Slitherine has been making big moves in the real-time strategy space recently – with both licensed and original games – and will continue to do so with some of the most promising upcoming RTS games in 2025. Now, we can add Platoon Commander to their roster of potential winners after a surprise reveal during the current Steam RTS Fest.
Platoon Commander, developed by Alpharabius Games, doesn’t have a release window yet but has been surprise-revealed alongside a demo that includes part of the first campaign mission. “Players step into the role of a German commander during the autumn of 1941” and are “tasked with capturing and holding a Soviet village.” The demo includes platoon customization across infantry, armor, and artillery. Check out a small taste of gameplay below:
The full game focuses “on the German advance toward Moscow in the fall and winter of 1941,” so it’s definitely focusing on a specific phase and theatre of war in World War 2 instead of spreading itself too thin. It’s been teased the campaign will include 20 maps and feature turn-based strategy on the ‘campaign map’ level which then leads into the real-time tactical battles. More than “40 unit types across the Wehrmacht and the Red Army” have been included alongside a familiar squad-based system.
The game’s Steam page doesn’t confirm nor deny the inclusion of multiplayer modes or skirmish options, so we’ll assume the focus has been put on a handcrafted single-player experience for now. In any case, some interesting features are highlighted already:
- A “psychological state of soldiers” system.
- Weather and time-of-day effects that can affect how battles play out.
- Destructible environments and buildings which can be used for extra defence.
- Two playable factions: Wehrmacht and Red Army.
- “Asymmetrical campaign” that paints two very different pictures of the conflict.
As it stands, Platoon Commander is set to release exclusively on Steam.
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