Burden of Command Announced

[devoncop]

Psst.  You didn't hear it from me, but if anyone is interested in BoC, you may want to wishlist us on Steam if you haven't yet.  Can't say why, but trust me....  

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Not suggesting this is in ANY WAY connected with your message but I am downloading the demo now.

Nice job Sir !!

[Sir Slash]

I got mine. Thanks Trip. 

[Tripoli]

Please let us know what you think of the Demo.  Unfortunately, the demo gives only a small taste of the campaign, which follows the footsteps of the 7th Infantry Regiment, from training in Virginia, to Fedala, Morocco and all the way to Berchtesgaden.

[Sir Slash]

Will do. Unfortunately, this whole Life-Thing is pretty intrusive at times.

[devoncop]

Please let us know what you think of the Demo.  Unfortunately, the demo gives only a small taste of the campaign, which follows the footsteps of the 7th Infantry Regiment, from training in Virginia, to Fedala, Morocco and all the way to Berchtesgaden.

Just completed the first boot camp tutorial.

It is very different from other tutorials in feel (in a good way). The breaking of the 4th wall with the dev commentary is really good as the reasoning for design choices becomes clear and brings the player along with the concept.

One aspect I am having a few problems with is the repeat clicking to select the leader or the squad  (or both) in a hex. No issue with the number of clicks (only one or two but in working out whether both or just one of the leader or unit is selected...a gold outline to make the highlighting clearer on the selected element(s) would be helpful but maybe I am just dense :-).

Overall the feel of the game is very much drawing me in and is definitely unique.

Just my initial musings...more to come as I play.

[Tripoli]

Devoncop-Thanks for your comments.  We worked hard on the tutorials to  make some of the game concepts clear, as the campaign uses "permadeath."  In other words, when you lose a leader they are dead, and can't be resurrected via a game save.  Because of that, we believe it to be important to teach the game concepts during the "boot camp" tutorials (which incidentally, also mimics what real life boot camp does, for pretty much the same reasons  ). 
Thank you for your comment on the double clicking.  I've forwarded that to Luke, the developer.

[Pete Dero]

Steam demo : https://store.steampowered.com/app/887490/Burden_of_Command/

[Tripoli]

A couple of news items on Burden of Command:
We are part of Steam Next Fest!

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Come see Luke, our project lead  get schooled by the Burden!
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Come enjoy the stream and try our *DEMO.* Show Luke how it should be done 😉

https://store.steampowered.com/app/887490/Burden_of_Command/

[Tripoli]

Q&A with the Devs! (I  (Tripoli) will be on this call)

Tuesday October 15th 5pm PST


On our Discord. Looking forward to chatting!
https://discord.gg/wHKFAXVvF4
https://x.com/BurdenOfCommand/status/1845855714562199848

[Tripoli]

Gimpy Gamer (a disabled USMC vet) does a play through of the demo. He tells a few of his own war stories while doing so, so it is a bit more entertaining than a lot of "Let's Play"

 

[Tripoli]

BoC took the #1 spot on the "50 Best Strategy Games for 2025" list by "Strategy and Wargaming"

[Tripoli]

Interview with Luke, the developer of Burden of Command:

[Tripoli]

Burden of Command made the Historical Gamer's "Top 5 Upcoming Games of 2025" list:

[Tripoli]

Nice review of Burden of Command by Big Boss Battle:

https://bigbossbattle.com/burden-of-command-preview/

[Tripoli]

New news from Burden on our Twitter/X feed here: https://x.com/burdenofcommand/status/1891530799960248630?s=61&t=N58_huWUQwPoI8YFJmKrEA

Or for those of you you don't do Twitter/X


Interesting that BoC is releasing Steam achievements.  I wonder what that could possibly mean....