Strife: The Expanse

Strife: The Expanse is a turn-based strategy game played on a hex grid. You recruit units and battle friends or AI on procedurally generated maps. Inspired by tabletop board games from the past decade, it offers customizable matches and replayable battlegrounds.

Units and combat

You can field seven different units, each with its own abilities and role. Their abilities include defense debuffs, area-of-effect attacks and passive effects. Height affects damage according to the advantage one unit has over another, while line of sight limits attacks: a unit cannot attack an enemy if it cannot see the enemy’s center of mass. Hills can provide cover.

Customize the battlefield

You can adjust map size and elevation variance, or choose a map seed. Maps support sizes up to 150x150 and more than 50 units. Reusing a seed generates the same map, so you can replay a battlefield or set up a match at your preferred pace.

Game modes

Strife: The Expanse includes Free For All, Team Elimination and CTF. You can add AI players to elimination matches, including offline 1v3 games or a fourth player in a three-person free-for-all. AI also allows online co-op 2v2 matches. Point handicaps can be adjusted to give players different starting advantages, including in 3v1 matches.

VR and achievements

The game supports Oculus Rift, allowing you to play with friends in VR. It also has more than 50 Steam achievements, all of which can be completed against AI.