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Desert Struggle

Desert Struggle is a fast paced real time strategy game. It is about base building, production timing and attack waves. Units are fully automated, so there are no standing armies. It is all about production capacities, expansions and timings! Play challenges against the AI or online in PvP matches.

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Release Date:

To be announced

Developer:

CrashDumpSoftware

Publisher:

CrashDumpSoftware

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“We believe that both the players and the game can benefit from an Early Access version:
- Players can enjoy the already completed game modes.
- The game can be improved based on player feedback.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Based on the development progress so far, we expect to complete the planned roadmap around mid-2029.”

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

“The currently planned roadmap is:
- Map-Editor
- More maps
- Save replays
- Single player campaign
- 2nd playable faction in multiplayer
- more campaigns
- 3rd playable faction in multiplayer”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The game is in a stable state but has a limited amount of content available:
- 1 completed faction with 14 buildings, 13 units and 25 upgrades
- 4 1v1 maps used for multiplayer and single player
- Ranked multiplayer with automatic matchmaking
- Multiplayer with a friend
- Single player challenges vs AI
- custom single player games”

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

“The pricing strategy has not been decided yet.”

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

“Any feedback on Steam or via Discord is welcome. We aim to create a game that supports a wide variety of strategies. The more players who experiment with and discover new strategies, the better we can fine tune the game's balance.”

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About This Game

Gameplay

At first glance, the battlefield may feel familiar: gather resources, construct buildings, and produce units. But once deployed, your forces act on their own. Workers harvest, scouts explore, and combat units attack the enemy. There is no micromanagement of individual troops. Instead, every decision before a unit leaves the factory becomes critical.

Which units should you produce? When should production begin? Do you invest in another facility, upgrades, expand or produce units now? Can you anticipate your opponent's next wave and prepare the right counter in time?

Work in Progress

This game is work in progress. While it is technically in a stable state, not all content is available yet.

Completed:

- 1st faction with 13 units, 14 buildings, 25 upgrades

- Ranked online PvP (1v1) with automatic matchmaking

- Custom online PvP (1v1)

- 4 maps

- 40 single player challenges on 1v1 maps vs AI opponents

- Custom single player matches vs AI-Bots

- Replays (without save)

In progress:

- Single player campaign

- Map editor

- 2nd faction

Planned:

- 3rd faction

- more game modes

- store replays in DB

- online match history

- ...

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

The game contains a few voice lines that where generated using a text-to-speech service. I assume this service used some sort of gen-AI. For some translations an AI was used for proofreading.

System Requirements

Windows

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10+ (64bit)
Processor: 4 core@2GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Quadro T1000 Mobile
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space

Recommended:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10+ (64bit)
Processor: 4core@3GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: RTX 4060
DirectX: Version 12
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 3 GB available space