DEFCON | |
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Developer(s) | Introversion Software |
Publisher(s) | |
Designer(s) | Chris Delay Gary Chambers |
Composer(s) | Alistair Lindsay Michael Maidment |
Platform(s) | Windows Mac OS X Linux |
Release | WindowsOS X 19 April 2007 Linux 11 December 2012 |
Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
Mode(s) | Zero-player, singleplayer and multiplayer |
DEFCON (stylised as DEFCOИ and sometimes subtitled Everybody Dies in the North American version and Global Thermonuclear War in the European version) is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software. The gameplay is a simulation of a global nuclear war, with the game's screen reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war in films such as Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, and especially WarGames.
The game has been available by download since September 29, 2006 through Introversion's web store and Steam. On 5 April 2007, publisher Encore announced they would be publishing the game in the United States, and had ordered an initial 50,000 copies of the game for retail.[1] In the UK it was released for retail on 15 June 2007 and for a limited period included the developer's first game Uplink.