From Press Release:
August 18, 2026 – MicroProse and Wield Interactive are excited to announce that The Fertile Crescent 2: Collapse of the Bronze Age is available now in Early Access on Steam, bringing players into a world where ancient civilizations are falling apart and survival matters more than conquest.
Launching alongside the game is a brand-new Early Access trailer, showcasing the story, settlement building, factions, and real-time battles awaiting players as they attempt to survive the end of an age.
The official sequel to The Fertile Crescent, The Fertile Crescent 2: Collapse of the Bronze Age is a story-driven real-time strategy game set during the Late Bronze Age Collapse. Players follow Mutti and a band of warrior-farmers through the downfall of the ancient empires, gathering resources, building villages, raising armies, and fighting to protect their families and communities as the world around them becomes increasingly unstable.
Drought and famine put pressure on great civilizations. Trade routes fail. Unrest grows. The mysterious Sea Peoples bring destruction and chaos, while once-powerful empires struggle to maintain order.
Against this backdrop, classic RTS mechanics meet a narrative campaign in which the focus is not simply on expanding and conquering, but on enduring the collapse and carrying on.
The Early Access release includes 10 narrative-driven campaign missions spanning Acts 1 and 2, alongside skirmish and multiplayer for up to four players and four fully playable factions. It also introduces Tactical Pause, full save and load support for single-player modes, eight supported languages, and extensive improvements to AI, pathfinding, performance, UI, environments, and quality of life over the original game.
Key Features
- An Epic Story-Driven RTS Campaign – Follow Mutti and a cast of characters through 10 narrative-driven missions covering Acts 1 and 2, experiencing the Bronze Age Collapse from the perspective of those trying to survive it.
- Four Playable Ancient Factions – Command the Assyrians, Egyptians, Babylonians, and Hittites, each offering distinctive units, strengths, and approaches to economy and warfare.
- Build, Gather, and Survive – Gather resources, establish and grow villages, manage your economy, raise armies, and protect your people as stability begins to crumble around you.
- Food Is Power – Food sustains your population, fuels your armies, and drives your progress. A thriving settlement depends on keeping its people fed.
- A World in Decline – Experience a setting shaped by drought, famine, disrupted trade, political instability, revolt, tensions between the great powers, and the destructive arrival of the mysterious Sea Peoples.
- Tactical Real-Time Combat – Lead your forces into battle using the unique strengths of each faction, where positioning, timing, economic strength, and battlefield decisions can determine who survives.
- Tactical Pause – Pause the action when you need time to assess the battlefield and issue commands before returning to real-time play.
- Skirmish & Multiplayer – Step outside Mutti’s story and fight standalone battles in skirmish or multiplayer for up to four players, with AI opponents also supported.
- Save and Continue Your Campaign – Full save and load functionality is available across all single-player modes.
- A Major Evolution of The Fertile Crescent – Building on everything learned from the original game, the sequel features new and more varied environments alongside improvements to AI, pathfinding, performance, UI, fog of war, and overall quality of life.
- Localized in Eight Languages – Play in English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.
Development will continue throughout Early Access, with Acts 3 and 4 of the campaign, multiplayer and skirmish expanded to six players, the map editor, and further improvements planned on the road to 1.0.
The Fertile Crescent 2: Collapse of the Bronze Age is available now in Steam Early Access.
Watch the new Early Access launch trailer and begin your journey through the end of the Bronze Age today.
