Roadwar 2000
Lead a road gang across a collapsed United States: recruit fighters and vehicles, scavenge for fuel and supplies, battle rival gangs city to city, and — under a government mandate — track down the scientists who might reverse the plague that broke the country. Turn-based strategy and resource management with light role-playing progression.
Play it
Choose your edition — from the real binary to a modern remake.
Original
The original binary itself, emulated in your browser — the game exactly as it shipped.
Faithful
The same game, loop for loop, rebuilt with a modern web interface we design — faithful underneath, comfortable to play today.
Revival
The Faithful game brought online — play live and simultaneously against others on the web, instead of passing one keyboard.
Successor
A full 2.0 — the original's premise carried forward into a brand-new, modern game of our own.
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History
How it came to be.Roadwar 2000 was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) in 1986, with an IBM PC release following in 1987. It carried SSI’s systems-strategy pedigree out of the wargame and into a post-apocalyptic road-warrior setting — part strategy, part resource management, part role-playing.
The game is credited to designer Jeffrey Johnson. The player builds and leads a gang across a devastated America — recruiting members and vehicles, managing fuel, food and the group’s condition, and fighting through encounters — while pursuing the campaign goal of locating the scientists needed to counter a nationwide plague.
It anchored a short line: SSI followed it with Roadwar Europa (1987), carrying the same road-gang formula to a different map. Roadwar 2000 is the first commercial title we used to exercise the studio’s in-browser DOS emulation end-to-end.