Extremely Rare

[Fast_Romko]

It looks like Steam is the one and only place where you can get this game. Imagine it is no longer available on Steam, where can you get it in that case?

[Myll]

Originally posted by Fast_Romko:

It looks like Steam is the one and only place where you can get this game. Imagine it is no longer available on Steam, where can you get it in that case?

Well, there's a tainted story here, and to start - the game company, Tilted Mill, may only consist of one or two part-time employee/owners at this point, who knows, but the homepage isn't even accessible any more. Way back, in old Steam this was one of the first-ever publisher packs, where 100% of all games from the publisher were packaged for sale.
I bought in for the Tilted Mill pack that included this game. Tilted Mill was yet another US based game company that grew too fast, got over-confident, hired too many people, and - employees goofed off during many of their work days (their old homepage was full of this - pictures of company events). Makes for entertaining at-work experiences, but it doesn't mean the games all turn out great. In fact, most all their games suffer from a lack of polish, with many reviews/opinions showing that gamers found Tilted Mill was publishing games that didn't look/feel/play as if a completed game (including this one, if you read all the reviews and most of the threads here).
Tilted Mill's management seemed lacking, by the quality of their homepage, the forums and posts/questions going unanswered, quality control issues for their games, etc. - they were living off the residuals from Caesar IV development and their Children of the Nile did ok as well, and with that money they hired and developed several new games, but none of them were done well. Currently, they still have "Nile Online" as a browser game (probably the only indirect way to contact whoever is still running the game company).

This game - an oddity among their mix of games. Consider - some publishing houses have totally stripped all games/graphics that display the Confederate flag, at this point. I'm all for realism - be it WW2 games showing Nazi symbols/flags on uniforms and war machines, and the same of Confederate symbology in a historically accurate game. Just because you want realism doesn't make you embrace the ideology, of course. This symbolism, in itself, may be why you won't find this game out there, as some refuse to carry any games that portray a Confederate flag. Also, given the timeline of Tilted Mill's rise and fall, Steam was the only platform that they did business with for a long time, and I don't know if they ever connected to GoG etc.

My biggest disappointment with Tilted Mill is that they had enough employees to make AAA games but they didn't come close, with many of their games being no better than small indie studios do with just 1-3 people working on the game. So - they had their chance, and blew it. Just like a certain guy named Mosby - no matter how good he and others like him were, be it in individual battles - they didn't win the war!