Broken Arrow: Best New RTS Game Coming in 2025 (300+ Units, Full Customization)

by Fernando Diaz / Articles, Editorials, Upcoming Games / 10 Jun 2025

Let’s be real: the real-time strategy space has been hungry for something new for a while now. We’ve been searching for a game with the brainy, tactical depth of a hardcore wargame but with the explosive, satisfying action of a modern RTS. Well, it’s time to pay attention!! Because Broken Arrow is on the horizon and it looks like it might be exactly that…

Set to crash-land in 2025, Broken Arrow is a massive-scale tactics game where you get to play armchair general with an entire modern military. The first thing that hits you is the absolutely bonkers scale—the game has more than 300 different units. The real hook, though, isn’t the quantity -> it’s the customization. this is the kind of game where you’re not just adding a tank to your arsenal ; you’re playing dress-up with its armor package, its weapon systems & all its extra gadgets. With over 1,500 possible combinations, the amount of late-night spreadsheet work here will be enough to make an accountant weep with joy.

A Campaign That Sees Both Sides

If you’re part of the rare breed who actually plays single-player, Broken Arrow is packing a full 19-mission story campaign. Set in a tense, escalating conflict in the Baltics, the game cleverly lets you play from both the US and Russian sides. So you’re not just getting the “America, heck yeah!” version of the story, giving the whole conflict more weight as you lead everything from sneaky spec-ops teams to whole zip codes’ worth of tanks.

Endless War

Of course, a game like this lives or dies by its replayability, and Broken Arrow seems to have that covered. The main draw for many will be the 5vs5 multiplayer, with its high-stakes competitive ladder where you can crush your friends’ morale & earn shiny medals… but the game’s secret weapon might just be its Scenario Editor. And this isn’t some tacked-on map maker they tossed in as an afterthought; this is the exact same toolset the developers themselves used to build the campaign. You can make your own missions from scratch—cutscenes, dialogue, the works—without having to stare at terrifying lines of code for hours on end. Paired with full Steam Workshop integration, this means an endless buffet of new content long after you’ve finished the base game.

Smarter, Not Harder

On the battlefield, it’s all about combined arms. You win by making all of your little army men actually play nice together. Having your recon squads spot for your artillery, using helicopters for some chaotic hit-and-run action, and owning the skies with your jets will be the key to smashing the enemy. With its incredible depth, obsession with tinkering, & powerful community tools, Broken Arrow is going to straight-up brawl for the strategy game crown. For anyone having fever dreams about the glory days of games like World in Conflict or the Wargame series -> this is one that you absolutely must have on your radar!!!

Broken Arrow drops for PC on June 19, 2025.

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Fernando Diaz

Fernando is doing what he always did, sharing his honest opinions about games whenever he can. The difference is now he is writing and not talking about it.
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A Campaign That Sees Both Sides

Endless War

Smarter, Not Harder

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