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Kiloton

Kiloton

A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS. Scheme your way through a highly replayable campaign, or conduct some "diplomacy" on your "friends" in multiplayer.

Released Feb 21, 2025 Developer Jack Morehart Publisher spacemann's games Platforms Windows · Mac WargameRTSGrand StrategyDiplomacySimulation
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

96.5%positive115 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“what a fun game. Found it completely by random, very happy with it, worth the price!”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Simple strategy with a lot of style, reminds me of DEFCON.”

— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“while the game is fun. countries that are bigger attack everyone the second the game starts. it ruins immersion. there also isnt a wartime economy thing”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

11achievements
28.2%median completion
12.2%rarest: Greetings, Professor
89.0% of players 84.7% of players 48.0% of players 42.0% of players 40.6% of players 28.2% of players 23.3% of players 21.9% of players 15.5% of players 12.7% of players 12.2% of players 89.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
89.0%Megaton — Drop a thousand kilotons of ordinance on your enemies
84.7%Candidate — Do as you're told
48.0%MADness — Discover "Multiple Independently-Targetable Reentry Vehicles"
Rarest badges of honor
12.2%Greetings, Professor — Find the backdoor
12.7%Second Strike — Completely wipe out a nation that attacked you
15.5%Master Tactician — Start a war where both sides lose

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 07, 2026
Tweaks

Hey folks, hope things are well. We've got a couple more community-reported bugs to squash. Change list Added a peace cooldown after nuking bots so that they're a little less gullible Gated troop expe

Mar 26, 2026
Multiplayer Patches!

Desync Fixes Some new approaches to reigning in the gamestate in the long run. I had been previously trying to prevent floating-point math based desync. That never really worked that well. Now we're t

Mar 06, 2026
Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where collapsed states stayed on the infopanel Adjusted Disbanding so that it avoids deleting veteran units Bots now call off invasion prep more easily Moved WOPR and RANDOM to the end of

Feb 13, 2026
More Nations, Levels, Achievements

Kiloton v 2.8 Patch Notes Added scenario support for 8 nations! Editor Support Fixed Population Bar Graphs Updated Random scenario to use 8 nations Added new Casualty Counter Updates in real time on t

Jan 11, 2026
Army Experience Update

Greetings Autocrats! Some good news! Kiloton was just announced as a finalist in the 2026 Independent Games Festival ! We are a nominee for Best Student Game. If you are a fellow game person and plan

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresSimulation, Strategy
Player tagsWargame · RTS · Grand Strategy · Diplomacy · Simulation · Dark · Retro · Tactical · Procedural Generation · Cold War · Strategy · 1980s (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Steam Achievements · Stats · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements11
Official sitehttps://jackmorehart.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i5-5000 Memory: 8 MB RAM Graphics: GTX 1660 Storage: 200 MB available space