Ghostrunner devs next game is a retro-inspired RTS base builder

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What qualifies as a "next-gen" RTS game? Is it shinier graphics? More in-depth tactical choices? Well, Ghostrunner and Graven devs Slipgate Ironworks hope to provide an answer with their latest real-time tactics base-building game, Tempest Rising. Revealed earlier this evening during THQ Nordic's summer showcase, Tempest Rising is a retro-inspired strategy game where you'll take control of three factions fighting for a rare mineral. And yep, that mineral is called 'Tempest'. Here's the reveal trailer.

Set in a sci-fi modern day alternate history of Earth, the main opposing factions here are known as the Global Defence Forces and the Tempest Dynasty, the later of whom are a mishmash of European and Asian nations united against the GDF. Each faction will have their own single-player campaign to dig into when Tempest Rising launches in 2023, but you'll only come across the game's third faction in multiplayer, the devs told me during a presentation earlier this week.

In that presentation, they showed off a glimpse of the GDF's first campaign mission, which has a more traditional boots on the ground-style tanks and infantry vibe. Like the Tempest Dynasty, they're fighting ot get hold of the game's titular mineral, which has been discovered on sites of nuclear fallout across the globe. Slipgate Ironworks promise these campaigns won't simply be a case of good vs bad guys, though, although we'll have to wait until it launches to see just how grey these faction edges really are.

The mission begins on a snowy plain, with a squad of four troops parachuting in and dashing toward enemy forces. All of them are armed with rifles, allowing them to pick off lone Dynasty soldiers from afar. It's not long before they're joined by some