Planned Release Date: Nov 10, 2026

About This Game

Out on Steam November 10, 2026.



Dawn Aerowar is an interactive animated film. It blends 3D animation, 2D art and full voice acting to tell the story of a fighter pilot on his final mission, driven by revenge against the Empire that took everything from him.

Press Play and you are in the War Room: a war map of the whole operation, twelve missions along one route. The next sortie is marked. You launch it from the map. Then the episode plays in full, without interruption.

He escorts a weapon no one should know exists. All that stands in his way are the aces of the Saal'Runa Empire, the last pilots standing after years of war.

The film runs nearly two hours, mixing aerial combat and drama. Dawn is a story made and composed by veterans of the genre: a man on a mission, and what it would take to stop him.





In a world scarred by years of war, the Free Nations stand on the brink of annihilation. With an iron fist, the Saal'Runa Empire has crushed every resistance but one.

One pilot flies one last sortie across the whole Empire: the northern front, the strait, the Aegis Sea, the Capital. Patrols chase him and missiles fan out over the clouds. Every flight is staged and animated in 3D, then framed like a film.





Faces, hands and cockpits are all hand drawn. Zodiac 1 lost everything to the Empire: his family, his home, his purpose. All he has left is one burning drive: revenge. Along the way, Zodiac will face many enemies, in the air, at sea and on land. But three of them are especially formidable: the three Aces of the Empire.

• Reaper, the Name of Death, loves war more than peace.
  
• Freya, the Imperial Goddess, quotes philosophers in the middle of a dogfight.
  
• Miracle, the Guardian Angel, is known for the lives she saved rather than the ones she took.

Each of them asks Zodiac the same thing: do you even know what you're fighting for?





Zodiac flies alone. The war reaches him only through the cockpit radio, from an AWACS operator he has never heard before. She is talkative, sharp and strangely well informed.

A professional voice cast: Sam Hughes, Kira Buckland, Lara Sawalha, Blythe Melin, Sandra Espinoza, Mark Mullens, Jeremiah Foltz, and over thirty additional voices. Every word and every emotion is performed.

The soundtrack is fully original and composed to picture: orchestral, fast-paced and epic, with choirs, Bulgarian voices and classical guitar, plus two original songs. Written by Jose Pavli, the composer of Project Wingman, it runs 77 minutes.





Dawn runs in its own app, with subtitles and Steam achievements.

• The film has 12 episodes and runs nearly two hours.
  
• Subtitles are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese.
  
• The film was 186% funded on Kickstarter by more than 600 backers.

A map lets you follow the progress of Zodiac's mission. After each episode, you can open a dossier with information on the places and characters you have encountered. This War Room expands the lore and helps you understand the story in more detail, in case anything slipped past you.

If you prefer, Cinema mode lets you watch the film in one sitting: the 12 episodes play back to back without interruption, and you can return to the War Room afterwards.