Developer posts and news about this game.
V36 is live! Hey everyone, V36 is out now and Season 1 starts today . Every public FFA game you play while signed in now counts towards your new FFA Rating, so jump in and see where you land. If you want the full story behind the new rating system, it's all in last week's dev blo
Dev Blog: V36 and Season 1 Hey everyone, We've been heads down for the last few weeks and we're really excited to finally show you what's coming. V36 lands on Monday 9 November . It's the start of Season 1, it brings a new Elo system we've built with the OFstats team, and honestl
OpenFront v0.35 is live! Player levels and Prestige, two new ranked queues, a replay viewer you can scrub through, smarter nations, faster chat, bigger lobbies and ten new maps. Here's what's new. Player levels & Prestige Every game now earns XP, shown source by source on the
OpenFront has passed 1,000 reviews on Steam, less than a month after launch. Every one of them has been read, the good and the bad, and the community has been really clear about what it loves and what it wants fixed. A lot has changed since launch day because of that feedback, so
Hey everyone! We're just under a week away from the one month anniversary of OpenFront's Steam release, and honestly it's been incredible. Thank you so much to every single one of you who has picked it up, left a review, or just jumped in and played. It means the world to us. We'
Hello Everyone! It's been about two weeks since we launched on Steam and I just wanted to say a massive thank you to you all. Since launch we've sold almost 50,000 copies of OpenFront and hit a new record of over 300,000 daily active players multiple times, which is honestly craz
0.2.0 is live - Achievements are here Before anything else, thank you. The launch has gone better than any of us expected and that is entirely down to you lot, it genuinely could not have been done without you. We are still finalising the numbers but we will be putting an update
Fix Steam screenshots (F12) not working since v0.1.8 Bundled OpenFrontIO updated to v0.34.13
Steam sign-in is roughly 1.5s faster on launch Steam screenshots (F12) now capture the game instead of a blank frame Steam achievements can now be unlocked from the game (once we add them tomorrow!) Fix a display ad appearing while watching older replays on Steam
OpenFront has jumped over from being a browser game to a Steam release, and I can see it easily sucking away lots of my time firing off nukes at my neighbours. Read the full article here:
Adds ability to join a game from a +join_game launch argument Fixes the broken release notes shipped in the baseline assets Fixes the black empty window bug caused by Steam overlay on Linux Adds UI scaling preferences Fixes initial sign-up bonus plutonium not being awarded
We're live on Steam — thank you for getting us here Today OpenFront is live on Steam, and honestly I don't think any of us really expected to be sat here writing this. It's a strange thing to look back on. OpenFront was a small browser game, something you could load up in a tab a
200,000 wishlists Today is an amazing day for me, evan, josh and the whole Openfront community! We are here thanks to you guys and this is just as much of your guys achievement as thanks to you we have managed what only 1% of steam games manage with over 200k steam wishlists (and
Dev Blog #003 - How We Nuke Cheaters We go into Early Access on 17 September. A lot more people are about to be playing, which is great, but it also means more teaming in FFA, more bot accounts, and more banned players making a fresh account and coming straight back the same even
We have a date OpenFront enters Early Access on 17 September 2026. We announced it live from Gamescom in Cologne this week, alongside the first showing of the release trailer. This post is the written version for everyone who could not be there. What you are getting OpenFront is
4,983,758 games were played last month. No games publication has ever reviewed it. Both of those are true, and the gap between them is the reason for this post. What OpenFront is A massively multiplayer real-time strategy game. A hundred or more players carve up a world map in re
v33 is live. The biggest update OpenFront has ever had. It's out right now at openfront.io — free, in your browser, no download and no account needed. Doomsday Clock A new battle-royale gamemode, which is not a sentence we expected to write about a strategy game. A doom zone clos
Steam is coming. Big news: OpenFront is launching on Steam Early Access in Q3 2026. OpenFront already has a home in the browser, and the community has gone further than we ever imagined — over 200,000 players jump into a match every single day. Bringing the game to Steam isn't ab