


Resource gathering and building style will look familiar to players of the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series, and the game won't be foreign to anyone with experience in the genre. Technically Lambda Wars is a mod for Alien Swarm-a free-to-play top-down shooter Valve released in 2010-but that game's engine has been overhauled and made into a fresh real-time strategy game here. But this is more than a Half-Life-themed skin slapped on another RTS engine. Because the game is a mod built in Valve's Source engine, it's completely free.Īt its core, Lambda Wars follows conventional RTS wisdom: Build a base, gather resources, train an army, annihilate your opponent. After surviving the Greenlight process earlier this year, Lambda Wars was released on Steam last week. The amazing mod puts a real-time strategy game within the world of Half-Life 2, pitting human Rebels against the alien Combine race in a battle for survival.

Lamba Wars answers the question of what happens when you build a real-time strategy game in one of the most celebrated, beloved game universes ever created.
