Games Like Steel Umbrella

Steel Umbrella is a real-time air defense strategy game played on a satellite map of the Earth. By day, you place launchers, nets and radar around a city. By night, the drones and missiles come out of the dark, and every one that gets through puts part of the city's lights out.

Build by day, fight by night

Day and night cross the map the way they cross the real globe. While the sun is up, you have time to think: where the attacks will come from, what each launcher can reach, which site you can afford to leave open. Once night falls, your layout is set. Only your mobile crews can still move, and the raid is on its way.

Find them in the dark

You only see what your defenses can see. A launcher shows the contacts inside its range. The radar's sweep leaves a fading mark wherever it crosses something. Press G to ping: every contact the ring reaches lights up for four seconds, and your launchers lock on at once and hit more often. Then the radar needs 45 seconds to recharge, so choose the moment.

Every hit costs something

Each city depends on three sites: a civic center, a power station and a factory. They feed three ratings:

Damage carries over from night to night, and repairs only come at dawn. Survive ten nights to win.

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About the setting

Steel Umbrella takes place over real countries, some of them under air attack today. It is a game about defense only: you never launch an attack, and in every theater the job is the same, protecting the city beneath the sky. Every site in the game is fictional, and no real weapon system is named. The borders are there for orientation; they are not front lines.