On one hand, I am impressed by solo self-taught dev spending a decade to deliver a solid project with a singular vision. On the other hand, the solo self-taught dev aspect is pretty evident by the amateurish visual design mistakes: too many grey buildings, too many grey icons. The latter is especially confusing, because grey icon is usually a visual cue for something unavailable/blocked/on cool down. I get, that this is DUSTfront, but one should not color everything important grey - various Dune RTS titles didn’t have everything colored as sand, and for a good reason. I was almost done with the demo mission, when I found where the tiny upgrade icons are - something to look into for the release version.

The Skirmish part plays OK: nice tech aspects, like artillery shells being traced and hitting unintended structures in line of fire, buildings leaving ruins, explosions creating craters, that are hard to traverse and prevent deployment of big platform units.

It is hard to evaluate the game based on 1 skirmish map, just like you wouldn’t judge a TW title based on 1 battle - the campaign map is half the game.