Petalwar — real-time strategy: guard your Heartbloom

Five petals, one Heartbloom

Every base grows around a Heartbloom on its centre pad, with five petals standing thirty metres out. While any one of them stands, the Heartbloom takes no damage, and units will not even target it.

So every match is a siege in two acts: break the petals, then bring the bloom down. A broken petal drops a shard. An engineer can carry it home to regrow a missing petal in twenty seconds, or deliver it to a full bloom for 250 matter.

In game: a Sunhearth Heartbloom under its golden ward dome, linked by lines of light to the five petals around it, with factories and tanks nearby — In game: a Sunhearth Heartbloom under its ward, all five petals standing.

Three factions

Choose Sunhearth, Mossglade or Moonveil. Each builds its own base, fields its own army and wins its own way.

Sunhearth Union

People · Power · A brighter tomorrow

Armour and heavy guns. Sunhearth holds its ground: twin-cannon Emberguards up front, Kilnbreakers to crack a position open, and Sunlance rail lances that ignore armour.

The Emberguard, a Sunhearth tank in ivory and terracotta with a twin cannon on four rounded hover pods — **Emberguard** Heavy twin cannon · armoured frontline

Sunhearth concept sheet: an ivory, copper and blue power relay, capacitor bank and resource exchange, each with a glowing ground port — Concept art: the Sunhearth Union's power relay, capacitor bank and resource exchange.

Mossglade Kin

Cultivate · Connect · Endure

Fast, and never where you expect. Reedrunners circle their target, Thornbacks strike from long range and keep their distance, and Bramble seed blasts slow everything nearby.

The Thornback, a Mossglade tank in cream and sage green with leaf-shaped armour and a long gun — **Thornback** Long-range penetrator · keeps its distance

Mossglade concept sheet: leaf-clad power relay, capacitor bank and resource exchange in green and bronze, each with a glowing ground port — Concept art: the Mossglade Kin's power relay, capacitor bank and resource exchange.

Moonveil Collective

Observe · Balance · Expand

Shields and light. Veilguards escort under shields that regenerate after combat, Moonrays burn through with rapid beams, and the Eclipse does fivefold damage to enemy shields.

The Veilguard, a Moonveil hover tank in white and navy under a crescent-moon shield frame — **Veilguard** Shield escort · regenerates after combat

Moonveil concept sheet: angular white and violet power relay, capacitor bank and resource exchange, each with a glowing ground port — Concept art: the Moonveil Collective's power relay, capacitor bank and resource exchange.

Bases that connect

Buildings link up over glowing ground connections. Power runs from generators to factories and resources from extractors to storage, and while the ward holds, a line of light runs from every standing petal to its Heartbloom.

Concept sheet Ground Connections: a power link from a Sunhearth generator to a factory, a resource link from a Mossglade seedpod extractor to storage, and a ward link from Moonveil central command to a petal spire — Concept art for the three kinds of ground link.

The Petalwar start menu over a Moonveil base: choose Sunhearth, Mossglade or Moonveil, then begin a skirmish against the AI or play together on LAN — The start menu, over a Moonveil base.

Play it your way

Skirmish against the AI. It claims deposits, builds power when production needs it, upgrades its factories one tier at a time and attacks in waves that grow to forty. It waits for your first order, so you can look around and build in peace.
Play together on LAN. One of you hosts on the local network, and the match begins when the other joins.
Command a real army. Box-select, right-click orders, attack-move on Q and control groups on Ctrl+1–9 — Supreme Commander players will feel at home. On a MacBook, two fingers pan and a pinch zooms.

Download Petalwar

Petalwar is in development. Builds for macOS and Windows appear here as soon as they are published.

macOS Soon
Windows Soon