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TREADS A game of armored salvage

Two to four tanks, and you build every one of them yourself, bolt by bolt, from parts you picked. Eight factions to build them out of. A continent that stopped making sense in 1973 and has been getting worse about it ever since.

Flesh and metal become one To do otherwise is to die

Where this is going

Roadmap

Now

Public playtesting and rules

The rules are out, they are free, and people are already playing. This is the stage where what you tell us still changes the game, so now is the best possible time to turn up. The Platoon Forge, the list builder that goes with them, is still in construction.

2026

Balance, clarity and new systems

Rules getting reorganized, weather and missions going in, and plenty of numbers moving as we work out what plays best.

Early 2027

Final balance and community tuning

The last big pass: polish, final tuning, and working through what the community has asked for.

Mid 2027

Kickstarter launch and official release

If all goes to plan, the Kickstarter goes up and the full book follows: finished rules, the lore properly laid out, and art we cannot wait to put in front of you.

The Studio

Who we are

We are brothers, and a small team. We have been playing games across the same table since we were young enough to need a cushion on the chair, and we never quite stopped. Board games, tabletop, video games, the lot. We grew up inside worlds other people built and we owe every one of them something. At a certain point loving them stopped being enough, and we wanted to make a world of our own for people to spend their evenings in. Zylocore Games is what that turned into, and TREADS is the first thing to come out of it.

Three things mattered more than anything else. That it stays interesting, the kind of game we keep coming back to because there is always another combination or another strategy worth trying. That our friends, and anyone else who wants in, can play without budgeting for it or chasing every new release to keep up. And that somebody who has never played a wargame can sit down at the table and walk away with a couple of kills under their belt.

The Zylocore Games team
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