Spirits of Steel
A downloadable game for Windows
Spirits of Steel is a game about the Second World War. Play as a country, leading it to either collapse or to glory as the coming war looms overhead.
Background:
The game was originally created as an experiment after I wanted to play Hearts of Iron 4, but noticed there was no equivalent competitors for a lesser price. Over time, it developed it's own identity as an arcade strategy game, perfect for playing during a short break.
Special thanks to the fans of this game who have made it as big as it is, and continue to be active in the community.
Controls:
W/A/S/D or UP/LEFT/DOWN/RIGHT = Camera Controls
+/- = Game Speed
ESC = Menu
Left Click = UI Controls
Right Click = Division Controls
Space = Political Decision Tree
Download
Install instructions
1. Download the zip file
2. Unpack the zip file
3. Press "main.exe"
Development log
- Major Update 1Aug 04, 2023
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Killed naz germany as finland feeling great
For some reason after a certain amount of time the ai stops invading other countries
yea i think that just happens because they finish their focus tree and have no reason for further expansion
Thx because I dont play or understand hoi4
does the military tech provide any bonuses to troops or nah?
Hey there just wanted to say i'm a big fan of this concept as someone who played a lot of Hearts of Iron IV. In my opinion the Focus Tree System of Hearts of Iron IV is not utilised enough in other games so it's amazing that you implemented although in a more basic form. I hope you do a sequel to this game with more in-depth Gameplay and Focus Trees i would love to contribute to such a project although i'm not that experienced in coding i could contribute in for example researching. Anyways hope you have a fantastic day ^^
Hello! i am someone who really would like to play the game, but for some reason, its telling me there is an error in the script. I've tried a few times again but same result. As i've seen from people with a similar bug, it may be that I'm not using windows, note i am on Windows 10. Is there anyway to fix this problem myself?
Sincerely, -Jake.
Yeah, I've seen this before, I just don't really know the cause of it. Make sure that you have the most up to date version of the game (major update 1) and maybe try redownloading it. If that doesn't work, I'll look more into it. If you could share the error message with me, that would be great.
As I was reading the error, it showed there wasn't a certain png in a file or directory in the folder within the AppData folder with the main.exe in it, however nothing else. So I copied and pasted the files from the .zip except for the main.exe into the file, and it worked perfectly. Thank you. You asking me to read the error lead to my curiosity to the problem. I had a sigh of relief that it wasn't something wrong with the code. Have a great day :).
Love it, one question though: how do i access the military tech tree page
If you go into the political decision tree and press a/d it'll go into the military tech tree. Though, I should note that the military tech tree was never fully implemented so it doesn't actually do anything.
Oh. OK, thanks anyway.
I love it
Thanks!
i'm player of age of history 2 . And i want to say dis game is amazing
Thanks!
I defeated the Soviet Union as Germany :)
Great job! I know the game tends to get very micro heavy when going up against large nations, so this is cool to see.
what are the nations I need to form the HRE
If I remember correctly, it's italy, belgium, czechia, netherlands, switzerland, and austria. It's been a long time since I made this game though, so I'm not 100% sure.
game is fun but all non major natoes have the same.
Yeah, (and tbh most of the major nations have the same political tree) it mostly has to do with the way that political trees are coded and how it takes so long to add new decisions to the game. I'm looking into ways of replacing the old system with something a little more dynamic, though it will be completely different to the current one. It won't ever come to this game, but maybe for a future project.
is there any possible way I can play this on a Chromebook?
Hello, sorry but the way I made the game makes it impossible to be played on webbrowser, at least to my knowledge. I don't think that chromebooks can run executables, so it may be that you just won't be able to play the game.
Very sorry about that, I'll try to keep that in mind for future projects.
does anyone have a idea for how to play?
try a virtual machine
How do you add factories again? edit: nvm
click 4 and click left to add factories
Really fun! I think the Chinese Reunification route under the Republic of China is the easiest, of course you MUST be careful in which order you reunify. I'd recommend in in this order
Thanks. I'm just curious about where the name Manchugo comes from. I know the area is currently called Manchuria, however, I believe that it was called Manchukuo while under Japanese occupation.
Honestly, while doing research for the game it was shockingly difficult to find information on china from after the fall of the Qing dynasty to the end of the Chinese civil war.
you mean mengkukuo?
Yes. It's spelled that way in the game, I just misspelled it in the post.
Thanks for the feedback. Originally, I was going to make the divisions spawn in a city that you chose within in your territory, and default to a random placement if all of your cities were taken.
Also, I agree with the idea of the unit movement feeling clunky as I didn't do a whole lot of testing with other people for the first update. I tend to go with what works best for me until I receive feedback, and that clearly wasn't a great choice.
I can definitely see how these issues would majorly affect the quality of the game, and I'll look into making a patch to fix it.
hi gav grub is their any way I can play this game on a Chromebook OS? Thanks
can you add a focus tree for egypt
Sorry, but at the minute I'm not planning any updates for this game beyond bug or quality of life fixes. I spent a long time working on this and I want to take what I learned along the way to make an even better future project. Not to say it won't happen, it's just unlikely.
wow
great job bro
Thank you
how it is going?
I'm not going to lie, I haven't done as much as I wanted to with this update, as I worked over the summer. Though, I have gotten it to a point where I would consider it a completed game, so I'll likely release it sometime this week.
oh ok. thanks for turn back to my comment
how do I declare war on a nation, form an alliance or basically do anything other than train division
push your divisions to another country
are alliance making anything? if not will you fix that?
How do you open the political tree?
You press space. I just realised I didn't add that to the controls.
ı working to spread this to my araund, is that problem for you?
I have no problems with that, as a matter of fact, I really appreciate it.
could you add a standart political tree to minor countries too?
With the new update I've made the current default tree larger, but I was also thinking of adding something like a unique tree for axis and allied minor countries. It would depend on if I could find enough stuff to add to both trees.
ı dowload but cant open the file it looks great please help
oh this fixed, how can ı make political tree
There is no way to make your own political tree without me giving out the code for the game, which I'm not willing to do. I've never really thought about restructuring the game so that it could be through a text file or something, though I might look into it. No promises, of course.
in a fact ı meaned how open political tree menu but it isnt problem for me currently
it is good
This game cured my caner.
What a banger!
cool