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Description

Winter Falling: Battle Tactics is a medieval battle simulator wrapped in fantasy. Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies and build an army in a mythologized Slavic world of the Middle Ages.

Battles play out in real time, but you can pause at any moment to plan your next move. Between battles you march across the world map, feed your troops, loot cities and choose your path through a branching story campaign.

History

Winter Falling started in May 2019 as a joke after the Battle of Winterfell episode of Game of Thrones: could you defend Winterfell better than the screenwriters? A few months later it was a small free web game. In 2020 a second web prototype, Winter Falling: Price of Life, added army management between battles.

Both prototypes grew into Winter Falling: Battle Tactics, which entered Early Access on Steam on 8 November 2022, after a strong showing at Steam Next Fest. Since then the game has been updated steadily toward the full 1.0 release planned for 2027.

Features

  • Command your army in medieval battles. Real-time battles you can play at your own speed: pause and ponder.
  • Plan your strategy outside battles. Manage your army on the world map: keep your troops fed, loot cities to fill your chest.
  • Branching story campaign. Defeat evil your own way in a mythologized Slavic world of the Middle Ages.
  • Craft your own battles. In-game map editor; share battles with a copy-paste.
  • Modding support. Create your own units, weapons and races.
  • Inspired by the classics. Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, FTL, Total War.

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Screenshots

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Logo, icon & key art

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Awards & recognition

  • Indie Cup CEE 2023: Rising Star Award, winner
  • Tacticon 2023: Official Selection
  • Stratagems 2025: Official Selection
  • Steam user reviews: Very Positive

Selected coverage

  • PC Gamer
  • Splattercat (YouTube)
  • Retromation (YouTube)
  • Nookrium (YouTube)

About

Rarykos is Arkadiusz Rębacz, a solo developer who designs, codes and draws Winter Falling. Read the Early Access postmortem.

7A Games is an indie publisher co-founded by Arkadiusz Rębacz.

Credits

Arkadiusz Rębacz
Design, programming, art
7A Games
Publishing

Contact

Press, review keys, interviews: rarykos@gmail.com