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July 17, 2025

Back to the Dawn

Strategy Survival Adventure

Summary

Craving a high skill ceiling with story depth to match? Back to the Dawn from Metal Head Games blends Strategy, Adventure, RPG, Indie, and Simulation into a precision prison escape. Published by Spiral Up Games and launching July 17, 2025, it rewards expert planning and mechanical mastery. Each day cycle is a tactical puzzle: route optimization, stamina economy, frame tight stealth windows, and risk managed crafting. Build alliances through visual novel style dialogue trees, unlock advanced perks, and exploit guard patterns with timing based actions and tool durability math. Combat is positional and turn paced, with interrupt priorities and advantage states for players who study tells. On iOS, Android, and Windows, inputs are responsive with customizable layouts and keybinds for speed. If you analyze strategy games reviews or hunt the best strategy games to play, this offers advanced gameplay analysis material, from meta routing to mechanics guides you can share in long late night sessions.

Developers

Metal Head Games

Publishers

Spiral Up Games

Genres

Strategy
Survival
Adventure
RPG
Indie
Simulation

Platforms

Windows
Pc
Nintendo Switch 2
Xbox One
Xbox Series Xs
Nintendo Switch
Pc Microsoft Windows
Playstation 5

Release Date

July 17, 2025

Metacritic Score

81

Media

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