4th Generation Warfare

4th Generation Warfare is a strategy and role-playing game about leading a country in the modern world and navigating 21st-century asymmetric warfare. You direct a discreet team of specialists around the world to counter enemy influence, destabilize rival countries and pursue your own supremacy. You can use espionage, international politics, cyber warfare, media manipulation and trade wars, and launch military operations to repel or defeat enemies.

Lead your country

Choose a country and assemble a team of professionals such as diplomats, spies, hackers and investigators. Send them on missions, equip them with additional items and weapons, and use the apps and features on their smartphones. Most characters have special abilities linked to their roles, which can support actions such as infiltration, theft, contract negotiation, declaring martial law, opening an embassy, hacking phones or servers, investigation, surveillance and assassination.

Characters also have individual psychological profiles. Fear, temptation and stress can influence them during events; their profiles affect how effective they are on missions and how susceptible they are to influence or being turned.

Maps and operations

Use real-world 2D and 3D maps to locate strategic buildings and examine locations through thematic map views. Detailed maps of the world's capitals and major cities let you direct your agents through streets and buildings. You can try to bring down foreign heads of state through popular uprisings or coups, using influence or interference, while guarding against the same happening to you.

Modes and multiplayer

Play in real time or turn-based, solo or with up to 12 players in competitive or co-op modes. Career, Government and Sandbox modes are available, as is an online high-score mode. You can set the game duration, actions per turn and special victory conditions, add extra characters, and customize your team.

Winning and planning

Win by being the last leader standing or by achieving the highest score. The ranking is based on five factors: diplomacy, military conquest, economy, popularity and character experience.

Tooltips explain actions, objects and rules. A Todo menu summarizes urgent events, tracks character missions and suggests actions, while displays of success chances and the effects of bonuses and penalties help you assess decisions.