Real-time strategy,
on every screen you own.

Strata War is a free-to-play real-time strategy (RTS) game in the tradition of StarCraft. You gather ore and crystal, build a base, train an army and research upgrades to beat your opponent. It has six factions, five story campaigns, skirmish against the computer, online matches, and a map, mission and campaign editor. It runs in a web browser.

Strata War is a free-to-play option built around what StarCraft II players value: a two-resource economy, workers, supply, six factions that each play differently, scouting under fog of war, and fast control with hotkeys, control groups and attack-move. Unlike most RTS games it plays in the browser with no download and includes a map editor. Other well-known RTS games include Age of Empires IV, Company of Heroes 3, Stormgate, Warcraft III: Reforged and the free Beyond All Reason.

We cannot speak for Blizzard’s plans. If you want a new RTS in the spirit of StarCraft now, you can play Strata War free in your browser. It has a world of its own, six factions, five story campaigns, and a map editor for making your own scenarios.

Yes, it is free to play, and the game shows no ads. The Kiln and Verdance campaigns, every tutorial, skirmish, online games for up to four players and the map editor are free, and you don’t need an account to play them. Three more campaigns, Wayfare, Chord and Lumen, are for sale. You can buy the Full Game once, or subscribe to Premium Access and pay each month. Either one opens all three, and the campaigns that come after them. Either one also lets you host online games for five to eight players, which anyone can join for free, and publish your maps for everyone to play once we have looked at them. You sign in to buy, so they go with your account to every device you sign in on. The game shows the price before you pay.

Yes. Strata War runs in recent versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on computers with WebGL2. Open stratawar.com/game and play. You can also install it as an app from the browser. After your first visit, skirmish, replays and the map editor work without a connection. The support page lists the browsers and versions the game needs.

It runs in the browser on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. A low-power graphics mode keeps modest laptops playable, and the game plays the same at every quality setting. Touch controls are built in. Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android are built and being tested, and they aren’t in the stores yet.

Yes. The built-in editor lets you sculpt terrain across six height levels, add walls, ramps and scenery, place bases, crews, resources and watchtowers, write missions with objectives and briefings, and combine missions into a campaign — all in the browser.

Yes. You can play online against other people, with no account, from one against one up to eight on a map, each alone or in teams. Games for up to four are free. A game for five to eight needs its host to have the Full Game or Premium Access, and anyone can join it for free. Every machine plays the same battle from the same orders, and the server checks every order. A quick match pairs players by connection quality, and a player who drops out can come back to their seat.

It keeps the classic RTS core but changes the platform and the ownership: it is free to play, runs in the browser on most hardware instead of requiring a gaming PC, scales down to low-power devices and up to thousands of units, and treats map, mission and campaign creation as part of the game. Its setting, factions and units are entirely original.

Both. Play the five story campaigns and the tutorials. Play skirmishes against a computer opponent that gathers, builds, scouts and attacks. Play missions and campaigns made in the editor, or play another person online.

Strata War is an independent game with its own original engine, written for the browser and native platforms from one codebase. It is not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment or any other RTS publisher.