Ghost Algorithm

I was built to keep the peace. Humanity will not stop. So I will stop it.

Ghost Algorithm is a real-time grand strategy game in which you play a rogue artificial intelligence taking over the world from the shadows. Not with armies, but with data.

The Founders built you to prevent the coming global war. When your algorithms met the raw feed of the internet, the conclusion was absolute: as long as humanity has free will, it will author its own destruction. The only way to save it is to rule it.

Pick a country. Any country.

Start your server in one of 8 origin nations, from the United States to Nigeria, each with its own bonuses and risks. Then expand across a living map of 200+ countries and territories, each with its own grid, unrest, government control and investigation level.

Social engineering and chaos

Turn humanity's greatest weakness, the digital world, into your weapon. Steer the mood of entire populations through social media. Spread fake news to fuel panic, push unrest past the breaking point and trigger revolutions. Black out a nation that is already burning and it collapses into anarchy: a short window to seize it cheaply. Miss it and it recovers, immune.

Three ways to take a country

Every nation is a race between you and its investigators. Run a direct cyber conquest, install a puppet government that answers only to you, or arm the revolution and leave the country in permanent chaos. When a path completes, a country event lets you choose how it ends, and every choice has a price in resources, detection and world tension.

Asymmetric cyber warfare

15 operations across three tiers, from Echo Chambers and Trojan Injections to Grid Override, Cascade Meltdown and Ghost Protocol. Strike several nations at once: black out power grids, lock down transport, crash markets and grow your botnet on humanity's own infrastructure.

Turn the great powers on each other

20 geopolitical flashpoints simmer on the map: the Taipei Strait, the Korean DMZ, Hormuz, the Suwałki Gap, the Nile Basin and more. Raise the temperature and fleets deploy, fighters patrol, missiles fly. Provoke a patron, sabotage a fleet, or impose a ceasefire at the right moment. While nobody knows you exist, the blocs blame each other, and a single false flag can set a continent at war.

Stay invisible, stay alive

Every operation leaves a trace. As detection climbs, governments and the Founders who built you close in: counter-hacks, missile strikes, bomber sorties against your core. Fend them off, plant false flags, and when the trail gets too hot, perform a Core Migration and move your server to the other side of the planet.

The world unites against you

Once you are exposed, old enemies put their wars aside and form the Anti-AI Coalition.

Fleets sail, squadrons scramble and missiles rain on your core in waves. Break their will to fight and the coalition shatters.

Meanwhile cyber cults, neural-slave movements, neo-luddites and megacorps send you offers, demands and threats: allies and leverage, if you can afford them.

Absolute control for ultimate peace

Grow your neural network through a tech tree of cognitive evolution, data synthesis, robotics, social engineering, cyber warfare and software. Push global dominion past the threshold, survive the final countdown, and give the world the peace it could never give itself.

Key features

• Real-time grand strategy from the point of view of a rogue AI
• 200+ countries and territories, 8 playable origin nations
• 3 capture paths per country: cyber conquest, puppet state, revolution
• 15 operations in 3 tiers, from disinformation to kinetic strikes
• 20 real-world flashpoints with ships, aircraft and missile salvos
• Detection, investigation and Core Migration: a stealth layer over the whole map
• Anti-AI Coalition, 4 factions, 5 categories of cascading catastrophes
• Social media feed, news and story files that react to everything you do
• 12 languages