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Press release:
Seattle, United States, Friday June 19th — Finifugal Games are sounding the alarm and rallying the troops today as their debut title “Colony Siege” launches into Steam Early Access.

A hybrid of traditional RTS and modern tower defense gameplay, Colony Siege offers full online campaign co-op and two wildly different invading enemy forces, each requiring new strategies to counter across a 23-mission campaign, with 14 in this Early Access release.

While tower defense games are typically passive experiences, players in Colony Siege will be leading from the front in a mobile command aircraft able to attack enemies directly, repair fortifications and deploy powerful swarm-clearing special attacks.

Whether playing solo or co-op, players should prepare for a dynamic battlefield. Rather than just rely on traps and turrets, commanders will have to build mobile combat units and command them in classic real-time strategy fashion.

Players will need every tool they can get their hands on as Colony Siege serves up double the trouble. As well as the more tower defense-like Xenos swarm and their mindless hordes, the hybrid Riven army deploy more human tactics and hardware. Players will have to build complex laser-wall mazes to funnel enemies into traps while rushing to defend their own fortifications against aggressive hunter-killer units.

Strategic Factsheet:

A non-linear 23 mission campaign (14 in Early Access), playable solo or in co-op online.
Lead from the front, upgrade your command ship and turn the tide with new powers.
Hybrid strategy; lead a mobile army to complement your mazes of towers & walls.
Two wildly different enemy forces: swarming alien Xenos and the more human Riven.
Fight for bragging rights on the global leaderboard, tallying up your total campaign score.
Spend your bounty from completed missions on permanent new tech upgrades.

Colony Siege is available now in Steam Early Access for $19.99/£15.49/€16.79. The final version of the game is due out by the end of the year.

For more info on Colony Siege, visit the game’s Steam store page here or its official site here.

About Finifugal Games
Our mission at Finifugal Games is to create the titles that we want to play. To that end, we’ve worked on Colony Siege for 4 years to create an exhilarating and unique sci-fi experience with no barriers to full cooperative play.

We’ve enjoyed, and been inspired by, such titles as Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander, Planetary Annihilation, StarCraft, Dungeon Defenders, and Defense Grid. Our small design team has over 50 years of combined software development experience and many thousands of hours of gaming.

We are located near Seattle and have prior experience working with Sierra and Microsoft on major video game titles. Our team has also produced and self-published award winning software outside of the game industry for nearly 15 years. While these experiences were rewarding, we decided to make our mark on the gaming community with our own brand of unique content.