Spirits of Steel: A New Dawn
A downloadable game for Windows
The world stands on a precipice as nations scramble to forge the new world order. Take charge of any country throughout historical, and alternative history scenarios. Build industry, forge alliances, and wage war to spread your sphere of influence.
An alt-history grand strategy game, and the sequel to Spirits of Steel. With 400+ playable countries, 8 maps based on history and popular alt history scenarios, and more.
Special thanks to Sonak, Damien, and Kate for testing the game ahead of release.
Join us on our discord server for game updates, feedback, and news on other projects.
Maps
- The Great War (1914)
- Second World War (1936)
- The Darkest Hour (1941)
- Iron Curtain (1949)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Modern Day (2024)
- Kaiserreich
- Red World
Controls
- W / A / S / D, up / left / down / right : camera controls
- space : open / close side bar, close decision tree
- escape : open menu
- f1 : screenshot
- f2 : disable / enable UI
- f3 : disable / enable timelapse divisions
- f4 : tutorial
- f5 : population statistics
- f6 : military size statistics
- f7 : region count statistics
- f8 : industry statistics
- left click : UI controls
- right click : division controls
- brackets, scroll wheel : zoom in / out
Download
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Development log
- Map Creator Tutorial13 days ago
- Version 1.217 days ago
Comments
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Do you have a plan of releasing it on mobiles ?
it won't be that hard for mobile devices to run and the game is fun to see 🙏🔥
I took over most of europe as germany in ww2, but when i attack someone in the allies the game crashes, is this being fixed or has this not happend before, of you need i can give you the save file
If you could that would be great. Join the game's discord server and DM me the save file.
A pause button would be nice
Coming in the next update.
I saw the trailer, this game looks great! Would it be possible to add mac support or no?
can you add ai generals who handle other parts of the fronline if you have a huge frontline
great game tho the ai is too hard and for non english speakers theres a language barrier also theres no mac support the good things about this game is that its easy to learn the game controls nicely and the senarios are fun you should add a 1498 start date just as colonization starts and make difficulty settings like easy, med, hard, etc but the games good where it is
This is a great game, I love playing it, but I have one issue. I'll have like 200 units and attack a force much weaker than mine, but I'll lose and get pushed out of enemy territory every single time, no matter what. The battle doesn't last long either, even on the lowest speed. It's just an instant loss.
Is this designed or just a bug?
It's possible that you're having supply problems. Money is needed to attack, and if you run out, you will loose every battle. This scales with the number of divisions in battle. Try building more factories.
The biome you're fighting on can also add modifiers to attack / defense. Check to see if that's causing problems as well.
This has happened with different countries, and it seems as if I am out of money each time, so that probably is the problem. However, I'm always out of money no matter how many factories I have.
Is there a good Units:Factories ratio?
You cant unselect units unless they move
Front lines are soooo needed, This is very important
All Countries do nothing about separatists. And China always has separatists even in early game in the Modern Day scenario
Countries dont declare war-on the Player unless you have occupied land i think which rarely happens because you can only Annex entire countries in a peace deal
And speaking of that let us get individual tiles in a peace deal
China inherently makes a faction in the Modern Day and always invites India and Vietnam and others in the Modern Day Scenario in every game this would happen.
AI Doesn't build a port when they get stuck on an Island
Also you should fix battles
AND i forgot BOTS SPAM SPLIT units please fix this
All of these problems are being addressed in the next update. Although, China building a faction in that way is intentional, as they're roughly even when fighting NATO, Mexico, and North Africa.
game crashes frequently
This is being addressed, thanks for your feedback.
game is amazing in general tho*
I made an account on Itch to tell you about how fucking Legation City took over China with 16 units against fucking 400 units.
how ?????
Based
The date don’t work, it is stuck on January 1st 2024 and I don’t have political power
The game is probably paused, press the plus button in the top right.
thanks
I love this game but there is a big issue I consistently come across, whenever I have troops on an island I cant move them. In one of my saves I had a 138 troop on an island and I couldnt get them off, I also cant find a way to disband them, so they were taking most of my manpower.
This is being addressed in the next update.
When an ai country is in a civil war and you attack one of the sides in a civil war, they won't capitulate no matter what causing you to get stuck in a constant war and no matter what no peace treaties will appear
This will be addressed in the next update.
I love this game. The only issue I found is that my troops will get stuck in my ally's territory and I can't build a port to send them back home.
i have no idea why but sometimes after battles entire divisions will just vanish. also alot of the time divisions that don't just vanish are stuck in there until i request military access
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 6900, in <module>
File "main.py", line 2411, in update
File "main.py", line 2436, in runEvent
File "main.py", line 2582, in joinFaction
File "main.py", line 356, in addCountry
KeyError: 'Monarchist_League'
if you can please fix this!11!!!
everytime this happens (i think) it always happens when my 36 divisions are trained all together
This will be fixed next update.
Will this be avaliable on mobile?
this is awesome, but if you choose a focus you can choose another without the first finished, losing unnesesary political power in the process.
if there is on porpuse, ignore me.
(english is not my native language)
This will be fixed next update.
this is AMASING, but is it ok if you add a start date in 1750? (optional)
can I downland it in a Macbook?
There's only a windows build right now, but you can still download it and play with a virtual machine.
alright, but will there be builds for other platforms?
Is there a way of changing how much land of a country you annex (i just wanna make the country look more aesthetic)
As of right now, you cannot annex specific regions. This is a feature coming in the next update though.
thanks
Is there a way I can translate this? Since my native language is not English, I have limitations in using this game. So, if possible, I would like to translate this game into Korean, my native language. If you know how, can you tell me? (I hope Google Translator can properly translate what I want to say)
How do independence rebellions work? Is there a stabilty threshold for them to fire? How do I know what tag and where would spawn?
You should add the ability to disband armies. Civil wars with low men suck because the enemy always has more troops
How to save the game?
Pressing escape will bring up a menu, press "save," "new save," then type in the name of your save and press "okay."
Do you have another way to pay? Because I don't have a PayPal account,
like Pix...?
The game is free with optional donations, don't feel a need to pay
Just curious will there be a multiplayer feature, even if there isn't it's a great game.
I don't think I'll ever be able to put in multiplayer, unfortunately.
The capitals of germany and finland (sweden a little bit too) are misaligned, also the discord invite link is expired.
There's nothing I can really do about that unfortunately, because of the way regions are set up.
Here's the discord link: https://discord.gg/sTSfJWVpdH
Played the game a little bit and I can definitely say that it's amazing! You have put a lot of work into this and I cannot congratulate you enough. Just, applause.
Thank you so much!
can you make this available for mac
how do i only take some provinces and not the whole country
That's not a feature quite yet unfortunately, working on it though.
Do you intends makes s mobile version?
no
The game is very cool, what's very bad is that the logo can crash and loses its progress which forces you to save it almost always, but it doesn't bother you too much. It would be nice if I had more options for interacting with other nations (warning that I used Google Translate to write this comment, sorry for any mistake in writing)
Thanks for your comment. The game did release in a very unstable build and I'm actively working on fixing crashes with feedback from the community.
The disappearing menus, allied nations not doing anything and blatantly cheating AI spawning in divisions really make war frustrating, especially when your units just refuse to move or attack as instructed. While it looks promising as a remake it could really use some work.
Could you elaborate more on your criticisms?
The AI nations seem to be able to ignore manpower constraints and also just get divisions when you declare war on them and the economy has no effect on the game beyond canals and ports. The combat overall is very unintuitive and seems to break reguarly when you fight for more then a few days, with units still having the movement lines but not progressing or damaging eachother. All of these combined make combat incredibly annoying to figure out for me.
The AI nations do not ignore manpower constraints, they just deploy more divisions when you declare war on them, as you can as well. Economy does matter, it's required to resupply divisions. Divisions will wait to go into a battle unless they are fully supplied, otherwise nothing will happen (as per why the units have movement lines but don't damage each other). You can refer to the tutorial for more details.
I do agree with you however that this is not communicated well outside of the tutorial, so I will work on improving that.
is there a way to mute the music?
oh nvm
idk why but my game isnt working. The timw in the game never changes from the start of the game and theres no time progression.
The game starts paused, is it possible that you haven't changed the timelapse speed? Press either +/- on the keyboard or on the top right of your screen.
Will there be more than generic focus trees?
Can you add a way to see all the territory currently owned by a country?
Open the industry map.
you did not need to make a entire anime intro just for this lol
Tips on winning in the Russian Civil War as Bolsheviks?
I haven't tried, however, russia does have the most overpowered defensive terrain on the map, so that may help when whittling down white russia.
Also, civil wars only start if your ideology does not match the nation you are trying to become, so you can skip it by changing your country to being communist first.