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Solstice is a very retro wargame, heavily inspired by the classic games Lords of Midnight, Doomdarks Revenge and Sorderon's Shadow. Solstice is not a remake of any of these games but takes its lead from these games to develop a new gaming challenge for lovers of turn-based, menu driven strategy. Displayed using hand-drawn artwork, and using a pseudo-3D technique, often referred to as landscaping, which echoes the games of the time.


Set in the mythical land of Dourfrost, a land, trapped in an eternal winter, a land of fantastic beasts, magic and war,

Explore and battle across an open world, populated with 11 different mythical races (at launch), and well over a hundred and twenty characters, each with his or her likes, dislikes, needs, aims, desires and loyalties that shape the game and conflicts to come.

On release, Solstice will feature one very challenging, turn-based scenario, offering many hours of game-play.

The Rise of the Demon King.

While the lords and ladies of Dourfrost have squabbled over petty disputes and brokered and broken pacts and alliances, a dark power has been rising in the south. A power that will shake the entire land and threatens to overwhelm all that stands before it, and enslave everyone in its path.

Sator Grimward, a dark sorcerer, once thought long defeated, has risen again and united the tribes of the Ice Guard. Can Calith, king of the free folk muster the lords and ladies of Dourfrost, and overcome old bitterness, to bring a force of Freefolk, Dwarfs, Fey, Sidhe, Giants, and 6 other races together to defeat the rising storm.


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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $2.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Solstice.zip 50 MB
Solstice Manual 1.1.pdf 14 MB

Development log

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WOW! This looks amazing! I'm a big fan of LOM and DDR and there are just so few games which are similar to these masterpieces. Your graphics look wonderful, like a lost DOS-version of LoM. I have to buy this immediately! :D

Thank you. We have tried to capture the feel of the original. The game is fully playable, but still a WIP as we keep finding new things to add.

It's already very playable for being a WIP! Could you update the version here? I opened a thread on Steam because I noticed that the version on itch.io is still from back in mid 2020.

There were some minor changes on Steam, mostly relating to the Steam itself.  We held back from updating itch as the update was fairly small, but I'm make sure the itch version in on the latest build later this week.


I'm really glad that you find it playable, we've worked hard to emulate the works of Mike Singleton and have received a lot of positive feedback so far.

Please feel free to let us know if there's anything you'd like to see, or if you have any problems.

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Wonderful, thank you! 

Is there a possibility for you to recreate something in the vein of the legendary lost (never made) third part of LoM in your own world? Or a campaign in a thematically different environment? There are so many possibilities for unique settings with this engine you've created. I'm very happy I've found your work.

Possibly. We're working on action games at the moment, but always revisit our older projects.  By lost, are you talking about Eye of the Moon? There are some copyright issues regarding this. We could change the environment, but wanted to keep to the snowy feel of the original, but of course, if the idea is good enough....

I already was to make a variant that's more LOM, so easy recruiting, no enemy lords, just armies, pure nostalgia :)

You're welcome to email us at jimjamsgames@gmail.com with your ideas and we'll take a look. 

Installing from the itch.io client is broken.

Hi, thanks for the report.  Solstice hasn't been tested with the itch.io client, and is set up to be downloaded and run. We'll take a look though and see why it doesn't work. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the retro experience that is Solstice. :)