Ancient Warfare 3
Released Jan 2024
Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios and content in the easy to use in-game editors or use one of the 50k+ workshop items from other players...
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Evaluation
Ancient Warfare 3 launched into full release on January 26, 2024, after nearly seven years of Early Access development. At launch, the developer stated: "Although AW3 is leaving early access, our journey is not over yet. There are still many things that can be improved and added to the game."
Since that release, JNI Games has delivered a consistent stream of meaningful updates. Three major content drops have shipped post-launch: the 1.0 launch itself (January 26, 2024), and notably Update 1.6 on March 21, 2025, which added an entirely new custom ground vehicles system. Alongside these, the developer has released numerous feature patches — Updates 1.7 through 1.12 — arriving roughly every 2-3 months and each introducing substantial new tools, scripting nodes, editor capabilities, and gameplay systems. The most recent update, 1.12, was posted on April 23, 2026, adding multi-slot equipment support, AI behavior changes, and scripting editor improvements.
No specific future content has been announced, and no DLC has been listed separately — all content has been delivered as free updates. However, given the consistent update cadence maintained since January 2024, with the most recent post on April 23, 2026 (approximately four months before today's date of August 19, 2026), the game remains well within its established update pattern. The developer has shown no signs of winding down development.
Evidence
Update 1.12 released, adding multi-slot equipment for custom units, AI aggression improvements, script editor quality-of-life features, and custom particle editor enhancements. Most recent developer communication.
Update 1.11 released, adding experimental Vulkan graphics API support, undo/redo in the script and unit editors, a snow mask terrain tool, and grenade-throwing custom units.
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Developer
Publisher
JNI Games
Achievements
33
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios in the custom battle editor. Choose your rules, change the environment, place units, objects or traps, choose your equipment and fight or just relax and spectate a battle.
In addition, the Steam Workshop integration allows you to share your creations and choose from 23000+ battles, 5900+ prefabs, 25000+ units, 2200+ campaigns and various equipment items and objects to use them in your own creations!
In the custom battle editor you can place units, objects and other items to create your own scenarios with various game modes and settings for each object and unit to adjust their behavior.
Content
Explore content from different eras starting in the stone age, medieval ages, WWI, WWII and the modern era up to futuristic sci-fi content. 3400+ units, 1100+ objects and 580+ equipment items await you.In addition, the Steam Workshop integration allows you to share your creations and choose from 23000+ battles, 5900+ prefabs, 25000+ units, 2200+ campaigns and various equipment items and objects to use them in your own creations!
In-game editors
The central idea behind the game is to let players customize everything and create their own content!In the custom battle editor you can place units, objects and other items to create your own scenarios with various game modes and settings for each object and unit to adjust their behavior.
Custom units
The custom unit editor allows you to create detailed and complex units with various equipment slots and settings like color adjustments for armor and clothing items.Custom items
The custom equipment and object editors allow you to import your own models into an easy to use in-game editor to create custom melee and ranged weapons, grenades, shields, armor, clothing and environment, consumables and various other functional objects to use them in the battle editor or to create more unique looking custom units.Scripting Engine
To give players even more control, there is an event based visual scripting engine which can be used to create custom behavior and rules for battles, units, objects and the player.Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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