A free slice of Strike Wings: retro top-down space combat with Newtonian drift, subsystem damage and squadron AI. Fly the Reaper and the Talon through flight school, seven battles, a 1v1 duel and split-screen co-op.

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About This Demo

SOL, 2205. The seventeenth year of the civil war. Earth has a church. Mars has a shipyard. Between them; the war.

HOMMAGE TO THE RETRO SPACE SHOOTERS

Strike Wings is a hommage to the retro space shooters of the DOS gaming era: a top-down combat simulation with true Newtonian drift physics, subsystem damage, and ordnance that fills the sky. This free demo is a real slice of the game, flown Terran-side in the Reaper and the Talon.

WHAT'S IN THE DEMO

  • FLIGHT SCHOOL: four academy missions that teach every key, from first launch to full fleet work
  • Seven battles: first skirmishes (FIRST SORTIE, TALON SWARM), patrol attritions (IRON PATROL, COLD FRONT), full fleet actions (SPEARPOINT, CARRIER CLASH) and the demo centerpiece PROVING GROUND, a tender-vs-tender ticket war with carrier respawns
  • 1V1 DUEL and 2-player split-screen co-op
  • SIMULATE: hands-off spectator battles, the full AI flying both sides
  • THE GARAGE: pilot plates, titles and unlocks
  • THE ENCYCLOPEDIA: the ships, the weapons and the lore of the war

Advanced squadron AI across 7 difficulty tiers, wingman commands over a quick commo-rose, the storm that closes every battle, ship afflictions (fire, hull breach, ammo cookoff), SAR pod rescues, and a kill feed that reads like a casualty list.

THE FULL GAME ADDS

Three story campaigns, 250+ scenarios plus a full battle editor, 50+ warships from disposable Ticks to Sovereign-class Dreadnaughts, Steam multiplayer with 24-pilot attrition and an opt-in ranked ladder, LAN play, capture the flag, onslaught, tower defense, and the live permanent war between Earth and Mars.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some promotional key art (store capsule illustrations and website artwork) was created with generative AI tools and then curated and edited by the developer. All in-game content - graphics (procedural vector rendering), gameplay, text, and audio - is hand-authored. The game does not generate any content with AI at runtime and does not connect to any AI service.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Any GPU with hardware-accelerated 2D
    • Storage: 2048 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11 64-bit
    • Processor: Quad-core 3.0 GHz
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Any GPU with hardware-accelerated 2D
    • Storage: 2048 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • Requires an Apple processor
    • OS: macOS 12
    • Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel Core i5
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Storage: 2048 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires an Apple processor
    • OS: macOS 12
    • Processor: M1
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Storage: 2048 MB available space
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