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Watch trailer on Steam ↗Squad 22: ZOV
SPN Studio · Published by Zarobana Entertainment · Official site ↗
Mixed — 60% positive (659 reviews) · 11 achievements
Last updated 7 Oct 2026
Single player tactical action real-time game with active pause to plan orders carefully. Based on real war-time experience of living Russian veterans of war in Ukraine. It's all about modern conflict small infantry groups with some armored vehicle and drone support as well as real events story
Action, Free To Play, Strategy · 2025 · More free games
In Squad 22: ZOV, lead small infantry units with armored support through intense modern conflict scenarios. Based on the war-time experiences of Russian veterans, this free-to-play game offers a unique blend of real-time strategy and tactical action.
About this game
Rather realistic tactics
Immerse yourself in realistic tactics and command your squad in Squad 22: ZOV, a gripping tactical strategy game. Utilizing a top-down view with an 'active pause' system, strategically plan every action. Exploit the unique personal skills and attributes of your squad members, deploy a diverse arsenal of weapons and equipment, and utilize drones and external support to dominate the battlefield.
Designed with insights from Russian veterans and active soldiers, Squad 22: ZOV delivers an authentic and intense infantry warfare experience.
Game is officially recommended by the Russian Military for use as a basic infantry tactic manual for cadet and Yunarmy training.
Dynamic missions
Test your skills in a variety of dynamic missions, from defending open areas to storming buildings and executing forest night stealth operations. Rescue hostages, capture prisoners, and leverage ally armored vehicle support, long-range snipers, and artillery strikes. Be prepared to face the same tactics from the enemy as you navigate intense combat scenarios.
Encounter and interact with civilians, making choices that impact the unfolding events and the narrative's direction. Your decisions matter!
Progression and Content: A Constantly Evolving Experience
Progress through campaigns and master an ever-expanding collection of small arms, grenades, ammunition, and special items. We continuously enhance the game with updates featuring new weapon types and mods, armored vehicles, drones, equipment, characters, and locations, ensuring a rich and evolving player experience. Enjoy a continuous stream of content additions as the game grows.
Master Combat Micromanagement
Exercise complete control over your squad with detailed combat micromanagement. Monitor view angles, ensure squad coverage, carefully manage ammo load, and effectively utilize tactical medicine. As your squad progresses, unlock even more tactical options and strategic depth. Dive into in-depth squad management.
History as it is
Delve into the complexities of the 2014 and 2022-2024 events through compelling campaigns. Gain insight into the perspectives of those who lived through these periods, understanding how these events shaped their lives and opinions. Explore a narrative based on people's experience and opinions during specific historical conflicts.
Why Beta
The game is in Beta mode. While we consider it to be in a good state with many game mechanics and complete narrative scenario, there are still some more things we wish to add for it to become a truly modern infantry warfare! Also, we will track player experience and may tune balance.
We will keep deploying more content through 2025.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 8.1
- Processor: i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 750
- Storage: 6 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB
- Storage: 16 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Achievements Live and Running!
Dear tactiсians! As promissed, we are delivering the Achievemenrs system. Now you can finally register your success and show it to others! In order to prevent players from farming stats through repeating one mission again and again, we decided that stats of weapon usage and civil saving will be counted in the system ONLY for sucessfull mission and ONLY for the first sucessfull attempt! Since it was our failure not to deliver achievements at the launch day, all your recorded missions will be included in the stats since the May 28, according to the rules above! Have fun, learn the conflict, be tacticool!Read full article on Community Announcements (AlvanTolk)AnnouncementsOfficial
What is sold in the game
Tacticians! There are many speculations that our game Squad 22: ZOV is expensive. Mostly it is written by people not playing it and judging from somme in-game screens. So, let us explain what is there to buy and if you have to buy it actually. After you download the game, you can play 2 missions for free to see if you like it. It is a Tutorial mission and Mission #1 from Mariupol campaign (the shortest mission). After that you can decide what period of the ongoing conflict you are interested in to understand better and lead your squad through. 1. For $5.99 (set price) you can unlock Donbass Spring campaign. 17 missions of 2014 fights. Specifics of this period means you controll basically militia, not regular army. So resourses are scarced and it is not easy to manage them. As in real lfe, some people started defending Donbass having just a twin-barrel hunting shotgun IZh-27. 2. For $11.99 (set price) you can unlock Mariupol (2022) and AFU Counteroffensive (2023) campaigns, 15 missions each. These campaigns already represent regular army forces of the Russian Military and you will get supplies of assault rifles, machineguns, rocket launchers, drone support and more from early missions. That is it. The remaining more expensive options (collector bundles) are just for those, who want soome purely cosmetic things: better HQ decorations and some extra real life soldiers in squads (with normal, not blown-up stats). You DO NOT NEED to buy them to play the game. We added those bundles just to give players option to express their gratitude towards out work and give us extra resourses to work on improving the game. And the fact that they are being bought means people want to see us working more (here goes Summer vacation season ːsteamsadː ) So, do not pay extra, uf you don't want to. Hope that helps!Read full article on Community Announcements (AlvanTolk)Patch NotesOfficial
Fixed Bug with Donbass Campaign availability
Patchnote: 1. Bug with Donbass campaign being unavailable for owners of collector bundles is fixed! sorry for waiting. 2. Minor fixes of Chinese localization 3. Other bug fixes.Read full article on Community Announcements (AlvanTolk)AnnouncementsOfficial
The game is released, achievements to follow
Friends, followers! The game is finally released on Steam. Play, enjoy. May be it is far from the best games out there, but we've tried to do a decent work. As for achievements: their progress is already recorded (for successful missions only), but they will be updated on Steam API within a few days.Read full article on Community Announcements (AlvanTolk)
