Tempest Rising is a base-building real-time strategy game developed by Slipgate Ironworks, released for PC in 2025. Drawing inspiration from the RTS genre's peak era in the 1990s and 2000s, it is set in an alternate history where the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to nuclear war, leaving a devastated 1997-era Earth overrun by strange red electrical growths called Tempest vines. Two factions — the technologically advanced Global Defense Forces and the hard-hitting Tempest Dynasty — each offer distinct approaches to combat and economy across separate eleven-mission campaigns featuring voiced briefings and per-mission army customization. A third faction, the Veti, is planned for future release. Multiplayer supports 1v1 and 2v2 matchmaking using the Glicko-2 rating system, alongside custom lobbies and skirmish modes accommodating up to 500 units per team. Each faction also has access to two unique superweapons.
Classic RTS action meets modern production and performance in Tempest Rising. Inspired by RTS greats of the 90s and 2000s, Tempest Rising is a classic, base-building real time strategy game set in a modern day alternative history war scenario. It features 3 unique factions, each with its own approach to combat and economy and offering a variety of strategies for players of all stripes, deep and rewarding gameplay that keeps a focus on strategy while rewarding skill, and built-in customization options that allow players to approach the game their way in both single player and multiplayer game modes.
Take on the role of Commander in the highly mobile and advanced peacekeeping corps of the Global Defense Forces or the hard-hitting and desperate Tempest Dynasty in 2 11-mission campaigns that allow the player to customize their army for each mission, as both armies seek to understand and control the mysterious but beneficial Tempest vines that grow unchecked across the war-torn planet Earth. Other dangers wait in the shadows, as the origin of the Tempest is revealed...
Relive classic RTS base building with fast, fluid, and hard-hitting combat
Command 2 unique rosters of units as either the GDF (Global Defense Force) or the Tempest Dynasty (with the third playable faction, the Veti, coming in the future.)
Experience 2 epic single player campaigns with voiced mission briefings
Wage war alone or with friends in 3 game modes: versus AI opponents in Custom Game lobbies, in 1v1 and 2v2 Multiplayer Matchmaking, or solo in skirmish mode with up to 500 units per team and two unique superweapons to compliment each faction’s playstyle.
Dominate the competition and climb the leaderboards in Ranked matchmaking, utilizing the Glicko-2 rating system
