Strike Wings

EARLY ACCESS · WISHLIST OPEN ON STEAM

A top-down space-combat epic. Fifty warships.
Fleet actions. A civil war in its seventeenth year.

Earth has a church. Mars has a shipyard. Between them — the war.

THE PREMISE

THE LONGVIGIL

Humanity broke out of Sol, fought two long wars against her own runaway daughters, and buried her dead by the million. Earth drew inward — her churches became her government. Mars, Earth’s first colony and her heaviest industrial base, refused to follow.

In 2188 Mars broke from the Alliance and named itself after the insult Earth used to dismiss it: the Stepping Stone. The war that followed is the war you fly in.

Earth and Mars facing one another across the dark gulf of Sol, two fleet lines strung between them

EARTH · CRADLE OF MAN

Blue, and turning away — eleven billion souls who made their church their government, and will not fire a shot until the hymn is sung.

MARS · THE STEPPING STONE

Red, and unbowed — the forge that built the cradle’s fleet, then kept it, and took the insult for a name.

Two fleets holding a silent standoff across an immense gulf of space, Mars a dim crescent below

FLEET ACTIONS

EVERY BATTLEIS A FLEET ACTION

Two hundred ships on the field. Squadron AI, named aces, carrier launches, and a kill feed that reads like a casualty list — because it is one.

IN-ENGINE · ACTUAL GAMEPLAY

THE SIM

Strike Wings plays from above: a fixed 60 Hz combat simulation in the lineage of Hell Fighter 32 — phosphor wireframes, Newtonian drift, and ordnance that fills the sky. What the paintings promise, the sim delivers.

HAMMERFALL · THE BOMBER STORMCOMBAT FOOTAGE · IN-ENGINE

In-game screenshot: a huge orange shockwave ring swallowing a fighter wing while the kill feed scrolls — IN‑ENGINE · HAMMERFALL · SHOCKWAVE OVER THE BOMBER STORM

In-game screenshot: overlapping shockwave rings and clustered fireballs in an attrition battle between supercarrier fleets — IN‑ENGINE · COLOSSI · 2,366 TICKETS ON THE BOARD

In-game screenshot: four capital ships in echelon riding golden engine wakes toward a ringed planet, one under beam fire — IN‑ENGINE · DREADNAUGHTS MAKE FOR THE RINGS

In-game screenshot: fighter wings strafing over an immense ringed gas giant during a massed melee — IN‑ENGINE · EIGHTY ON EIGHTY OVER THE GAS GIANT

In-game screenshot: a destroyer's shields flaring blue-white under cloaked wraith attack, gold target hexagon around the hull — IN‑ENGINE · DD “UNAWARE” · SHIELDS FLARE IN THE AMBUSH

In-game screenshot: a broken capital hulk drifting while a starbase section erupts in a ringed explosion — IN‑ENGINE · EARTHFALL · THE STARBASE BREAKS

In-game screenshot: twin fireballs among shield-flared bombers weaving through flak and blue plasma bolts — IN‑ENGINE · FLAK BELT · TWIN KILLS

In-game screenshot: a lone Reaper closing on a red-ringed target against a giant ringed planet — IN‑ENGINE · SINGLE COMBAT AT THE RINGS

50+ warshipsfrom disposable Ticks to Sovereign-class dreadnaughts
24 weaponsTerran kinetics & Selach-school beams — gatlings, rails, E-flux torpedoes
9 ship devicescloak, warp, repulsor fields, orbital drones, power absorbers
170+ scenariosplus a full battle editor — build your own fleet actions
The storma shrinking arena ends every battle — nobody runs out the clock
2-player co-opsplit-screen local play · gamepad & Steam Deck ready
Subsystem damagestrip shields, silence turrets, breach reactors — hulls break into burning hulks
Named acessquadron AI across 7 difficulty tiers — and aces rise mid-battle

$A colossal dreadnought broken by a single bright fracture of burning light, adrift in calm black space$

CAPITAL WARFARE

BREAK THEIMMOVABLE

Dreadnaughts, super carriers, starbases — every capital hull is dismantled subsystem by subsystem until it tears into burning hulks. And every starbase carries exactly one Deathray. When the red designator paints you: move. Don’t think.

THE AIRFRAME

SURVEY 042 · ASHEN GABRIEL PROVING GROUNDS · SF-102M VANGUARD

The SF-102M Vanguard — a green Terran strike fighter marked with red crosses, rendered in phosphor wireframe survey

SHIELD GENERATOR — PELL-PATTERN BOUNDARY, REGENERATES UNDER FIRE
WEAPON HARDPOINTS — GATLINGS, RAILS, BEAMS, E-FLUX TORPEDOES
ARMOUR — SUBSYSTEM PLATING, STRIPPED PANEL BY PANEL
ENGINES — PHYSICS-AWARE THRUST, NEWTONIAN DRIFT

THE HANGAR

SHIP REGISTRY

MULTIROLE FIGHTER

RP-1A REAPER

Drawn in 2113, flown by the thousand on both sides by 2205. It shredded Talons in its first field trial and Lancers in its second — then the Alliance reverse-engineered captured hulls to build its own. The war's definitive fighter.

SPD

ARM

SHL

PWR

THE SCREENING ROOM · SEVEN CUTS · SOUND ON

EVERYTHINGYOU WANTED

Strike Wings is the ultimate retro space-ship shooter. Sandbox modes, 170+ scenarios, a full campaign, 24-player Steam and LAN multiplayer — everything you ever wanted from the classics, bundled together and drawn crisp: light as art, fireworks on a pitch-black canvas of sky.

TEASER LOOP · THE FULL TWO MINUTES, ONE CLICK AWAY OCTOBER 2026 · WISHLIST ON STEAM

BEYOND THE COCKPIT

THE WARROOM

The war doesn’t end when you land. Run a persistent sector campaign day by day, brief with prelates and admirals, forge your own battles in the editor, and hang every title you earn on the pilot’s wall.

In-game screenshot: a campaign mission briefing titled Cradle of the Lamb with objective text — OPERATIONAL BRIEFING · CRADLE OF THE LAMB

In-game screenshot: a campaign dialogue with Lord Prelate Otmar Velk, Voice of the Covenant — THE BRIEFING ROOM · LORD PRELATE OTMAR VELK

In-game screenshot: the battle editor vessel view with a massed fleet placed inside the final arena boundary — THE FORGE · PLACE ANY FLEET ON ANY FIELD

In-game screenshot: the battle editor rules view — attrition mode with fighter and capital ticket pools and respawn delays — THE FORGE · TICKETS, MODES, VICTORY RULES

In-game screenshot: the ship encyclopedia opened on the RP-1A Reaper with characteristics, weaponry and background — SHIP ENCYCLOPEDIA · EVERY HULL ON FILE

In-game screenshot: the garage title screen with earned titles list and plate gallery — THE GARAGE · FORGE YOUR WINGTAG PLATE

In-game screenshot: the garage showing the Founder plate over a pink nebula with title progress ledger — THE GARAGE · 138,502 KILLS INTO THE FOUNDER PLATE

THE RITE OF LAUNCH

STEEL ISBAPTIZED

A warship launching from the Lunar Yards is a three-day public event. Chaplains walk the hull rail to rail; the consecration hymnals — vast polyphonic choral works — are sung over open comms while the fleet holds station in the dark. Even Martians listen, in private. Then the ship is armed, and the war has one more name in it.

Painting: a capital ship suspended in a cathedral drydock, a golden cross of light burning beneath it while Templar knights stand vigil — FLEET CONSECRATION · LUNAR YARDS UNDER SAINT MICHAEL’S SPIRE MINISTRY OF MEMORY

POWERS OF SOL

THREE FLAGS.NO TRUCE.

Two flags fight the war. A third was built to profit from it — and both sides keep it in business.

FIRST POWER · EARTH

THE TERRAN ALLIANCE

“The sword is holy.”

Earth fought two unwinnable wars against her own runaway daughters, buried a century of dead, and drew inward. Across sixty years — the Templar Turn, 2120 to 2180 — a traumatised republic drifted, one reasonable accommodation at a time, into a theocracy: the Aethon Covenant, six ecclesiastical Orders, a Synod where the navy used to be. Eleven billion souls now launch warships only after a chaplain raises the monstrance. Green hull, red cross, and the finest kinetic weapons in known space.

SECOND POWER · MARS

THE STEPPING STONE ALLIANCE

“That which is built is sacred.”

Mars built most of Earth’s fleet and refused Earth’s faith — to a workers’ democracy of welders and engineers, priests at the gunnery board were simply insane. When Earth made the Covenant a condition of trade, Mars broke away in 2188 and took the slur Earth used to dismiss it — the Stepping Stone — as its name. Pell-pattern shields under open Halcyon licence, yards that launch a warship a day, grey Martian steel. The Reaper is theirs; so is the future, if they hold.

THIRD POWER · THE CHARTER

THE CONSORTIUM

“The bid that prints.”

The third power neither flag will admit is a power. It began with the 2167 Tharsis Mutiny — three captains who refused to fire on civilian rescue traffic, bought out and walked off Mars aboard a retired dreadnaught — and is now a chartered mercenary state of forty-two Wings under Concord law. The seventeen-year war breeds a backlog of work line crews won’t touch: contested-corridor escort, asset retrieval, deniable strikes, capital recovery. The Consortium clears it for cash — no flag, no sectarian preference, a contract from the Iron Lamb and its counter from the SSA in the same week. Both navies hire it; both resent it; neither can afford to dissolve it. Its sodium-yellow plume is a warning and a brand at once: we want you to see us coming.

THE FRONTIER

THE WAR LIVESAT THE EDGES

Patrol Outpost Saint Gabriel, 82 Eridani outer system. One Crusader squadron, a repair slip, and a sign that asks every pilot to speed the word. Neither fleet can land on the other’s homeworld and hold it — so the war is fought at places nobody on either world had heard of until the casualty lists arrived.

Painting: Patrol Outpost Saint Gabriel — a domed cathedral outpost on a storm-grey frontier world, fighters lifting off past its cross — PATROL OUTPOST SAINT GABRIEL · 82 ERIDANI OUTER SYSTEM “SPEED THE WORD.” · LUKE 1:19

THE KNOWN SPHERE · LIVE TACTICAL PLOT

TWENTY-TWOLIGHT-YEARS

Five human powers. A mercenary charter. Seven salvage Houses. And at the north-west edge of the chart, a single red ? — the system the SSAV Yeats reached in 2187 and never came home from. The torpedoes still arrive.

MINISTRY OF CARTOGRAPHY · TERRAN ALLIANCE · PLOT REFRESHED 2205 CS · VERUM IN TABULIS

RECOVERED FOOTAGE · GUN CAMERA

THE ARCHIVE

Every wing that flies, records. Not every wing comes home. What the recovery tugs cut out of the wreckage is catalogued here — the war exactly as the sim fought it, frame by frame.

EARTHFALL · THE BATTLE FOR SOLFLEET ACTIONS

CAPITALS STACKED FOR GLORYCAPITAL WARFARE

SINGLE COMBAT · REAPER AGAINST REAPERWING ACTIONS

In-game screenshot: a cluster of fireballs blooming amid debris in a supercarrier engagement — COLOSSI · FIREBALL BOUQUET

In-game screenshot: a burning carrier hulk drifting past a trio of ringed fireballs — EARTHFALL · HULKS ADRIFT

In-game screenshot: three dreadnoughts in echelon formation riding golden engine wakes toward planetary rings — CAPITAL ECHELON UNDERWAY

In-game screenshot: a lone dreadnought cruising through the violet Orion nebula — TAS “IRON LAMB” · ORION DRIFT

In-game screenshot: a dense dogfight of gold-outlined fighters, ringed explosions and tracer streams — GAUNTLET · RUN THE NEEDLE

In-game screenshot: a fighter weaving through diagonal storms of red and white tracer fire — EYEWALL · TRACER STORM

In-game screenshot: a destroyer firing four golden beam lances downward through a debris field — DD “SENTINEL” · BEAMS THROUGH THE DEBRIS

In-game screenshot: a ringed fireball kill among comet streaks as fighters scatter — COMETSTORM · ONE CONFIRMED

In-game screenshot: a hexed destroyer burning at the engines while cloaked wraiths flare into visibility around it — BLACKOUT · THEY WERE NEVER THERE

In-game screenshot: a pocket carrier bracketed in the target-lock overlay, shields flaring under escort fire — CVE “RACKER” · TARGET LOCK

In-game screenshot: the ringed gas giant looming over scattered fighters as a kill flares like a small sun — MELEE · SUN-FLARE FINISH

In-game screenshot: a Talon bracketed among asteroids with the objective Destroy BS Anvil on the radar bezel — OBJECTIVE · DESTROY BS ANVIL

In-game screenshot: Anvil Assault, frame one — ANVIL ASSAULT · I

In-game screenshot: Anvil Assault, frame two — ANVIL ASSAULT · II

In-game screenshot: Anvil Assault, frame three — ANVIL ASSAULT · III

In-game screenshot: Ares Squall, frame one — ARES SQUALL · I

In-game screenshot: Ares Squall, frame two — ARES SQUALL · II

In-game screenshot: Ares Squall, frame three — ARES SQUALL · III

In-game screenshot: Aurora Dance, frame one — AURORA DANCE · I

In-game screenshot: Aurora Dance, frame two — AURORA DANCE · II

In-game screenshot: Aurora Dance, frame three — AURORA DANCE · III

In-game screenshot: Aurora Knives, frame one — AURORA KNIVES · I

In-game screenshot: Aurora Knives, frame two — AURORA KNIVES · II

In-game screenshot: Aurora Knives, frame three — AURORA KNIVES · III

In-game screenshot: Binary Fleet, frame one — BINARY FLEET · I

In-game screenshot: Binary Fleet, frame two — BINARY FLEET · II

In-game screenshot: Binary Fleet, frame three — BINARY FLEET · III

In-game screenshot: Cinder Reveal, frame one — CINDER REVEAL · I

In-game screenshot: Cinder Reveal, frame two — CINDER REVEAL · II

In-game screenshot: Cinder Reveal, frame three — CINDER REVEAL · III

In-game screenshot: Magma Brawl, frame one — MAGMA BRAWL · I

In-game screenshot: Magma Brawl, frame two — MAGMA BRAWL · II

In-game screenshot: Magma Brawl, frame three — MAGMA BRAWL · III

In-game screenshot: a lone Reaper silhouetted against a red giant star — LONE REAPER · RED GIANT

In-game screenshot: Red Giant Hero, frame one — HERO OF THE RED GIANT · I

In-game screenshot: Red Giant Hero, frame two — HERO OF THE RED GIANT · II

In-game screenshot: Red Giant Hero, frame three — HERO OF THE RED GIANT · III

In-game screenshot: Starfall Furball, frame one — STARFALL FURBALL · I

In-game screenshot: Starfall Furball, frame two — STARFALL FURBALL · II

In-game screenshot: Starfall Furball, frame three — STARFALL FURBALL · III

In-game screenshot: Starfall Line, frame one — STARFALL LINE · I

In-game screenshot: Starfall Line, frame two — STARFALL LINE · II

In-game screenshot: Starfall Line, frame three — STARFALL LINE · III

In-game screenshot: Starfall Line, frame four — STARFALL LINE · IV

In-game screenshot: Storm Broadside, frame one — STORM BROADSIDE · I

In-game screenshot: Storm Broadside, frame two — STORM BROADSIDE · II

In-game screenshot: Storm Broadside, frame three — STORM BROADSIDE · III

In-game screenshot: Storm Broadside, frame four — STORM BROADSIDE · IV

In-game screenshot: Storm Cloudfire, frame one — STORM CLOUDFIRE · I

In-game screenshot: Storm Cloudfire, frame two — STORM CLOUDFIRE · II

In-game screenshot: Storm Cloudfire, frame three — STORM CLOUDFIRE · III

In-game screenshot: the Strike Wings title screen, a fleet cruising over an orange gas giant — THE FLEET ASSEMBLES

In-game screenshot: War Sortie, frame one — WAR SORTIE · I

In-game screenshot: War Sortie, frame two — WAR SORTIE · II

YEAR SEVENTEEN · THE PRICE

THE VIGIL ROLL

TAS IGNESCRUISER · RAMMED A REAVER FRIGATE · ARATHIL CAMPAIGN, 2092
SSAV YEATSDEEP SURVEY · NEVER CAME HOME · UNCHARTED CLUSTER, 2187
TAS SAINT VARDAMANDESTROYER · LOST WITH ALL HANDS · TAU CETI PICKET, 2199
SSAV NERUDACONVOY ESCORT · BROKE THE BLOCKADE TWICE · EPSILON INDI, 2201
TAS MONSTRANCEFRIGATE · HELD THE LANE FOR NINE HOURS · 82 ERIDANI SHELL, 2202
SSAV SZYMBORSKASTRIKE CARRIER · ALL FIGHTERS RECOVERED, SHIP LOST · PROCYON APPROACHES, 2202
CMV GOLDEN MEANCONSORTIUM WING 17 · CONTRACT FULFILLED · NEW ANTWERP, 2203
TAS CANTICLEBOMBER TENDER · REACTOR BREACH · HALFPENNY HOLDING, 2203
SSAV AKHMATOVARAIL DESTROYER · SEVEN KILLS, THEN SILENCE · JUMPGATE ROW, 2204
TAS SPEED THE WORDCOURIER · THE WORD ARRIVED · SAINT GABRIEL, 2204
SSAV WHITMANREPAIR TENDER · STAYED FOR THE WOUNDED · STEPPERS’ REACH CONVOY, 2204
TAS AETHON’S GRACECRUISER · CHOIR STILL ON OPEN COMMS WHEN SHE WENT · LUNA RELIEF, 2205
SSAV BRODSKYLINE FRIGATE · THE HULL MADE OLYMPUS, THE CREW DID NOT · CYDONIA RUN, 2205
CONTACT 2205-114UNKNOWN HULL · STILL ARRIVING · ROSS 128 BEARING, 2205

TAS IGNESCRUISER · RAMMED A REAVER FRIGATE · ARATHIL CAMPAIGN, 2092
SSAV YEATSDEEP SURVEY · NEVER CAME HOME · UNCHARTED CLUSTER, 2187
TAS SAINT VARDAMANDESTROYER · LOST WITH ALL HANDS · TAU CETI PICKET, 2199
SSAV NERUDACONVOY ESCORT · BROKE THE BLOCKADE TWICE · EPSILON INDI, 2201
TAS MONSTRANCEFRIGATE · HELD THE LANE FOR NINE HOURS · 82 ERIDANI SHELL, 2202
SSAV SZYMBORSKASTRIKE CARRIER · ALL FIGHTERS RECOVERED, SHIP LOST · PROCYON APPROACHES, 2202
CMV GOLDEN MEANCONSORTIUM WING 17 · CONTRACT FULFILLED · NEW ANTWERP, 2203
TAS CANTICLEBOMBER TENDER · REACTOR BREACH · HALFPENNY HOLDING, 2203
SSAV AKHMATOVARAIL DESTROYER · SEVEN KILLS, THEN SILENCE · JUMPGATE ROW, 2204
TAS SPEED THE WORDCOURIER · THE WORD ARRIVED · SAINT GABRIEL, 2204
SSAV WHITMANREPAIR TENDER · STAYED FOR THE WOUNDED · STEPPERS’ REACH CONVOY, 2204
TAS AETHON’S GRACECRUISER · CHOIR STILL ON OPEN COMMS WHEN SHE WENT · LUNA RELIEF, 2205
SSAV BRODSKYLINE FRIGATE · THE HULL MADE OLYMPUS, THE CREW DID NOT · CYDONIA RUN, 2205
CONTACT 2205-114UNKNOWN HULL · STILL ARRIVING · ROSS 128 BEARING, 2205

The roll is long. The Vigil is longer.

EARLY ACCESS · WINDOWS / MACOS / STEAM DECK

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