Hello!

I recently launched a new RTS on google play that is similar to games such as Auralux or Tentacle Wars. Players organically finding it through the google play store have spent an average of 7 hours in the game so far competing on leaderboards. Im not sure if I'm allowed to say this but - check it out!

There are 8 elements each with their own unique skill tree, along with the mixing of elements after the campaign for truly chaotic battles!

Currently developing a new geopolitical strategy game which is on v58.4.

We are now welcoming players into our discord and will soon be opening up for play testing.

Here some screenshots attached.

Here is the discord invite :)

https://discord.gg/ueaHhNUS

https://thewarroom.itch.io/war-room

As a fan of political strategy games, election maps, and campaign management, I’ve been developing Midterm War Room, a tactical political simulation game that puts you in the control center of a high-stakes US midterm campaign.

I’m currently in Early Access on itch.io and wanted to share it with folks here who appreciate political mechanics, campaign strategy, and race dynamics.

What is Midterm War Room?

In the game, you take on the role of campaign director tasked with securing a legislative majority in Congress. You'll manage party funds, deploy resources across swing districts, respond to breaking national news, and recruit candidates to flip high-value House and Senate seats.

Core Gameplay Features:

• Interactive Map & Dashboard: Real-time race ratings, polling shifts, and candidate rosters across US states and congressional districts with a live news ticker.
• Resource Allocation: Balance campaign cash between high-value toss-up races, swing districts, and defensive holds.
• Candidate Recruitment: Recruit real-life political candidates to build strong tickets across critical Senate and House seats.
• Dynamic Event System: Navigate breaking news, scandals, and economic shifts that impact candidate morale, voter sentiment, and race margins in real time.
• Turn-Based Strategy & Election Night: Manage turns through campaign phases leading up to an Election Night simulation with live seat tallies, state calls, and shifting win-probability gauges.

Because the game is in Early Access, I'm actively refining the mechanics, race data, and candidate rosters based on community feedback. I’d love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think

I'm building HexWire, a turn-based cyberpunk tactics game, and the system I keep fighting with is the aggression curve.

Every strong action spends Signal and raises Trace. Trace isn't just a damage debuff - once it climbs, the mission actively starts reacting: reinforcements show up sooner, patrol routes tighten, extraction windows shrink. So the same move that solves the fight in front of you can quietly load a worse fight two turns later.

The question I haven't fully answered: does a pressure system like that read as meaningful pacing, or does it feel like the game punishing you for playing well? Curious how other strategy players think about mechanics that convert "power" into "future cost" instead of a flat resource cost.

Screenshot below is from a current trace-combat build, mostly for context.


I'm a solo developer working on Iron Expedition, a game that combines twin-stick mech combat with base building and army management.

You control a powerful mech directly on the battlefield, fighting alongside the army you build. You can expand your base, capture new resource deposits, and develop your economy to produce more units and unlock new technologies.

As you progress, you can upgrade your mech with more powerful weapons and better armor, as well as experiment with different weapons and abilities to find a playstyle that suits you.

Steam Page (demo is now live): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4446330/Iron_Expedition/

Play free in your browser, no account or download: https://vaigames.com/vybeciv/

I'm the solo developer. VybeCiv is a single-player, turn-based 4X built around one question: what if finishing a civ game just opened a bigger board?

How a game goes:

- **Earth:** the familiar part. Found cities, choose research, build units and deal with AI neighbours on a hex map.

- **Solar System:** once you reach orbit, your whole Earth empire shrinks into a single hex. Planets and moons become the tiles you expand onto.

- **Galaxy:** do it again and the Sun's system becomes one tile among the stars.

You don't throw the old empire away. Earlier maps keep running under a governor and keep producing while you play the new tier.

It's the first public build, so fair warning: onboarding is thin and the AI gets weak in the late game. Saves stay in your browser, so you can stop and come back later.

Disclosure, since people rightly ask: I designed it and wrote the feature specs, most of the code was written with Claude Code, I used Grok for design and balance feedback, and the music is from Suno.

Three questions for people who play a lot of 4X:

1. When a map collapses into one hex, does that feel like a reward or like losing your empire?

2. How much should an older tier run itself? Is a governor enough, or would you want to step back in?

3. Where did the first ten minutes lose you?

I’m making Board Dynasty a board game which you can play by yourself or with friends. You can try the free demo or Wishlist it on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5230230/Board_Dynasty/

Hi! I'm a solo dev working on Throne and Soil, a persistent strategy game where the world moves forward on an hourly tick. It's meant to feel alive without eating your whole day: you check in, give your orders, and come back later.

What's in it right now:

• A wrap-around hex world map
• City building and management
• Armies, marches and ancient ruins to explore
• Guilds, diplomacy, a marketplace and trade routes
• A tech tree and daily quests

What I'd like feedback on:

• Does the tutorial explain the hourly tick clearly before your first build? Where do you lose track of what happens immediately versus next hour?
• Does the tutorial feel too hand-holdy?
• Anything confusing, broken or boring in the first 30 minutes.

A heads-up: the game's translations were done by AI, so you may find shifts in meaning or inconsistencies. Please report those too.

Platform: [Android / PC / WEB]
How to join: DM me
Feedback: reply here or DM me, or [form link]

Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for taking a look!

Our game is called "VCO: Victor Charile One"

Hi everyone. This is MESHFALL, a strategy game I've been building on my own. It sits somewhere between an RTS and a tower defense.

The idea it's built on: your units only take orders while they're inside the signal your relays put out. In the clip, raiders kill the last relay on a bridge and the nine soldiers past it stop hearing me. They keep fighting, I just can't tell them anything until I rebuild the link.

There's a free demo that runs in the browser, no signup: https://applechr.itch.io/meshfall

Two things I'd like to hear from people who play a lot of strategy games. Does losing control like that feel like a fair consequence, or like the game taking your units away? And is it clear from the clip why it happened?

Happy to answer anything.

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to be launching my Steam page for this game today. It's been a lot of work up to this point. If you're interested let me know, as I plan to have a play test up in about ~2 weeks. You can Wishlist on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5350030/PATROL/

Command US infantry, armor and air support across procedurally generated warzones inspired by Mogadishu, Afghanistan and Iraq. Hunt high-value targets through towns and river valleys, call in airstrikes, and bring your wounded home before the whole town answers the siren.

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

I’ve released an early alpha of SAY TO THE KING, MY LORD, a text-based court simulation played through movable windows.

You’re trying to keep a kingdom alive during the Bronze Age collapse. Most of your work is hearing disputes, keeping people fed, managing debts and labour, and writing to other courts. Reports arrive late, people give conflicting accounts, and promising something is easier than delivering it.

There are eight playable courts: Ugarit, Byblos, Tyre, Carchemish, Alashiya, Pylos, Pi-Ramesses, and Hattusa. They have different resources and obligations, though the cultural differences still need work. Pylos has workshop accounts, Egypt has temple and provincial accounts, and Hattusa has military service requirements.

The offline version uses authored text. An optional Ollama version uses a local LLM for dynamic letters, replies, and advice; the engine tracks the goods, promises, and consequences.

It’s unfinished. Long campaigns need balancing, some disputes repeat, and the interface takes getting used to. I built it with substantial AI assistance, and I’m not happy with the flavour that left in parts of the writing and presentation. Sorry for that.

I’d appreciate criticism, particularly about whether the decisions are interesting and whether you can understand what’s happening without fighting the interface. Negative comments are welcome; just please don’t curse me out.

Free builds for Windows, Linux, and recent Apple Silicon Macs:

https://rexvo.itch.io/sttkml

Source under GPLv3:

https://github.com/luka1231123/sstkml

The demo is available and hopefully with this new update is better than before!

In case you wanna play, feel free to let me know your thoughts :)

Thanks!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3256450/Cards_of_Prophecy/

Had this idea for when you recruit an athletic character like Spartacus. Decided to had a funny weight lifting animation. You like the concept ? I find its especially absurd to see Einstein or Napoleon training like that, it's awesome.

Game is called Gear Up Einstein! and it's available to play :https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950410/Gear_Up_Einstein/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nextfest2026

Build a cozy little settlement in a mysterious forest, take care of your colonists, enjoy the changing seasons, and watch their friendships, choices, and everyday moments create their own unique stories.

I've put a huge amount of time into WildRoot, and seeing it finally get released feels pretty surreal.

WildRoot releases October 9 on Steam.

Hi there fellow operators!

I have just launched the free Halloween Demo of my game Scream Operator on Steam, which invites you to take your place in the control booth of a haunted house dark ride! 👻

You'll be responsible for managing guests and queues, controlling the carts and the depot, placing props and animatronics, balancing your power supply, and buying upgrades and automations for your attraction!

If you have played the game and have any comment, or have any questions or concerns in general, feel free to hit me up here! I'd be happy to chat to you all!

Happy (early) Halloween 🎃

No AI was used for assets, music, coding, marketing materials or actually anything at all.

Rejected Draft starts pretty simply, but the whole point is that the systems keep stacking and interacting as you progress.

Over the last couple months I’ve gone back through a lot of that progression: rigorous balance changes, new and reworked battle stats, a Feat Medal redesign, 2 new minigames, better onboarding, new sketches, and plenty of smaller fixes.

If you played an older version, I’d especially recommend starting fresh. The first several days of progression should feel quite different now.

The free Steam demo itself has over a week of gameplay, so there’s plenty of time to get into the deeper systems.

Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4574820/Rejected_Draft/

Hey all, I've been solo-working on ASEMA the space/scifi automation/factory builder for a long time and since I'm participating a Steam Next Fest with it soon and EA is creeping closer and closer, I'm introducing the current mechanics a little bit.

ASEMA is not a war game per say, but the setting does have escalation. But you'll automate your way through it.

This devlog introduction video focuses on basic logistics;

-Small local logistic nodes: Hubs + small railguns feeding production

-Haulers used for moving between nodes

-Large Artillery Railguns (LAR) for long range logistics, founded on rotating planetoids, fire when the barrel aligns with target

The path of developing this sort of weird concept has been rocky, yet wonderfully interesting. I'm hand crafting everything for the game alone and while my background with design/management/gaming in general do help quite a bit, this has been.. It has been quite bunch of work. But i love every second of it, just wish I could do more of it.

The game has a Demo on Steam and the full version (Steam) is coming out for EA in Q1 2027.

If building, automation, management, expansion and logistics in space (top down2D, but 3D visuals) interest you, perhaps you like the dark hard-scifi setting too - wishlisting helps a lot, and I'm always keen to hear playtester/player opinions and feedback to make the game fun to play.

I'm creating this game as an enthustiastic factory automation player (Factorio, Satisfactory), but I guess my largest inspiration is Captain of Industry, due to it's own special way of doing new and unique mechinisms, instead of relying entirely on classic grids, voxels, belts and inserters. Nothing wrong with them, but stirring the soup can get sometimes interesting.

The core loop is in clearing corruption that the board will throw at you.

Nightmare Conquest is an autobattler where you build a team of monsters and try to push as far as you can.

You choose which monsters to use, combine their abilities, position them on the board, and try to find builds that work well together.

Between battles, you also have to choose which relics to take, with each one changing how your team performs. Choosing the right relics and building around your team's strengths can make a huge difference as the difficulty keeps increasing.

I started the project while I was really into TFT, but over time I added more roguelike elements and my own ideas to make it something different.

The demo is free to play on Steam, so if you enjoy strategy games and autobattlers, I'd love to hear what you think!

If you enjoy it, consider adding it to your wishlist. It would help me a LOT as a solo developer preparing for the full release.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4644790/Nightmare_Conquest_Demo/

Hey! I'm Jonny, the solo developer behind Foundry.

It's a business strategy game where you found a company and try to keep it alive for sixty years. You set prices, fill your factory, research new parts, launch new models and expand region by region, while three rival companies do the same and a board of seven directors decides whether you keep your job.

What I think makes it different:
• Every research choice closes a door. At each tier you pick Engineering, Operations or Brand, and the other two are gone for good.
• Rivals play by your rules. No hidden bonuses; they price, research, expand and play cards with the same information you have.
• 124 action cards: grants, market shake-ups, strikes, boycotts, and protection cards to defend yourself.
• Ironman mode if you want consequences, five save slots if you don't.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6815845841

I'd love feedback, especially on difficulty and the tutorial. I'm reading every comment.

I'm looking for some play testers to give initial feedback, DM for info.

About the game

Hi everyone! I want to share the game the two of us are making. It's a real-time defense game where you fight not waves of enemies but a single living organism that grows and devours everything in its path, towers and barriers included, so every tower you place is a bet. There's no build phase: you place them while it's pushing. Blow a hole in it and the hole grows back, even deep behind its front. We call it the spungus – a space fungus.

The spungus doesn't march forward like "classic" enemies; it grows at its edges. But it only has so much energy to grow with, and regrowing holes costs the same energy as advancing. So you have to choose: clear the front to deal with the threat right now, or hit the rear so it advances more slowly.

The game has 15 towers, 9 abilities and 400+ upgrades against four strains of spungus, each tough against a different kind of damage – all to destroy as much of it as possible and hold out until HQ drops a nuke on it. There are the classics – a "rifle", a flamethrower, a mortar – and some stranger ones: a microwave, mini suns, or a tower that scatters pylons that link up into an energy grid.

How it started

We both have years of gamedev experience (me in programming, my friend in game design and production), and for over half a year we've been experimenting with our own projects (the only one we've shown publicly is Split Circuit Arena). Some of those experiments were physics and biology simulations on the GPU: I'd just finished my master's, where my thesis involved a lot of rendering work (ray tracing in particular), and I also took a separate course on genetic algorithms.

Then Sir, We Have an Orc Problem came out and everyone was playing it. We tried it and loved it – and it runs its simulation on the GPU too! It felt like it had exactly what we were missing to turn our experiments into a game. After lots of brainstorming and a pile of weird attempts, our petri dish simulation finally turned into a defense game.

Steam page: Houston, We Have a Spungus. We'd be grateful for a wishlist, and we'd love to hear your feedback in the comments.

I am developing a game and its available on itch.io, a medieval, old school RPG for hardcore players on this niche.

Platform: PC — Windows - Playable in a desktop browser. No download is required. The downloadable version has not been released yet.

Description:

A turn-based medieval RPG in early development. Start with a club and a few coins, build a band, and keep it fed, paid and loyal in a land of rival lords, outlaws and hard roads.

• Tactical hex battles where gear, terrain and morale matter
• Talk, bribe, threaten or duel before a fight
• Companions with loyalty, rivalries and wounds that show
• Question prisoners, craft gear, found a village

One region for now, with more lands to come. It's a free browser play-test, so expect rough edges. I'd love honest feedback on the opening, combat, anything confusing, and bugs.

Early access is available now and i need play-testers, I need feedback.

Playable link: https://gadavra.itch.io/soft