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SECOND STRIKE is a free real-time world war on a 3D satellite view of the real Earth. Up to 200 players fight in one war, free for all or in teams, alongside 42 AI nations led by parody world leaders who talk and lie. Take real cities, sign pacts, break them, and try not to be the one who strikes midnight.

Everything on this page is free to use in articles, videos and streams about the game. Questions: info@secondstrike.io

Trailer

Recorded in the real game. Download 720p (6 MB) · 1080p on request · 6-second GIF

Fact sheet

DEVELOPERClouthier Simulation Labs (solo developer Kyle Clouthier), Ontario, Canada

RELEASELive and free since October 2026, updated weekly

PLATFORMSAny modern web browser on desktop, phone and tablet; installable as an app

PRICEFree to play. Optional one-time cosmetics, nothing that changes the fight, nothing renews

PLAYERSSolo against 42 AI nations, or online wars of up to 200 players, free for all or 2 to 6 teams

WAR LENGTH15 minutes

WEBSITEsecondstrike.io · How to play

COMMUNITYDiscord · X @SecondStrikeIO · itch.io · sign in with Discord in the game

AGE13+ (cartoon war, filtered chat)

What makes it different

The real planet. A 3D satellite globe with about 2,000 real cities, from Lagos to Lima. Taking a city off a rival pays out.
Big wars in a browser. Up to 200 players in one war, built on a deterministic lockstep simulation: the server only relays moves, so one small server holds a whole war.
The MIDNIGHT clock. Every nuke moves a shared doomsday clock and nukes get pricier as it nears zero. Whoever strikes midnight is wiped off the map while everyone else lives through a nuclear winter.
Leaders who lie. 20 parody world leaders answer you in character through an AI model, and may be bluffing.
A modern arsenal. Carriers, submarines with an automatic second strike, satellites and orbital strikes, drones, bombers, air assaults, cyber attacks and EMPs.
Fair, verified ranking. The server replays every ranked war and every daily challenge run from the moves played, so scores cannot be faked. The SECOND STRIKE League runs a new season every week with a champion, season honours, Discord roles and a hall of fame, plus a rating with military ranks, 13 medals, clans and a weekly clan war map of the world.
A reason to come back. A daily challenge (the same world for everyone), a daily mission, a login streak, levels and avatars.

Screenshots

A war over Europe with a city streak

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Key art: territories over a satellite globe

Key art 1200x630

The start screen

Start screen 1440x900

Capsule art

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A war on a phone

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The start screen on a phone

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Logos

Logo, dark backgrounds PNG

Logo, light backgrounds PNG

The MIDNIGHT clock emblem

Emblem, transparent 1024 PNG

App icon 1024 PNG

Portrait cover art

Cover art, portrait 1056x1408 JPG

"SECOND" in off-white (or black on light backgrounds) and "STRIKE" in red. Please do not recolour or stretch the logo.

For streamers and video makers

You may stream SECOND STRIKE and make and monetize videos of it, on any platform, without asking. A link to secondstrike.io in your description is appreciated, not required.

Get your own link and earn 10%. No email, no application. Sign in at secondstrike.io, open your service record (your callsign, top right) and press MAKE MY LINK under Earn with SECOND STRIKE. You get a link like secondstrike.io/r/YOURNAME and a code viewers can type in Settings. You earn 10% of everything the players you bring spend in the store, and it costs them nothing extra. Visits, sales and what you are owed show live on the same page; add a PayPal email there and you are paid monthly once you are owed US$10 or more. Bigger channels can ask for a higher share at info@secondstrike.io. Program rules.

Get featured while you stream. On the same page press LINK MY TWITCH and log in on Twitch once. Whenever you stream SECOND STRIKE with it in your stream title, your stream shows in LIVE NOW on the start screen for every player and is announced on our Discord. Players watch it right on secondstrike.io, with your Twitch chat beside it and a JOIN A WAR button, and everyone who watches there supports your link.

Run a community war. Make a private war (PRIVATE on the play screen), put the room link on stream and start it when your viewers are in, or tell everyone to press ONLINE or TEAMS at the same moment: public lobbies take up to 200 players and start 30 seconds after the first one joins.

Short description (copy and paste)

SECOND STRIKE is a free real-time world war on a 3D satellite globe. Up to 200 players take real cities, sign pacts, break them and build an arsenal from carriers to satellites. Every nuke moves the MIDNIGHT clock, and whoever strikes midnight is wiped off the map. Free in the browser at secondstrike.io.

Contact

Kyle Clouthier, Clouthier Simulation Labs · info@secondstrike.io · Discord · X @SecondStrikeIO

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