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ICBM

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ICBM
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ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm. Take command of one of the...
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ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.


Take command of one of the continents of the world and prepare yourself for global nuclear conflict. It is your job to ensure the complete and total destruction of your enemies, while you do all in your power to prevent enemy retaliation against your peace-loving citizens.


Research and develop your nuclear arsenal. Will you focus on developing new technologies, or mass producing existing ones? It takes a true strategist to research and build a balanced force that can deal with a multitude of enemy tactics.


In ICBM, you can try out different strategies every time you play. Will you overwhelm your enemy with intercontinental ballistic missiles? Use bombers to deliver massive payloads? Or maybe use submarines to deliver nukes from the least expected locations? These strategies and more can all be used to ensure victory. ICBM has 20 unit types and 12 nuclear weapon types to use, plus 44 technologies to explore.


Take the time to carefully plan your next move, or just nuke your opponents as fast as you can. Increase the contamination speed for a swift and painless nuclear war, or slow it down for an endless nightmare. In ICBM, you can constantly adjust the game speed to your own pace.


Use diplomacy to gain strategic advantages. Share information, technologies or even the location of your nukes with your allies to wage war against common enemies. Be aware however that these alliances do not have to last and you might find yourself fending off attacks by your former friends.


Reduce micro-management by making use of the strike planner. Set up detailed plans in advance, targeting specific structures, units and cities and synchronise your ICBM launches to overwhelm the enemies defences.


Play with up to seven other players in multiplayer matches. Play in free for all, fixed teams or coop games, all while improving your ELO score as you climb the leaderboard.


Up for something different? ICBM comes with full modding support out of the box. Add or change maps, units, technologies, rules, graphics and much more.

© 2020 Slitherine Ltd. All Rights Reserved. ICBM, Slitherine Ltd. and their Logos are all trademarks of Slitherine Ltd. Developed by SoftWarWare and Slitherine Ltd. All other marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Posted on: November 18, 2020

Silverhawk170485

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Games: 2830 Reviews: 28

DEFCON 2 - runs great on Mac with Wine

The game is best described as the successor of the game DEFCON. It extends the game mechanics of DEFCON by adding things like a technology tree, satellites, and so on. An important innovation are the so-called attack plans, which can be used to automate and coordinate large-scale attacks. This saves a lot of micromanagement. Unlike DEFCON, there is apparently no unit limit. Units can be built and placed anywhere within the area of influence. Likewise, any number of bombs and rockets can be built and units can be reloaded. The phases of defcon, such as setting up units, moving units, first attacks on the enemy and launching nuclear missiles are also dropped. Compared to the game DEFCON ICBM plays a bit slower, which is probably due to the more extensive game mechanics. ICBM also runs perfectly over Wine (Wrapper 2.9.0.6; Engine WS11WineCX64Bit19.0.2) on my Mac (macOS Catalina), if I don't use the Launcher.exe, but the ICBM.exe.


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Posted on: November 19, 2020

MrElixer

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Games: 424 Reviews: 47

Speaking to Defcon fans

I don't currently have much time to write an in-depth review of the game so I'm speaking directly to fans of Defcon with an understanding of the concept. If you enjoyed Defcon buy this instantly. They've hit a genius stride of strategy where it's not too complex and not too simple. It's perfectly in between. You'll be faced with decisions like should you control the ocean around your coasts or sacrifice some research time (time is basically your money and there's a slider to control if you want to focus on research or production or both) to go on the offensive. You can play a game in about two hours and I've not yet played MP but have watched a couple games and it looks fun. The AI puts up a good challenge and there's 3 levels of difficulty. Also the game is open for mod creation, and the devs plan on adding more to the game. If you liked Defcon this is a no brainier. I've not encountered any bugs so far.


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Posted on: September 4, 2023

CreepyLPYT

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Games: 95 Reviews: 4

Awesome Game, sadly lagging behind extremely in Updates!

I really like this Game. It is relatively easy to learn to get started with, but has a good amount of depth and Strategies to be explored. This makes for awesome Gameplay and lots of tactics and approaches to choose from. Then, in addition, the map of the World is nearly completely adjustable! You can make your own coalitions and scenarios pretty easily. There's also some really cool pre-built scenarios that can be lots of fun. You can even play this Game extremely well on a Laptop! Best Part: Modding. Sadly, most mods are on the Steam Workshop only, but once you figure out how to get the files, it is as easy as creating a new folder "Mods" inside the ICBM Directory and pasting the Folders with the Mods you downloaded into there. I just got into Modding the game today, so I will see how it actually improves the game from now on, but there is SO much potential!


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Posted on: May 21, 2021

ArcaniteM

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Games: 88 Reviews: 22

A good surprise

I saw a review randomly for this game, looked interesting and was just 20$. I got it and started playing, and I really like it. I didnt think much at first, but its really good and relaxing.


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Posted on: January 7, 2025

Guto80

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Games: 8 Reviews: 1

Its a freat game

What is it to say, its everything that DEFCON was not! I lake it a lot


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