Foxhole

Foxhole is a persistent online war where every soldier on the field is another player. It plays top-down in a mid-century diesel world and sets two factions, Colonials and Wardens, against each other in campaigns that last weeks and sometimes months, until one side takes the map.

What separates it from any shooter is that nothing is automated. Every bullet, tank and ship is built by one player, hauled by another and lost by a third. A big share of the game happens far from the front: refineries, rail yards, bunker networks and truck convoys that keep the shooters supplied.

You buy it once on Steam for $29.99, and that is where the spending ends: no subscription, no battle pass, no cosmetics shop, and updates arrive free for anyone who owns the game. The one extra is the Supporters Edition, a $19.99 DLC with an artbook, soundtrack, badge and eight interface themes, none of it a gameplay advantage.

Siege Camp brought the game out of Early Access with the 1.0 Inferno update in September 2022, five years in, and has worked on six-week cycles ever since, documented in its official devblog. The biggest leap was Airborne, in February 2026: a full air war, paratroopers, carriers and a map roughly 25% larger.

Wars are numbered continuously and have passed number 130; each one starts from scratch, with the map up for grabs again. Daily peaks sit somewhere between 3,000 and 4,500 players on Steam, and lifetime reviews run close to 78% positive across some 47,000.

It works for players who enjoy being a small part of a huge machine: driving a truck for half a night, holding a bunker with strangers, accepting that a week of work can vanish before dawn. The hard part is not aiming, it is grasping the system and coordinating with people you have never met.

If you want self-contained twenty-minute matches with progress of your own, this is not the place. The air war is still under argument, too: the complaint that repeats most in recent Steam reviews points at weak anti-air, the lack of mobile versions of it, and how much bombers can do against bunkers.