Black One Blood Brothers
By Helios StudioUnits to recoup Objective 1
55 000
Why was this game selected?
High-Growth Tactical Shooter Genre
Experienced Publishing Support
80K Sales • 70K Wishlists
About
Black One Blood Brothers is a tactical military shooter game where strategy and coordination are key. Joining the "Black One" unit, you become part of an elite force comprised of top operators from around the globe. Operating independently of any government, this unit works from the shadows, free from political games and diplomatic constraints. As the leader of this squad, you're tasked with executing complex missions where every decision could mean the difference between life and death.
Gameplay
CAMPAIGN MODE: OPERATION "SERPENT'S WHISPER"
During the adventure offered in the campaign mode through Operation "Serpent's Whisper", the story kicks off in response to the insurgent group "New World," which has launched devastating attacks across the globe within days. Your mission is to neutralize this threat and trace the funding behind these attacks through 20 increasingly challenging missions. Be advised, the loss of an operator is permanent!
GAMEPLAY & REALISM
Developed in collaboration with a former French Special Forces Commando Marine, "Black One Blood Brothers" stands out for its demanding and immersive gameplay. Command a squad of 10 operators, each with unique skills, and seamlessly switch between them to leverage their specialties in either first-person or third-person view. Success hinges on meticulous planning, optimal equipment management, and teamwork.
BATTLE PLANS & QUICK ORDERS
Implement precise action sequences for each squad member using a complex yet intuitive "Battle Plan" system. Organize your forces into multiple teams, coordinate their movements, and devise custom tactics to tackle any situation, or switch to real-time command with "Quick Orders" for dynamic decision-making.
HIGH-RISK MISSIONS
Undertake high-risk missions including target neutralization, hostage rescue, bomb defusal, and retrieval of secret documents.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR SQUAD
Customization is at the heart of "Black One Blood Brothers." Build your squad from the ground up, selecting each member's skills and arming them with the finest arsenal.
REPLAYABILITY & GAME MODES
With a variety of game modes (Dynamic campaign, Spec Ops, War, POW, Siege, Lone Wolf, Blind Ops) and a powerful, user-friendly map editor, "Black One Blood Brothers" offers vast replayability. Customize your missions, adjust difficulty, select your battlefields, and share your creations with the community through the Steam Workshop.
Community & Updates
- All reviews on Steam: Very Positive (1,223 reviews)
- Followers: 15,694 and still growing
- Currently on Unreal Engine 4. Will migrate on Unreal Engine 5 early 2026, then will complete its development circle and reach 1.0 in early 2027 (TBC).
- So far, the game is made by a solo-dev: Victor a.k.a Helios Studio
- The game got press coverage in 2024 and 2025 when the studio released major updates. The coverage includes IGN with 131k views on the 2025 trailer.
- Content creators specialized in tactical FPS have covered the game multiple times since the 2024 major update. A video from Controlled Pair Gaming even reached 620k views. And the community remains very engaged with the game.
Planning
Early Access in progress
- Pre-production: 100%
- Early Access: 100%
- Production: 80%
- Main Objective:
- Complete playable build available.
- Iterative development refining the core loop, storytelling, combat, background progression, and minigames.
PC 1.0 Launch" (To be confirmed)
- Pre-production: 100%
- Early Access: 100%
- Production: 100%
- Main Objective:
- Finalizing the remaining 20% of the game.
- Incorporating feedback from Early Access.
- Focus on the "3 Ps": Polish, Polish, and Polish (Preparing the PC Gold Build).
LiveOps & Paid Content + Porting (TBD)
- Post-launch phase
- New Paid Content:
- Content Expansions
- Hotfixes/Patches
- Updates
- Twitch Integration
- Improved In-Game Purchases
- Porting:
- Target platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo
- Porting will be handled by Melbot (subject to separate contract negotiations)
Objectives
Current funding:
Objective 1: €320 000
V1 Release on PC with minimal marketing
Objective 2: €430 000
Additional quality and extra marketing + objectives above
Objective 3: €630 000
IMMERSION features and extra marketing + objectives above
Objective 4: €1 200 000
Playstation and Xbox Consoles + objectives above
Objective 5: €1 800 000
Cooperative Multiplayer + objectives above
Team and Studio
Victor
Helios Studio
Helios Studio is a solo-dev video game development studio founded and led by Victor. Specializing in Unreal Engine development for the past 8 years. Victor is passionate about creating immersive worlds. His latest project, Black One Blood Brothers, a tactical military FPS, is available on Steam. Victor strives for excellence to deliver a unique and immersive gaming experience.
Not A Shark Company is the strategic partner enabling Helios Studio to launch our game on Steam and across all consoles. They provide self-publishing services, from platform certifications to marketing visibility, ensuring Black One Blood Brothers reaches you without any major hiccups. Their expertise is essential to deliver the best possible launch conditions and keep the community engaged.
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Hello everyone,
My name is Victor, and I develop Black One Blood Brothers solo. That means I handle everything: production, coding, design, balancing, support, builds… and the pressure that comes with it. The game is moving forward, but the reality of a solo project is that I have to divide my time across many areas of development. The campaign milestones are not cosmetic “extras.” They determine how far I can push quality, how much I can secure production, and how strongly I can boost the game’s visibility through marketing.
First of all, I want to thank the early investors in this project. Every step brings us closer to our goals. That’s exactly what this update is about: where does the money you invest go?
While the game will release in full version no matter what, I have identified areas for improvement that would allow us to go even further in development and reach our ambitions faster and under better conditions.
Today, I’m presenting in more detail what each funding tier includes.
1st objective: €320 000
- Support for Victor / Helios’ production work
- Addition and refinement of available translations, including Simplified Chinese, French, German, and revised English
- Ongoing community management support and marketing guidance for organic communication up until the 1.0 launch
- Two marketing campaigns including targeted advertising, social media communication, and outreach to the press to reach even more tactical FPS enthusiasts
2nd objective: €430 000
- Everything from the first objective, plus:
- Overall production optimization with code and AI improvements, supported by external developers, to enhance performance and AI behavior. Those additions would be made with the help of external developers.
3rd objective: €630 000
- Everything from the previous objectives, plus:
- This objective is dedicated to immersion: improved visuals, enhanced animations, the introduction of cinematics to strengthen the narrative and provide a denser gameplay framework, and professional voice actors to bring characters to life. Those additions would be made with the help of external partners.
4th objective: €1 200 000
- Everything from the previous objectives, plus:
- This objective would allow us to to reach one of the most requested goals from players: a console port of Black One Blood Brothers on PS5 and Xbox Series. Development with the help of external partners.
- Additional QA to identify areas for improvement and ensure the game is delivered at the highest possible quality upon release
- Addition of Spanish, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese to the available in-game languages
- Additional budget allocated to the marketing campaign through targeted advertising to increase visibility, specifically for the console version, as well as communication on social media and with the specialized press.
5th objective: €1 800 000
- This final objective would allow us to deliver the most requested feature to date: online co-op for up to four players. Development with the help of external partners.
- Including dedicated QA specific to this type of game mode
- Expansion of localization to Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, and Italian
- Additional budget to relaunch a marketing campaign, including targeted advertising to boost visibility when co-op becomes available, as well as social media communication and outreach to specialized press
The ambition is to strengthen the game’s foundations and deliver even deeper, more immersive systems for players, by working alongside external experts in their respective fields to push the limits of Black One Blood Brothers.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on Discord. I’ll be happy to answer.
Victor / Helios
Budget Allocation: Production and Marketing for Objective 5
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Update #1 : Campaign Launched!
Good day everyone! I am thrilled to be part of the first ever campaigns by Gamevestor, it’s a huge honor for me and Black One Blood Brothers. This is a unique opportunity to take the game to the next level and work with investors that will understand, respect, and support my vision.
What is Black One Blood Brothers? It’s a modern take on old-school tactical FPS: as a lead operator of an elite squad, your mission is to defeat a terrorist organisation that shook the world with simultaneous deadly attacks. You will be deployed around the world in a heart-pounding, 20 missions campaign named “Operation: Serpent’s Whisper”. Challenge your tactical sense, study the field, use your tactical map or lead your men from the ground through quick orders menu or directly through your voice, and neutralize the threat.
If you are eager for more, you can create your own maps, campaigns, and missions, and share your squads that you meticulously built on the Steam Workshop for others to enjoy. Almost everything can be customized to stick to your vision of warfare. Missions objectives can be randomized and the difficulty changed to your taste and gameplay. The game has an endless replayability potential.
Ever since I started working on it, the response from the community has been amazing. It has grown into a very involved and active base of players. Their feedback has been key for the evolution of the game and I am actively listening to their suggestions on our Discord.
While many of their feedback has been included into the game in a cohesive, immersive and logical way, this campaign, if successful, will take Black One Blood Brothers to the next level. Together, we will be able to achieve much more and to reach out to many more players and FPS fans.
I believe that we can bring something very special to the FPS scene. If you do too, let’s work together.
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