Welcome Back, Commander

Welcome Back, Commander is a horror strategy game in which you lead a strike team into the quarantine city of Sun Stone. A mysterious, deadly plague has infected the city, and communications with its administration have been cut off. As the appointed commander, you must find answers at the outbreak’s epicenter before the plague spreads beyond the city limits. Your choices shape the story and affect your squad’s supplies, status, sanity and chances of surviving combat with the creatures.

Command your squad

You manage resources and make strategic choices through four daily event polls: a night camp, a morning event, strategic choices and tactical deployment. Combat uses squad-based real-time tactics, with an optional active pause mode. You can level up unit skills and upgrade equipment, while tactical decisions affect your strike team’s survival in combat.

Five DEFCON chapters

The story has five chapters, each represented by a DEFCON stage:

• DEFCON 5: The outbreak begins, and your strike team makes its first contact with the quarantined city.
• DEFCON 4: New types of infected appear, maps grow larger and event pools refresh.
• DEFCON 3: Boss encounters take place.
• DEFCON 2: Maps grow larger, the stakes rise and the difficulty increases.
• DEFCON 1: Choices made throughout the game directly affect gameplay and the ending cutscene.

Each difficulty setting has its own number of days for each DEFCON stage.

Choices and replayability

The game is short, with replayability built around randomly generated content, bonus options in new games, achievements that grant rewards in subsequent games, multiple strategic choices with different outcomes, multiple paths and endings, and different ways to play. The game can become very hard if you get too greedy.