First Strike Steam news

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• Review score76% positive
• Total reviews1,994
• Release dateMay 31, 2017
• DeveloperBlindflug Studios AG
• PublisherBlindflug Studios AG

Genres: Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: Blindflug Studios AGPublisher: Blindflug Studios AG

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First Strike Steam news

First Strike news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• First Strike Commanders, Meet Your Next Challenge - 19 February 2026

  From nuclear annihilation to World War II survival: Experience two very different eras of global conflict with our two war games.Our newest game, GROUND OF ACES, just launched its 4th Major Update, bringing in a wave of new features and fresh content. And we’re celebrating with our biggest discount ever.For the first time, GROUND OF ACES is now 35% off. That's the best deal and lowest price we’ve offered so far.If you already own First Strike, you can grab the Ground of Aces x First Strike Bundle and unlock an additional 10% off on top of the sale.GROUND OF ACES is a World War 2 base builder where you design, expand, and defend a military air base while managing your crew and resources.Thank you for supporting Blindflug Studios and good luck keeping your people alive, whatever war you choose.

• Get Bomber Crew + Our New Game in One Package! - 21 January 2026

  Are you into World War II aviation? Do you like strategy management games?We’re excited to team up with Bomber Crew to bring you a special bundle that combines these two WW2 management experiences. For a limited time, you can get the bundle with a 30% discount for a limited time:Already own one of the games? No problem, you can complete the bundle and still benefit from the discount.Check out what is coming next to Ground of AcesWant a sneak peek at what we’re building next? We’ve published a devlog outlining the upcoming features for our game Ground of Aces.

• From World War 3 to World War 2 - 18 December 2025

  If you enjoyed the tough decisions and global consequences of First Strike, we have exciting news from our studio.Our latest game, GROUND OF ACES, has just received its 3rd Major Update with new features and content, and to celebrate, it’s now available at 25% off. GROUND OF ACES is a World War 2 base builder where you design, expand, and defend a military air base while managing your crew and resources under constant pressure. Different war. Same hard choices.If you already own First Strike, our bundle is the best way to jump into Ground of Aces at an additional reduced price. Play across two eras of global conflict and test your leadership in radically different scenarios.This pack contains: Thank you for supporting Blindflug Studios and good luck keeping your people alive, whatever war you choose.

• First Strike + New WW2 Game in One Special Bundle - 17 October 2025

  All our games are on sale, including our new title GROUND OF ACES. This means you can get our bundle that includes First Strike + Ground of Aces for an even lower price:Ground of Aces (Early Access)Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war! Ground of Aces will soon get its second MAJOR UPDATE, which will add female ground crew, hospitals, and a health, injury, and recovery system for your crew members.You can learn more here:First StrikeFIRST STRIKE is a fast-paced real-time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one…

• New Game by the Creators of First Strike - 11 July 2025

  Get our new base builder game plus First Strike for a cheaper bundle price!We have just released a new game and to celebrate, we set up a new bundle that lets you get both games for a better price.This pack contains: Ground of Aces (Early Access)Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war! First StrikeFIRST STRIKE is a fast-paced real-time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.Purchase both of these classic Blindflug Studios original games and play either World Wa…

• Brand-new DEMO of our new World War II game! - 9 June 2025

  Hello dear First Strike fansDo you want to try out our new game? Our World War II base building game GROUND OF ACES is part of the Steam Next Fest which just started. GO TO THE STEAM NEXT FEST PAGEPLAY THE FREE DEMO NOWTake command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!Check out our new trailer:

• We Are Now on Bilibili! & New Demo of Our WW2 Game! - 25 March 2025

  Dear First Strike community We are expanding our social media channels: We have opened an account on Bilibili to better reach our Chinese audience. So if you use Bilibili, follow our channel! In other news: Steam just launched its City Builder & Colony Sim Fest. This is an excellent opportunity for you to check out our new, free demo of Ground of Aces, a WW2-era Base Building game. PLAY THE DEMO: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308690/Ground_of_Aces/ If you prefer YouTube, check out our demo trailer for Ground of Aces:

• Celebrating Nuclear Winter with a sale and new demo! - 18 December 2024

  First Strike gets a special discount for the (Nuclear) Winter Sale: -85%! https://store.steampowered.com/app/587000/First_Strike/ We are also celebrating the new demo for our new game, the World War II base building game Ground of Aces! Try it out and tell us what you think. We would love to hear your feedback! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308690/Ground_of_Aces/ Watch our showcase video about the new features:

• Nuclear war was never cheaper! - 27 November 2024

  The Steam Autumn Sale started and the new Alpha update for our other game, Ground of Aces, is out today. To celebrate, we gave First Strike a special discount, the highest we ever had: -86%! Your chance to get First Strike for the best price on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/587000/First_Strike/ Have a look at our other game GROUND OF ACES - its free demo got the Alpha 3 update today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308690/Ground_of_Aces/

• Alpha Celebration - Get First Strike for 70% off! - 7 March 2024

  All the Blindflug titles are on sale this week to celebrate a milestone of our new game, the World War II base builder GROUND OF ACES! Our team has finished its first alpha version which we will release on the 14th of March. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308690/Ground_of_Aces/ As a celebration gift, we put discounts on all our Steam games: You can get FIRST STRIKE for 70% off! Our dieselpunk airplane action game AIRHEART is available with an 80% discount. The multiplayer real-time strategy game STELLAR COMMANDERS has a discount of 70%. And you can get the desert survival journey game CLOUD CHASERS for 75% off. Learn more about our new WWII base builder game and the coming alpha release HERE!

• LIVESTREAM today: Let's play First Strike together! - 6 September 2023

  We're doing a First Strike livestream on Twitch today at 7pm CEST (1pm EDT / 10am PDT) to celebrate the multiplayer release! And you can join to play against us and other First Strike fans! Both PC and mobile players are invited because crossplay is possible in First Strike. This will be our first First Strike stream with a PC set up. Follow us on Twitch to get notified when we're live: FOLLOW US ON TWITCH We hope to see you in the stream!

• Multiplayer out now! FOR FREE - 31 August 2023

  The free DLC with the MULTIPLAYER mode for First Strike is here! PLAY IT NOW Don't forget to update the main game, the DLC only works with the latest version of First Strike. It's good to have your Steam Cloud settings activated for First Strike, so that your save file stays secured, while the app gets updated. You will have a new button in the main menu that leads you to the multiplayer mode. Tell your friends and challenge each other to nuclear war battles! PLEASE NOTE: Keyboard shortcuts are disabled in multiplayer The keyboard shortcuts are deactivated in the multiplayer on purpose. The multiplayer has crossplay, which means PC players and mobile players play together. The shortcuts would be a big advantage for PC players and make it unfair for mobile players. Disabling shortcuts was a necessary compromise. The PC player base is not big enough to not have crossplay, so we have to mi…

• Multiplayer is coming to PC! FOR FREE - 17 August 2023

  Yes, it’s happening! The multiplayer mode for FIRST STRIKE will be released as a FREE DLC on August 31. Soon, you can wage nuclear war against your friends and other players from all over the world on PC! WISHLIST IT NOW Features of the multiplayer mode will be: Play online PvP matches with up to 10 players! Choose from the twelve classic superpower nations like USA, Russia or North Korea and use their special superweapons like the Tsar Bomba or Dirty Radium Bomb. Host a private 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. Activate modifiers to even out the playing field. Pick the “Balanced Start” or “Small State Support” modifiers for a more balanced experience for all players. Or keep the different power levels of the competing nations with the “Classic Mode”. Connect with allies or tease your enemi…

• GAME REVEAL - New project from the makers of First Strike - 24 May 2023

  Dear First Strike fans Do you like base building games? Are you into World War II aviation and history? Then our new game project may be something for you: GROUND OF ACES, the World War II base building game. Watch the trailer! Wishlist it on Steam!

• First Strike is evolving on mobile! - 21 May 2021

  Dear First Strike fans You have been training on your fancy gaming rigs, it is time to prove your warfare skills on the upcoming mobile device battlefield. We want to inform you that the free mobile version of First Strike is evolving with new content. We just released The Daily Conflict Update that includes seven new daily challenge modes! And we plan to continue on expanding the free mobile version of the game with more new gameplay content in the future. Now some of you who play First Strike primarily on your PC may be asking: “But what about First Strike on Steam? I want to play the new content on my PC and not on a mobile device.” Here we have to tell you that the Steam version will not get these new updates. We plan to keep the Steam version as it is because it is supposed to provide the typical, essential First Strike experience, hence the “Classic” title. The free mobile version…

• Update Notes for April 1 2021 - 1 April 2021

  All nations can now be selected with CTRL+A Cancelling a nation selection with Backspace got implemented An already occupied shortcut key can now easily be assigned to another action without having to change the previous one Steam Cloud saves got implemented Fixed unresponsiveness after zooming in or out Moved the in-game announcements that were centered on the screen to be less obscuring Further bug fixes

• 7 Years of First Strike - 13 March 2021

  On this day, seven years ago, the first version of First Strike was released. A tiny game from a small development team with just the simple wish of creating a fast and frantic strategy game, that also shows to the world, how devastating our nuclear arsenal truly is. The rest is history: First Strike was the game that started our company and kept us going for over seven years now. Over 11 Million players have played First Strike to this day across all platforms. We owe the bomb a ton. But most of all, we are here thanks to all of you. Thank you so much! Celebrate this historic day with us: We are going to stream live from the Blindflug Hangar on Twitch at 19.00 CET. It would be great if you join us when we play the brand new First Strike: Classic remaster of the original game. Blindflug Studios on Twitch For those who cannot access Twitch, stay right here. We will also mirror the livest…

• First Strike: Classic Remaster Update - 10 March 2021

  Hello dear tactical annihilators from all around the world! Today we have a special announcement to make. First Strike: Final Hour will get a massive update today, becoming First Strike: Classic. Why is that? Well, you see, this Saturday, First Strike is turning 7 years old. And for this special celebration we did something special: We used the last months during the global lockdowns to remaster the whole game from the ground up. First Strike: Classic is a new rebuild of the original First Strike, including: A new codebase completely rebuilt from the ground up to fight bugs A massively smarter AI with brand new behaviors Newly refreshed and redesigned interface And it is free of charge as an update for all First Strike fans We’ve heard the feedback that First Strike was having some issues lately. Not only is this version more merciless and sleeker than ever before, we also hope this upd…

• We have First Strike T-Shirts! - 30 September 2020

  Dear First Strike fans, Ever wanted to show off your love for First Strike? Or display your favorite First Strike superweapon to the world? You can do that now with our First Strike T-shirts! We have a collection with five superweapon designs that you can choose from. -> GET THEM HERE

• The new game from the First Strike developers - Now available! - 20 February 2020

  Stellar Commanders is a fast-paced multiplayer real-time strategy game that pits player against player in a bid to take control of distant planets as part of an inter-galactic war for precious resources. Aim for the Stars! Enjoy your First Strike experience together with your friends! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1165400/Stellar_Commanders/ The speedy 1 vs 1 battles will see each player align with a different faction and choose units based on a deep roster of unlockable futuristic troops; from rockets, tanks and stealth generators to bombastic orbital satellites, all of which will help determine tactical decisions. This is our first multiplayer strategy game and one that we’ve been excited about for some time – it seemed like a perfect next step after the huge success of First Strike. Combining the First Strike community’s feedback about making a multiplayer strategy title with ou…

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