Planned Release Date: 2026

About This Game

YOU ARE NOT THE SOLDIER. YOU ARE NOT EVEN THE GENERAL.
YOU ARE THE HIGH COMMAND.

From the quiet of the War Room you shape a nation's fate. Appoint generals, fund perishable heroes, and send soldiers into procedurally generated trench networks where every choice matters. When a general falls, their failure becomes your institutional advantage: Lessons of War are awarded at campaign end and spent on a persistent tech tree that changes how every future campaign plays.

Stuck in a Trench is a roguelite autobattler, where you act as the High Command: appoint generals, learn from battlefield outcomes, and turn those hard-earned lessons into institutional upgrades. Each completed campaign grants persistent "Lessons of War" used to unlock technologies, tactics, and doctrines that reshape every future front.

Key features

• Triple-layer gameplay: High Command (meta), General (campaign), Soldier (tactical runs).

• Procedural battlefields with crossroads, dead ends, and emergent encounters.

• Permadeath for soldiers; campaign defeat yields Lessons of War for permanent upgrades.

• Deep, data-driven progression: 75+ base stats, 30+ meta-tactical characteristics.

• Perishable Hero system: invest Field Intel in a single soldier for huge short-term gains at great risk.

• War Room upgrade: Or invest in future soldiers and increase their chance of success

• Time runs out: Each mission progresses the war timer, take to long, and the General will fail

• Lessons of War: Where one General falls, the next steps up. Transfer your learnings to the new General

• Multiple mission types: Extraction, Search & Destroy, Survival, Rescue.

• Eternal Front post-campaign endless mode for replaying completed campaigns with no time pressure.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

- Human‑led first. The core research, design, and code were produced by the development team.
- AI used as an advisor. AI provided recommendations, reference gathering, and blind‑spot analysis; it did not generate the final content.
- Human review and integration. Team members validated, edited, and implemented all recommendations before use.
- Technical outcomes verified. Calculations suggested by AI were converted into deterministic code and tested for accuracy.
- Rights and sources checked. Artistic and literary references were verified for licensing and factual accuracy before inclusion.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

MATURE CONTENT: Contains references to fallen soldiers and non‑graphic wartime themes. Gameplay includes trench‑based tactical encounters and automated combat; there is no blood or graphic violence.