Heroiam Slava: The Russo-Ukrainian War
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Play as Ukraine through the first 21 harrowing days of the 2022 Russian invasion. A solitaire board game; acquire as many victory points as you can by resisting the invasion and maintaining control of major cities and oblasts. Each turn Russian reinforcements arrive; choose where to focus your energy and fight back when you can. Events chosen from the real war back up each event and each card you can play. A bit of a simpler Twilight Struggle mixed with a little bit of Conflict. Light on the war theming; no explicit military units or conflict, very abstract.
A web version of the game is also available at www.adamhunter.net/Slava_Web/. It is optimized for desktops and laptops but might work on tablets or phones.
Early access, but complete and playable and (hopefully mostly) bug-free; I'm just fine tuning the game design.
If you donate here on itch.io, I ask that you donate to a Ukrainian or Ukraine-related cause.
The plan is to donate any and all funds made from the game (after taxes and fees) to a charity supporting humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows, macOS |
Rating | Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
Author | fezzik21 |
Genre | Strategy |
Tags | Board Game, Singleplayer, solitaire, twilight-struggle, ukraine, War |
Average session | About a half-hour |
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Development log
- A Quick NoteOct 31, 2023
- Version 0.8 - climbing out of alphaAug 30, 2023
- Why This Game, Now?Mar 22, 2023
- Hello There!Mar 19, 2023
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hello,
it's a neat little game, runs well , i want to thank you and also announce here publicly that i am the GRAND CHAMPION of the leaderboard sviatoslav igorevich , the great prince of kiev, who ran roughshod over the demonic slave-raiding khazar empire so that for centuries the SLAVS dominated the steppe lands, the great PAGAN prince of rus' sviatoslav, the inspiration for centuries of ukrainian (and even russian) nationalists
one problem - in the ukrainian localization (with the cyrillic names ) some of the names, i have noticed (and maybe more of them) are russian, instead of ukrainian
like Россия instead of Росія
Беларусь Білорусь
thank you so much!! Would you be willing to write out a complete list so I can fix them? I am not a native Ukrainian speaker and I want to get them right!
I looked over the oblast names, and they are all correct, in fact maybe when you made the game you provided the localization for Russia and Belarus intentionally, in the languages of those countries, and not in Ukrainian
p.s. I do not speak Ukrainian either
that sounds like something I would have done thinking I was being smart but now that you pointed it out I’m going to change them to the Ukrainian spellings, it makes more sense. Thanks!
Hi, just playing the latest release.
Thanks! I will take a look.
Also, when playing in hard mode, the player stops receiving AP after day 21, and the calendar track also stops advancing.
Ah, thanks. That sounds more urgent. I'll take a look. Hard mode is still a bit of a WIP.
OK! Both those bugs should be fixed now.
Will there be an option for English labels on the map, instead of Cyrillic?
That would make life a bit easier, thanks. Good luck with the game, and glory to Ukraine!
Hold down the en/ua button to have them change to English temporarily. I can implement an option to make them all English permanently but I wanted folks to get immersed in Ukrainian, hopefully you can learn a few letters!
Hi Adam:
I just played the Unity version.
A) Really awesome game! It is tough to make really complex game mechanics like this fit into a computer game, but you pulled it off. The artwork is also great. All the Cyrillic characters threw me at first, but then I really liked it.
B) When I hit the restart button on the game over screen, I cycle to the intro screen, but then I go right back to the game over screen. I would love to play again, as I did not do very well on my first try :(
Hi! Thank you so much for playing and for your feedback! You're quite right, the new game button was broken. It'll be fixed in the next release, which should be coming soon, along with some new features! If you have any other feedback let me know!
Hi! There is a new version with lots of updates and bug fixes, including a fix to this bug!
Hi Adam,
Some quick feedback (I am playing on a 1440p Windows 10 machine at 100% screen scaling):
Thanks again for the thoughtful excursion!
Wow, thank you for the awesome feedback! So helpful! These are all great finds/suggestions, I will let you know when they make it into the game!
Hi, your Windows Zip appears to contain only Mac files
thanks for letting me know! Something must have gone wrong when I uploaded, I’ll fix it tonight!
It should be fixed now; thanks again!
Your project is great. Glory to Ukraine.