The Scouring
by Orc Group · 12 Aug, 2025
15 downloads
About the Game
Build bases, manage resources, and lead armies. Wield magic, unleash cannons, and outsmart foes in dynamic battles. Defend from waves of undead at night! Sounds familiar?
In a unique mode of The Scouring, become a powerful hero, crushing foes with devastating skills. Gain experience, collect items, and customize your playstyle, blending action RPG combat with strategic army control. Shape battles with spells, weapons, and tactics to claim victory. Enter dungeons to look for precious items. BE THE HERO. Control the battlefield.
MULTIPLAYER MODE
The Scouring delivers epic multiplayer battles with team skirmishes, and free-for-alls for up to 8 players. Сustomize matches, and test your skill in dynamic modes. Forge alliances or dominate foes in the ultimate multiplayer RTS experience.
USER GENERATED CONTENT
The Scouring unlocks endless creativity with Steam Workshop integration. Download custom maps, modes, and AI scripts or create and share your own. With powerful tools and a vibrant community, every game offers fresh challenges and infinite variety.
ACTION RPG STRATEGY
The Scouring introduces a new genre: Action RPG Strategy. Customize your hero, equip gear, and unleash powerful abilities in fast-paced combat. While you dominate the battlefield, AI manages your army, resources, and bases, blending action and strategy seamlessly.
The Scouring started as a solo developer’s dream to create the ultimate RTS. Inspired by classics and built with passion, it thrives on community feedback. Join our Discord, follow and read X, get in touch on Reddit! Together, we’ll refine, expand, and create something special. Thank you for being part of this journey.
Attention to Detail: Immerse yourself in richly detailed, visually striking environments. Watch battles unfold with dynamic destruction, lifelike unit movement, and spell effects.
Smooth Gameplay: Fluid and polished controls that allow you to fully utilize your skills.
Action RPG Strategy: New gameplay experience and new genre. You control a powerful hero while AI manages your army.
Multiplayer Modes: Engage in ranked matches, free-for-alls, or team battles with custom games.
User-Generated Content: Explore and share maps and modes via Steam Workshop. Create AI scripts to automate strategies and watch them play in real-time.
Community-Driven Development: Shaped by players and their feedback.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Human's Ballista's projectile now penetrates target units, making it much more effective
- Added an option for Centered Reticle when using Gamepad, and cursor stickiness setting
- Various bugfixes
- Camera now shakes when events like cannon ball impact or ability cast happen on screen, making the effect more impactful.
Option to disable camera shake added too.
- units dialogues added (showcased at Survival scenario, but will be mostly used in upcoming Scenarios)
- gamepad controls improvements: option to auto-assign workers to harvest gold/lumber, improved cursor snapping, input glyphs prompts.
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- minor balancing changes: ships deal more damage, human ballista deals more damage, dwarf warriors move slower.
- 4 Naval Maps are added to stock roster
- Challenges added, properly this time. Those are preconfigured matches for you to win. Each awards an achievement (8 in total). 8 new achievements.
- Cavalier now has Exorcism ability which is an effective tool against undead creatures like warlocks and skeletons
- Balancing updates based on community feedback, more modding tools features, QOL features and UX improvements!
Activate "Dont Spend Resources" to temporarily disable all auto-training (when saving for something)
- New PVE option: bots dont deplete gold patches when harvesting. Set this for extra PVE challenge!
- Queuing units in multiplayer fix
- Camera movement by screen border is disabled when camera follows a unit
- Various other fixes and improvements, modding features.
- Hard AI now trains units more efficiently
- Cannons basic attack deals less damage, artillery ability cooldown increased
- Miscellaneous unit behaviour and pathing improvements
- Midlands is now back in summer biome
Hello Orcs and Humans! New Patch is here!
dwarf warrior is now only immune to knockback when defending
orc bersercer stats. changed (lowered health, increased price).
Its health is no longer reduced when it uses Stomp, but it does less damage and have higher cooldown.
It now also Stuns enemies for a short while.
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orc/human pikeman's attack will knockbacks the enemies
cannons' artillery (ability) range reduced
warlock will now spawn 1 skeleton instead of 2, mana consumption reduced, cooldown increased
gold reward is no longer given for kills dealt by summoned units (i.e. warlocks' skeletons)
human ballista rework: it no longer need to be unpacked on top of a building.
Instead, it can be sieged anywhere, and then unsieged. Consumes food in sieged mode.
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units placed on rooftops will now have their "awareness range" increased. Meaning they would react to (attack) enemies as soon as they see them.
minimap multiplayer ping feature added (point at minimap)
various unit behaviour improvements
various modding features (per community requests)
Game Demo updated: Survival scenario is now available in Demo
- orc berserkers' stomp cooldown reduced significantly, but it drains caster health when used
Also:
- Stomp is auto-used when there are at least 3 targets nearby, and caster have enough health
- AI bots will now build more orc berserkers.
- orc berserkers hitpoints increased, damage reduced
- orc berserkers' stomp damage and radius reduced
- orc berserker no longer immune to knockback by Cavaliers/Munchers
- additional research (available at t3) now increases orc berserkers health and damage
- wyvern spyre now require Logging Camp
- pikemans' minimum attack range threshold removed
- wyverns' health reduced, attack range reduced
- wyverns' lumber cost increased, gold cost decreased
- dwarf warriors' defence while defending boost reduced
- archers' base damage increased from 7 to 8
- lumbermill gold cost decreased
- stables/munchercave lumber cost increased
- peasants' gold mining increased (back to original), but peasants cap is now 40 by default.
Increases to 60 when Fort/Bastion is built, further increases to 80 when Castle/Citadel is built.
Additional UI indicators that show damage boosts:
* archer 25% vs flying
* ballista 25% vs flying
* cannon artillery 100% vs flying
* dwarf warrior ranged attack 50% vs flying
* pikeman 100% vs large units, -50% vs buildings
etc.
AI improvement: archers now retarget to focus-fire high-priority units, making AI more challenging (hard AI only)
Hello Orcs and Humans!
Dwarves seem to be enjoying beer in our Tavern!
Other minor changes for this build include:
- option to hide replay progress
- option to hide mods without english transcription (for ingame browser)
- modding-related improvements (hop into our TG chat to know more)
- misc quality-of-life improvements
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Hello Orcs and Humans!
New Patch:
- cinematic camera now available in replays
- miscelanneous improvements for dev version:
- proper scenario/levels loading from ctrl-N
- plants, models, terrain types, daytimes, watertypes are now properly exported (any asset type can be packed into a mod now)
- blink ability fixes
- unitUID added to OnUnitKilled callback (last parameter)
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Hello Orcs and Humans!
New Patch:
- heroes mode items update - some items now have active abilities, assign them to 0-9 to use
Scroll Of Dispel - dispel magic
Scroll Of Healing - healing 500 HP in AOE
Scroll Of Rage - Rage buff
Cannonball Bomb - bomb for Buildings
Sack Of Gold - increase gold for bounty
Essense Of Fire - deleted
- new Heroes balance in heroes mode
- visual fixes
- AI fixes for Classic
Remember!
If your Peasants are killed by enemy Hero, after enemy leaves, tombstones will be spawned
Reach tombstones with your Hero to revive your Peasants!
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Current Release
Build 24569233
Uploaded Aug 10, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
TheScouring.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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