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Developer(s) Offworld Industries Initial release date 15 December 2015 | 9/10 Steam Publisher(s) Offworld Industries | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar Battlefield 2, Black, Insurgency, ARMA 3, Verdun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Squad is a tactical first-person shooter video game being developed by Offworld Industries. It is set to be self-published through Steam and is a spiritual successor to the multi-award winning Project Reality modification for Battlefield 2. Squad became available on Steam Early Access on December 15, 2015.
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Gameplay
The goal of Squad is to create a "tactical first person shooter built around teamwork and cooperation".
The game features infantry combat and includes various armored and unarmored land based vehicles available for players and their squads to use.
Announcement
Development of Squad was announced in October 2014 when Project Reality developer Sniperdog (known as Merlin on the Squad forums) made a post on the Project Reality forums. The announcement carried the news that the team of fifteen was making a spiritual successor to Project Reality on Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4.
Greenlight
On April 5, 2015, Squad appeared in Steam's Greenlight service and it was announced in an update called "Vote For Us". Within 24 hours Squad had been 'Rated up' 9,200 times. Within three days after appearing in Greenlight, Squad was 'Rated up' over 27,000 times and was confirmed as the most popular game then in the Greenlight service.
After eight days on Greenlight, Squad was officially greenlit by Steam on April 13, 2015.
Kickstarter
The kickstarter started on May 26, 2015, and ended on June 27, 2015, with CA$434,805 pledged. There were six backer levels to choose from, excluding the Rifleman and Squad Leader tiers which were available to purchase after the Kickstarter but ended a month before Squad hit Early Access on Steam.
Media coverage
PC Gamer wrote an article about Squad on April 6, just after the Greenlight announcement. April 7 saw Polish gaming websites GRYonline, Eurogamer and Onet publish articles as well as Czech website Tiscali and the French website Le Journal du Gamer alongside British blog VG247 and Belgian blog 9lives. April 8 saw German website Gamestar publish an article.
Games.on.net posted an article about Squad on April 10.