Steel Soldiers
No harvesters. No economy.
Take ground and your factories build faster.
The Bitmap Brothers' 1996 robot RTS, rebuilt in Godot 4. Twenty missions, five planets, and a crew who will drive anything you leave lying around.
Download — free
One file. No installer. Fedora: RPM here. Checksums on the release page. The Mac build is unsigned, so the first launch needs right-click → Open.
Arctic
The war
- Territory is the economy. Nothing to mine, nothing to collect. Every sector you hold cuts the time your factories need.
- Nothing goes to waste. Tanks, jeeps, guns and cranes sit abandoned all over the map. Walk a robot up to one and he climbs in. Shoot the driver out of an enemy tank and the tank is yours.
- Six robot classes. Grunts, psychos, snipers, toughs, pyros, lasers. They swear, they get bored, they call for help, and they scramble when a shell lands close.
- Blow the bridge. Infantry fords a river. Armour does not.
- Twenty missions, five planets, plus 62 skirmish maps. Desert, volcanic, arctic, jungle, city.
- Take his fort or lose yours. That is the whole of it.
City
Volcanic
Jungle
Orders
Drag to select. Right-click to send. Ctrl+right-click queues.
| Stance | |
|---|---|
| D | defend the spot |
| Z | shoot anything on the way |
| H | hold this ground |
| S | stop |
| Selection | |
|---|---|
| R | every robot |
| V | every vehicle and gun |
| B | cycle the factories |
| X | get out |
Every key is the letter printed on the plate it presses. The original instructions are on the title menu under How To Play.
Requirements
| Runs on | Windows 10+ · macOS 11+ (Intel or Apple silicon) · any 64-bit Linux |
|---|---|
| Needs | OpenGL 3.3 |
| Install | None. On Linux, chmod +x and run. |
For anyone who builds things
This was done for the sport of it: take a 1996 game apart, and find out what it costs to say the same thing in Godot. The code is MIT. The notes, the open questions and 47 test lanes are in the repository.