Independent Fan-Made Strategy Guide
OpenFront Guide - Beginner Tips, Maps, Economy & Strategy
Conquer a living world map where hundreds of players expand, trade, form alliances, and fight in real time. Build a powerful economy, control land and sea, and survive the nuclear endgame.
- 1M+Monthly web players
- 200K+Steam wishlists
- HundredsPlayers per world
OpenFront Guide
What is OpenFront?
OpenFront is a free, real-time multiplayer strategy game played on a living world map. Each match asks you to claim territory, manage troops, protect borders, cooperate with neighbors, and decide when diplomacy should give way to war. Because the battlefield changes with every player decision, a reliable OpenFront guide is most useful when it explains the systems behind those choices instead of offering a single rigid build order.
OpenFront Guide is an independent fan-made resource for players who want clear beginner tips and practical explanations without unnecessary filler. The beginner guide covers safer starting positions, controlled expansion, troop management, and the early decisions that help new players survive. Dedicated economy guides explain population growth, income, infrastructure, and trade, while the maps section helps you read coastlines, borders, terrain, and strategic space before committing your forces.
Our strategy coverage connects those systems throughout longer matches. You can explore alliance decisions, land combat, naval warfare, defensive planning, and nuclear deterrence, then follow related guides whenever a topic needs more detail. Whether you are learning your first match or refining an established approach, this site is designed to help you understand why a decision works, when it becomes risky, and which OpenFront system to study next.
Start Here
Your OpenFront campaign
Choose a focused briefing for your first match, economic growth, infrastructure, or battlefield decisions.
Field Manual
Core systems, clearly explained
Focused briefings for the decisions that shape every OpenFront campaign.
Strategy Paths
Plan around your win condition
Three common approaches for adapting your opening to the map, your neighbors, and the pressure around you.
About OpenFront
What is OpenFront?
OpenFront is a massively multiplayer real-time strategy game played on shared maps based on real-world geography. Hundreds of players expand their territory, build economies, negotiate alliances, and fight for control in the same evolving match.
Its accessible controls hide a deeper strategy layer built around population management, gold generation, buildings, naval warfare, diplomacy, and nuclear escalation. Players can join through a modern web browser or the cross-platform Steam version.
Discover how a match works- Developer
- OpenFront Inc &
Evan Pellegrini - Platforms
- Browser & Steam
- Genre
- Massively Multiplayer RTS
- Monthly Players
- 1M+
- Steam Wishlists
- 200K+
- Match Scale
- Hundreds of Players
Latest Guides
Fresh from the command desk
Your next campaign starts here
Ready to conquer OpenFront?
From your first territorial expansion to trade networks, naval invasions, alliances, and nuclear warfare, our OpenFront guides help you make better decisions in every match.