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Pixel Soldiers: Kaiju — the title in stencilled type above letters carved from cracked stone.

Pixel Soldiers: Kaiju

In development

A tactical roguelite about holding the planet together while it comes apart.

Download for Windows ALPHA BUILD · 44 MB

Windows only for now. Linux and Steam Deck to follow.

The fight

You command an Army detachment — infantry sections, tanks, artillery lines, engineers, air sorties, mechs carrying seismic weapons — against monsters that swarm out of rifts in the ground. Each mission you pick a node on a churning globe and fight for it in real time: close the rift, evacuate a city, capture a strategic position, or simply survive until sunrise.

The board

Any node on the board can be taken at any time. A harder node means a harder fight, and losing that fight costs you the ground, not the run. What you’re racing is the blight, which spreads across the world map whether or not you’re winning.

Between missions

Between missions you build the force you’ll carry forward: a deck of army cards to take into battle, drawn from a catalogue of everything you own, and a research tree running to hundreds of nodes across eighteen branches.

What it looks like

  • A mission in progress: an isometric map with a rift burning in the centre, units spread across fields and a town, and the battle readout along the bottom.
    A mission in progress.
  • The world map: a globe covered in mission nodes, with one selected showing its terrain, difficulty and objective, and the current deck listed alongside.
    Picking the next node.
  • A pack of army cards opened over the catalogue screen: a platoon, a section, a howitzer and an effect card laid out face up.
    Opening a pack of army cards.
  • The armour branch of the research tree, its ranks connected in columns, with one plate hovered to show what it does.
    One branch of the research tree.
  • The title screen: the Pixel Soldiers: Kaiju logo over a ruined city, above the new game, continue and load options.
    The title screen.

Downloads

  • Alpha v0.1.3

    Windows · 44 MB · current build

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Where it is

In development, by one person, with no announced date. When there is something worth showing, it will show up here first.

Planned for Windows and Linux, with Steam Deck in mind.

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