MechWar

Run a mercenary company through a war that pays too well to end.

Three factions are tearing a continent apart: the Rebels, the Confederacy and the Empire. You command a young private military company. Take contracts, lead a squad of up to five mechs into battle, and decide whose side you'll be on when the war is over.

5 mechs in your squad

9 chassis to field

3 factions, 3 endings

The fight

• Isometric turn-based battles with elevation, cover and fog of war.
• Hand-built and generated maps: a convoy crossing a river bridge, a fortified line, a city block, a desert canyon.
• Everything breaks. Buildings, bridges and substations go down. Blow the bridge before the column crosses.
• Heat is the price of firepower. A full alpha strike can shut down your own mech.
• Pilots outlive their machines. Climb out of a wreck and steal an enemy mech.
• Support on call: a jet strafes the column, artillery shells a grid square, smoke lets you close in unseen.
• Varied contracts: convoy ambushes, holding a position, hunting an artillery battery, capturing control points, taking out an enemy commander.

The campaign

• A living front map. Your victories move the frontline and shift the balance between factions.
• Pilots with a history. They level up, get wounded and die for good. Those who covered each other become partners.
• Old scores. Enemy pilots you shot down can return as aces.
• Consequences. A company that levels civilian homes is remembered, and it shows in the epilogue.
• Three faction endings, and a New Game+ that uncovers who is really keeping the war going.

The hangar

• Dozens of weapons and systems, upgrades and paint schemes.
• Unique faction machines alongside the standard chassis.
• Your own base in one of the map's sectors.

How to play

Tap a mech to select it, then tap a highlighted tile to move. The buttons at the bottom fire, alpha strike, vent heat, set overwatch, leave the mech or call support. Drag to pan the map; pinch or use the side buttons to zoom. How to play in the main menu covers the rest.

Plays in the browser on desktop and mobile. The Android version below works offline. English and Russian, switchable in Settings.

Open beta. Balance is still being tuned. Tell us in the comments what felt too hard, too easy or unclear.