# Black Powder Red Earth®

Summer DB entity ID: 1e915736\-8bea\-4372\-80e2\-97f6755d3fa0

Steam App ID: 988490

The near present\. Following the invasion of Iraq, Private Military Contractors\(PMC\) become the preferred instrument of foreign policy by Petro\-Monarchies in the failed states of the Middle East\. Staffed with US special operations combat veterans, PMC select, train and lead armies of local nationals in conventional and unconventional warfare operations\. Combat actions conducted by the contractors are not considered acts of war\.  They are matters of foreign internal defense\.       Black Powder Red Earth® is a minute\-to\-minute turn\-based tactics game set in a proxy war between the dictatorship of a failing petro\-state and a brutal jihadist insurgency\. Fighting in war\-torn urban sprawls, players lead an enhanced capability advisory and enabler unit, conducting kinetic actions with full lethal surrogacy to accomplish their missions\.        Based on the Amazon best selling graphic novels of the same name, Black Powder Red Earth™ was developed with the support and advice of Special Operations combat veterans from the Commanders In\-Extremis Force and by the designer of the Decentralized Battle Space Program\. Black Powder Red Earth® has no tech trees, base building or R&D mini\-games\. It focuses entirely on meaningful tactical decisions that influence the outcome of raids in urban environments\.  Step into the event horizon of absolute chaos — now\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: \_Echelon Software

- Publisher: \_Echelon Software

- Release date: Mar 29, 2021

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/988490/ss\_19025ffcd3b95866a14fbde548e842c6fb1c7a51\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1629155288, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/988490/ss\_1929e3e0fab953754e1122e381841a9fa23c3cd0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1629155288, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/988490/ss\_c45278b9c1b4dd5d021b41a3e4f27e310716154e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1629155288, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/988490/ss\_611614450b7946ac70198dea334ec9c5d79c21d1\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1629155288, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/988490/ss\_96bdca018c21b1346b9758c3a33e88c04c59773f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1629155288, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/988490/ss\_fed9749650c9d2c2aba25ef1032234d32ba1c46c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1629155288

- Price: 1999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 236

- Steam positive reviews: 198

- Steam negative reviews: 38

- Steam positive percentage: 83.89830508474576%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/1e915736-8bea-4372-80e2-97f6755d3fa0/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/1e915736-8bea-4372-80e2-97f6755d3fa0/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T23:43:38\.071251\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T23:43:39\.309942\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T23:43:39\.122328\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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