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WOLF ASCENT is a single-player helicopter action game for Mac, with Windows in development. Take back HELIWOLF, an executive helicopter that hides a combat suite, and fly ten connected sorties of rescue, escort and strike.

About the game

HELIWOLF looks like a civilian executive helicopter. Behind flush panels it carries a chin gun, guided rockets, precision missiles, a high-energy laser and three CUB scout drones, and twin ducted pushers boost it to 255 mph.

The campaign opens on foot: the player infiltrates a guarded villa, frees a contact and flies HELIWOLF out of its hangar under fire. Ten authored sorties follow across desert, alpine valleys, a river and the open sea, each one leading from the last: convoy escort, a hover rescue at a mountain bridge, a radar strike, a night passenger run, a river assault and the defence of a village.

The game rewards restraint as much as firepower. Civilians can't be targeted, some objectives require the player to hold fire, and the final battle ends in a ceasefire. Assisted flight, a landing assist and Flight School make it approachable; a glass cockpit, helmet display, target optics and a 32 × 32 km free-flight region built from US Geological Survey data give it depth.

Screenshots

Pre-release images. For approved full-resolution media, email press@projectthunder.com.

HELIWOLF with pink rim lighting over a dark mountain valley — Key art: HELIWOLF

Cockpit view over a mountain river with three live instrument displays — The glass cockpit over the river

HELIWOLF flying low along a winding river between forested ridges — Ghost Signal: up the river under fire

Close view of HELIWOLF's fuselage with a weapon bay open over a pine-covered canyon — Weapon bays open

HELIWOLF from behind over desert dunes, the sea on the horizon — Dead Air: low and fast over the dunes

A wide river valley with pine forest, gravel banks and snow-capped peaks — Alpine river valley

HELIWOLF climbing away from a helipad and hangar in a mountain valley — Lifting off from the mountain airfield

A long-wing enemy drone banking over dunes, a coastal inlet and a walled compound — Enemy drones watch the coast

HELIWOLF climbing away from a lit landing pad in a moonlit mountain valley — Night Courier

An enemy drone flying low over a green mountain valley — Unmanned threats in the high valleys

A river bend at water level with pines and a snow-capped mountain range — River country