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A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS. Scheme your way through a highly replayable campaign, or conduct some "diplomacy" on your "friends" in multiplayer.
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Kiloton is a sardonic look at nationalism and military buildup through the lens of an abstracted real-time-strategy game. Through interactions with a possibly fascist computer terminal, the player is tasked with "victory," and given a lot of leeway as to what victory looks like. Will it be a peaceful resolution through diplomacy? ....Probably not, if the computer has anything to say about it.
Inspired by cold-war media like Dr. Strangelove and WarGames (1983), Kiloton tries to merge the indifference and isolation of a control room with the horrific stakes of nuclear war. Even with world-ending abilities at your fingertips, Kiloton ensures that the power never gets to your head. There is no lasting "balance of power"— only annihilation is final. This moody aesthetic design is combined with a refreshing, micro-less take on RTS games that is more approachable for players that are less familiar with the genre.
Note: This game requires a keyboard to play. Everything in this game uses keyboard input!!
2 to 4 Hour Singleplayer campaign
Enemies with complex personalities and goals
Multiplayer P2P gameplay! (5 player maximum)
A robust procedural generation system for great replay-ability!
Custom Scenario Editor for unique and challenging levels
Cold-war R&D system traces the arms race of the 60's-80's!
Warfare, in Kiloton, comes in four main forms.
Ground Battles
Air Battles
ICBMS (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles) and ABMS (Anti-Ballistic Missiles)
Economic Support and Proxy Wars
You will develop competency in all four theaters if you mean to come out of the Cold War alive.
Kiloton has an atypical approach to resource management: you don't manage 'money,' you manage cities. Your cities grow or shrink over time depending on your economy's strength. Your economic strength is a function of your population against your spending.
"Population" is not an abstract number: your population live in destructible pixel-based cities on the map. You may capture (or destroy) enemy population centers to stop your enemies from waging war.
You will guide your nation's research focuses as you see fit. There are four research disciplines, each with five progress tiers.
Ground-combat
Air Defense
Aircraft
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
At each tier of progress, the related assets will increase in a specific strength; range, damage, health, speed, etc.
Will you invest in missile defense, and protect your cities? Will you invest in the strength of your army, to capture enemy cities? Or will you build only missile silos, and hope that no enemy will be foolish enough to make you use them?
Don't be so sure...
2026 Independent Games Festival Finalist: Best Student Game
2026 BAFTA Student Awards Finalist
RPI GAMEFEST '25 Finalist: Game Design Award
RPI GAMEFEST '25 Finalist: Technical Excellence Award
RPI GAMEFEST '25 Finalist: Impact Award
RPI GAMEFEST '25 Finalist: Grand Prize
Kiloton costs ₩7,600 right now.
Based on Wish9's price records and IsThereAnyDeal history, the lowest price is ₩1,700.
The lowest recorded price is ₩1,700. The current price is about 4.5x that. It has gone on sale 4 times in the past year, about every 96 days on average. When it goes on sale, the discount is usually around 65%, and the biggest was 70%. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Minimum: Graphics card GTX 1660, Processor Intel i5-5000, Memory 8 MB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.
