Lightning arcs between buildings as a storm tears through a city at dusk
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In development / Windows PC

Plasma: Fear the Lightning

Build a city.
Become its storm.

Start as a tiny cloud. Gather moisture, unleash branching lightning, and turn every attempt into a more powerful storm.

See gameplay Explore City Workshop

In-game capture / Development build

01 / CampaignBuild your storm

Grow stronger with every attempt.

02 / CreativeBuild your city

Design it. Then unleash the weather.

03 / ScenariosChoose your chaos

Revisit a city on your own terms.

01 / Storm systems

A little rain.
A lot of consequences.

Soak the streets. Pick your target. Watch the lightning find its next one.

Wet targets help carry longer chains. Lightning ignites buildings, fires spread through unlocked upgrades, and critical strikes can turn a city block into a chain reaction.

Earn credits from each attempt and invest in a persistent talent tree. Take a stronger storm into increasingly hostile cities, where weather towers and defenses make every route matter.

GatherChargeStrike
A critical lightning cascade triggers explosions across a city at dusk
Campaign / A critical cascade at dusk

Field captures / Campaign

From first spark
to city-wide chaos.

Real gameplay, from the Storm Observatory controls to aircraft encounters and the aftermath. Select a screenshot to view it larger.

Forked lightning strikes a small town, with the campaign HUD visible
The first forks
A long lightning chain across city blocks, with the Storm Observatory radar and charge gauges visible
At the controls
A fuel tank detonates among city buildings at dusk
A volatile target
City blocks reduced to rubble with fires burning among the ruins
After the storm
An aircraft is struck by lightning over the city during a Level 5 storm
Trouble overhead
A stricken aircraft descends over the city trailing smoke
Going down

Development screenshots captured November 2, 2026. Visuals and gameplay may change.

02 / City Workshop

Make something
worth destroying.

Lay out roads and paths, shape the terrain, and fill your neighborhoods with buildings, parks, and the little details that make a city yours.

Save your map locally, test a full storm, then return to the workshop. Creative maps and campaign progress stay separate.

Thunder Bay, a custom City Workshop neighborhood with roads, homes, parks, and a football field
Thunder Bay / Built in the City Workshop
The City Workshop interface showing building categories, placement tools, and a neighborhood under construction
Your construction desk
A custom neighborhood playground with play equipment and surrounding buildings
The little details
A football field surrounded by a custom-built neighborhood
Room to play
Paths, gardens, and scenery placed in a custom City Workshop map
Make it your own

03 / Scenarios

One more forecast.

Revisit a level with a fresh start or bring your campaign talents at full power. Chase a better clear time without changing your campaign progression.

The art behind the storm

Art & Credits

Plasma’s base art comes from the Cartoon City pack by itHappyStudios.

No generative AI was used to create the game art. All art outside the pack was created directly in Unity.

Plasma: Fear the Lightning

A storm in the making.

In development for Windows PC. A public release date has not been announced.

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