The MicroProse Summer Sale Is Live

From genre-defining classics to the freshest names in simulation and strategy, the MicroProse library is on full display during the Steam Summer Sale and there's never been a better moment to explore the choices on offer.

Lovers of the golden age of flight sims can return to the cockpit with the legendary Falcon series, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 and Gunship, the very titles that built the studio's reputation. WWII enthusiasts can take to the skies in B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th or dig into the methodical tank-by-tank combat of Second Front. And for those who like their history grand at a grand scale, Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age and Carrier Command 2 deliver some of the most ambitious modern simulation anywhere on Steam.

The recent slate of games is just as varied. Drop into the helicopter sandbox chaos of Cleared Hot, chase air superiority in F-22: Air Dominance Fighter, or trade the modern battlefield entirely for the prehistoric survival of Repterra. Tinkerers and system-builders will feel right at home in the reactor halls of Nucleares and the mech workshops of Mech Engineer, while strategists can command Cold War armies in Regiments, raise an empire on the high seas in Rise of Piracy, or fight for survival street by street in Urban Strife.

If it's shooters you're after, the range runs from the retro to the razor-sharp. Blast through the unapologetically old-school corridors of Darkenstein 3D (completely free), a love letter to the boomer shooters that started it all, then trade pixels for precision in GROUND BRANCH, the uncompromising tactical realism shooter where patience and planning keep you alive. For something with more bite, Better Than Dead throws you into a tense fight for survival, while Dagger Directive rewards the cool-headed and the methodical. Four very different ways to pull a trigger.

Adventure fans are spoiled for choice. Neyyah channels the spirit of the great first-person puzzle classics, inviting you to lose yourself in a beautiful, hand-crafted world of secrets and mechanisms. Repella Fella swings the other way entirely it's a wildly stylish, darkly comic tale bursting with character, while Let Bions Be Bygones offers a narrative journey all its own. Whether you want to ponder, laugh or simply soak in a world, there's a story here waiting to be told.

For the builders and commanders, there's deep satisfaction in running the whole operation. Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks hands you the factory floor, the design bench and the balance sheet as you build an armoured empire from the ground up. Battlefall: State of Conflict and Dying Breed keep the pressure on with real-time strategy that rewards quick thinking and sharper decisions. Plan it, build it, command it and then watch it all play out.

History buffs can march across the ages. Raise civilisation from the dust in the Bronze Age RTS TFC: The Fertile Crescent, then test your generalship in Strategos. From there the timeline rolls forward to the great conflicts of the twentieth century: command carrier task forces in the meticulous Task Force Admiral, lead a resistance against impossible odds in Forgotten but Unbroken, and direct armies across the theatres of the Second World War in Battlefield Commander WWII. Few catalogues let you span so many centuries in a single sitting.

Some titles simply refuse to sit in one box. HighFleet fuses dieselpunk airship duels, tense exploration and white-knuckle resource management into something utterly its own. Death by Scrolling puts a fresh spin on the roguelike, CrossOver: Roll For Initiative mashes wordplay with dungeon-crawling in a way you won't see anywhere else, and the quietly charming Conur Life marches to the beat of its own drum. If chaotic streets, martial arts and settling scores with your friends is something you are interested in this summer Gangs of Asia has you covered.

This is just a selection of what you can find on sale. Drop by the freshly update MicroProse Steam Hub to check out more games, and get a glimpse at what is on the horizon.