Kriegsspiel - 7 years war
A downloadable game for Linux
Kriegsspiel is a real time strategy game, where you play as a general of an army.
The general does not directly move its troops, and does not see what they see (the fog of war is not shared). Instead, it sends couriers with orders to its troops, and waits for couriers with reports to have its intelligence updated. This induces "lag" in the operations, making the game slower than other RTS, but also preventing micro-management. It takes place during 7 years war (1756-1763).
It is a personal project, so ... yeah it is ugly, but I intend to collect founds to continue to develop it and recruit artists or buy assets for 2D graphics, 3D models and animations, and sounds and music. It is not that stable too, I try to make every release as playable as possible, but... sometimes there are bugs. I am sorry in advance, please tell me if you encounter any of them.
Head video explains game concepts. Feel free to watch it, and/or download the game (it contains a tutorial and a mini campaign), and send your comments. Thank your for having readen me !
Important controls :
- WASD or arrows to move camera horizontally
- Mouse wheel to move camera up down
- Click on mouse wheel and mouve mouse to rotate camera
- Left click to an unit, right click on a point to give an order
- Orders may be chained with SHIFT
- V to toggle field of war display on the selected unit
- L to toggle display of communication and supply lines
Status | Prototype |
Platforms | Linux |
Author | franzoar |
Genre | Strategy |
Tags | Historical, Real time strategy |
Install instructions
IMPORTANT : I can not assure this game is fully stable now, so please save your work before lauching it, and check your videocard drivers are updated. I can make it run for some hours on my PC without crash, but game has caused blue screen of death on at least one player. I am working on reproducing and correcting this bug.
Due to limitations to my test environment, only Windows and Linux is supported now. For the moment, I am sorry for Mac users, but I plan to release to Mac too. If you really really really want to test on theses platforms, tell it to me, and I willl try to give you a version (not sure if it will work though).
To install the game, simply unzip it and launch run.bat .
Development log
- Version 0.11.0 reuploadedMay 08, 2024
- Version 0.11.0 ready for Linux !Dec 19, 2023
- Version 0.11.0 ready for Windows !Dec 18, 2023
- Relase 0.10.0 for Linux !May 18, 2023
- Release 0.10.0May 18, 2023
- Release 0.9.2Aug 27, 2022
- New release !Aug 21, 2022
- Kriegsspiel-7yw v0.7.4Jun 16, 2022