CINDERHAWKGAMES

EXIOS

Lead the hero. Command the army.

A sci-fi real-time strategy game in the spirit of the classic hero RTS. Build your base, raise your army and lead a hero who fights on the front line.

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The vault is breached · The relic is gone · The prince is sent

Gameplay

Wage the war

Build your base

Raise foundries and towers on hostile ground. Tap credit mines, siphon Voidwater from the lakes and fight for rare Emberdust at the edges of the map.

Raise your armies

Troopers, hover tanks, artillery and heavy armour. Most missions bring a new unit, and a new threat that demands it.

Take out your enemy

Scout. Flank. Starve their economy, then shatter their line. Every map can be won more than one way.

Protect the Empire

Hold outposts, escort the helpless and keep the Exian Empire standing while the frontier burns around you.

Battles in the sky

Fighters duel overhead. Airlifts drop squads behind the line. Gunships trade thundering broadsides like warships of old.

A hero on the front line

Sunblade, shotgun and flux. Earn levels, master abilities and carry your gear from mission to mission.

The loop

How a mission plays

Scout

Push into the fog. Find the mines, the lakes and the ambush waiting for you.

Build

Plant your base. Crew the mines. Raise towers where the enemy will strike.

Raise an army

Train the answer to this threat. Air, armour or both.

Strike

Send your hero in. Break their line. Finish it.

The story

An epic tale

  1. The relicTerrorists breach the Imperial vault and take a relic that was never meant to leave it.
  2. The princePrince Aurik is sent to bring it home, across a dying frontier of dust, storm, ice and ruin.
  3. The warThe hunt becomes a war. The war will not stay small. Something red moves in the fog.
  4. The EmpireThe Exian Empire must stand: its people, its worlds, its name.
  5. The oathLoyalty will be tested. Every oath has a price.
Who leads

Heroes

Prince Aurik

The prince

Sunblade in one hand, shotgun in the other, flux at his command. He leads from the front.

  • Sunblade
  • Shotgun
  • Flux
  • War-hound

Captain Varek

Royal Guard

His sworn bodyguard and oldest friend. A wall of armour between the prince and the dark.

  • Bodyguard
  • Heavy armour
  • Royal Guard

Kira

Imperial Envoy

Demolitions specialist. Precise, unhurried and very good at making things disappear.

  • Demolitions
  • Flux charges
  • Envoy

Captain Domingo

Smuggler pilot

Old, cocky and always late. Flies anything, owes everyone and talks the whole way down.

  • Gunship pilot
  • Strafing runs
  • Supply drops

Placeholder silhouettes. Commissioned portraits are coming.

Work in progress

Early look

A human garrison with a glowing falcon emblem hologram beside a blue Voidwater lake Prince Aurik with his glowing sunblade outside the garrison A glowing Voidwater lake at dusk

Everything you see will improve.

Know the galaxy

Three races

Humans

The Exian Empire. Blue steel, old oaths and the fiery falcon.

Playable

The Vraak

Red predators behind living ink-demon masks.

Know your enemy

The Lumen

An ancient race of light and water.

A later act
At a glance

Facts

Genre
Sci-fi hero RTS
Modes
Single-player campaign (Act 1: 10 missions) and skirmish vs AI
Replay
Difficulty levels, mission ranks and unlockable gear
Platform
PC: Steam and the Epic Games Store at launch, GOG later
Release
Early Access planned for 2027
Developer
Cinderhawk Games Inc., Toronto
The road ahead

Roadmap

Early Access · planned 2027

Act 1

The first act of the campaign, plus skirmish against the AI.

Coming later

Act 2

The war goes on. More in time.

Coming later

Act 3

The final act. That is all we will say.

Platforms

Where to play

Steam and the Epic Games Store at launch. GOG later.

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