Panzer Strategy News

General! Our ever-vigilant intelligence service has prepared a news update, for your eyes only!
Here are all of our spy’s key findings.

[h2]SM: Fight for Freedom release - more data[/h2]

In yesterday’s Developer’s Diaries we have shared more details about the Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom release one month after launch. Check it out here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/3023585705517305816
[h2]Our agents have spotted Steam Summer sale approaching[/h2]

We plan to have discounts on all our games throughout the upcoming Steam event. It will be a great opportunity to get your hands on the titles you still miss in your collection. We will provide more details soon, so stay tuned.

[h2]New Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom videos on YouTube[/h2]

We keep an eye on all new videos on YouTube that feature Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom. We can recommend these two channels as they seem to have done quite a good overview of the game. We will keep you informed of the new high-quality YouTube coverage of the game.

The Battle of Dunkirk by thehistoricalgamer (UK campaign):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EChLGx2yjww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QSb0KZROs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXqudS2ViRs

Operation Market Garden by Bruchminati (US campaign):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqhmin1WKM

This is it for this week’s report.

Support our team by adding Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty to your wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/

Ever vigilant
Starni Games Intelligence Service

Hello, guys! It is exactly one month after the Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom release and we want to share the first results with the community. As you may know we are always as transparent as possible about work and results.



We monitor all of your feedback and we can see that although there is still huge room for improvement the overall feedback becomes more favourable with every title. Still, we better look at some tangible criteria for more precise and unbiased results.

[h2]Median time played[/h2]

Median does not mean average, it means that 50% of the players played longer than this number. Note that the average play times for later releases are likely to still grow:

[h3]Panzer Strategy[/h3]
Median time played: 2 hours 16 minutes.
Average time played: 23 hours 50 minutes.

[h3]Strategic Mind: The Pacific[/h3]
Median time played: 2 hours 23 minutes.
Average time played: 23 hours 58 minutes.

[h3]Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg[/h3]
Median time played: 4 hours 49 minutes.
Average time played: 49 hours 55 minutes.

[h3]Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism[/h3]
Median time played: 6 hours 6 minutes.
Average time played: 37 hours 53 minutes.

[h3]Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom[/h3]
Median time played: 8 hours 10 minutes - and keeps growing.
Average time played: 24 hours 44 minutes.

As you can see, there is a steady growth in the median time played which is a good indication that more players now enjoy the game for a longer period of time.

[h2]Steam reviews [/h2]

We should, of course, account for the smaller sample size for the more recent projects. However, if we just look at the overall numbers we will see the following picture:

[h3]Panzer Strategy[/h3]
417 reviews, 65% positive*.

[h3]Strategic Mind: The Pacific [/h3]
429 reviews, 76% positive*.

[h3]Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg[/h3]
271 reviews, 87% positive*.

[h3]Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism[/h3]
92 reviews, 92% positive*.

[h3]Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom[/h3]
37 reviews, 94% positive*.

*Only Steam purchasers’ reviews are counted. It would be even higher otherwise.

So, we can see that the Steam customers rate the games progressively better.



The most successful release so far was Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg. Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom got even better results in the first 12 hours - so we are grateful to our loyal community who supported us and got the game on release.

However, this time we did not get nearly as much traffic from Steam. It is decided by very complex Steam algorithms that we do not know (to exclude any bias). Here is the number of visits from the two main sources of new visitors on Steam:

[h3]Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg 1 months after release[/h3]
Discovery queue visits: 136, 274.
Steam homepage visits: 124, 919.
Total: 261, 193 visits.

[h3]Strategic Mind Fight for Freedom 1 months after release[/h3]
Discovery queue visits: 51, 033.
Steam homepage visits: 12, 605.
Total: 63, 638 visits.

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom got 4 times less exposure on Steam despite a more successful day 1 sales.

We did what we could to promote Fight for Freedom, and the community supported us on day 1. Afterwards, we got less exposure on Steam and consequently much lower overall sales.



Despite this unfortunate setback, we are already working hard on the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty that might become the last Strategic Mind title. We will keep you updated on our production progress, but the first maps are already playable and go through the testing process. The Spirit of Liberty will most likely be released in Q1 2022. We will keep polishing all the Strategic Mind titles and keeping them up to date.

Support our efforts by adding Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty to your wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/

Hello General! The weather is getting hotter as are the screenshots from players! Just look at all these beautiful shots from the Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom. Make sure to rate up this post to thank all of the authors for their works 👍.

To share great moments from your own playthrough with the community - add them to our community hubs or send them to our Twitter or Discord server. We will post regular news reports with the best ones.



[h2]Storm Eagle (Germany) [/h2]


[h2]Foxador[/h2]


[h2]Problem Solver (United States) [/h2]

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Hello guys! Today, we will explain the HQ skills mechanic in general and have a look at the list of HQ skills available in Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom. We hope this video will have you to better understand how this system works, as it provides an immense advantage on the battlefield. Please, let us know what you think of the system in general and about the particular HQ skills you prefer.

[h2]About the Weekly feature series[/h2]
The Strategic Mind series has a quite sophisticated set of core mechanics, some of which are a novelty for the genre, for example, the supply system. The upside is that the game has lots to explore even for seasoned wargame veterans and offers everyone a new experience. The downside is that oftentimes the players lack the time to master all the core mechanics, especially after a hard working week, when you want to spend more time with your family during the weekend.

We have decided to start a new series of short tutorial videos called Weekly feature. In this series, we will have a closer look at one core mechanic at a time. We hope that it will help the new players to grasp the game faster, and the veteran players to learn a couple of new tricks. For example, we will explain in more detail the Surrender mechanic or the damage calculation rules. It should be especially helpful to the players who are new to the wargame genre.

[h2]Watch the previous episodes of the Weekly Feature:[/h2]

• Weekly Feature #1: Overstrength
• Weekly Feature #2: Lethal vs Nonlethal
  Damage
• Weekly Feature #3: Reinforcement
• Weekly Feature #4: Close Combat & Close Quarters
• Weekly feature #5: Zone of Control
• Weekly Feature #6: Overwatch

[h2]Express your opinion[/h2]
If the video was helpful for you - let us know in the comments here or on YouTube and leave a "like". You could also subscribe to our YouTube channel to make sure you do not miss the next episodes. Also, if you want to ask us some additional questions about the mechanics - you are most welcome!

[h3]Don't miss the opportunity and save 85% on Panzer Strategy.

Offer ends tomorrow 🎁[/h3]

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