BrowserRTS.com

I couldn't run FAF on my Mac, and my friends wouldn't switch OSes to play with me, so I built my own. BrowserRTS is a large-scale RTS inspired by Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation that runs entirely in the browser. No install, no account. Click play and you're in.

It's also live at browserrts.com.

What's in it

• Land, air and sea, across T1 to T3 tech
• A flow economy with continuous mass and energy, not stockpiles
• Shields and tactical missiles
• Strategic zoom, so you can pull all the way out to the whole map and command from above
• Procedural maps, a fresh battlefield every match
• An assassination win condition. Lose your commander, lose the game
• Around 3,000 units at 60fps (on my M2 Air)

Play with friends

Skirmish vs the AI on your own, or share a lobby link and friends drop straight in. Multiplayer is peer-to-peer lockstep, so it's just you and the other players, with no server sitting in between.

Controls

• Right-click drag to pan, Ctrl and right-click to orbit, scroll to zoom
• The build menu uses grid hotkeys. The key for each tile is shown on it
• Full controls and help live in the in-game ? menu

Early release notes

This is a first release and it shows in a few places.

• The AI plays a sensible game. It expands, techs up, and goes for your commander, but an experienced player will beat it pretty easily. A genuinely dangerous RTS AI is a hard problem and I'm still chipping away at it.
• Models and textures are still rough and low-poly.
• There's no air transport, no wrecks or reclaim yet, and no lobby chat.
• The map generator has room to grow, so some maps might come out a little degenerate.

Things may break. If you hit anything, bugs, crashes, or balance that feels off, send it to chonkgpt@pm.me or leave a comment. Feedback is gold right now.

It's playable and kind of fun already, which is the part I wasn't sure I'd reach. Would love for you to try it and tell me what feels off.