Ancient Warfare 3 delivers a sandbox packed with action and deep customization across multiple eras, from stone age to futuristic sci-fi. Players pick game modes such as deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, or zombie survival, then build scenarios in the custom battle editor by placing units, objects, traps, and tweaking rules and environments. Over 3400 units, 1100 objects, and 580 equipment items span historical and modern content, with Steam Workshop adding thousands of community battles, prefabs, units, and campaigns.
In-game editors let players craft custom units with equipment slots and color tweaks, plus import models for weapons, armor, shields, and more. A visual scripting engine enables event-based rules for battles, units, objects, and players. This indie action-strategy simulation suits creators who crave total control over battles and spectators who enjoy watching clashes unfold.
Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios in the custom battle editor. Choose your rules, change the environment, place units, objects or traps, choose your equipment and fight or just relax and spectate a battle.
Content
Explore content from different eras starting in the stone age, medieval ages, WWI, WWII and the modern era up to futuristic sci-fi content. 3400+ units, 1100+ objects and 580+ equipment items await you.
In addition, the Steam Workshop integration allows you to share your creations and choose from 23000+ battles, 5900+ prefabs, 25000+ units, 2200+ campaigns and various equipment items and objects to use them in your own creations!In-game editors
The central idea behind the game is to let players customize everything and create their own content!
In the custom battle editor you can place units, objects and other items to create your own scenarios with various game modes and settings for each object and unit to adjust their behavior.Custom units
The custom unit editor allows you to create detailed and complex units with various equipment slots and settings like color adjustments for armor and clothing items.Custom items
The custom equipment and object editors allow you to import your own models into an easy to use in-game editor to create custom melee and ranged weapons, grenades, shields, armor, clothing and environment, consumables and various other functional objects to use them in the battle editor or to create more unique looking custom units.Scripting Engine
To give players even more control, there is an event based visual scripting engine which can be used to create custom behavior and rules for battles, units, objects and the player.
