Industrial Annihilation - Announce Trailer

Industrial Annihilation blends the iconic real-time strategy of the beloved Annihilation series with deep factory-building to deliver a blend of genres unlike any you’ve experienced before - Steam Early Access coming Q2 2024.
Learn more here: industrialannihilation.com/
The team behind Planetary Annihilation, which has sold over 3 millions units and is still beloved and played by fans almost a decade later, is back with a new twist on the popular franchise.
Industrial Annihilation is available for pre-order or for investment on the StartEngine investment platform! You can invest in the company behind the game today to become a shareholder and partake in Industrial Annihilation’s potential galactic success.

[@alphahex99]

You better not try and sell us Industrial Annihilation: TITANS for the same price shortly after releasing this 💀

[@raym7708]

I'll buy the shit out of it if they do, haha. And the Titans Pass for $14.99 per month

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

I’m glad someone still remembers that nonsense.

[@alphahex99]

@@OneBiasedOpinion Yea TITANS release was when I completely dropped PA. I was a big fan before.

[@jhash2625]

Good thing we have Beyond All Reason now 😉

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

@@jhash2625 BAR _does_ look good.

[@Aiequi]

Planetary Annihilation and Titans were the shit, I'm ready for a new game. Feels like this takes notes from Dyson Sphere Program, which already felt like Planetary Annihilation. Full circle.

[@TheFalco708]

dyson sphere program is such a masterpiece of dev team that never stop working, any other video game developper should take note from it

Nous allons avoir besoin de toi pour faire la pub du jeu !

[@bruh1322]

Let me correct you. PA and Titans were SHIT.

[@cybercobra2]

absolutely inspired by dyson sphere, and by extention ofcource its predecessors factorio and satisfactory. and im here for it.

[@RiskOfBaer]

​@@cybercobra2 I am certain this game was already worked on, at least conceptually, before DSP ever came out. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to look at what Factorio did and think "It would be cool to have a classic RTS with factorio mechanics". Also, Planetary Annihilation as a game already existed before DSP was even a thing. And as far as we can tell, this is literally Planetary Annihilation + Factorio. So not sure where you're seeing DSP inspiration?

[@Ad-ho7hc]

This has me hyped like few other game announcements have. Integrating factory-building into the already existing RTS basis adds another level of planning, complexity, and thus excitement and reward; it's genius. Mildly unexpected but very welcome

[@Wavesonics]

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@user-cg3em4cw4f]

They got tired of ruining ksp2 lmao

[@DartNoobo]

yeah, matches spanning for 20 hours are sure to be amazing!

[@officialobijuankenobi1982]

@@DartNoobo haha fr can’t wait, gon be Like a paradox interaktive game fr

[@jerkomirko]

Competitive Factory Building!!

[@ImpudentInfidel]

Putting the "industrial" into "military industrial complex".

[@jakubbenes4704]

I love Supreme Commander and Factorio - I always wanted to build factory which can support military effort. This is perfect, can't tell you guys how much Im looking forward to this!

[@gregorstrohman3619]

Well, yeah. Same here. Actually I think this may be a common sentiment. Common enough that hype and early money can mislead this effort. 30€ out of the gate gives me pause though. The two most notable games of the factory genre, factorio and satisfactory, have not done it like that. I see what it is supposed to look like, but the website provides little information about the product or the developers. Show me 7 people who have developed similar successful games, and have them tell me what they like about those games. And tell me what you are going for: what scale, what will multiplayer look like, will the game be adaptable to different interests? how about modding?

[@partydemon2849]

First thing coming to mind when seeing the units was supreme commander. Such an incredible game back then, and even now is an amazing game

[@AlexSavieri]

SCFA+Factorio+Planetary Annihilation+The Riftbreaker(DLC Metal Terror)

[@brycevq9287]

this comment made me so happy I can't even express it. My love for Factorio and SupCom all in one.

[@whitelegend182]

Mindustry

[@MrQuantumInc]

I remember thinking you could combine a factory game with an RTS, and so it is amazing to see someone else had a similar idea. I can't think of anyone better suited for making this into a reality.

[@errorstringexpectedgotnil]

That was also done by Mindustry, actually

[@chickenman8766]

@@errorstringexpectedgotnil Glad to see mindustry in the chat

[@piolewus]

i always wanted such a game too

[@bakkerem1967]

Just watch 'Dyson Sphere Program', currently in early access. They are going to release a battle mode in december. They started as a factory builder, now turning into FB/RTS.

[@gregorstrohman3619]

@@bakkerem1967 oh? interesting.. so far dyson sphere didnt take off for me..

[@tunilsgut]

Didn't expect to see a sequel but I'm definitly here for it!

[@Mortomi]

I loved planetary annihilation! I wasn't expecting a sequel at all, but I'm glad there was an announcement!

[@Chevalier_knight]

Oh wait its from them i likedthat game

[@seimar1671]

planetary annihilation itself is a sequel to Total Annihilation

[@UltraXan]

I played PA with a friend of mine a lot back in the day. Since then it's been the sort of game I would come back to every now and then to play on my own, particularly since my friend hasn't had a gaming rig in years. I've also gotten into Factory building games like Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Program, the latter of which I was silently thinking to myself "I hope there will be some RTS elements like Planetary Annihilation when the combat update comes out." NOW my friend has recently gotten himself a new rig, I've gotten myself back into PA (casually), and then I see THIS on my Steam news feed. My jaw hit the floor so fucking hard my girlfriend was genuinely concerned something was wrong. NOPE! Seems the stars have aligned such that this trailer kicked me in the eyeballs harder than it probably would have normally. Consider Industrial Annihilation officially on my radar!

[@Di-Ferr]

Biggest problem with PA Titans was always the performance and heavy netcode. In 4v4 the game would run at 0.1x speed by late-game while requiring massive upload/download speeds, which contributed to low player population. BAR doesn't have this problem and you can play 8v8 all day with an old PC and slow Internet connection, plus an order of magnitude more units on screen.

[@nikitosha1000]

But bar is a rip off of zero k Same game but less fun

[@spirosmakris7142]

yeah man no shit you have to load in and constantly update everything which on a single map is already hard enough but in this game you had multiple ones as well

[@zeddddd2846]

@@nikitosha1000 You do know zero ripped of supreme commander right? Also the devs working n BAR are a lot of the same ones that worked on supreme commander, if anything they are the ones who have the most "right" to this type of game

[@nikitosha1000]

@@zeddddd2846 naaaaah They are made on the same engine, include the same mechanics, even sometimes same units/models. Bar is more like a mod, not a standalone game. And even less fun, cause they didn't include the silly stuff like pushing turrets and terraformation

[@azurlaneayanami7447]

PA need to updatev every unit on 3D planets not like other RTS only on one singel 2D map to update an 3D map of multiple moving maps include space moving needs alot more data to hold synchronized end ob in upload download alot more

[@Uegue]

Planetary Annihlation was one of my favorite games, especially when I was limited to a shitty laptop and a horrible internet connection. Being able to fight what felt like advanced AI and literally destroy entire planets was the best feeling a 10 year old in that situation could have. Even though I haven't played it in a while since I lost interest, I'm still so excited to play this. See you on the battlefield, commanders.

[@DerFreiegedanke]

This looks really interesting, i always knew i need more supcom in my factorio and vise versa.

[@killerkram1337]

I played total annihilation a lot. i played total annihilation kingdoms... a bit... i played supreme commander A LOT. i find Forged Alliance to be the best RTS ever made. I did not give planetary annihilation the time it deserves it seems. I am excited to see where things go from here. You have my support. A lot of RTS games want to get into micromanaging things and i just like huge armies blowing each other up on massive maps.

[@Madin666]

try beyond all reason. it's a free open source game that takes the old total annihilation into modernity. it#s really awesome although it's kinda complex to learn

[@zackhack_gamer2487]

Ah yes my favorite game,mindustry

[@fredwupkensoppel8949]

**tips fedora**

[@whitelegend182]

[@planetwomanizzi]

At least since Factorio came out, people have been dreaming about an RTS with automation logistics. It's so cool that you guys are doing it!

[@Caleb-qr6lo]

Glad to see devs brave enough to combine the new factory genre with RTS. Don’t think crowd funding is the way to go but I’ll pick it up if its steam early access has a good foundation.

[@bradbuchmiller1858]

Dyson Sphere Program.... its not new

[@eccentricflam6191]

Is not a RTS, even if they plan to add more combat soon the current stages seem more likely to just be a factory with tower defense, while this looks like it can be some true RTS@@bradbuchmiller1858

[@user-wb8iu1hl6i]

@@bradbuchmiller1858 Dyson Sphere Program isn't a military RTS though

[@Zednor9]

@@bradbuchmiller1858 DSP appears to largely be a factory game, but not an RTS at all. The Annihilation franchise has been all about RTS. So, this does appear to be something quite new, as a major mixing of the two genres.

[@Caleb-qr6lo]

@@bradbuchmiller1858DSP is a factory game with no RTS elements. Even the dark fog isn’t RTS just tower defense+. Also it doesn’t have multiplayer. People saying this idea is just DSP are willfully ignorant.

[@shift_del3te249]

I wonder if there is gonna be multiple co-op modes: One is controlling the economy and another is doing the combat or They can build up their own bases and they could just choose if they want to do that or not

[@2ndpanzerdivision]

First game had coop so I figure this game will also have it

[@TheOvermindStarcraft]

It may, but the web page says the campaign will be single player, so, I don't know if coop control of the same team will happen because that could have been used in the campaign if it existed.

[@theolized]

Ayoo, I'm up for 3D Mindustry.

[@ratharder894]

Prefix: I love PA, it is one of my favorite games ever. Planetary annihilation is already hard enough to manage as is. now having to deal with belts, multiple resources, overflow, etc. If there are too many resources, the overflow and efficiency will be a fucking nightmare to manage, if different units need different resources, pivoting to counter enemy compositions will be a nightmare. if there are still only 2 resources (this is pre-alpha footage, colors could mean nothing and seem to have no meaning in the trailer.) what was the point of the belts. This will certainly be quite the balancing act that the developers will have to pull off expertly. If they do, kudos to them, but I'll believe it when I see it. PA is a masterpiece of a game that was ahead of its time, nobody could run it on their hardware, hopefully, we don't have a repeat.

[@RiskOfBaer]

You're looking at this wrong. From everything that I've seen and read about the game on the website, this is not going to really be a sequel to PA, despite them calling it that. Sequel implies a similar game, but better and with more stuff. IA is not going to be the same multiplayer focused PVP RTS game. They are trying to blend the classic RTS gameplay of PA with "deep factory-building". There is also no note of multiplayer anywhere so it's safe to assume this is going to be a largely single player game, maybe with co-op. This will be a VASTLY different video game, expect something more like Factorio or DSP, but with added RTS-like combat. But still focused on factory building. So, don't look at this like it's PA 2, because it won't be. This will be a much more complicated and complex game for different kind of people. I trust you know what Factorio is, but if you don't, look that game up to see what they are trying to make here.

[@MartenusPrince]

Dont forget the unfulfilled promises we got, when planetary annihilation was on Kickstarter. The game released into a huge mess and only become good in years after. They have a history of creating huge hype and then not delivering.

[@zeddddd2846]

Not to mention charging twice for features meant to be in the base game by making a whole new game

[@charactername263]

Oh cool a 3D mindustry I've been looking for another logistics rts

[@joshuafreydippel5128]

By the golden throne and the most holiest Emperor upon it... This Looks awesome

[@jeffmerkel3046]

Grew up playing Total Annihilation and backed the Kickstarter and played the hell out of Planetary Annihilation. Can't wait to play this! Probably my favorite dev team out there.

[@chazznl8823]

Check out BAR beyond all reason its free and made for and by TA fans

[@chazz00999]

This looks like a massive step up from PA. Factions and faction identity, PVE focus? Nice!

It's interesting to finally, after so many years of the factory genre being out since Factorio, see someone finally blend it with RTS. That said, I was never a fan of PA. Being a longtime fan of TA and Supcom, I wasn't at all impressed. BUT, if they do deliver us this gem of an ideal, I WILL support it, because it completely revolutionizes the genre of RTS games with a much more complex set of mechanics. The possibilities are limitless.

[@BladeLigerV]

I am intrigued. I think I want to keep an eye on this!

[@Mice-stro]

got it, riftbreaker + PA. i'll buy if the campaign is longer than riftbreaker's, or if there's a random generator with actual objectives

[@FractalJaguar]

Well I wasn't expecting this!

[@hyko8355]

Can't wait to see Legion ported to this

[@Glidercat]

Uhmmm.... YES.... ABSOLUTELY YES!!! 😻

[@1Kaisermerlin]

Oh nice. Finally my idea of more rts like factorio exists out there. Thought I was crazy that nobody else saw that as a concept.

[@Saphels]

- Commander, we have destroyed all the planets. What should we do now? - Build industry. I always wanted to build factories in PA, to see how metal monstrocities of factories grow under my control. Now I have the chance. I hope they didn't scraped the planets.

[@elemenopycuaress7454]

When a Daddy Planetary Annihilation and a Mommy Factorio love each other very much...

[@whitelegend182]

Mindustry!!!!!!!

[@vvhoknows6958]

This is very exciting! Looking forward to more information in the future

[@Stammer6]

This feels like my time. All these insanely cool sci-fi games coming out. I love the idea that you can probably get really good as a player at making optimal factories, too.

[@egalitarianism9203]

what other cool sci fi games are you referring to sir

[@luigidreemurr6034]

This hits right where I live so far, we'll see how well it holds up down the line of course. I love my RTS's and REALLY enjoyed a lot of aspects about planetary annihilation Titans. Factorio is my go to and #1 for factory games (it's the best), but I've also played Satisfactory and Dyson sphere among others that are less notable. So I've been around both to a rather large degree. I'm not sure about the game from all aspects but am really looking forwards to it!

[@Chris-cf2kp]

Factorio and RTS. RTS is basically a factory sim without the finer logistics, so now it's full circle. PA is a good platform for it with the destructible planets and layers of battlefields on land, sea, air, and space. Just don't repeat the bad business practices of your past and/or predecessors - namely Uber Games. Some of us still remember.

[@inversepie6512]

On the one hand, this is very unlikely to be as good as FAF. But on the other hand, I would love to see an honest effort to make a better RTS than FAF. This could be great.

[@LostMekkaSoft]

so thats what youve been working on. looks dope, count me in!

[@traveling_idiot]

This gives me huge Supreme Commander vibes and i LOVE it for it

[@lil_gigi3560]

Wooooooahhhh Stylax ! Mélangé les deux concepts pourrait donner des matchs aux profondeurs de malade !

[@whitelegend182]

Mindustry

[@TheRiisingSun]

I would've taken Human Resources over this. What ever happened to that idea? It looked SO cool :(

[@Penguin-Cappuccino]

Until this releases, y'all might want to check out Beyond all reason. It's a spiritual successor to the Annihilation games and it's free to play! It's really fun.

[@TheNumber86]

Hell yeah, more Annihilation. I was never a very good strategy player, but I loved all the building, and this seems to focus more on that.

[@sethb3090]

With any luck, this keeps the shared coop from Planetary Annihilation where you both have full control over everything in your shared army, which will allow a factory player and an rts player to team up and go all out

[@sirgs5662]

Planetary annihilation was a complete meme of a game that barely even held a candle to it's direct inspiration from 1997 outside of the sheer spectacle so I think i'm justified in being very wary of this ever actually being good

[@aleksklepik4220]

Factorio + Planetary Annihilation 👏👍

[@Ps7cho_]

I helped mod what became factorio PvP. I am so hyped for this! finally someone is running with this concept.

[@ant0_457]

The only time I've been genuinely excited for a game trailer, if this game works the way I think it will it will be so hard to learn but I am so down for that.

[@camramaster]

I'm going to try to invest in this. It looks amazing!🙂

[@SkylightNL]

Wow this was quite a nice surprise! Loved Planetary Annihilation, love factory building games so very curious how such a combination will play out!

[@denfurret7217]

Damn! I didn't expect to see game like that! I have a good feeling about this :D

[@gorofujita5767]

Given that this is an obvious nod to TA, it would be very interesting (and quite literally a standout feature) to have true orchestral symphonies in there, like in the OG TA. I don't know how expensive it would be to have a composer compose + rent an orchestra for a few afternoons of recording, but if feasible (and I mean, Cavedog managed to have Jeremy Soule do it, and they were a quite small dev studio) it would be Amazing, and yet another possible selling and/or marketing point.

[@luckycogstudios]

You should look at game called Beyond All Reason if you like TA.

[@jakobpilhall8819]

Does anyone know if this is gonna be multiplayer? Like the previous games

[@ill8z]

I'm so excited about this announcement!

[@kILlz0n35017]

Been with you since kickstarter on Planetary Annihilation, hoping this one is good

[@EskoLuontola]

Winning in PA was already more than half about building the economy and production. Interesting to see how it'll be when the game focuses more on the production side - even leaving the fighting to an AI, as mentioned on the website.

[@Danger_N00dle]

Oh neat I always wanted a RTS with factorio style resource management I'm curious how this will turn out.

[@whitelegend182]

Mindustry

[@fishnutter5219]

I remember the day Planetary Annihilation was declared full release, I was so excited to finally buy it... Campaign basically wasn't even there, no save functionality, and the original version isn't on Steam anymore to hide all the negative reviews it quite rightfully got. Hopefully lessons have been learnt from that little debacle...

[@elswift54]

Wow this looks complicated to play, but it seems promising ! Can't wait to play it !

[@killerpenguin4805]

Put like if you are waiting the game

[@lalalaolololo6703]

Well, I'll wait for "Industrial Annihilation Titans"

[@doctorb4n3]

Would love to get my hands on this :D

[@mpdq4622]

This looks really good, nice to see you guys were busy.

[@maxvonkrieger5043]

Total Annihilation is stil the king, baby.

[@countessroadkill9599]

Oh, wow, this looks awesome. I'm glad it still *looks* like PA, I love it's aesthetic. But building on what was already there has me super excited.

[@CRUSHader726]

my main concern: do you build those factories in every game? looks quite micro heavy game then.. or can you use blueprints? then when you use the most effecient blueprints the whole factory building element is pointless.. sorry for my english

[@AmeOnDxm]

this is an amazing addition to the rts element

[@thomaswetzel6796]

will this be smaller scale or the same scale or one planet or several?

[@MrTBSC]

... i feel it might be ... all of it ...

[@PlayHardGAMES]

Impressive

[@syb1510]

I wonder which units/concept will miss at release like you did to sell the game twice. let's wait and see, I will not preorder this time.

[@Jasp137]

I like the Idea of mashing Factory Building and RTS. Best of luck to you guys!

[@whitelegend182]

Mindustry

[@TwistedLogicGaming]

Looks Dope !!! Total Annihilation was my Jam

[@alexanderg5736]

Path Tracing ? DirectX12 ? FSR 3.0 ? Directstorage ? 8K Texture ?

[@erosion01]

YES

[@user-se4re1ku9v]

two of my favorite games are combined now. happy happy happy

[@RaG0dofTheSun]

Will this be set on one world, or will we have to jump between multiples? I really prefer 1 world/map to the orbital gameplay from Planetary Annihilation.

[@Gunnar_Konig]

I did not like PA (the planets were just way too small). This one seems interesting, if they get the AI assistant working well and the scale is big enough then it could be quite fun. I do miss the sheer scale of Supreme Commander though.

[@MrTBSC]

bigger planets were too hardwaretaxing and made matches revolve around airbattles too much as ground moved too slow ... i do think though it is possible to mod a big planet ... not as ridicioulusly big as some early alpha planets though ...

[@Keksgott91]

The Music at 0:29 , is this just for the trailer or is it a whole song?

[@nilocblue]

I think for me the ultimate game would be some sort of blend between this game, Planetary Annihilation, and Dyson Sphere.

[@Terminarch]

Good luck with that. Beyond All Reason has been taking notes for a decade.

[@ddman12345678910]

I'm so ready.

[@KhasAdun1990]

An RTS that uses logistics is what I've been waiting for. Can't wait to play this.

[@whitelegend182]

MINDUSTRY

[@ravenoftheredsky]

We will see

[@Oisin14]

factorio + PA + Mad Max, if thats not an interesting combination i dont know what is

[@jemdejager]

Factario _X_ Planetary Annihilation. Basically it will require maths to a MUCH greater extend.. If you don't have an effcient pipeline, then you'll likely get jams on your conveyor belts.

[@kubakudor7121]

What will be chaos and machina and what playstyle you are going to give them?

[@technicsman2]

This seems like Dyson sphere program, meets Factorio, meets PA Titans

[@ikon1164]

Yum, makes me wanna go play total annihilation right now

[@minarishell]

Holy shit. We're so back. Planetary Annihilation was awesome, I hope this features a similar level of scale!

[@billyjimbobjr]

Ha! Awesome, a game for all those Beyond All Reason players that just like to sit on the backlines building cool bases. love to see some gameplay footage

[@Nicko93]

Does this have planned multiplayer or is it a singleplayer focus?

[@ataarono]

yes

[@cintet5087]

SETOOOOOOOOON!!!

[@corezone4250]

Oh my god... this is like... Factorio x PA I never knew I needed that until I saw it. And the graphics look awesome, I'll be waiting to see what that's like. 👀

[@trapbuilder2283]

Well this seems interesting, I look forward to the steam page appearing

[@hjezus]

🔥

[@james79ableify]

looks like good idea. are you planning to go for PVE or PVP?

[@PROMuffy]

I get a very “90’s BBC2 Robot Wars” vibe from the logo reveal at the end.

[@EvatronX]

planetary annihilation was awesome but then titans happened and it was kind of low to buy a whole new game for what couldve been an update/DLC. also the massive lag that happened if you built too many units regardless of CPU speed never got fixed. and there was that human resources game that never came to be. dont get me wrong, this looks cool and fun but i dont know if i should give uber entertainment another chance when i could just play titans.

[@SquaulDuNeant]

I hope you kept the space and planetary thinggies and possibiilities from the last games because it's very fun and unique and that also you take inspiration from dyson sphere program too ! Making a superior PA with more content and new core and side mechanics while retaining the good old ones would be truly a shame to scrap the space and others planet and asteroids.

[@MunitionsDudTester]

We need a Steam page so we can wishlist!