A DEAD HULL game · Real-time squad tactics
Four soldiers. One infested ship. Plan it at the table.
Real-time squad tactics on an infested ship. You plan the operation at a holographic table, send four soldiers into one sector at a time, and give orders while the biomass grows around them.
The operation map is a hologram on the table in your HQ: twenty-nine sectors from the engine decks to the bridge. Each shows its threat and its reward, from supplies and recruits to workshop kits, and securing one wakes up its neighbours.
Your roster has eight soldiers and four go in. A soldier's role follows the weapon: flame, VULCAN, laser, HELIOS or sonic. Ranks, perks, grenades, medkits, flares and fire mines are set before the drop. Whoever dies in a sector stays dead.
Move, focus fire, burn an area, guard, fall back. Space pauses the fight so you can plan. Downed soldiers bleed out unless someone reaches them in time.
Soldiers carry stress. Grabs, darkness and friends going down push them toward panic; at the edge they freeze, run or fire blind. Kills, light and a quiet minute bring them back.
In-game screenshots of the HQ between drops, from the current development build.
