Thank you, Cypronia!

[EgoJisto]

I remember this game fondly from my childhood. It had an interesting atmosphere, and visuals were quite unique even for it's day. I'm glad that this got re-released, but I almost missed it - I found it just randomly skimming through RTS tag.

Two questions, firstly - are you the Cypron studios that originally made the game? If yes, I'm extremely happy to see you back in action! If not, and you somehow acquired the rights to the game - again, thank you for giving me a chance to buy it properly digitally now and even patching it up a tad.

Secondly - is there any chance of re-release of State of War 2? I like the first one, but the second one stayed in my heart and memory till today, I like it much more. Almost nobody remembers it, but I managed even to buy it on some Russian digital store.

P.S. Also just read the community wishlist on GOG - it's mind boggling they refused the re-release there, this is a proper old good RTS, dammit.

[cypronia]

Thank you for your message! We are glad you like the games and they stayed in your heart. Cypronia is a publisher for State of War and Warmonger (mastered for new Windows 10) only. If there is interest in this game, we will publish SoW2 as well. Follow us on Youtube or FB, Twitter, we will keep update about it.

[EgoJisto]

If there is even the slightest chance of you publishing SoW2 too - that’s much more then I ever hoped for this game! It would be an instabuy for me, that’s for sure - I still listen to it’s soundtrack even now. Thanks for the reply and my renewed hope.

[cypronia]

You are welcome! We appreciate your positive words. One question. Do you have any idea how we could get in attention with this game to "good old players" like you? You noticed the game by randomly skimming through RTS tag... do you use any other ways to find old games? (except GoG)

[EgoJisto]

I personally look for games myself - search through stores, not only GOG, google them, and I pretty much know about almost every RTS that ever existed, so I'll recognize it when it releases anywhere. But about getting attention of others... that can indeed be tricky. There are many social media groups of RTS fans, like Discord servers (which I prefer) or Facebook communities. Like this one for example (~2000 people, also have pretty active Discord server): https://www.facebook.com/groups/RTSgameslovers/
It also helps to create your own server to provide updates and news there too. Just recently devs of one RTS in development came in that server and announced the game, providing links to websites and Discord - and the interest and discussion sparked instantly. Maybe get some attention of RTS streamers, blogers, youtubers or just content creators that cover old school games, like GamerZakh, GamingHD, Wayward Strategy etc.

Thing is, this game is quite obscure - SoW is at least remembered a little, but SoW2 is barely even known by people. And most RTS players tend to focus on a few favorite games and 1v1 multiplayer. But I still wish you luck, these games deserve to be remembered and get re-released successfully.

[Finna Bouta]

I also want to say thanks, I used to love playing this game as a kid.
After class in primary school me and a friend used to play this a lot together (not even multiplayer, just 2 kids plying n 1 PC, taking turns), at the time we were too stupid to even know how to save the game, so we'd constantly beat one or 2 levels, close the game and repeat the next time we played.
A while ago I found my old CD for this game and wanted to try it, since I don't have an optical drive on my PC, I cracked it just to try it out again for a bit, but it wasn't quite working.
Fast forward to yesterday when me and a friend were talking about old game we used to play and I remembered this game existed, I decided to do a quick google search for it, so I could link him a video of how it looked and lo and behold, it's on steam.
Thanks you for letting me play my favorite childhood game again, instant buy for me.
Getting more people to be interested in this game might be challenging tho, the only way I see more people finding out a bout it is if the current players start telling people about it, but even then, if someone isn't nostalgic about it, just the cover and title screen might turn people away.

[Jonasz Koran Mekka]

Thanks for releasing this game on steam! I remember playing demo of this game when i was like 9 or 10 yo and i loved it. I think adding mod support and map creation tool would be incredible and this could push new life in this game. One thing i hate is time limited campaign maps, the most fun in this game is when you try to capture every little thing with strategy in mind.

[Yoshikage Kira]

Originally posted by cypronia:

You are welcome! We appreciate your positive words. One question. Do you have any idea how we could get in attention with this game to "good old players" like you? You noticed the game by randomly skimming through RTS tag... do you use any other ways to find old games? (except GoG)

Reach out to content creators such as youtubers and streamers, sponsor them to play the game and I guarantee that your sales will increase!

[paddy1998]

i would buy SOW2 if its available in English