Stormgate Dev Tracker

Frost Giant guy here--the above is incorrect. While we love competitive players, our game is absolutely aimed squarely at players who crave new RTS campaign/story content. We plan to tell an ongoing story with new campaign chapters released several times a year. Campaign is one of our main game pillars, alongside Co-op, Competitive, and Custom Games (our powerful new RTS editor for maps, mods, and custom games will be released as part of the client).

Our team takes it as a huge compliment that the number one game people compare Stormgate to is... the last game many of our core team members worked on, StarCraft 2. We love it too and we hope people continue playing SC2 forever. It's definitely an interesting position to be in when you're competing with your own last project!

That said, we weren't ready to stop making RTS games and we want to continue giving the RTS community new things to play--new units, new heroes, new stories, new game modes, a new editor, etc. Our commitment to RTS and our passion for developing RTS games is why we broke off from Blizzard and formed a new studio. Players have been waiting long enough.

Yes--it'll absolutely take us a long time to match what was achieved with SC2--Wings of Liberty alone was in development for 7 years, let alone what went into HOTS and LOTV. That said, we've built an incredible foundation for the future of RTS with our SnowPlay technology and we're excited about...

The leap forward coming from our SnowPlay tech may be of interest to you? We're 3x as responsive as SC2 as measured by tick rate/Hz (most RTS games are 8-tick, SC2 is considered best-in-class at 16-tick, Stormgate is 64-tick). For many, what makes an RTS fun to play is how responsive it is, where it feels snappy and satisfying to control your units.

Our tech allows us to also do things like implement Rollback--something that's done wonders for online fighting games.

Check out what we've been up to during Steam Next Fest--we're opening up access to our beta (1v1 and 3P co-op vs. AI) so that people can experience it for themselves.

It's a just a running joke.

Anime cat girls will be our fourth faction, not our third.

yep, something like that!

We made this change because the previous iteration of the Brute/Fiend mechanic felt extremely binary (100% benefit vs 0% benefit = 100% difference) due to how much of the Brute's power was gated behind whether you could hit the Z button on time. We found this approach to be extremely unfriendly to newer players, especially as a core mechanic on a tier 1 unit. Many playtesters internally could literally not play our game because the early-game was balanced around this mechanical skillcheck, and this is not the direction we want to head towards for an approachable game. Instead, we want the skill expression of this ability to be focused on the decision-making, i.e. when you decide to split your Brutes rather than if you can split them on time.

We considered a few options to address this including on-death you gain 1 fiend (100% vs 50% benefit = 50% difference) and on-death you gain 2 fiends (100% benefit vs near-100% benefit = 0% difference). We primarily went with the 2-Fien...

You will be contacted after the campaign ends (Feb 1)!

Looking forward to seeing you in Stormgate! <3

Back when I was a game reviewer, the “value” metric was always a tough nut to crack. Portal is one of my absolute favorite games of all time and I finished it in a single sitting.

I’ve recently played a few AAA games that offered hundreds of hours of potential gameplay and I never picked them up again after they failed to grab me in the first hour. (Not naming names.)

For Stormgate, we aim to deliver campaign chapters that are fun to play, that deepen players’ connections to our universe, and that we hope most walk away from feeling like they got a good value.

We’ll be relying heavily on community feedback once we get our initial missions out for testing during Early Access and—largely because of our team’s experience with campaign and their passion for storytelling—I’m confident that together we’ll iterate and polish and build something really fun.

Can confirm: we are planning to offer bundle pricing.

Thanks for reading and for supporting our team!

We hear your request regarding pre-purchase bundle pricing. Thanks for sharing your situation and perspective—we’ll keep you posted!

Thanks so much for your support! <3

In case you missed it, we are planning to offer bundle pricing.

Hey, folks—just dropping in to let you know we’re reading your feedback. We have always been transparent with our development plans and we will continue to do the same by keeping you fully informed about how we’re planning to produce and deliver content.

From the beginning, we’ve shared that our past experience with transitioning StarCraft II to free-to-play was the starting point for how we will sustain Stormgate’s ongoing development. The tentative price point we shared on Kickstarter is similar to the StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops campaign, which was also sold in packs of three missions for $7.50 USD.

F2P was very successful for SC2—development was sustainable and it greatly increased the total number of players enjoying the game.

We love storytelling at Frost Giant and have high hopes for our episodic campaign content. Direct comparisons don’t really fit here, though—we aren’t making a box model game like Wings of Liberty, which launched with a lengthy c...

I posted the first round of our planned responses! We have lots of topics to get through, so thank you for your patience.

Would it be OK with you if it ran around on all fours?

Stormgate will have a powerful new editor. I can't think of any other RTS games coming out that are also going all-in on an editor & custom games.

At the end of the Kickstarter campaign, backers who pledged to receive Wave 1 beta access will receive their onboarding link to receive their Steam code and invite to the Discord.