Long Patrol: Frontier Command

One ship. One patrol. The storm behind you does not wait.

You command a single warship on the frontier. Run escorts, survey dead systems, found colonies and hunt raiders, jump by jump across the sector, while a storm closes in from behind and the fuel runs down. Every fight is turn by turn: armor, mounts, torpedoes, range and nerve. Every crisis is a decision made on the clock. Bring the ship home, and bring your crew home with it.

How long can you keep them alive?

HOW IT PLAYS

Plot a course on the sector chart. Every jump burns fuel, and the storm moves up behind you.

Take on contacts in turn-based tactical combat. Pick targets, manage guns and torpedoes, hold your armor, or break off and run.

Lead six officers: XO, Helm, Tactical, Science, Engineering and the Doctor. Each has a temper, a career and a breaking point.

Make the call when a crisis hits the ship: fire, boarders, mutiny, a distress call that might be bait.

Lose hands and the ship fights short-handed. With six souls left aboard it becomes a ghost run, one gun and no damage control, and getting home is a medal of its own.

Rise from Ensign to Admiral. Your bridge console upgrades with your rank across six generations of hardware.

FOUR WAYS TO SERVE

Recruit: mostly lone contacts. Learn the ship.

Line: a hard patrol. You come home scarred.

Veteran: little forgiven. Manage every round.

Long Shot: the odds are against you, and the epilogue knows it.

ALSO ON BOARD

The Academy Codex: a full intelligence file on the peoples, doctrine, hulls and weapons of the sector.

20 medals to earn across a career.

Run codes and seeds, so you can share a career or replay a sector.

Leave the title screen alone and the ship shows you what it can do.

INCLUDED

The game. Unzip it and double-click index.html. It plays offline in your web browser on Windows, macOS and Linux.

The Captain’s Handbook (PDF), a 9-page field manual.

CREDITS

Music by alkakrab (Sci-fi Space 30 Tracks), Tomality (Menu and UI Loops) and Leonardo Paz, Leohpaz (Ocean Music Pack).

Space art by CipriEnt (Pixel Space Complete Pack).

Go hear and see the rest of their work on itch.io.