It is 1917. The war will not wait, and the only way to run it is together.
KRISENSTAB is a cooperative war-cabinet simulator for one to four players. Each
of you is a government minister, sealed alone in your own bunker office with a
map, a desk, and a telephone. Between you, you command an entire war. If you
can coordinate through the worst communications ever put in a video game.
Run the war from a bunker desk
Everything is first-person and physical. Sit at your desk, lift the handset,
move the pieces on your situation map, read the teleprinter's dispatches, thumb
through your printed field manual. No abstract menus you pick things up and
operate them with your hands.
The only line out is the telephone
There is no chat box, no team channel
you lift the desk telephone, read their extension off the directory card, and
dial, two people per line, numbers that change every match, no party lines.
Voice is fully 3D: the earpiece is a real speaker in the room, loudest with the
handset at your ear. Miscommunication isn't
Solo: you are Prime Minister and hold all six.
Two to four: War, Intelligence, Supply and Works divide the work, and none of you can see the whole war alone. With no Minister of Intelligence at the table, the War map shows only what your own troops can see this hour.
The cabinet meeting is not a menu
When you ring the bell to convene, nothing to each
office, march you out, drive you behind blacked-out windows to a sealed meeting
room, and lock the cabinet in together until the business is done and every
minister has rung off then drive you back the same way. The war clock stops
the moment the guards knock.
Host a Steam lobby or join a friend's by lobby number, LAN address, or the Steam
overlay. The cabinet's photograph is taken as you walk in, and that print is
your loading screen.
Features
1–4 player co-op, drop in by Steam or LAN
Diegetic telephone voice chat, fully 3D-psion
A living situation map, teleprinter war reports, and a field manual per role
An AI enemy fighting a real, continuous wer
Toy/claymation art with a quiet, dread-filled 1917 mood
Armed escorts, locked meetings, and a war clock that holds its breath
KRISENSTAB is in early development.
