Story

Long time ago far, far away from all yours problems, a couple of guys decided to kill each other and you can be one of them. Soldat is a 2D multiplayer game for Windows. It is a side-scroller inspired by Liero and Scorched Earth, combined with elements from Counter-Strike and Worms.[1] The game is shareware. Registration unlocks extra aesthetic options, such as colored jet flames and custom interfaces. Version 1.5.0 also includes a minimap and changeable screen resolution for registered users.

History

Soldat is a unique 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game for Windows. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.

The game's author is Michal Marcinkowski (MM). He started working on the game in November, 2001. It is coded in the Delphi programming language using the JEDI libraries. The first public beta saw daylight in 09.05.2002 with the version of: 0.9.4b. Throughout time the game was stopped being developed exclusively by MM, while MM still makes the executive decisions for Soldat.

MM has previously promised to release Soldat as open source if he ever stops working on it himself (roughly estimated at around 2008 or later). But after few years of his small activity on Soldat (due to work on other game, KAG) this idea was abandoned, and Soldat was taken over the wings of a few community members that develop the game voluntarily in order to keep it alive.