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Steel Republic: Rail Defender is a strategy game built around railroad logistics, resource gathering, base building and tower defense. In its single-player campaign, you plan rail routes, protect your operations from enemy raiders and build up forces to destroy the enemy’s home base.

Campaign and setting

The campaign contains six mission levels, with three difficulty levels for enemy bots. The fictional setting uses a visual design inspired by the mid-20th-century Cold War era, with diesel locomotives, kinetic weaponry, heavy industry and off-road light vehicles.

Manage the rail network

You begin each level with limited supplies and assign rolling stock and locomotives to gather resources and build defensive positions. Plan resource routes to optimize income while keeping trains and infrastructure safe from enemy raiders. The rail system provides three primary resources, while your home Factory produces two secondary products: Steel and Supplies.

Defend and attack

Build deployable turrets, Mobile Outposts and Forward Bases along the rail system. Enemy combat units target your Command HQ and can block access to resources and routes; stronger defenses let you gather more resources from the map.

To win, you must eventually take the fight to the enemy’s home base and destroy it. Use resources to build a stock of Combat Locomotive units and advanced Combat Railcars, and deploy Railway Artillery to provide supporting fire from across the map.