Hello dear First Strike fans

Do you want to try out our new game for free? A free public demo of our World War II base building game GROUND OF ACES is now available on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308690/Ground_of_Aces/

This is because our game is part of TactiCon 2024, a Steam digital festival all about strategy games. We are very honoured that Ground of Aces is part of a selection that includes titles like Hearts of Iron IV and Manor Lords.

This demo is based on our Alpha 2 version, which means this is a WORK-IN-PROGRESS version of the game because we are currently in the alpha development stage. Please keep in mind that many systems are incomplete and that more content is yet to follow. You can expect around 2-3 hours of gameplay in this demo, depending on your experience with base building games. The demo will be available for a limited time.

All the Blindflug titles are on sale this week to celebrate a milestone of our new game, the World War II base builder GROUND OF ACES! Our team has finished its first alpha version which we will release on the 14th of March.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308690/Ground_of_Aces/

As a celebration gift, we put discounts on all our Steam games:

You can get FIRST STRIKE for 70% off!

Our dieselpunk airplane action game AIRHEART is available with an 80% discount.

The multiplayer real-time strategy game STELLAR COMMANDERS has a discount of 70%.

And you can get the desert survival journey game CLOUD CHASERS for 75% off.

Learn more about our new WWII base builder game and the coming alpha release HERE!

We're doing a First Strike livestream on Twitch today at 7pm CEST (1pm EDT / 10am PDT) to celebrate the multiplayer release! And you can join to play against us and other First Strike fans! Both PC and mobile players are invited because crossplay is possible in First Strike. This will be our first First Strike stream with a PC set up.

Follow us on Twitch to get notified when we're live:

We hope to see you in the stream!

The free DLC with the MULTIPLAYER mode for First Strike is here!
Don't forget to update the main game, the DLC only works with the latest version of First Strike. It's good to have your Steam Cloud settings activated for First Strike, so that your save file stays secured, while the app gets updated.

You will have a new button in the main menu that leads you to the multiplayer mode.

Tell your friends and challenge each other to nuclear war battles!


The keyboard shortcuts are deactivated in the multiplayer on purpose. The multiplayer has crossplay, which means PC players and mobile players play together. The shortcuts would be a big advantage for PC players and make it unfair for mobile players. Disabling shortcuts was a necessary compromise. The PC player base is not big enough to not have crossplay, so we have to mix the players and make it at least fair for everyone.


To celebrate the release, we are giving away three $25 Steam Gift Cards! Enter the giveaway HERE!

Yes, it’s happening! The multiplayer mode for FIRST STRIKE will be released as a FREE DLC on August 31. Soon, you can wage nuclear war against your friends and other players from all over the world on PC!


Features of the multiplayer mode will be:

• Play online PvP matches with up to 10 players!
  
• Choose from the twelve classic superpower nations like USA, Russia or North Korea and use their special superweapons like the Tsar Bomba or Dirty Radium Bomb.
  
• Host a private game and send an invite code to your friends. Or set the room to public and let other players join via the fast quickplay function.
  
• Activate modifiers to even out the playing field. Pick the “Balanced Start” or “Small State Support” modifiers for a more balanced experience for all players. Or keep the different power levels of the competing nations with the “Classic Mode”.
  
• Connect with allies or tease your enemies with quick emoji messages in the in-game chat.

To celebrate, we are doing a GIVEAWAY! We are giving away three Steam Gift Cards, each worth 25 USD.


Which one of your friends will you nuke into oblivion? Will you be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens?

Dear First Strike fans

Do you like base building games? Are you into World War II aviation and history? Then our new game project may be something for you: GROUND OF ACES, the World War II base building game.

Dear First Strike fans

You have been training on your fancy gaming rigs, it is time to prove your warfare skills on the upcoming mobile device battlefield.

We want to inform you that the free mobile version of First Strike is evolving with new content. We just released The Daily Conflict Update that includes seven new daily challenge modes! And we plan to continue on expanding the free mobile version of the game with more new gameplay content in the future.

Now some of you who play First Strike primarily on your PC may be asking: “But what about First Strike on Steam? I want to play the new content on my PC and not on a mobile device.”

Here we have to tell you that the Steam version will not get these new updates. We plan to keep the Steam version as it is because it is supposed to provide the typical, essential First Strike experience, hence the “Classic” title. The free mobile version on the other hand is our "nuclear playground" where we now experiment with new gameplay material. At the moment, a free Steam version of the game with the new content isn’t planned.

If you want to try out the new content and you have an Android or iOS device, you can easily get the free mobile version on the Apple App Store and on Google Play Store.

We hope you will continue to enjoy First Strike in its pure, iconic form here on Steam, as well in its new, evolving form on your mobile devices.

With kind regards

The Blindflug Studios team

PS: You can follow us on our First Strike Instagram to get more First Strike news. We're currently doing a week-long T-shirt giveaway there!

• All nations can now be selected with CTRL+A
  
• Cancelling a nation selection with Backspace got implemented
  
• An already occupied shortcut key can now easily be assigned to another action without having to change the previous one
  
• Steam Cloud saves got implemented
  
• Fixed unresponsiveness after zooming in or out
  
• Moved the in-game announcements that were centered on the screen to be less obscuring
  
• Further bug fixes

On this day, seven years ago, the first version of First Strike was released. A tiny game from a small development team with just the simple wish of creating a fast and frantic strategy game, that also shows to the world, how devastating our nuclear arsenal truly is.

The rest is history: First Strike was the game that started our company and kept us going for over seven years now. Over 11 Million players have played First Strike to this day across all platforms. We owe the bomb a ton. But most of all, we are here thanks to all of you. Thank you so much!

Celebrate this historic day with us: We are going to stream live from the Blindflug Hangar on Twitch at 19.00 CET. It would be great if you join us when we play the brand new First Strike: Classic remaster of the original game.
Blindflug Studios on Twitch

For those who cannot access Twitch, stay right here. We will also mirror the livestream here on the Steam Store page, so stay tuned if you want to watch along.

Want to celebrate with other First Strike players? Check out our celebration page right here. It has the links to Discord and the First Strike Facebook page.
Blindflug Celebration Hub Page

Hope to see you all and thank you all for your support over the years!

Hello dear tactical annihilators from all around the world!

Today we have a special announcement to make. First Strike: Final Hour will get a massive update today, becoming First Strike: Classic.

Why is that? Well, you see, this Saturday, First Strike is turning 7 years old. And for this special celebration we did something special: We used the last months during the global lockdowns to remaster the whole game from the ground up.

First Strike: Classic is a new rebuild of the original First Strike, including:

• A new codebase completely rebuilt from the ground up to fight bugs
  
• A massively smarter AI with brand new behaviors
  
• Newly refreshed and redesigned interface
  
• And it is free of charge as an update for all First Strike fans

We’ve heard the feedback that First Strike was having some issues lately. Not only is this version more merciless and sleeker than ever before, we also hope this update will help to make First Strike ready for another nuclear decade.

If you are interested in celebrating the anniversary with us, join the festivities this Saturday when we're doing a special livestream with the community. All the links are on this hub page:
Nuclear Celebration Day HUB

Thank you all for sticking with First Strike for so long and we hope you are having a ton of fun with this remaster and with figuring out the creative ways to blow up the world.

Remember: The only winning move is not to play.... or is it?