Developer posts and news about this game.
Hello, pilots! Recent playtests took Rotary Knights down different paths: shadowing a contact instead of engaging, leaving an objective unfinished, splitting a bomb load across passes, and switching careers after combat. Those choices exposed places where the game needed to expla
Hello, pilots! A new Rotary Knights career in development begins in General Service. You arrive without a specialization, learn the common work of an RFC pilot, and fly an Avro 504 familiarization circuit before choosing the posting that will shape your career. That order matters
This development update accompanies the public Steam demo release. The Steam demo is now available as v0.6.366. Hello, pilots! Rotary Knights has changed across the whole flight loop. The Western Front now helps you plan a sortie, the tactical board gives each mission its own dem
Editorial note — July 2026: This March update has been revised to remove obsolete pre-release details. The free Steam demo is now available, and Dev Update #4 covers the current v0.6.366 release. Hello, pilots! This post looks back at an earlier Rotary Knights milestone: strength
Demo — March 24 Steam demo drops March 24. It covers summer 1914 through your first combat patrols — the opening act of the war. You'll create your pilot, pick a specialization (fighter, recon, or bomber), fly your first sorties over the Western Front, and get into your first hex
Rotary Knights is getting closer to takeoff. Here's what I've been working on. Visual Overhaul: Dogfight Hex Map I'm overhauling the dogfight combat screen with a new visual direction inspired by classic hex wargames. What changed: Aircraft now sit inside faction-colored unit cou