Magnetic
Labs.
Strategy and tycoon games you play in a web browser.
Earth Ablaze is out and free to play. The Cabal and Driller are in development, and this page is where they'll turn up first.
Games
No. 01 Out now
Earth Ablaze
Real wars. Real maps. Your command.
Earth Ablaze is a series of real-time wargames, each built on the real map of the place it’s about.
Operation Freedom covers all 398 districts of Afghanistan from 2001 on, and winning the war is the easy part. Operation Epic Fury puts you in charge of keeping tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz while the oil price keeps score.
- Genre
- Real-time strategy, wargame
- Platform
- Web browser
- Price
- Free, with optional purchases
- Status
- Out now
No. 02 In development
The Cabal
Run a megacorp. Field a squad of cyberpunk agents.
The Cabal is a real-time squad tactics game set in 2080. You run a corporation whose real income comes from contracts: assassinations, stolen research and the odd boardroom seat.
Each job sends four agents onto a guarded floor. Cameras and guards feed one alarm, and a contract finished without tripping it pays extra. Between jobs you hire, fit implants and fund research, and each contract you close moves another district toward your corp.
- Genre
- Real-time tactics, stealth
- Agents
- Ghost, Razor, Decker, Bruiser
- Contracts
- Assassination, research theft, espionage
- Price
- Free campaign. Store sells cosmetics and extra campaigns
- Status
- In development, no date yet
No. 03 In development
Driller
From Titusville to Titan.
Driller is an oil tycoon game that covers two hundred years of the industry. It starts on Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, in August 1859, with a spring-pole rig and two hired hands.
Every barrel sells at the price oil fetched that year, so the 1861 crash, when crude fell to ten cents, arrives whether you’re ready or not. From there the oil moves to Baku, the North Sea, shale and eventually the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan.
- Genre
- Tycoon, business simulation
- Eras
- Seven, from cable tools in 1859 to Titan
- Oil price
- Historical, year by year
- Price
- Free to finish. Tokens rush timers. No loot boxes
- Status
- In development, no date yet
The studio
Magnetic Labs Inc makes these games. Everything we ship runs in a browser, so a link is all it takes to try one or to send it to a friend.
We like games with a real subject: an actual map, a price series from the historical record, or a future worked out in enough detail to argue about. The company site is at magneticlabs.com.
Questions
- When are The Cabal and Driller coming out?
- There are no dates yet. Both are playable in our own builds and both are still changing. They'll be listed here, with links, when they're ready.
- Are The Cabal and Driller part of Earth Ablaze?
- No. Earth Ablaze is a series of military strategy games. The Cabal and Driller are separate games with their own sites to come.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. Every game runs in a current web browser. Open the link and it loads.
- Do the games cost money?
- Each one can be played to the end for free. Earth Ablaze has optional purchases. The Cabal will sell cosmetics and extra campaigns. Driller sells tokens that rush timers and has no loot boxes.