Voltmarch

VOLTMARCH is a real-time strategy game in the classic base-building tradition. You build a base, harvest ore, and field an army of tanks, infantry, aircraft and warships, all in Unreal Engine 5.

Early test build. This is a work in progress shared for playtesting. Expect bugs, rough edges and placeholder content, and please tell us what you find.

Command one of four factions

• Allied Forces: a Marshal who marks targets and chrono-pulls the wounded off the line. Superweapons: the Displacement Ring and the Lightning Storm.
• Soviet Union: heavy armour, Tesla coils and a Commissar whose Red Banner calls in reinforcements. Superweapons: the Nuclear Missile and the Ironclad Field.
• Meridian Pact: a Hierarch with healing auras, focused prism beams and blinding light. Superweapon: the Solar Lance.
• The Reclamation: field mechanics who strip wrecks for cash and raise destroyed vehicles back into the fight. Superweapon: the Arc Storm.

Each faction has its own structures, units, commander and superweapons.

Build, harvest, expand

• Place structures from the build sidebar, balance your power grid, and keep your harvesters running between the ore fields and your refinery.
• Garrison infantry in buildings, set rally points, and arrange your forces in Line, Rectangle, V or Triangle formations.
• Clear forest to make room for your base: trees in the way come crashing down.

Commanders and support powers

• Every faction fields a commander with a signature ability and an ultimate.
• Buy support powers as the match unfolds: Airstrike, Orbital Scan, Emergency Repair, Ore Boost and Chronoshift.
• Charge your faction's superweapons for the decisive blow.

Battlefields

• Temperate Valley (up to 4 players): low plateaus, scattered woodland and three ore fields on the diagonal.
• Frozen Sector (2 players): high relief under flat grey light, where cliffs channel every push.
• Ashbridge (up to 4 players, greybox preview): a burnt river city split by the Ash, with five crossings and one ore garden on the island.

Skirmish against the AI

Choose Easy, Normal, Hard or Brutal AI opponents and a game speed, and fight it out. A tutorial, an in-game manual, saves and replays are included.

Controls (defaults; rebindable in Settings → Controls)

Left-click / drag	Select / box select
Right-click	Move, attack or interact
A / S / G / X	Attack-move / Stop / Guard / Scatter
Ctrl + 0–9, then 0–9	Store, then recall control groups
Arrow keys, Q / E, = / −	Pan, rotate, zoom the camera
B / T / I / V	Structures / Defence / Infantry / Vehicles tabs
F / Z	Commander signature / ultimate
Esc	Pause menu (the full command list is under Pause → Controls)

System requirements

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
• A recent DirectX 12 graphics card
• About 5 GB of free disk space

Installing

1. Download the zip and extract all of it to a folder. Don't run the game from inside the zip.
2. Run Voltmarch.exe.
3. The game isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.
4. The first launch can stutter briefly while shaders are prepared.

Feedback

Bugs, crashes, balance complaints and "this felt great" are all welcome. Leave a comment here. If the game crashes, zip the newest folder from %LOCALAPPDATA%\VOLTMARCH\Saved\Crashes and send it along.