Why Early Access?

“War Of The Worlds Trilogy already contains playable Story Mode, Martian Vanguard, and City Builder experiences. We are releasing in Early Access so players can experience these modes while we continue expanding the game, refining its mechanics, and improving its presentation and performance. We want community feedback to help prioritize fixes and improvements to story progression, Martian combat and controls, city-building depth, balancing, accessibility, and stability. Early Access lets us develop the full experience alongside the people playing it.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Our current estimate is approximately 3 to 6 months in Early Access. This is a development target, not a guaranteed release date. The actual timeline will depend on player feedback, remaining content work, optimization, and testing.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“We plan to significantly expand all three game modes before full release. Visual improvements will include higher-quality graphics, more detailed environments and character models, better lighting, effects, and animation. Story Mode is planned to gain many more plot lines, character interactions, encounters, and locations, along with richer exploration and survival gameplay. Martian Vanguard is planned to feature better-looking and better-animated Martian machines, improved cockpits and controls, more refined combat and tactical systems, and expanded mission content. City Builder is planned to receive deeper economic and production systems, transport and logistics, research, civilian management, military defenses, and more complex Martian sieges, with more meaningful strategic choices. We also intend to improve user interfaces, audio, balancing, performance, and general polish. Our long-term content target is roughly 40-60 hours across the three modes, but the final scope may evolve during development.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The Early Access version is a playable single-player game with three distinct modes, with an estimated 20 hours of gameplay across them depending on playstyle. This is the current paid game, not the shorter demo.

STORY MODE (human survival): Play through story chapters set during the Martian invasion of Victorian England. The current game includes on-foot exploration, narrative objectives, interactions with characters and objects, enterable locations, movement and transportation sequences, Martian encounters, evasion and survival sequences, and interactive gameplay set pieces. Story content and chapter transitions continue to be improved.

MARTIAN VANGUARD (Martian campaign): Play a mission-based invasion campaign from the Martian perspective. The current game includes piloting Fighting Machines, using Heat-Ray weapons, fighting human forces, capturing humans, controlling and switching between specialized Martian units, tactical commands, mission objectives, and a Martian Pit hub between engagements. Missions, machine controls, combat encounters, and presentation continue to receive refinement.

CITY BUILDER (construction and defense): Build and manage a late-Victorian city while preparing for and surviving Martian attacks. The current game includes placing buildings, growing housing and industry, managing resources and the economy, providing civic services, building transport and other infrastructure, preparing military defenses, and responding to invasion damage. Martian sieges can damage or destroy buildings and infrastructure, requiring repairs, rebuilding, and strategic trade-offs.

All three modes are still in active development. Players should expect occasional bugs, uneven graphics and animation, performance issues, and some rough or unfinished sequences. The Early Access build does not yet contain every plot line, deeper city-management system, or planned Martian machine and graphical improvement. For more on the three game modes, please also see the About This Game section of our Steam store page.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“We plan to gradually increase the price as we add substantial new content, features, and polish throughout Early Access and move toward the full release. We want early supporters to receive good value, and we will communicate any planned price changes in advance.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We will gather feedback directly from players through the War Of The Worlds Trilogy Steam Community Discussions, where players can report bugs, suggest features, discuss balancing, and share their experiences. We particularly want feedback on Story Mode progression and plot lines, Martian Vanguard's machine controls and missions, and City Builder's economy and defensive strategy. We will review reports and suggestions, use permitted gameplay analytics to identify common issues, and communicate improvements and development priorities through Steam announcements and updates. Player feedback will help guide what we improve next.”