ICBM: Escalation - United States of Annihilation

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Release Date: November 27, 2025

Strategy, RTS, Cold War, Co-op, Alternative History, Grand Strategy, Multiplayer, Singleplayer, Internet

The second expansion for the RTS and grand strategy hybrid. ICBM: Escalation: United States of Annihilation introduces an 11-mission campaign focused on managing US forces to maintain their nuclear monopoly and completely dismantle the USSR.

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Having created ICBM: Escalation (a sequel to ICBM from 2020), the Russian studio SoftWarWare designed Endless October, an expansion focusing on the Soviet Union. The second second DLC for this RTS and grand strategy hybrid is titled United States of Annihilation. This time we take command of the United States of America, holding a monopoly on nuclear weapons.

New features in the expansion

Unlike the base campaign and the first expansion, where we had to balance achieving demanding military objectives with avoiding crossing diplomatic lines or triggering a spiral of events leading to total nuclear war, United States of Annihilation offers a different gameplay experience.

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In this second add-on for ICBM: Escalation, we take command of the USA from 1949 to 2042, holding a monopoly on nuclear weapons. The absence of the Korean War, arms race, and balance of power does not make the eleven new missions easy.

The primary task is to dismantle the entire Soviet Union and maintain the aforementioned monopoly, which requires conducting covert operations. The different gameplay dynamics are reflected in the reduced role of diplomatic actions. We now have units such as cruisers and interceptor fighters at our disposal.

Story

The action of United States of Annihilation takes place in an alternate history where the United States of America emerged from World War II with more than just victory. The campaign of this expansion depicts a country that, having allocated enormous resources to its nuclear program, has created such a massive war machine that no rival can match it.