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title: "Petalwar: the real-time strategy game from the makers of mssgs"
description: "Petalwar is a real-time strategy game in the spirit of Supreme Commander: three factions, five petals around every Heartbloom, and Join now in mssgs."
canonical: https://mss.gs/en/petalwar/game
language: en
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From the makers of mssgs

# Petalwar: command the valley.

A real-time strategy game in the spirit of Supreme Commander. Build your base, guard your Heartbloom, and play it with your friends through mssgs.

In development: early builds for Mac and Windows, Linux to follow.

## Three factions, one valley

Different roots, different strengths, the same world to fight for.

*☀ Sunhearth Union Armour and heavy guns. Stand together, hold the line.*

*❧ Mossglade Kin Fast, and never where you expect. Take root, stay in motion.*

*☾ Moonveil Collective Shields and light. See further, strike with light.*

How a match is won

## Five petals, one Heartbloom

Every base grows around a Heartbloom on its centre pad, with five petals standing thirty metres out. While any one of them stands, the Heartbloom takes no damage.

- 1 Guard your petals Lines of light run from each standing petal to your bloom. While one stands, nothing can touch it.

- 2 Break theirs A broken petal drops a shard: carry it home to regrow one of your own in twenty seconds, or feed it to a full bloom for 250 matter.

- 3 Bring their bloom down The match ends when a Heartbloom falls, and the fog lifts so you can see what won it.

Play it your way

## Alone, or with up to seven friends

- Skirmish An AI that plays by your rules: raider, turtle, boomer or balanced, and it waits for your first order.

- Play Together Online or on your local network, up to eight commanders on Petal Crown. Host a match, share the code, and the AI can take any open seat.

- Six maps Hearthland Basin and Amber Hollow for two, Fourfold Ford and Lilymere for four, Willow Divide for six and Petal Crown for eight.

- Controls you know Attack-move on Q, Shift-queued orders, control groups on Ctrl+1 to 9 and a strategic zoom, every key rebindable. A short voiced tutorial on your first start.

Petalwar in mssgs

## Your friends see you playing, and join in one press

Petalwar talks to the mssgs desktop app on your computer, through its Game SDK. Connect it once and it does three things:

- Playing Petalwar Under your name in mssgs, with the map, the match and your faction.

- Join now When you host, your friends get Join now: one press and they are in your lobby, on your Wi-Fi or across the internet.

- OPEN MSSGS in the lobby Copies the match invitation and brings mssgs to the front, ready to paste into a chat.

In Petalwar, open **Options → MSSGS**, press **CONNECT** and allow it in mssgs.

Petalwar asks for one permission: to set your status. It reads nothing and cannot post as you, and DISCONNECT in the game or Remove under Settings → Game Activity in mssgs takes it back. How it works: [the Game SDK](https://docs.mss.gs/en/game-sdk).

*What your friends see when they open your status in mssgs.*

## Plant your bloom with friends

Start a Petalwar community on mssgs, then get the game on petalwar.com.