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A theater-scale real-time strategy wargame: you command one front of World War 3, from a 1v1 duel on a 2.7 km front to a 100v100 war on a 6+ km theater. It runs on a deterministic simulation where every shell, radio link and soldier is simulated, so what you see is what happened.

No date has been announced. ORDNIX is coming to Steam in Early Access. Wishlisting it on Steam is the easiest way to hear the moment it's out.

The price hasn't been announced yet.

Purchases, payment and refunds are handled by Steam under the Steam Refund Policy (EULA section 10).

The core is playable: the deterministic simulation, ranked lockstep multiplayer, replays, seasons, eight nations and theater battles up to 100v100. Early Access is where the war grows: more maps, audio and music, campaigns and Steam leaderboards. Your after-action reports shape what gets built next.

Windows PC through Steam (Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit). Controller and touch input are supported, but the game isn't Steam Deck Verified yet.

Yes. SKIRMISH puts you against AI commanders at any size from a duel to 100v100, on every map, with every nation, victory condition and weather. DUEL PRACTICE is a ranked map, alone against the machine. Campaigns are planned during Early Access.

Eight: US, UK, Canada, Turkey, Russia, China, South Korea and North Korea, with real rosters and real gaps. Canada fields no MLRS, the UK's deterrent rides the boats, North Korea brings mass and the arsenal. Each nation has 56 unit types across land, sea, air, drones and the strategic tier.

Five victory conditions: Conquest, Destruction, CTF, King of the Hill and Annihilation, across a 15-map, 4-biome pool.

Tactical nuclear release is in, with real counterplay. Authorize a release and both sides get the launch warning: scatter, intercept the bomber, or break the attacker's command link and scrub it.

Every battle records itself in the BATTLE ARCHIVE. Re-fight any war at up to x1000, from your fog or the enemy's. A replay stores the orders and re-fights the whole battle shell for shell: it is the match, not a recording of it.

Quick Match pairs you with other commanders at the team size you choose. The ranked ladder is one 6v6 Conquest queue of twelve human commanders. Custom lobbies are whoever you invite, and AI commanders fight any empty side.

No. One player hosts and the others join through Steam: no middleman and no shutdown date. Everyone runs the same deterministic simulation and only orders cross the wire.

The host opens MULTIPLAYER and presses HOST FOR FRIENDS under WAR ROOM HOSTING. The friend, with ORDNIX already running, picks the host in the Steam friends list and chooses Join Game. Then create a custom lobby and share its code, or queue a 1v1 Quick Match together. Full multiplayer guide.

The war never freezes. The moment a seat goes silent, an AI regent at that commander's own rank takes the army and fights on. The seat stays yours for the whole match, and RECONNECT hands it straight back.

No. Online play checks that each player's own Steam account owns the game. A shared copy is refused with “Steam could not verify this account and game ownership.” Skirmish still works.

At 250 lifetime rated XP. The first Quick win of any day pays exactly that. Any account with a prior ranked game is always through.

To keep the ladder fair, ranked requires every member's Windows platform security to be on: Secure Boot, TPM, Memory Integrity and Kernel DMA Protection. Quick Match and custom lobbies don't need them. SteamOS/Proton may not report these checks, so ranked may be unavailable there. Run the eligibility checker.

Seven tiers on published MMR floors: IRON, BRONZE (900), SILVER (1000), GOLD (1100), PLATINUM (1200), DIAMOND (1350) and WARLORD (1500). Your first ten rated games move at double weight. Seasons run eight weeks; at the roll your rating drifts halfway back toward 1000, while your record, all-time peak and every cosmetic you earned survive.

Ranked runs on deterministic lockstep. A full simulation-state hash from every client is compared every two seconds; if clients disagree, the match is void and no rating moves. Only orders cross the wire, never positions, health or outcomes, and you can only be matched against an identical build.

Minimum: Windows 10 64-bit, a quad-core ~3 GHz CPU, 8 GB RAM and a Vulkan 1.2 or DirectX 12 GPU with 2 GB VRAM (GTX 960 / RX 470). Recommended: 6 cores, 16 GB RAM and a GTX 1660 / RX 5600 XT or better. An SSD is recommended. Full table.

A fresh install measures your PC during its first battle and picks the graphics tier from the next battle on, spending any headroom: supersampling on strong hardware, reconstructing up on weaker hardware. A choice you make yourself always wins: OPTIONS → GRAPHICS QUALITY.

Controller and touch input are supported. The game isn't Steam Deck Verified yet, and ranked may be unavailable on SteamOS because its Windows security checks may not be reported there.

In OPTIONS: REDUCED FLASH for photosensitivity (on by default), UI SCALE for the size of the interface, and MASTER VOLUME.

ORDNIX refuses to start while Windows is in Test Mode (test-signing) or a kernel debugger is attached. Also update your graphics driver (Vulkan 1.2 / DirectX 12) and use Steam's Verify integrity of game files. More fixes.

In the Privacy Policy's own words: the game has no developer server, no account database, no advertising, no analytics and no sale of data; online play sends a small set of game records to the player who hosts your match, and offline play sends nothing anywhere. Privacy Policy.

ORDNIX was made with AI coding tools: AI coding assistants wrote the game's program code, its parameter files and its written text under the developer's direction, and the developer reviewed, tested and decided what shipped. The game contains no AI-generated media: no machine-learning model generated any image, sound or music; every image is rendered by the game's own procedural code and every sound is synthesized by the game's own code. The same disclosure is on the Steam page.

Yes. All footage and screenshots are real in-engine captures from the game.

ORDNIX depicts graphic violence and is intended for adults. See the Content Disclaimer.

Yes, including on monetized channels, as long as you don't present your content as endorsed by the developer, don't sell the game's assets on their own, and don't use it to promote cheating or harass others (EULA section 8).

Yes. REDUCED FLASH is ON by default in OPTIONS. Please read the Health and Safety Warning before playing.

Post in the ORDNIX Steam Community discussions, the support channel named in the game's EULA. Security researchers: see security.txt.