Tempest Rising News

Next Fest Singleplayer Demo Available Now!

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Hi everyone, a new singleplayer demo for Tempest Rising is available to download NOW during the Steam Next Fest! This demo will be playable from February 24 to March 10!

[h2]What's included in this demo?[/h2]
[h3]4 Campaign Missions[/h3]

Dynasty mission 1 (Harvest the Tempest) and mission 2 (The Informant)
GDF mission 1 (Signal Lost) and mission 2 (The Hornet's Nest)

[h3]Skirmish Mode[/h3]

Play against AI bots in custom offline matches
3 maps: Altitude, Overgrown Oasis, and Alps.

[h2]Community feedback changes[/h2]
Thank you to everyone for participating in our last Multiplayer Demo during Steam RTS Fest! We received a lot of great feedback from the community during this demo and we've made some changes to address some of the most common feedback. We've outlined the changes made below.

Zoom distance increased:
This change is available in our Skirmish mode; this is not available in our campaign due to the way our missions are designed.
Rebind Build Grid Menu:
We received a lot of feedback about our default hotkeys and addressed a frequent request to be able to rebind the Build Grid Menu; we're currently working on adding more rebind options for the future.
Improved Harvester behavior:
GDF Harvesters will now go to the nearest refinery and will also queue if that is the fastest option. If too many units are queued, they will travel to the second closest refinery.
Improved visibility of Ammo and Health bars:
This change was made to improve the readability of key unit info during matches.

Join the Tempest Rising Discord to share your feedback with the team and chat with other players in the community!

New RTS Tempest Rising is like the ideal version of a modern Command and Conquer

Tempest Rising is always going to be compared to Command and Conquer. It's set in the '90s, Frank Klepacki does the music, and there are two campaigns where you play as two different factions. Even the finer details, like the talking head cutscenes, and the fact that the Tempest itself is an energy-rich, alien-esque crystal, just like Tiberium - I can imagine the pitch meeting where somebody said 'Westwood and EA aren't making Command and Conquer anymore, so we're going to do it'. But Slipgate's RTS game is way more than an homage; it's not just Command and Conquer for a post Command and Conquer world. Available to play right now, Tempest Rising has the potential to rise higher than its influences.

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C&C successor Tempest Rising is one of the most promising RTS games of 2025, and there's a demo you can play right now

Tempest Rising may not be a name you’re immediately familiar with, but if you keep with with RTS news even a little bit, you’ve likely seen some of its impressive gameplay many times over the course of last year.

Multiplayer Demo - Developer Gameplay

This gameplay was recorded on January 16, 2025.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920/Tempest_Rising/

Tempest Rising, the spiritual successor to Command and Conquer, gets a PvP demo

Settling down for a quiet evening of Command and Conquer back in the day was brilliant - well, it still is brilliant, in truth - but playing your friends or other random players online was where the RTS game really shone. It paved the way for competitive strategy games, and now you can (briefly) get a taste of that magic all over again with the new multiplayer demo for Tempest Rising, the upcoming strategy game that is as close to a new C&C game as you're going to get.

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