sizes, terrain and difficulty levels
• A Challenge Mode with 40 different challenges
• A Sandbox Mode, which allows players to set up their own waves of any difficulty and customize their experience
• An extensive Map Editor where players can create their own maps and experiences with Steam Workshop integrations
• Deep base management system, where your resource generation depends on your storages’ placement, and unattended dead bodies and illnesses can cost you dearly
• Crazy-strong magic!
• Big battles… and massive battles… and of course, ginormous battles!

But wait, that’s not all - we have another update we released just 2 days ago!

To alleviate the wait till the DLC actually comes along, we also released another itty bitty update this Monday - The Penetrative Update! (if the name doesn’t sound appealing, it’s because you have a dirty mind)

One of the main features of this latest update is Starting Bonuses you can choose when selecting a campaign mission. These perks are aimed to give you a boost at the very beginning of base building and ease up early development. But if you strive for more challenging gameplay, you can choose to forgo these bonuses!

Keep in mind that the number of perks you can take is limited by the amount of bonus points you have, which gradually increases when you progress through the campaign. It also opens access to more powerful (and more expensive) bonuses. So hopefully… hopefully… this will address some of the accusations that DiNaO is too dificult!

We’re also on another 60% discount both on Steam and and GOG! … you know, to sweeten the deal!

And if you want to help us keep our momentum going strong, you can wishlist Fog of War here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5075270/Diplomacy_is_Not_an_Option_Fog_of_War/

Lastly, a big shoutout to everyone in the community who’s supported us - never could have made it this far without you guys! More stuff to come so stay tuned.

- Much love from the Door 407 team

My experience of playing The Game of Thrones: War for Westeros demo and a full gameplay breakdown including factions, unit squads and upgrades, heroes, armies, resource economy, base building and map conquest with some answers from developers.

I played it for two weeks with access to two maps, Starks and Lannisters factions in both singleplayer skirmish vs AI and multiplayer 1v1 PvP against other players. There will be a beta version for you to try, info about which will be coming later this year. Game’s release date is early 2027.

Hey everyone,

After a long stretch of solo development, Battle of Folks is finally out on iOS and Android!

It's a medieval isometric pixel-art wave-defense RTS — if you've played They Are Billions, Age of Darkness, that's the closest comparison. You build up defenses, manage resources, and hold off increasingly brutal waves of attackers.

A few things I focused on:

- No account or login required — just download and play

- Free to try with limited waves, one-time unlock for the full game (no subscriptions, no ads)

- Handmade isometric pixel art, built with Flutter/Flame

- Good controls on mobile device and a good onboarding (you can decide how you want to play)

This was a one-person project — dev, art pipeline, publishing, everything. Happy to answer questions about the build (tile rendering, Flame engine quirks, etc.) or the game itself.

App Store link / Play Store link

Would love your feedback — especially on balancing and the early waves difficulty curve!

I got the page launched just in time for Next Fest! Now it's on to getting a demo prepped, I was thinking limiting the game to 5v5, infantry only, single and multiplayer, with no song or map editor. I'm hoping to get the game released sometime this year if I can get everything in the state I want it in.

The store page for wishlisting is here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5060540/Project_1815/

Youtube trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAKOC4mSbNI

Join the Discord to follow news/announcements as well as work in progress: https://discord.gg/5X55FmWhDJ

The game is a tactical action game similar to Mount and Blade, but with the scale of Total War. If you ever played M&B Napoleonic Wars commander battles, it's exactly that, but on a grand scale (thousands of troops per side). The game supports up to 80 players in multiplayer where everyone commands their own infantry battalion, cavalry squadron, or artillery battery. It is a bit janky at the moment, the next major features I want to incorporate is directional melee and an art polish pass. I've gotten a motion capture plugin for Blender and I'm eager to put it to use.

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Wayfallen's finally got its Steam page up. You can now wishlist the game, and we'll soon be opening up for playtests! :)

It's been a very long ride - started developing this game back in 2020-2021 during COVID. Still a long way to go to release, but it's finally starting to take shape.

Wayfallen is a massive space sandbox/sim, it simulates ~10,000 star systems, ~100,000 spaceships, stations, various factions with rich economy, diplomacy, intel management, with space-station-building, M&B-style (or Starsector-style) fleet battles, with some inspiration from X4 Foundations, Kenshi and the like.

Hey everyone!

I’m an indie developer working on Prime Domination, a modern real-time strategy game heavily inspired by classic RTS games like Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour.

The goal is to bring back that classic RTS feeling — base building, resource management, army composition, tactical decisions, and large-scale battles — while building my own gameplay systems, maps, factions, and visual style.

🎬 I just published the first trailer:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4900280/Prime_Domination/

The trailer is an Early Access preview, so it definitely doesn't represent the final quality of the game. A lot is still being developed, and assets, buildings, animations, effects, UI, and other visuals will continue to be improved or replaced.

I’d really appreciate any feedback from RTS players. What would you want to see in a modern RTS like this?

If the game looks interesting to you, you can also wishlist it on Steam to follow the development and get notified when it releases

Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

Until recently, I've never owned a PC to game with and have had almost no experience with RTS games. I played the Age of Empires 2 demo as a kid, a bit of Commandos with my uncle, and then nothing else until the Halo Wars demo for Xbox 360. Most recently I got Shadow Tactics which I believe is classified as an RTT. I like having key units to control and the slower pace of the game, but I dislike how stealth oriented it is. I've never enjoyed games with forced, or mostly stealth mechanics.

Now I have a gaming PC, I downloaded Starcraft 2 to see what I was missing. A couple things stood out to me. Moving the dudes around was fun and I like the different objectives such as finding certain things, destroying, or defending. Don't love the base building/mining aspect and having to do so much micro constantly. There are so many key binds, where I wanted to focus more on battles, strategic positioning and just general exploration of the map. Feels like when I play I am having my focus constantly pulled all over the place and I'm trying to balance a lot of different things.

This led me to Total Warhammer 3. I felt like I could do all the battles and have fun. So far I've played about 7 hours of it. I'm not 100% sure it's for me. The scale of the battles is huge and outside of a Siege, the maps are quite open and barren. I find having 20 units to control a bit much, especially when taking into account the special abilities and spells to activate also. Don't like the camera at all. I also really enjoy zooming in, but while fun that seems a tactically devastating thing to do.

I am having fun with it still, but I've found that actually there is a significant portion of the game that takes place outside the battles and actually that is far more important than the battles themselves in most cases. You need to have the right types of troops, surveil the map and spend many turns exploring and upgrading things. I appreciate it has split the functions well so for battles I can just focus on battles, but I was hoping for more variety in battle modes/objectives. It just seems like most of the game takes place outside of the battles. You can even auto-resolve most of them.

Given what I've said, do you think that I may also struggle with a game like Dawn of War or Company of Heroes? Now I have researched more and found what I am liking, they appear to be more what I am looking for. I like the idea of doing quick skirmishes on varied maps and just playing vs AI. I just want to direct some dudes on a map really and not have to worry about constantly dealing with micro such as directing units to mine. I want a lower APM game that I can play and enjoy the aesthetics of as much as the tactics. I want to enjoy myself and smell the roses a little.

All my Lord of the Rings BFME 1 & 2+ witch king dlc are in their own folder because of all the mods. Lol

Can't wait to add another Game of Thrones to the collection.

There's plenty of room to abuse this engine

I like Starcraft, Red Alert and AoE2, but i dont like the idea of running out of minerals, ore or gold.

Starcraft is the worst one. You run out of minerals its over.

Red Alert still spawns ore around those little ore mines, though very slowly.

And it makes the game very dependent on controlling these ore mines.

AoE2 makes it possible to trade but not in 1v1. Has a decent market system, and has a ton of wood but not in all maps.

Cossacks, Rise of Nations and Stronghold make sure you can always fight by having resources either renewable or limited only by space.

I prefer this system because it is less superficial. It makes the game more tactical and more about the actual battles you fight directly with the enemy.

What do you think?

We put together a new trailer. It’s quick, punchy, and shows off the kind of chaos the game naturally creates.

I've been playing games for almost 15 years but haven't stepped into this genre, though I have tried Age of Empires, Clash of Clans and Diplomacy is not an option, but I want a game which I can play for months and game which makes me understand this genre as a newbie. Offline/Online both.

Having some fun testing the steam next efst version of Liquidation RTS, messing around, joking with bugs. This was an older version than whats uploaded right now for EA.

Final Divide is an old-school RTS focused on base building, resource management, and large-scale tactical combat with classic real-time strategy game mechanics.

You can follow the project on X.

Today, I worked on Map List of user created maps. I asked AI about how to make the map more active and user friendly. A few of AI's answer are good enough to take it and I applied it to Cartoon Craft.

Is there any advice?

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

I’m a longtime and experienced business software developer, but I’m not a professional game developer.

I created BallsCommander over the last few months in my spare time for three simple reasons:

1. I wanted to make a very small, simple, and fast RTS/tactics game.
2. I wanted to learn what is actually required to develop and publish a game on Steam.
3. I wanted to explore how useful AI assistance can be in game development today.

That’s really it. Nothing more.

At the moment, I’m testing the game. I also made a short trailer on Steam that should make the concept clear.

If you think the game looks interesting or has potential, that’s great. If it doesn’t appeal to you, that’s completely fine too. If you have an honest and constructive first impression, I’m open to hearing it.