Eugen Systems, creators of the Wargame RTS series, have certainly noticed that 1980s nostalgia is in full swing: Warno, stylized WARNO, is their next game and it's going all in on the cold-war-goes-hot concept of a 1980s plunging into World War 3. Sporting stylized 1980s aesthetics, Warno will be set in a 1989 of total war in the German countryside.
That's as opposed to their last one, Wargame: Red Dragon, which was set in 1991.
Jokes aside, Warno looks to take a lot of inspiration from Eugen's Steel Division series of games, Steel Division 2. Focusing on specific military formations, Warno will sport the upgraded version of the Army General campaign that I found disappointing in Steel Division 2 at release, but which by all s has been massively improved since.
Probably the biggest attraction for many is the return of 10v10 multiplayer battles, which are absolutely chaotic in Steel Division's World War 2 era and will probably be just completely unhinged when the precision-guided munitions start flying. For my part, I'm interested in how the game will handle electronic warfare and counter-warfare, a brand new field as of the 1980s.
While Warno is intended as a spiritual successor to the Wargame trilogy, it's billed as a spiritual successor. You can find Warno on Steam, where it will launch into Early Access on January 20th, 2022.
