Hello, hello! Grab your favorite warm beverage, pull up a chair to the war room table, and let’s dive into another stacked week in the strategy and wargaming trenches. From frozen Eastern Front offensives and shadowy Lovecraftian cults to blood-soaked gridiron pitches and Exocet-slinging naval duels in the South Atlantic, developers and publishers have been working hard to keep our backlogs dangerously full.
Join me as we march through all the biggest announcements, updates, and deals you need to know about this week!
Steel Platoon Announced
Steel Platoon has been announced as an upcoming real-time strategy game set on the WWII Eastern Front, utilizing the fantastic engine from Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance. With a focus on combined-arms combat, players step into the shoes of a Red Army officer, leading infantry, armor, and artillery through a 15-mission campaign centered on the Battle of Moscow. The gameplay emphasizes realistic tactics, requiring careful attention to positioning, terrain, cover, and armor mechanics without tipping into an inaccessible hardcore simulation.
Beyond immediate tactical decisions, the game introduces a consequence-driven approach through persistent squad and crew progression. Infantry units and vehicle crews carry over between missions. Armies can be customized as well, and realistic component-based vehicle damage will allow your crews to abandon, recover, and repair vehicles. This system bridges traditional RTS combat with campaign management, ensuring that the battlefield losses and victories experienced by your veterans directly impact your capabilities in future engagements.
Decisive Campaigns: Twilight In The East Out Now
Matrix Games and developer VR Designs have launched Decisive Campaigns: Twilight in the East, the fifth installment in their operational-scale turn-based wargame series. Moving the action to the Eastern Front, the game plunges players into the brutal combat of 1941, focusing heavily on Operation Barbarossa and the desperate German push toward Moscow during Operation Typhoon.
Operating at a detailed battalion scale with a map layout of 1 kilometer per hex and four turns per day, the title blends classic hex-and-counter strategy with robust historical simulation like their previous Ardennes Offensive one, which was pretty great. The game introduces theater-specific mechanics such as severe winter weather conditions, railway gauge differences, permanent field works, and an expanded defensive line mode.
Salt and Soil: A Frontier Family Sim Delayed
Developer DelosX has announced a minor, last-minute delay for the Early Access launch of Salt and Soil: A Frontier Family Sim. Originally scheduled to go live on November 9, 2026, the historical colony simulator was briefly pushed back while waiting for Valve to clear its final build review, with the developer reassuring players that the game will release as soon as Steam approval is complete.
Salt and Soil puts players in control of a single family spanning three centuries of American history from 1607 to 1900. Operating on a turn-based system where each turn represents a full year, players must balance homestead management, crop production, trade, and regional relationships against evolving historical shifts like westward expansion, changing borders, and economic rushes. The Early Access period will allow the developer to refine its long-term mechanics alongside player feedback ahead of a planned full 1.0 release in 2027.
Steadfast Reaches 10,000 Wishlists
Developer Circlesphere has announced that its upcoming real-time Age of Sail naval tactics game, Steadfast, has surpassed the milestone of 10,000 wishlists on Steam. Set between 1793 and 1815, the game puts players in command of historic fleets ranging from agile cutters to massive ships of the line, emphasizing wind physics, tactical positioning, and granular damage mechanics.
The developer expressed gratitude to the strategy and historical gaming communities for the strong early reception. Steadfast features large-scale fleet engagements of 50+ vessels, dynamic weather systems, and historically inspired scenarios ranging from small skirmishes to epic conflicts like the Battle of Trafalgar as it steers toward its eventual release.
Warhammer Blood Bowl – The Official Video Game Delayed
The upcoming release of Warhammer Blood Bowl has been postponed to early 2027. Following feedback from the latest playtest, the team opted for additional development time to ensure maximum polish and deliver a distinct experience that separates itself from Blood Bowl 3.
The game marks a fresh beginning for the digital franchise by adopting the rules of the latest tabletop edition. Key changes include easier and more reliable passing, removing Wildly Inaccurate Passes and buffing non-specialized throwers, alongside the new “Secure the Ball” action to help low-agility teams. It also introduces the faster 7 vs. 7 Rumble mode based on tabletop Sevens rules, a revamped user interface, streamlined tutorials, new Star Players, and two free base factions: Tomb Kings and Bretonnians. To reward existing fans, anyone who owns Blood Bowl 3 on any platform will receive Warhammer Blood Bowl completely free at launch in early 2027, along with all previously purchased teams and cosmetics.
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