Rites of Accord

Fact Sheet

Description

Rites of Accord is a turn-based hex tactics game with the army-building depth of a tabletop wargame and the pace of a lunch break. Six wildly asymmetric factions, from fog-shrouded ancestor-worshippers to fungal-network ecologists to ice-singing harmonists, clash on hand-crafted arenas where victory comes from controlling objectives and completing ritual challenges, not from elimination. A full roguelite Survival mode (20 authored waves, a between-wave draft shop, scars from close calls, then permadeath) makes it as deep solo as it is on the ranked ladder. It runs in your browser, on phones and tablets, and on Steam, supports multiplayer via friend challenges and competitive queue, and is built for players who love deep tactics but don't always have three hours to give a single match.

History

Rites of Accord began in 2025 out of love for deep strategy and army-building wargames, but a limited amount of time to play 3+ hour matches. The main premise was: could we create something with the depth of a tabletop wargame, the expanded possibilities of digital format, our own hopeful imagination of a better future world, and keep match time under 45 minutes?

The design grew from a frustration with two extremes in the strategy genre. On one side, deep tactical games like Civ and the classic tabletop wargames demand multi-hour sessions. On the other side, mobile strategy games optimize for short play but strip out the positioning, army-building, and asymmetry that make tactics interesting. Rites of Accord aims to live in the middle: real depth, real asymmetry, but matches that fit into busy adult life.

The world followed from a single question: if humanity barely survived the collapse of the old order, what would conflict look like in the world that came after? The answer became the Rites, ceremonial contests fought in digital arenas where skill, invention, and strategy replace mass destruction. Every faction in the game is a different culture's answer to the same question of how to live, fight, and win without burning the world again.

The browser beta launched in 2026 with three playable factions and a competitive ranked ladder, later joined by Survival mode, a 20-wave roguelite gauntlet. The beta runs through the full release scheduled for April 2027. The free Steam demo followed in August 2026, and phones and tablets joined in October. The game continues to be built in the open by a solo developer couple, with new factions, units, and mechanics shipping regularly. Community feedback drives the roadmap.

Features

• Six radically asymmetric factions, three playable today, each with unique units, abilities, mechanics, and visual identity. No mirror matches.
• Heroes from the lore. One of each per force, each with a kit of its own. Hanta is out now, with five more before launch.
• 30–45 minute matches. Tactical depth without the time tax of a full evening.
• Survival mode: a 20-wave roguelite gauntlet. Draft recruits, abilities, and boons between waves. A unit that falls comes back once with a scar, and squad members build their own legends run by run.
• Objective-based victory. Win by controlling sacred ground, completing rotating ritual challenges and earning one-time achievements, not by elimination.
• Cross-play multiplayer. Play friend challenges or the ranked queue across browsers, Steam, phones and tablets.
• Competitive ranked ladder with seasonal play, a Glicko-2 rating, and six Rite-themed leagues from Initiate to Legend.
• Smart AI opponent for solo play and training, with the same deterministic core engine as the multiplayer game.
• 2D6 three-stage combat: hit roll, wound roll, armor roll. Gambling-table excitement on every attack.
• 30 unique 3D units across the three playable factions, each with its own attack and ability animations.
• Plays anywhere. Runs in any modern desktop browser with nothing to download, installs to phones and tablets from the browser, and the free demo is on Steam now. Full Steam release April 2027.
• Full 360-degree rotating isometric camera so you can read every line of fire and engagement.
• Army-list builder with points-based force selection. Bring the force you want to play, not a fixed roster.
• Per-turn rotating Rites. Small ritual challenges that reward creative play and change what is worth doing each turn.
• Built and developed transparently by a solo developer couple with an active community on Discord.

Trailer

Screenshots

High-resolution screenshots are also bundled in the downloadable press kit.

Factions

Six radically asymmetric factions. Three fully playable today; three in active development.

The Veilbound

Fog-shrouded ancestor-worshippers who shroud the battlefield and call back the dead as ghostly echoes.

Symbiont Ethos

Fungal-network ecologists. Heal through biolink networks, spread living growth across the arena.

Glacial Chorus

Ice-singing harmonists. Resonance and formation turn every unit into part of a single, larger weapon.

Solar Nomadry

Desert wanderers who trade safety for explosive momentum, speed is their only armor.

Reforged

Survivors who reshape themselves in fire, transformation as both ritual and weapon.

Tideborne Collective

HydroHack engineers who bend the battlefield's fluid systems to their will.

Logo & Branding

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Credits

Press Contact

For interviews, review codes, embargoed access, or any inquiry not covered above, please reach out:

• Email: codeseedtech@gmail.com
• Discord: Rites of Accord community server
• Steam: Steam page
• YouTube: Official trailer