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Official Steam store screenshot: base floor with yellow hazard markings, a glowing central structure and red laser beams in the corridor.
BASE OPERATIONS / Field manual

Base Building

Generator, workshop, barracks and clinic: decide what to repair or upgrade next.

Fact-checked 16 Sep 2026Early Access listed 17 Sep 2026Sources linked below

Fast answer

Upgrade toward the problem stopping your next raid. If power blocks a room, inspect generator capacity first; if gear blocks a fighter, look at workshop resources and staffing; if casualties block your roster, prioritize clinic access. No single upgrade order fits every run.

BUILDDemo gameplay
RELEASESep 17 Early Access
READING TIME10 minutes

Check dependencies before upgrading

Footage of the demo shows a resource and electricity economy: one player reaches a barracks upgrade but lacks power, while another checks generator output. This makes upgrade choice a dependency problem. A facility that cannot be powered or staffed is not an immediate improvement.

  1. Write down what is actually blocking your next sortie.
  2. Inspect generator power against the requirement shown in the UI.
  3. Check the relevant room’s materials and assigned specialist.
  4. Only then spend on the upgrade and re-check whether it became operational.
Official Steam store screenshot: overgrown ruins with glowing purple flora and a firefight beside a large enemy vehicle.
Official Steam screenshot. Developer-published store media, shown for reference and not captured from our own playthrough. An authentic gameplay recording from the original creator is embedded below.

Which room solves which bottleneck?

Use the facility name as a signpost, not as a promise about an unverified bonus. Open the current in-game panel and read its requirements: footage confirms that the workshop participates in crafting, clinic in healing/reanimation, barracks in fighter-related upgrades and generator in the power economy.

  1. Generator — review when a facility is short of electricity.
  2. Workshop — review for weapon, ammunition and crafting queues.
  3. Clinic — review for injured or fallen personnel.
  4. Barracks — inspect combat staff and fighter-related progression.
  5. Tavern and other rooms — check whether their role matches an existing bottleneck.

A practical early order

Rather than inventing a fixed cheapest route, follow an observable decision sequence. If the team cannot go out, fix its immediate problem. Once a safe raid is possible, spend on an improvement that repeatedly helps future sorties.

  1. Restore a functioning combat team and necessary recovery access.
  2. Keep enough power for the rooms you actually need.
  3. Improve production only when the queue and materials make the improvement useful.
  4. Revisit progression after new staff or buildings unlock.

See the actual demo in action

Demo walkthrough · DaOpa · footage sourced from a publicly available creator video. The video is embedded from YouTube rather than copied into this site.

Official screenshots and source material

For exact menu positions, current item statistics and real in-game appearance, use the developer's official media and game footage. These links open the original material; community artwork is not republished here without permission.

Demo gameplay was recorded before the full Early Access release. Exact costs, character traits, difficulty bonuses and procedural map layouts must be checked in the current version.

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