Openfront

How to Play Openfront

Before jumping in, you'll choose how you want to play. You can dive into a solo game, create a private lobby, or join an existing one. From there, you pick your map. The selection is massive:

• Large-scale maps cover regions like the World, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania
• Regional maps get more specific with options like Britannia, Japan, Italy, Iceland, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Amazon River, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, New York City, East Asia, Australia, and many more
• Fantasy and alternate maps include Pangaea, Mars, Pluto, Deglaciated Antarctica, and arcade maps like Didier and Sierpinski
• Or just hit Random and see where you land

Difficulty options range from Easy all the way up to Impossible, so there's a setting for every skill level.

Tabs & Settings

• Play is where you launch into a game
• News keeps you updated on developer patches, bug fixes, and new features
• Leaderboard shows ranked data for individual players and clans, including games played, wins, and losses
• Settings lets you pick your flag, toggle special effects, choose territory skins, enable emojis, and set your default attack ratio so you're not adjusting the slider every time you spawn

Getting Started

When you start the game, pick your starting location and begin claiming the empty territory around you. The map has three terrain types: plains, highlands, and mountains. Each one gets progressively harder to capture, so factor that into where you spawn. Your control panel sits in the bottom left and includes an attack slider that controls what percentage of your troops you send out. Keep an eye on your population bar, too. Green means your population is growing, yellow means it's shrinking, and growth peaks at around 41% of your max population.

Who You'll Run Into

As you expand, you'll start bumping into three types of entities. Bots are the weakest and can't build anything. Nations are NPC factions that can build infrastructure and launch bombs. Players are your real competition. You can form alliances with any of them, but if you betray an ally, you'll take a defense debuff for 30 seconds, so choose your moments carefully.

Infrastructure

Buildings are the backbone of your strategy:

• Cities increase your max population by 25k
• Ports generate trade ships that grow your economy and let you build warships for attacking and raiding
• Factories connect cities and ports via train networks, generating gold with every run, especially when trading with neighbors and allies
• Defense posts fortify your borders and slow enemy pushes
• SAM launchers protect a small area from incoming nukes, and leveling them up increases their range
• Missile silos let you launch nuclear weapons

Most buildings can be stacked to level them up, which works the same as having multiple copies of that building in different locations.

Nuclear Weapons

• Atom bombs are small and precise, best used against specific targets
• Hydrogen bombs cover a much wider area and deal serious population damage
• MIRVs are the big ones, blanketing enemy territory with a spread of missiles

More Games Like This

If you're able to take a break from playing Openfront, there are other battle games that are just as strategic. Have a go at Diep.io or Smash Karts for a bit more battle challenge.

Controls

Mouse = interact with the game UI

Gameplay Video