Early Access

Roadmap

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May-June 2023 Passed

KICKSTARTER

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March 2024 Passed

ALPHA 1

ALPHA 1
Passed

The first alpha version of the game in its early development stage, made accessible to supporters with exclusive alpha access.

July 2024 Passed

ALPHA 2

ALPHA 2
Passed

An improved and extended alpha version with adjustments and improvements based on the feedback from the Alpha 1 players.

New features:

  • Terraforming
  • Emotional moral system
  • Script your own missions
  • New map: Perranporth

November 2024 Passed

ALPHA 3

ALPHA 3
Passed

New features:

  • Expanded mission system, including new mission types and missions
  • Gardening system and new plants
  • Plane maintenance system
  • Expanded save and load system

New content:

  • 4 new planes, including bombers like the Avro Lancaster and Bristol Blenheim
  • New metal building blocks like hangars, fences, metal shelves, fuel tanks

December 2024 Passed

ALPHA 4

ALPHA 4
Passed

This Alpha update adds more depth to your strategic experience with new subsystems that fundamentally change how you progress in the game. With these systems, we will be able to structure and tell the story of the Battle of Britain when we’re further along in development.

  • HQ relationship & airbase rank system
  • Victory points
  • Weekly resource delivery system
  • Game Over scenario
  • Wall and floor decorations
  • Improvements to plane taxi pathways
  • Improvement of game performance

March 2025 Passed

ALPHA 5

ALPHA 5
Passed

The focus of this update was improving the overall player experience (based on the feedback from the community) and making the game more accessible with an expanded onboarding process and localization in more languages.

  • Expanded tutorial and tooltips
  • Community translations for 8 languages
  • New grid-based building system
  • New animations and effects
  • Improved aircraft models
  • More background music
  • Many UI, UX and quality-of-life improvements

May 2025 Passed

INTERIM UPDATE - ALPHA 5.5

INTERIM UPDATE - ALPHA 5.5
Passed

Interim update with new features, many bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. 

  • Quest system
  • New HQ rewards: Bofors 40mm Anti-Aircraft guns, searchlights, radio tower
  • Move tool
  • Save & load for Demo version
  • Safety zones + alarm states

June 2025 Passed

ALPHA 6

ALPHA 6
Passed

Experience life and death on a WW2 air base. Make sure your base is prepared against Luftwaffe air raids and deal with the consequences of enemy bombings. 

  • Air Raids: Your base can now get attacked and destroyed. Prepare your base with AA guns, sirens and saftey zones.
  • Death & Burial
  • Hire More Crew
  • New Main Menu and Lichfield Intro
  • And more polishing and bug fixes

10th of July 2025 Passed

EARLY ACCESS RELEASE

EARLY ACCESS RELEASE
Passed

The early access version of the game released on Steam for a wide audience. Early Access means it is still a work-in-progress, and it will get continually improved and extended with future updates until the full release version.

3rd of September 2025 Passed

SCRAMBLE!! – MAJOR UPDATE 1

SCRAMBLE!! – MAJOR UPDATE 1
Passed

The first Early Access Major Update of Ground of Aces! Introducing more tactical tools, management systems, and fortified structures.

  • Plane Scrambling before attacks
  • Ammo Management for planes and defensive structures
  • Air Crew Stats
  • Air Crew Training
  • Concrete Bunker Structures

29th of October 2025 Passed

FIRST AID – MAJOR UPDATE 2

FIRST AID – MAJOR UPDATE 2
Passed

Our second major update has landed! Experience a livelier world with female ground crew, a full health system for NPCs with injury, aid and recovery behaviors, and new props that let you build hospitals on your base.

  • Health & Injury for crew members
  • Health Recovery & Aid through doctors and nurses
  • Several Health Recovery Objects to build a recovery station
  • Female crew members from the W.A.A.F

17th of December 2025 Passed

WARPLANS – MAJOR UPDATE 3

WARPLANS – MAJOR UPDATE 3
Passed

The “Warplans” Update brings new features and improvements to Ground of Aces, expanding both the strategic depth of your base and the action unfolding above it.

  • Mission Map System + New Missions
  • Base Fight Animations
  • New Defense Gun: Vickers AA gun
  • Create Your Own Character & Crew (beta)
  • Tree Sapling Regrowth

19th of Februrary 2026 Passed

MAPS & LIVERIES – MAJOR UPDATE 4

MAPS & LIVERIES – MAJOR UPDATE 4
Passed

With the fourth major update, customization is in your hands. Tailor your airbase to your style, paint your aircraft with distinctive skins, and build entirely new starter maps from scratch using the powerful new map editor.

  • Airplane Liveries
  • New Map: RAF Deden
  • Map Editor
  • Oerlikon 20 mm Cannon
  • Lookout Post
  • New Environmental Assets + Stones as a Resource
  • De Havilland Mosquito (with the free Wings of Valor DLC)

7th of May 2026 Passed

BOOTCAMP – MAJOR UPDATE 5

BOOTCAMP – MAJOR UPDATE 5
Passed

Our fifth Major Update, titled “Bootcamp”, introduces a new linear Tutorial Mode designed to improve player onboarding and a new expanded Quest System with step-by-step rewards to better guide players through building and managing a new airbase.

  • New Tutorial Mode
  • Expanded Quest System with Rewards
  • 25+ New Props
  • Dragable Sandbags
  • P-40 Kittyhawk, Malta Spitfire Livery & more in Wings of Valor DLC

20th of July 2026 Passed

ON FIRE – MAJOR UPDATE 6

ON FIRE – MAJOR UPDATE 6
Passed

Things are heating up at your airbase! Major Update 6 introduces fires, airplane accidents, and the long-requested Air Traffic Control Towers to Ground of Aces.

  • Fires & Firefighting
  • Air Traffic Control Towers
  • Airplane Accidents
  • Updated Airplane Visuals With Transparent Glass
  • New Aircraft for the Free Wings of Valor DLC: De Havilland Vampire

Autumn 2026

MAJOR UPDATE 7

MAJOR UPDATE 7
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2027

FULL RELEASE

FULL RELEASE
  • The full version of the game.

The full version of the game.

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