The 77-minute original soundtrack is also on Steam. Get it together with the film in the Dawn Aerowar bundle, just above this section.
The question we get the most: do you fly the planes?
No. Dawn Aerowar is a two-hour animated film in twelve episodes. You watch it the way you watch a film or a series.
There is no gameplay and you never take the controls of a plane. One story, one character, one mission and one ending.
You follow Zodiac 1, an ace pilot out for revenge against the Empire that took everything from him.
Around the film, the player has a few interactive extras: a War Room map that follows the mission, files on the characters and the world, and the radio archive. More details below.
A handful of independent artists spent years on it, mixing 3D animation, hand-drawn 2D art and a professional voice cast.
Self-published by Neiwa Interactive and funded by more than 600 backers on Kickstarter.
Every copy supports independent animation
In a world scarred by years of war, the Free Nations stand on the brink of annihilation. The Saal'Runa Empire has crushed every resistance but one.
Zodiac escorts a weapon no one should know exists, on one last sortie across the whole Empire.
Zodiac lost his family, his home and his purpose to the Empire. Revenge is all he has left.
He faces enemies in the air, at sea and on land. Three of them stand above all the others.
Reaper, the Name of Death, loves war more than peace.
Freya, the Imperial Goddess, quotes philosophers in the middle of a dogfight.
Miracle, the Guardian Angel, is known for the lives she saved rather than the ones she took.
Zodiac flies alone, guided by an AWACS operator he had never heard of before.
Sharp and talkative, she seems to know a lot about him, and just about everything about the war.
Voiced by Sam Hughes, Kira Buckland, Lara Sawalha, Blythe Melin, Sandra Espinoza, Mark Mullens, Jeremiah Foltz and over thirty additional voices.
A 77-minute original score composed to picture by Jose Pavli, the composer of Project Wingman. Orchestra, choirs, Bulgarian voices, classical guitar and two original songs.
Before the first episode, you choose how to watch.
Operations mode: follow Zodiac's mission from the War Room and come back to it after each episode.
Cinematic mode: the 12 episodes play back to back, and the War Room opens once the film is over.
You can switch modes at any time. Subtitles in English, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Russian. Steam achievements included.
The War Room is built around a map of the continent. Zodiac's route is drawn on it step by step.
Each step opens its episode, to launch or watch again, along with the files linked to it.
The steps ahead stay encrypted until you have watched the episode before them. Nothing on the map gets ahead of the film.
Files collects what you learn along the way: the characters you meet, the places Zodiac flies over and a glossary of the war.
New files appear after each episode, and older ones grow as you learn more about someone you met earlier.
Communications keeps the transcript of every radio exchange from the episodes you have watched. Search it and play any transmission again. Channels from later episodes stay locked.
While watching, you can also save a 90-second clip with sound or a screenshot of any moment.
