We hear you!

Although we are very happy about the positive feedback we get for the game itself, we have noticed that some of you are not satisfied with the restrictions for free users. Complaints about "Pay to Play" are coming up.

Let us explain:

We do not have any purchases that can be "consumed", you cannot pay to recharge your tokens and then spend them again. This would be the easiest way to cash in, but we don`t want that. We are not a gaming Behemoth fishing for whales in the F2P world, we are a small Indie studio in Sydney trying to bring our RISK game to Steam. On popular request. With an option for all current mobile players to keep their account and purchases, and for the new players to have them on PC as well as all their phones and tablets (yes, multiple).

The only thing we offer regarding the tokens is the Premium DLC, which grants not only unlimited games (for many sporadic players just a nice side effect) but also 6 additional maps and 8 avatars. Steam users cant watch ads, the only other token:revenue stream we have on mobile.

The total you can spend on the game if you buy everything, is still less than what "heavy users" (not whales!) spend on average in an F2P per month. The cap for what we can earn is quite low, and still we need to pay our development team, office and of course for the RISK license. It`s a delicate balance to keep the wheels spinning and developing the game further.

However, we understand that Steam is a different world, and so we have decided to implement those new rules as long as you play on PC / Steam:

• Scenarios don`t cost tokens anymore. Go crazy, play our Mini-Campaigns as often as you want.
  
• Custom Single player, local coop and friends play is down to 5 tokens per game
  
• Global Domination is down to 10 tokens per game
  
• Total tokens per day is now 25 (after you exhaust the initial 200, which will recharge while you play, too)

What does that mean?

Now you can play - after you spent all the initial allocation - unlimited scenarios and a minimum of 5 single player games or 2-3 multiplayer games per day. Likely more, because we expect you to win some tokens back by finishing a few of your games as winner.

However, if you like the game, support us and go Premium and / or look at the map packs we have to offer. Toss a coin to your developer...

We told you we'd announce the date when we were ready to launch and that date is Feb 19 2PM PST. That's just couple of days away!

Enjoy a new trailer we put together and don't forget to Wishlist to be notified as soon as we hit the "LAUNCH" button. Or join the community Discord to discuss with other RISK fans.



All purchases from mobile will be carried across via your RISK account and visa versa. You can play against anyone on any device.

We're excited to expand our RISK game to Steam as it's been a long time coming.

Thanks for supporting us and get ready for more updates, new maps, new features and modes in 2020+

Team RISK @ SMG

Did you know the Seaport map in the Pirate Map Pack is actually just Sydney harbor?

Here's the Google map. (link if you want to explore our home town)



The initial sketch by Alex on our team.



And the final map design. We added more ships to make the map more interesting but stuck pretty close to Alex's initial idea.



P.S: We'll have the Steam release date VERY soon.

cheers
Team RISK @ SMG Studio

While the dev team are hard at work preparing for closed beta and launch we had some spare time on art to start on a Russian map.



It's WIP and connections, regions likely to change and we need to balance via continent bonuses but this happens as we build it out.

It'll be a new map added to the the Northern Conquest pack. (Reminder: we're going back to all the map packs to make sure there's at least 4 maps in each. So earlier purchases will get this map included)

We'll have more news soon on a closed Beta. We'll send invites via our Discord so jump on there if you haven't already.

Not too much longer now until we can announce the date!

Let us know what you think of this map and if any suggestions. Or any other maps you want in future releases.

cheers
RISK Team @SMG

We found the most popular map is the Classic. This isn't surprising as most people are familiar with it and have their own strategies for how to play.

For the New World Views map pack we added four variations of the classic with Simple and Complex being the closest to the originals.

For simple we've reduced the territories and added a connector for Australia on both sides. Because Australia was OP (hey we live here we know it) we didn't want to compound this in the new maps.



For Complex we've added a bunch of new connections and territories to make the classic map even more interesting.



So weather you want a shorter game or a longer one we've got you covered.

We've also added River-town Advanced to the Fantasy pack (so the pack now has 5 maps) which increases the territories for this map while keeping the overall design of it intact.





For future maps we're always keeping an eye on if we can do variants as it means more maps for you and only a slight amount of extra work for us. More maps the better right?

We've decide to delay the launch on Steam until early 2020.

We've done this for a two main reasons.

1. Ensure we've had enough time to test
   
2. Give the team a proper holiday period. As releasing just before Xmas seemed dangerous if something goes wrong but also wouldn't allow us to implement feedback for weeks

We'll have a firm date when we're confident of a release. We'll pick a date that allows us to not just release but then roll out fixes/support quickly soon after.

In the meantime you can join us on Discord or download the game on your mobile. Any purchases on mobile will carry across to Steam and visa versa.

cheers
Team@SMG

In preparation for the Steam release we've been updating existing map packs.
The goal is to have each pack have at least 4 maps each. We wont get them all updated by release but want to let players know the plan.

The latest update this week was Britannia which has two versions: Standard and a simplified one for faster battles.



Below is the standard map which has more territories than the simple one. The continents stay the same across both maps.


The variations is something we've been trying to do more as we have a split audience who want large maps and those who want smaller ones. So we thought...



We also just added Germany to the European Map pack for all existing owners.



Our focus now is on Steam and getting that version right but expect one more Map Pack to be released before Steam as that's in final testing now.

cheers
Ash@SMG

Happy to present an upcoming reverse world map design for RISK 🤯



This is just one of the original maps that will be available in the game to purchase. We had fun designing this one. Also this is one of the largest maps with, wait for it.... 69 territories. Nice!

The largest has 87 but we havent revealed that yet. Mall of the Dead is 72 and the current largest.



For comparison Classic RISK map is 42. Aka: the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"

We're adding Germany to the European Conflict map pack soon on mobile.



And some good news: we're circling back on ALL previous packs released to get them all to at least 4 maps. Some will have 5 but these will be advanced versions of the same map.

Hoping to do this before the Steam release this year.

If there's a map, country, battle, planet, story or scenario you'd like to see in RISK comment below. Or if you want to discuss with RISK fans in depth join the community run Discord channel.