Forts — Steam Gift

Forts: build a fortress, aim your guns, blast your rival apart

Forts is a physics-based 2D RTS from the Australian studio EarthWork Games, released on April 19, 2017. The idea is simple and dangerously addictive: in real time you build your own fortress out of metal beams and joints, bolt weapons onto it — from plain cannons to lasers, mortars and heavy rockets — and try to dismantle the enemy base faster than they topple yours. And it all rests on believable physics: knock out a load-bearing beam under a weapon platform and the gun, along with a chunk of wall, comes crashing down.

There's no "set up your units and forget them" here. Every battle is construction, engineering and an artillery duel all at once. You pull in resources, extend floors for new guns, patch breaches with shields, and decide where to hit: snap a support and collapse half a fort, or precisely take out the reactor and leave the enemy without power. Buying here, you get a Steam gift — the game arrives straight in your library via a bot.

What makes Forts special

The headline feature is structural destruction. A fort doesn't just "lose hit points": it genuinely buckles under its own weight when you knock out the right beams. That turns every match into a small engineering puzzle — both for you and against your opponent. Add dozens of weapon types with different ballistics, shields you raise and lower in time with your own shots, and commanders with special abilities, and you get a strategy where the smarter builder wins, not the faster clicker.

• Destruction physics — structures collapse realistically along their load-bearing parts, not via an abstract health bar.
• Building freedom — no fixed "buildings"; you decide the shape and layout of your fort.
• An arsenal for every style — cannons, machine guns, lasers, mortars, rockets, each with its own trajectory and role.
• Commanders — heroes with unique abilities that shift your tactics.

Single-player campaign, skirmish and online

If you want to ease in, there's a story campaign with a tutorial and steadily harder missions. Prefer quick clashes — skirmish against bots lets you tune the difficulty to taste. But the real heart of Forts is multiplayer: 1v1 duels and team brawls in 2v2 and 3v3, where half the fun is wrecking the enemy base from two sides in sync with your ally. Cross-platform online keeps a lively community going years after release.

Editions and add-ons

Over the years a whole line of paid add-ons grew around Forts — land and naval forts, new weapons, campaigns and soundtracks, including Moonshot, High Seas and other DLC. This page is about two items:

• Forts (the game) — the full base version. This is what a regular player takes for home and playing with friends.
• Forts — Commercial License — a separate commercial license for public venues: gaming clubs, anti-cafes, arcades, educational and entertainment centers. It is not a standalone copy of the game: to run Forts in a venue legally, the base game must already be on the account, and the license grants the right to show it to visitors.

How you'll get the game (Steam gift)

We deliver Forts as a Steam Gift, not as a key. You need to provide two things: a Steam friend invite link (it looks like s.team/p/...) and your account region. The bot does the rest: it adds itself to your friends, sends the gift, and leaves your friends list once delivered. You don't need to accept the friend request manually, and Steam Guard isn't required for this. The gift usually arrives within a couple of minutes of ordering.

Two important conditions

For Steam to let you accept the gift, two things must line up. First, your Steam account region must match the gift region — so pick the variant for your region and state your country carefully. Second, Forts must not already be in this account's library: Steam won't accept a gift for a game you already own. One more small thing — friend invites must be allowed in your profile settings, otherwise the bot can't reach you.

Is Forts for you

If you like strategies that reward cleverness and hands-on play, not just economy, Forts is a great fit. It's a game about "what happens if I knock out this beam," about the thrill of demolishing an enemy base together, and about small engineering discoveries in every match. It works solo through the campaign and in big online groups. And if you're building a library of similar physics strategies and sandboxes, check out Besiege with its wild siege machines and From the Depths, where you design and fight with entire fleets and fortresses.

Buying in short

Pick the item you need (the game for home, the Commercial License for a venue), enter your invite link and region, place the order. The gift lands in Steam via the bot, you just accept it — and Forts is yours.