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Download · Windows

unzip, run WarTribes.exe · Windows 10/11, 64-bit

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OS
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. There is no Mac or Linux build.
Graphics
Any DirectX 11 or 12 GPU. It runs D3D12 where it can.
Memory
8 GB is the sane floor. Honest caveat: the only machine this has ever run on has 32 GB, so below that is untested, not certified.
Install
None. Unzip anywhere and run WarTribes.exe. Nothing touches your registry.

Unzip to a short path — C:\WarTribes, not somewhere ten folders deep, and not inside a synced OneDrive folder. Windows still has a 260-character path limit and this build has deep asset folders.

Pick your America

The game is one download. The map is nine chapters, and you only ever pull the states a chapter actually needs — in the order the road takes you. Tick what you want and the total moves.

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Why is it this big?

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Straight answer: it is the map, not the art. America is in here at 1:1, from real survey elevation, and terrain tiles do not negotiate. The art, every mesh and texture and animation and sound in the whole game, is the small share. So the lever that matters is shipping fewer chapters, which is what the picker above is for — not mesh compression.

Every figure on this page is measured off the real build and the real packs by tools/forge_sizes.py and tools/chapters_check.py. If one looks wrong, it is wrong about something real. Tell Jesse.

WAR TRIBES FORM TRIBE GAME: … connecting My Account Download · Windows Chapters
GAME MODE
Lobby
Lobby

Chat

Rooms

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INTO THE WASTELAND

LOBBY OPTIONS

PICK A TRACK

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NEW ROOM

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