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The Red Solstice is now officially released!

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Dear community, almost exactly a year ago we went public with a project named The Red Solstice and a promise to make it into a full game. Today we are honored to announce that our promise is kept. The Red Solstice is officially released.

As of now, singleplayer campaign is unlocked for everyone who has bought the game. Singleplayer features story driven missions with high degree of replayability. It allows you to build, lead and upgrade your own team of elite marines as they explore the infested ruins of Tharsis. During singleplayer campaign, you can use "tactical mode" that allows you to slow down time and issue orders to your whole team.

Tactical mode is also present in Survival game mode that allows you to experience multiplayer portion of the game, while playing solo, with up to three AI controlled marines.

As always, after you have mastered the basics of the game, you can jump into the multiplayer and team up with up to 8 human players, as you struggle to survive and conclude the story that has started in singleplayer.

First of all, we would like to thank our alpha testers who spent years with us, providing us with essential feedback and initial financial support we desperately needed in order to formalize our company.

Next, another big thank you to our 1,504 Kickstarter backers who helped us gather $60,836. Thanks to that financial inflow, we were able to rent and equip a small office and dedicate ourselves to The Red Solstice as a full time job.

Last, but not the least, thanks to all our Steam customers who trusted us and bought The Red Solstice during our year long early access phase. Without you, we would not have been able to sustain ourselves for this year of intensive work.

We hope you'll enjoy the game and we're looking forward to our future adventures on Mars.

Ironward team

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