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Diplomacy is Not an Option

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App ID 1272320
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Door 407
Franchise Top Indie Developers
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unity Engine
Last Changenumber 31693358
Last Record Update 15 October 2025 – 21:53:09 UTC ()
Release Date 4 October 2024 – 16:55:45 UTC ()
😎 82.70%
10k reviews
501
In-Game
📊 Resource Management 🏰 Medieval 📜 Historical 🧟 Zombies 🛖 Colony Sim

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Additional Information

Developer Door 407
metacritic_name Diplomacy is Not an Option
metacritic_score 80
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diplomacy-is-not-an-option?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
community_visible_stats Yes
workshop_visible Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Door 407
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nameDiplomacy is Not an Option EULA
urlhttps://store.steampowered.com//eula/1272320_eula_1
version6
Store Release Date 4 October 2024 – 16:55:58 UTC ()
osarch 64
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.gg/7By97bxGDN
https://facebook.com/DNOstrategy
https://instagram.com/door407studio
https://www.reddit.com/r/DNO/
https://www.tiktok.com/@door407studio
https://vk.com/diplomacy_is_not_an_option
https://x.com/door407
https://www.youtube.com/@Door407
Primary Genre Strategy (2)
Store Genres Indie (23), Simulation (28), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 4 October 2024 – 16:55:45 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 29 August 2025 – 11:23:39 UTC () (1756466619)
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schinese要战便战
review_score 8
review_percentage 84
Detected Technologies (?) Unity Engine, FMOD SDK, Resonance_Audio SDK, SteamworksNET SDK, UnityBurst SDK, UnityEntities SDK, UnityHybridRenderer SDK, UnityURP SDK, cURL SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Note: Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
  •  
  • category: Playable
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 18 August 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 1272320
  • configuration:
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    requires_internet_for_setup0
    requires_internet_for_singleplayer0
    recommended_runtimeproton-stable
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    gamescope_frame_limiter_not_supported0
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
Early Access Release Date 9 February 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC ()
First seen on SteamDB 18 March 2020 – 20:50:28 UTC (), in changelist #7986884
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

14 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Turkish Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Portugal Yes
Spanish - Latin America Yes

Tags

📊 Resource Management 🏰 Medieval 📜 Historical 🧟 Zombies 🛖 Colony Sim 🏠 Base Building 😓 Difficult 🌲 Survival 💥 Action RTS 🖥️ Simulation ⚔️ War 🌐 RTS 🌲 PvE 💡 Strategy ⏯ Real-Time with Pause 🌆 Isometric 🪖 Military 🤔 Tactical 〰️ Nonlinear 📖 Level Editor

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Steam Workshop Steam Cloud Includes level editor Family Sharing Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

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Save File Locations

Based on the configuration above, this is where we think the save files are located.

Read more about cloud saves in Steamworks documentation.

Platform Path Pattern
Windows %USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/Door 407/Diplomacy is Not an Option/DNOPersistentData *
MacOS (Override) This appears to be broken because there is no configuration for [All OSes] and WinAppDataLocal.
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