Dead Media

Dead Media is an independent game studio. It exists because of the squad tactics games of the late nineties and early two-thousands — the ones where a single bad order lost you the whole squad, and you loaded the save and went back in anyway.

The short list, and it is a debt rather than a comparison: X-COM, Jagged Alliance 2, Commandos, and Fallout Tactics. There is a page on each one: what it is, what it did first, and what we take from it.

The industry mostly moved on from those games. We did not. The name is for everything good that got left behind: genres written off as finished, ideas that still work exactly as well as they did then.

One game is in development: RAD Tactics.