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! WARNING - THE GAME IS CURRENTLY IN OPEN ALPHA !

Deeply inspired by the classic RTS gameĀ Red Alert,Ā Small ForcesĀ is a retro-styled real time strategy game for single players.

The current status of the game isĀ OPEN ALPHA. No tutorial is provided yet.

JOIN THE COMMUNITYĀ - You can help the developers making the game better while playing and giving your feedback anywhere on the main social networks or you can directly join the active discord server (where we also stream the developing process).

The skirmish mode is going to be ALWAYS free as it stands for a nice and complete DEMO version of the game. The CAMPAIGN mode will be the only purchasable game mode.

THE GAME

Completely playable on your desktop without installation, Small Forces is intuitive and yet original. You can use only your mouse but there are already many keyboard shortcuts that can help the player to have a faster control on the screen. The main left click/right click mechanic for selecting/moving troops in useful for people with familiar knowledge of RTS game, but remember that you need to flag enemies as "hostile" so that your units performs an attack on sight by left-clicking on them.

Other key shortcuts are:

  • SPACE - open/close the deploy tab.

  • A/Q - select all the allied units;

  • E - mark all the enemies units as "hostile";

  • Function keys - deploy the correspondent unit, if available;

  • P - pause the game;

  • ESC - surrender;

  • F - full screen;

  • I - show/hide mission infos;

  • Mouse wheel: zoom in and out;

  • Functions keys: deploy unit [working: F1, F2, F3].

UPCOMING UPDATES

  • New ally event:Ā TransportĀ Copter;

  • Improving SFX 2;

  • New ally event:Ā bombardment;

  • New ally event:Ā artillery;

  • Better camera;

  • Improving tutorial 2;

  • Skirmish challenges;

  • New enemy:Ā mindfield.

PREVIOUS UPDATES

  • Bugfix: jeep carry/uncarry unit is broken;

  • Bugfix: overlapping units;

  • Bugfix: jeep + pause issue;

  • Death animations for human units, civilians and enemies;

  • New ally unit:Ā medic;

  • New ally unit:Ā mechanic;

  • New ally unit:Ā chopper;

  • New ally unit:Ā ambulance;

  • New enemy:Ā suicide rebel;

  • New enemy:Ā suicide van;

  • Dead body instances: civilian and soldier;

  • Improving SFX;

  • Timer;

  • Refactoring: skirmish room;

  • Refactoring: skirmish lost code;

  • Refactoring: IDE;

  • Refactoring: Deploy instance;

  • New enemy:Ā Anti-Aircraft;

  • Environment:Ā Money box;

  • Refactoring: health and trigger attack;

  • Attack Copter case VFX;

  • Refactoring: Jeep unit;

  • Selection behavior refactoring;

  • Camera zoom;

  • New enemy unit: something heavy;

  • Pause fix;

  • Action: small rocket;

  • Zoom +/- with keyboard;

  • Autosave;

  • Deploy with function keys;

CAMPAIGN MODE STATUS

  1. Tutorial mission: complete;

  2. mission #1: complete;

  3. mission #2: complete;

  4. mission #3: complete;

  5. mission #4: incomplete;

CREDITS

Zeno Bianchini: Developer.

Umbero Placucci: Music.

Leo Mancinelli: additional arts.

PROUDLY MADE IN ITALY BY WOLF GAMES

#retro #strategy #rts #realtimestrategy #pointnclick



all-ages
Cartoon Violence
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Mission 4 is complete and playable!

Landmines update: deadly for all units (infantry and vehicles). Use the mechanic to defuse the mines.

Small Forces Devlog 20.1

You can now "train" enemies Anti-Tank mines for the skirmish mode!

Harmless for the infantry, deadly for the vehicles. Use a mechanic to dismantle them and gain some funds.