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🚨 Officers,
We bring you a summary report of 2025 for SWAT Commander! All of the improvements to the game we've brought to our project through new content in major updates! Feel free to inspect the sequence of events on file below.
And take note that the Winter Sale is still in effect until January 5th! Good opening to grab our game at a discount if you haven't done it yet:
2025 In Review*
Smaller bug-fixing interventions not included in report for brevity
Case number: SC-0773
Date: July 31st 2025
Detail of Event: SWAT Commander becomes available to all officers in its Early Access launch. With a considerable arsenal of police equipment, a complex command system, and six missions playable in both single and multiplayer co-op, this is where the story begins.
Steam post image Fig. 1 — Early Access thumbnail for our release trailer
Case number: SC-0774
Date: September 8th 2025
Detail of Event: Head cameras become available in SWAT Commander, providing officers with a entirely new perspective on mission deployment — the perspective of a personal helmet-mounted camera. A more realistic, stylized take on observing the game's action while in control of your SWAT operative.
Steam post image Fig. 2 — Head camera view in action, can be activated in the settings menu but also toggled with a dedicated keybind
Case number: SC-0775
Date: September 15th 2025
Detail of Event: Our project witnesses the addition of its first special game modes — "Random Range" and "Tank on Tank" spice up mission gameplay by introducing a set of entirely new parameters. The first completely randomized mission conditions while the second had you face heavily equipped suspects head-on. This marked our first steps towards affecting original mission mechanics.
Steam post image Fig. 3 — Additional game modes, available in the 'Advanced' tab while setting up a mission
Case number: SC-0776
Date: September 29th 2025
Detail of Event: The SWAT squad is deployed to the Gear Master Dynamics auto plant, as a new mission entitled "Under the Hood" becomes available in the game's selection. Our officers intervened at the sprawling industrial complex to stop a notorious drug manufacturing and distribution operation dead in its tracks.
Steam post image Fig. 4 — Gear Master Dynamics, interior — setting of the "Under the Hood" mission
Case number: SC-0780
Date: November 3rd 2025
Detail of Event: Game modes are taken to the next level with the "Customization" update, where SWAT Commander players are given a wide array of options to creat their own, custom games. From then on, it became possible to take a base-game mission and configure its civilians, suspects, the equipment they're using, the behavior that governs them, and many different environmental conditions of the deployment location.
Steam post image Fig. 5 — The many settings of the Custom Game available on one of its configuration screens, SWAT HQ has paperwork too, don't you know
Case number: SC-0783
Date: December 16th 2025
Detail of Event: The way that weapons behaved in SWAT Commander needed a strong boost and the Weapon Handling update was the way to go. Canted sight for alternative aiming, changes to recoil for a more realistic feel, revamped ballistics for more effective shooting. These were all our ideas for the enhancement of weapon handling in our game.
Fig. 6 — The AC-40 and its recoil when you go full auto in the building
Once again, we thank you for sticking with us through our launch and the rest of 2025. 2026 awaits and there are definitely more updates to come — new improvements, new features, and new missions!
So stand by for further news about SWAT Commander in the coming year!
Over and out,
SWAT Commander Team
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