Fact Sheet

Release Date: 📆 12th of March 2014 Original Release 10th of March 2021 Remaster update 3rd of November 2021 Multiplayer update

Platforms:

📱 iOS

📱 Android

🖥️ Windows PC

Developer: Blindflug Studios Location: Zurich, Switzerland

🔗 Links

Website

📧 Contacts: General/Business: [email protected]

About First Strike

FIRST STRIKE is a fast-paced real-time strategy game which makes dropping the big one as easy as ABC. But be sure to take the right measures to guarantee your people’s safety. Pick one of the big nuclear players – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and plan your strategy wisely: Expand to other countries, build bombs or dismantle in order to restructure your arsenal. Or use research to gain access to new nuclear technology, better recon intel, automated self-defense-sequences and many more. Whether you’re a bloodthirsty warmonger or a tree-hugging hippie – it’s time to put your cards on the table. First Strike shows you how little it takes to heat things up. You control the destiny of the precious and vulnerable rock floating through space, the rock we call mothership Earth.

And now with MULTIPLAYER! Up to 10 players can play against opponents from all over the world and nuke the earth into nuclear Armageddon TOGETHER! Show the world your skills as the ultimate nuclear commander and enjoy the iconic nuclear war RTS experience with your friends and other First Strike fans! Now the question is, will you be the one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens?

HISTORY

First launched in 2014 on iPad, followed by a Steam launch in 2017 and the “Classic” remaster update in March 2021, plus many updates and international awards in between. November 2021 we introduced multiplayer to First Strike on mobile and in 2023 on Steam as a free DLC.

The free version for mobile devices has become our ‘nuclear playground’ to develop big updates with additional features that provide new ways to play the game.

FEATURES:

Play as a nuclear superpower nation - You decide which real-world superpower you play, from the USA to Russia, China or North Korea.
Devastating superweapons - Build technologically advanced rockets, from Tridents to the TSAR, unique to each nation.
Build rockets and missiles, conquer territories and research new devastating nuclear technologies.
Control the world - shoot and defend against nuclear rockets on a 3D globe.

MULTIPLAYER:

Now up to 10 players can join an online match and enjoy the First Strike experience together!
HOST a game and send an INVITE code to your friends! Or set the room to public and let other players join via the fast QUICKPLAY function!
Play in the “Classic Mode” and keep the different power levels of all the competing nations. Or activate the “Balanced Start” or “Small State Support” modifier that help to even the playing field for a more balanced experience.

REMASTER UPDATE:

First Strike's classic fast-paced strategy gameplay - completely remastered!
New artificial intelligence with new behaviors
Refreshed graphical user interface
Social Hub for the fan community
Switch up your play style and set yourself a challenge with the daily modifiers.
Play a unique daily conflict challenge every day.

About Blindflug Studios

We are an indie game studio founded in 2014 by Jeremy Spillmann and Moritz Zumbühl, based in Zürich, Switzerland and Poznań, Poland. Our mission is simple: We want to create beautiful, imaginative and incredibly fun games, that center around real-world dilemmas. We believe that games are an incredible medium for allowing players to experience the most complex of problems while being hugely entertaining too! Our first title First Strike, a nuclear war RTS game, has been played by more than eleven million players so far. It was followed up by the highly critical acclaimed Cloud Chasers that explores the topic of migration, the dieselpunk action game Airheart and the Apple Arcade launch title Stellar Commanders. With over 50 nominations and prizes at international awards and festivals, like the Best GDC Pitch and German Developer Innovation Prize, Blindflug is one of the standout indie game studios in Europe.