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About This Game

In Steel Company, you will command a wide variety of infantry, armor, artillery, and more to overcome and destroy the enemy. The engine is built from the ground up for maximum combat fidelity and mod support. The game includes a highly competent and adaptive AI for fully offline single-player, as well as dedicated hosting for ranked and casual multiplayer modes.

New and experienced wargamers alike will find Steel Company easy to pick up but deeply challenging to master.

Single-Player

Single-player features:

• An AI opponent that is competent, cunning, and adaptive. The AI uses combined arms tactics including smoke, area fire, flanking, fortifications, reconnaissance, transports, and more.

• Over a dozen hand-crafted scenarios, recreating historical WWII engagements from a variety of theaters.

• Customizable randomly generated campaigns, as well as a selection of scripted historical campaigns. Troops gain experience and can be expanded and re-equipped between battles.

• Customizable random battle map generation for skirmishes.

• A powerful scenario editor, with the option to use real-world elevation and ground-cover data as a starting point to quickly create highly detailed battle maps.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer features:

• Synchronous and asynchronous (PBEM-style) casual matches with mod support.

• Matchmaking mode to instantly jump into a match with an opponent matching your skill level (even if it's your first time playing). Top players compete for ranks, climbing from Private all the way through General of the Army.

• Secure dedicated hosting for maximum competitive integrity, for both casual and ranked modes.

Combat Model

The UI is designed to be simple enough for anyone to pick up and play in less than 5 minutes, but the combat model is also highly grounded and detailed. This allows for a huge variety of interesting tactical situations to naturally emerge in the course of battle.

This includes:

• Cover and concealment

• Suppression and morale (including units becoming pinned, routing, or surrendering when cut off and surrounded)

• Fatigue

• Ammunition resupply

• Casualty evacuation

• Weather and time of day (including night attacks with searchlights, star shells, etc.)

• Multiple weapons per squad member, allowing for the inclusion of various grenades (fragmentation, concussion, rifle grenades, etc.) and sidearms

• Destructible terrain and obstacles such as mines, barbed wire, and bunkers

• Basic command and control

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some of the placeholder unit and terrain sprites that I'm using while the game is in development were generated with the help of AI (with a lot of manual curation and editing... I promise that you will not be confronted by any noticeably ugly slop).

Initial sales will contribute toward creating hand-drawn, unique sprites for as many units as possible.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game depicts combat during WWII, with vehicles and infantry shooting and destroying each other. No gore is shown.