Ground of Aces - The World War II base building game
Created by Blindflug Studios
You missed our Kickstarter? We still offer rewards like the "You or a relative become an NPC in the game" reward here on Backerkit.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Ground of Aces with NEW DEMO @ the Steam Next Fest
9 months ago
– Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 10:11:36 AM
GROUND OF ACES is part of the STEAM NEXT FEST! This is our biggest opportunity to present our WW2 base builder to the wider Steam community before we will go into Early Access later this summer!
Try the new demo and experience life and death on a WW2 air base. Make sure your base is prepared against Luftwaffe air raids and deal with the consequences of enemy bombings.
For our ALPHA backers: Update your version to Alpha 6. Until now, you got to build your base in peace, but now get ready for air raids and destruction! Protect your people, defend your structures and survive Luftwaffe attacks against your base.
Thanks to all of you, we now have our strongest, most polished demo. We improved the demo and fixed many bugs based on your feedback.
We also want to express our sincere gratitude to our community translators: the demo is now available in 17 languages!
LAST DEMO BEFORE EARLY ACCESS
This is the last big demo update before we go into Early Access. Now you can still tell us your feedback and thoughts so we can prepare the version for Early Access.
BATTLE PLAN: HOW YOU CAN HELP THE GAME
This is the last big moment before the release. We all have it in our hands now to reach many new players on Steam, and you can help us with simple tasks. For this, we have a BATTLE PLAN with a checklist that is easy to follow.
If you want to help us push the game during the Steam Next Fest, these are the things you can do:
Why are we recommending these steps? Steam will recommend the game to more people if its algorithm sees that people engage with our demo and our Steam page.
We started to order the first physical rewards: T-Shirts and caps!
And we will continue with the organisation of the other rewards, like the posters, which are next. We hope you can understand that we have to organize the physical and digital rewards gradually because we are a small team that also has to focus on getting the main game ready for Early Access at the same time.
We will keep you up to date with how it’s going and we will reach out to our biggest backers personally.
HAS YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS CHANGED? UPDATE IT ON BACKERKIT
Has your postal address changed since you gave us your address? You can still change it on Backerkit:
1. Login to your BackerKit account here. 2. Go to Settings in the top-right corner of your account. 3. From there, click "Update Address". This will update your address across all unlocked projects.
We will send another reminder about that before we lock the addresses.
Now have fun with the new demo and Alpha!
Thank you again so much for your support. We are happy that we have reached this point and that very soon we will go into Early Access with all of you together.
The Blindflug Studios Team
Alpha 5.5 & Demo Update - Save Feature for Demo, Air Raid Preview and More!
10 months ago
– Mon, May 05, 2025 at 06:05:07 AM
Update your Demo and your Alpha - we have released the 5.5 interim update!
After we released our new demo in April, we received a lot of great feedback from our demo players and Alpha supporters. Based on this feedback, we decided to do an interim update between Alpha 5 and 6, for which we focused on fixing the most urgent bugs, making more quality-of-life improvements and adding the Save System to the demo.
Yes, we heard your requests for saving in the demo, Save & Load is now possible in the demo! We understand that demo players can help us improve the game if they also have access to this feature.
Some kind of limitation is needed for a demo, and our thinking was that restricting saving but having no time limit would be an acceptable compromise. But we were positively surprised by how many people really wanted to play the demo more thoroughly with the help of save files to give us more useful input. So we changed it now thanks to your feedback.
As an alternative limitation, the demo now concludes after 28 in-game days with an air raid by the Luftwaffe! This is a preview of the base attacks that we are working on right now. Air raids will be a big new feature for the Alpha 6 and our team is working on the further implementation of the attacks, but you can get a first feeling for it in the free demo as the conclusion of the experience.
There are other new features, like a new Quest System and Bofors anti-aircraft guns, plus many bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.
Thank you again so much for playing and sending us your thoughts. We are looking forward to your new feedback, and we will keep you informed about the next update.
If you want to help the project with a small task: Leave a review of the demo on Steam! We can reach more new demo players if people leave fair and constructive reviews on Steam. Thank you so much!
The Blindflug Studios team
5.5 Update Is Coming Soon – With Demo Save Feature 🥳 And More News!
10 months ago
– Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 06:19:55 AM
Greetings, commanders! We want to give you a short overview of what is next for Ground of Aces, plus tell you about some other cool things for the community, like Steam key giveaways, a WW2 game recommendation and a question to you about accessibility features.
5.5 Alpha/Demo Update Is Coming Soon – With Save Feature for the Demo 🥳
Our team is working right now on a smaller update for the demo and Alpha 5 with bug fixes, improvements based on your inputs AND with the save feature for the demo! After hearing the feedback from our demo players, we are changing how the free demo is limited. You can freely save and load, but after a certain amount of in-game days, your base will be attacked and the demo playthrough concludes. This update is planned for early May. Thank you again for playing and for all your feedback!
Accessibility Features – What Would You Like to Have In the Game? 👁️🦻
Is there an accessibility feature that would be important for you? If yes, is it something that we could test together with you if we can implement it? We are looking for what our community needs and who could give us feedback in case we work on specific features. Reply in the comments of this post with what you would like to see in Ground of Aces regarding accessibility, and we will discuss it with our devs.
To Our Alpha Supporters: We Need Feedback About Late-Game Missions!
You are an Alpha Supporter? We need your help to test and polish the missions! To make that easier for you, we’ve prepared 3 savegames that drop you into different stages of the campaign, so you have an easier time getting to the later stages in the game and play missions without needing to build a stable base beforehand. We want to hear from you how the missions feel, so we know better what to improve. Are you having fun with them and do the missions feel rewarding? Tell us your thoughts via the feedback tool inside the game.
You are not an Alpha supporter? We are doing GIVEAWAYS on our social media chanells that let you win a Steam key for the Alpha. This gives you the chance to get access to the Alpha before we go into Early Access later this year and to get the game for free!
Shout-out to this special World War II game that combines interactive fiction and tactics: BURDEN OF COMMAND is available now on Steam. It's a tactical leadership RPG that puts you in the shoes of a company Captain who must bring his brothers safely home. Have a look, maybe it's something for you as well.
Thank You for the Successful Demo Release!
11 months ago
– Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 08:29:51 AM
We want to say thank you to our community for the many downloads of our freshly released demo and Alpha 5! We are already getting great feedback, and we also had some amazing YouTubers play and present Ground of Aces on their channels since our demo release, like Orbital Potato, Stealth17, Frazzz, The Geek Cupboard, Dan Field and GrubMagnet. Thank you all for your incredible content!
Next week, Steam is having the "City Builder & Colony Sim Fest" and Ground of Aces will be part of it! Keep your eyes peeled, we are planning something special for the community in that week.
And there will be a mini-update to add a few more languages that reached 100% on our community translation site for the Alpha 5 texts: Spanish, Catalan and Indonesian. Italian and Polish are the next ones which can reach 100%. 👀
For this update post, we also have a game recommendation for you:
With GROUND OF ACES, you know how to manage an airbase - but how would you fare when it comes to managing an aircraft carrier? TASK FORCE ADMIRAL from our friends at Drydock Dreams Games & MicroProse lets you do just that! They have a demo out and a Kickstarter running until this Saturday. So if you still want to get on board, you have to check it out today:
New official demo of GROUND OF ACES out now - A big thank you to everyone who made it possible!
12 months ago
– Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 07:35:48 AM
Dear Commanders
This is a big day for us at Blindflug Studios - I’m super happy to announce that we have a brand new demo for Ground of Aces. It was completely overhauled and has a great new tutorial. Thanks to over 120 community members, it can now be played in 9 languages.
If you have not tested the game yet - now is the time. The demo does not contain all the Early Access features yet, but it is a very polished version.
The Early Access is on the horizon. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who made it possible for us to release this game soon. It means a lot to me personally but also to my team here at Blindflug Studios.
We are working super hard on the last few major features. Stuff is already exploding in our dev versions, and the game will get a lot more action in the next alpha release.
