Tempest Rising — Overview
Tempest Rising is a classic-style RTS from Slipgate Ironworks and 2B Games set in an alternate 1997 where the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into open conflict over a mysterious resource called the Tempest. Three asymmetrical factions fight for control: the Global Defense Force (a balanced, classic-military faction), the Tempest Dynasty (faster, Tempest-powered units at higher cost), and the ancient Veti (added as the paid Veti's Wrath campaign expansion, playable free in multiplayer from the base game). GDF and Dynasty each have their own 11-mission campaign; neither faction is framed as clearly 'good,' with both stories forcing morally grey choices.