Chaos Front

Chaos Front

Released Sep 2026

A turn-based space mecha mercenary game. You can recruit pilots and captains with varying stories and skills, buy and modify spaceships, mecha, artillery, and fighters, take missions, participate in battles between Galactic Powers, change the situations, and experience different stories.

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Evaluation

Chaos Front is a solo-developed turn-based strategy RPG that launched on September 3, 2026, after roughly three years of development by Han Zhiyu. The developer spent the entire launch week pushing rapid-fire updates — nearly a hundred small patches addressing bugs, balance issues, and quality-of-life improvements — and on September 10, 2026, posted a "Final Update of Launch Week" post that serves as a clear and explicit statement about the game's future direction. In that post, the developer states that the intensive week of patching has brought the game "essentially in line with the standard I had in mind for a finished game." Going forward, Chaos Front will receive only occasional bug fixes and minor quality-of-life tweaks, at a rhythm of roughly 2–3 updates per month — explicitly maintenance-level support, not new content development. The developer is explicit that their focus is now shifting entirely to planning the next game in the Chaos Galaxy series, with the expectation of sharing early information about that new project on Steam roughly a year from now. There is no DLC listed on the store, no roadmap for post-launch content, and no announcement of expansions or additional game content. The developer's own words confirm this is a complete, self-contained product. The pre-launch development logs consistently described the game as being brought to a finished state, and the post-launch statement confirms that goal has been achieved.
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Developer explicitly states the game is now 'essentially in line with the standard I had in mind for a finished game' after launch week patches. Future updates will be limited to occasional bug fixes and small quality-of-life improvements at a rate of 2–3 times per month. The developer's focus is shifting to planning the next project in the series.
news post · Sep 10, 2026 source development ending
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Developer confirms next project will not continue in this game's SRPG direction, returning instead to grand strategy. Plans to share early information about the new project on Steam approximately one year from now.
news post · Sep 10, 2026 source development ending
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Details

Developer
Publisher
ChaosGalaxyStudio
Achievements
8
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Chaos Front is the latest game of the Chaos Galaxy series, which has been deeply influenced by Super Robot War, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Advance War, and other similar games.

The program, art, and design are all completed by one developer alone.

Please note: A bad ending will be triggered on 30/12/C.E.29 in the game. Please upgrade your mercenary group to star 9 before this date to begin the final battle and obtain the true endings.

Form your mercenary corps, move around the map of Centersea Sector, choose missions and join the war between the powers. Your choices will change the fate of people and the ending of the Centersea War.

Partners, enemies, friends ...... There are more than 100 important characters in the game, all with their own stories, identity talents and combat skills, such as commanders, staff officers, merchants, pirates, scientists ...... and even psychics, robots and aliens!

Battleships, submarines, mecha, artillery, fighters, titans ...... There are 70 available units in the game, all with different weapons and abilities.

Units can use a wide range of behaviors such as stealth, space mines, spreading fog, seizing, stealing, ramming, shelling, combating, shields, defensive force fields, and more. We can research the game system to create a powerful army with a variety of different play styles.

We can receive many missions with different story plots at the Mission Centers. It is also possible to participate in battles initiated by the big factions. When we become an ally of a faction, we can even make proposals to the faction to guide its strategic actions.

The Solaris Union, the first galaxy regime in human history, was destroyed due to corruption and tyranny during the Great Rebellion. After its fall, the galaxy was divided among three great powers. Unable to defeat each other, eventually, they agreed to a ceasefire and established the Interstellar Consortium to manage thousands of independent planets.

Unfortunately, the Interstellar Consortium soon became a tool for the three powers to control and exploit the galaxy. Interstellar navigation was restricted, and planets were subjected to economic exploitation.

In the 26th year of the Consortium Calendar, a revolution broke out on the planet Massilia in the Centersea Sector. The Consortium quickly decided to send fleets from the three powers to suppress the revolutionary planets. However, the Consortium Army was weakened due to the defection of the Black Flag, and the front line became a deadlock.

The great powers had to allow the Consortium Army to recruit mercenaries to supplement their forces in the war zone. The Revolutionary Army and the Black Flag also began recruiting mercenaries.

Militia, pirates, nobles, and technicians from all over the galaxy rushed to Centersea to join the war. Mercenary groups quickly became a main force in the Centersea warfare.

Under the temptation of wealth and honor, beneath the banner of revolution and freedom, and stirred by hegemony and conspiracy, the Galaxy was falling into a chaotic era...

Last evaluated Sep 10, 2026
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