It’s been a long time coming, but get ready to save humanity in Terminator: Dark Fate — Defiance, which is out now on Steam. Slitherine’s real-time strategy game based on the Terminator license is available with a 10% discount from now until February 28.

Set in the Terminator: Dark Fate cinematic universe, Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance sees surviving humans fight for their existence against the all-powerful synthetic intelligent machine network known as Legion. However, the greatest threat may not come from the ravaging machines, but from bands of other human survivors.

Featuring complex tactical battles across a single-player multiple-choice campaign and online multiplayer battles, players must choose from one of three distinct factions: Founders, Resistance, or Legion. Your decisions will resonate in multiple ways as as you must decide between gaining intel, volunteers, or potential open conflict with other human survivors.

Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance offers a gamut of strategy and tactical options, including branching dialogue, events, and mission objectives, as well as a strategic army management screen where players can upgrade character skills, weapons, and vehicles, plus unit customization. Future War will be featured in full, from plasma cannons, drones, guerilla warfare, and the careful gathering of limited resources and weapons. Defiance‘s dynamic physics-based battlefields and realistic damage models further enhance the real-time tactical feel.

The game also features four skirmish modes, including Assault mode, which see players choose the Founders or Legion factions and either attack or defend an Underground base, and Domination mode, which allows all factions to be played with different reinforcement and gameplay rules. There are also four playable maps in multiplayer mode, allowing up to players to duke it out in 1vs1 and 2vs2 games.