SOL, 2205. The seventeenth year of the civil war. Earth became a church state. Mars served long as their shipyard. Between them is now just war.

Humanity broke out of Sol late in the 21st century, then fought two long wars against her own runaway daughters, and buried her dead by the millions. Earth drew inward until her churches became her government. Mars, Earth's first colony and her heaviest industrial base, refused to follow. In 2188 Mars broke from the Alliance and named itself after the insult Earth used to dismiss it: the Stepping Stone. The war that followed is the war you fly in.

AN HOMAGE TO THE CLASSIC DOS SPACE SHOOTERS

Strike Wings is a from-the-ground-up homage to the top-down space shooters of the DOS era. You pilot from a selection of 50+ beautifully fully 3D modeled space fighters, and direct them into battle. The art direction of the game is all about light. Carefully crafted explosions, weapons, planets, nebula's and stars, they all paint a visually stunning spectacle on the black canvas that is deep space. The game is packed; with everything you wanted from the space classics. There is massive sandbox mode battles, scenarios, a 3 part campaign that takes you through the lore, a battle editor, full multiplayer, capture the flag, space base raids and more. Behind the scene a deep metric system keeps track of what you do, and helps you unlock in-game swags, titles, plates and achievements, that you can show off in the multiplayer.

EVERY BATTLE IS A FLEET ACTION

Strike Wings can have 1 to hundreds of ships on the field. For that reason we've build deep, squadron-aware AI, which you can command (or not). There is Ace promotions, carrier launches, search-and-rescue operations and many ship afflictions (for example losing an engine). It plays smooth, all ships are bound by full Newtonian drift physics, have deep subsystem damage, and a variety of weapons.

• 50+ warships, from disposable Ticks to Sovereign-class Dreadnaughts

• A huge catalog of battles: convoy raids, civilian escorts, ambushes, dogfights, and giant fleet actions

• Deep lore, with a full in-game encyclopedia and star map

• Game modes to spare: Skirmish, Capture the Flag, Onslaught, and several flavors of attrition warfare, with a battle director that stages surprises mid-fight

• 35+ weapons across Terran kinetics and Mars School beams: gatlings, rails, E-flux torpedoes, all the way up to experimental antimatter ordnance

• 9 ship devices, including cloak, warp, pulse fields, orbital drones, and power absorbers

• 250+ scenarios plus a full battle editor: build your own fleet actions in the sandbox and share them

• Multiplayer over local LAN for the old-skool fans, or Steam matchmaking for everyone else

• An expansive reward system: badges, medals, plates, and titles earned in the garage, plus prestige unlocks tied to an opt-in Elo rating for multiplayer. The top 100 ranked pilots enter "The Immortals"

• A live permanent war: every mission you fly moves a shared front fed by every player, and the war ends only when Earth or Mars falls. Pick a side and push it to victory

• The storm: a shrinking arena that closes every battle, so nobody can run away forever

• Subsystem damage: strip shields, silence turrets, breach reactors, and break hulls into burning hulks

• Squadron AI across 7 difficulty tiers that adapts mid-battle, with rivalries baked in. Shoot an elite's wingmen down too often and the elite will come hunting for you

• Ship afflictions: set fighters on fire, force hull breaches, cook off ammo racks, short out electronics, or eat through armor with corrosive plasma

• Wingman commands: a quick commo-rose sends your wing to attack, cover, rearm, or form up on you

• 2-player co-op in local split-screen

STEAM MULTIPLAYER: 24-PILOT ATTRITION

Host a room or join one worldwide. Every online battle is attrition: ticket pools, respawn waves, and a scoreboard that remembers you after the shooting stops. Earn 450+ titles and 450+ plate backdrops for your pilot plate, and wear your record where the whole lobby can see it.