CHAOTIC ERA
A downloadable game
**EARLY ACCESS HAS CLOSED: FULL VERSION NOW AVAILABLE ON STEAM*
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2487200/CHAOTIC_ERA/
Chaotic Era is a highly-stylized grimdark action RTS, following a stranded human crew on an alien planet, with a unique, completely monochrome art direction inspired by the computer screens from movies like Alien, Blade Runner, and Starship Troopers.
It’s a game of quick decisions, devastating consequences, and endless panic as you struggle to stay alive in humanity’s hellish future. A fast-paced and unforgiving reimagining of the golden era of real-time strategy, Chaotic Era has been featured in publications like TechCrunch, Polygon, Wireframe Magazine, and more.
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“You'll die early, and you'll die often.”
Wireframe Magazine
“It’s an RTS for our age, combining simple controls with complex, sometimes obscure systems, drawing on long-developing real-world anxieties and sci-fi solutions for its themes.”
Paste Magazine
“The main thing that immediately distinguishes Chaotic Era apart from its sci-fi RTS contemporaries is the game's distinctive art style; a minimalist latticework of sleek wire-frames, pulsing topographic texture maps, and white hot explosions”
Polygon
"We left it all behind. Old Earth and its doomed children. Titan, Io, the floating cities of Venus. Mars' cursed wastelands..."
In the late 28th century, as the Solar System collapses, Earth’s corporate warlords launch thousands of starships in search of a new home, but the reality of deep space is far more horrifying than anyone could have imagined...
KEY FEATURES
- Stunning, unique art direction
- A fresh take on classic real time strategy mechanics
- Multispecies gameplay with scenarios for each faction
- Intense, fast-paced gameplay
- Beautiful UI inspired by 80s sci-fi classics like Alien and Blade Runner
- Expansive research system unique to each faction
- A thoughtful and immersive approach to cassette futurism
- Procedurally generated planets for maximum replayability
- Challenging and innovative energy management system
ABOUT BOBBY TECHNOLOGY
BOBBY TECHNOLOGY INC. is a very small Toronto-based indie game development studio founded in 2019 by Gabriel O’Flaherty-Chan and Kevin Donnelly.
www.twitter.com/bobbydimension
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Hi there, we’ll be releasing the full version of Chaotic Era on Steam soon and distributing free copies to all purchasers of the Early Access version. Keep an eye out for that! It’s a massive improvement.
i really wish i knew about this because i would have been signed up...ill give 3 digits from my left hand for the full release, pretty please with sugar on top? lmao
gotta say it wasnt very obvious to me how to play. but looks really nice. im sure it will be a great rts by the time the masses get it. could you please improve or add a tutorial and maybe separate the story from the gameplay instructions so its easy to look up what you need to do. you might want to add launching on fullscreen in windows too by default. now you have to do alt-enter, which is a bit of a hassle.
Great feedback – we’re working on more onboarding improvements and doing our best to balance guiding the player with giving them space to figure out the game as they go. Appreciate you giving it a shot and stay tuned for more updates as we head towards our full release!
how can i change my resolution? the pop-up window is so small, i don't see higher resolution in settings.
hey seth, we’re adding video, audio and sensitivity settings ASAP to help with that! feel free to head over to the discord if you have more questions: https://discord.gg/HPB2mrw7Xy
Is this a single player or multiplayer game?
hey there, chaotic era is a single player game
Awesome, thanks!
Doesn't start on MacOS Ventura (2019 16" MacBook Pro i9) just sits on desktop with spinning mouse and then I have to Force Quit.
thanks for flagging this - going to test it out and let you know what we find.
just tested it on similar set ups (including ventura) and it’s working over here - but i’m sure we can get you up and running.
head over to the “game-feedback” channel in our discord and we can troubleshoot this for you: https://discord.gg/HPB2mrw7Xy
we identified and fixed this issue in the latest build – seemed to be affecting certain intel macs only.
in case anyone from the future is reading these comments and wondering; everything is good to go with the mac version.
Any gameplay instructions ?
no in-game instructions right now, but happy to help you out over in our discord! https://discord.gg/HPB2mrw7Xy
Is there a good place to report bugs?
hey there - our discord server is the best spot: https://discord.gg/HPB2mrw7Xy
head to the “game-feedback” channel and drop it there! thanks!