Fit check
Is Forged Battalion worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Real-time strategy players who want to design their own units and factions
- Players who prefer strategy campaigns with progression between battles
- Groups of up to eight players seeking cooperative or competitive online battles
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a turn-based strategy structure rather than real-time combat
- Players who prefer fixed unit rosters instead of repeated faction and blueprint customization
- Players looking for a strategy game focused on historical empires or space-based warfare
Our take on Forged Battalion
Its defining mechanic is faction engineering: each battle feeds a persistent technology tree that opens parts for designing units, factories, headquarters, and superweapons.
What is Forged Battalion?
Forged Battalion is a real-time strategy game set in a climate-damaged late-21st-century world where the resistance fights The Collective.
Players build a faction by modifying units, factories, headquarters, and superweapons, selecting equipment such as armour, movement systems, weapons, and special abilities. A persistent technology tree carries progress between battles, with more than 60 attachments across four tiers. The game includes a story campaign, skirmishes, and online multiplayer for up to eight players, including 1v1 ranked matches. Players can also create battlefields with the map editor and use workshop support. Resources earned in battle open further faction options and technology paths.
How Forged Battalion plays
- 01Faction engineering
- Units, factories, headquarters, and superweapons can be modified with different equipment types and abilities.
- 02Persistent technology
- Victories across game modes contribute to four research tiers containing more than 60 attachments.
- 03Online multiplayer
- Multiplayer supports matches with up to eight players, including ranked one-versus-one battles.
- 04Battlefield creation
- A map editor lets players make custom battlefields, with workshop support also included.
Forged Battalion compared to similar games
Forged Battalion uses real-time battles and lets players construct factions through customizable units, factories, and technology paths. Xenonauts centers on turn-based squad operations against aliens, while Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation focuses on commanding vast armies across a galactic setting.
Forged Battalion: platforms & release
Is Forged Battalion worth it?
It is worth it if: real-time strategy players who want to design their own units and factions. Skip it if: players seeking a turn-based strategy structure rather than real-time combat.
Where can I download Forged Battalion?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Forged Battalion's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Forged Battalion on?
Windows only.
