Defilade

RTS with tactical cover

Defilade is a PC real-time strategy game inspired by Red Alert 1 and Sudden Strike 2. You build bases and manage supply lines while commanding soldiers, tanks, helicopters and drones in a 2D isometric setting. Its central focus is infantry using the shapes of the battlefield as cover, rather than relying only on designated cover objects.

Infantry and combat

Soldiers assess nearby walls, crates, cars, wrecks, trenches and windows. They crouch behind low walls, lean around corners when cover is too tall, and can vault walls, slide into cover or dive away from grenades. Near misses pin them down, explosions can make them flinch or send them flying, and close encounters can turn into hand-to-hand fighting.