Terran Dawn

Terran Dawn is an isometric space RTS set on a frontier where five species fight over the same ruins. You mine asteroids, build a station from a command core, research new technologies, design ships and battle enemies who are building their own forces.

Five campaigns

The game has 84 missions across five campaigns, each following a different species with its own play style. Missions can branch: your choices affect which map comes next, and officers deliver briefings as transmissions.

• Terran Federation: an industrial, versatile faction focused on layered defence and point-defence interception.
• Zythian: uses biological hulls and weapons that continue killing after a shot lands.
• Mechanoid: builds around machine assemblies, automated production and drone swarms.
• Xenos: scavenges wrecks and reverse-engineers what it finds into its own technology.
• Voidborn: relies on hardened shields and void weapons that strip protection from their targets.

Build your fleet

You begin with a command core and a handful of miners. Dock modules onto your headquarters, establish forward bases across the map, supply refineries with ore and salvage, and advance through a research tree to unlock hulls, weapons and abilities. You must pay for everything you field.

Ships use hulls as frames with slots. Fit modules for weapons, shields, armour, reactors, utility or hangars, choosing by slot size for craft ranging from fighters to dreadnoughts and capital-class super-capitals. Heavier ships hit harder but turn more slowly, so mass comes at a cost.

Hazardous terrain

The battlefield includes damaging nebulae, drifting ion storms, stealth minefields, shattered planets and paired jump gates that move fleets across the map in a single move. These features affect how you fight rather than serving as decoration.

Game modes

In Survival, you hold a position against escalating waves. Each run offers mutators and upgrades that stack into a different build, while score multipliers reward taking the harder path.

Skirmish lets you fight AI opponents on procedurally generated or handcrafted maps at a chosen difficulty. You can also play online, with team play, shared vision, in-game chat, map pings and reconnection if your connection drops mid-match.

Other features

The game includes named save slots, achievements and a full in-game encyclopedia.