Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube · published
It's that time of year again—the time of year where we share our newest roadmap, laying out the planned path ahead for Easy Red 2 from late 2025 to mid-late 2026.
As you know, this year we practically re-made most of the game to be bigger and better than ever, and unfortunately because of that we missed out on Southern Tunisia this go-around. Don't worry, it's still coming!
As always, going into 2026 we're looking to make the game even bigger and even better than ever!
Starting from today, here's what we plan to work on!
South Tunisia: Mareth Line and Kasserine Pass
1944/45 Hungarian DLC: Siege of Budapest and Operation Spring Awakening
We are considering other free additional maps for some time in 2026, including the Battle of Iwo Jima and Battles of Khalkhin Gol.
Deployable MGs onto carried tripods and deployable portable mortars (such as Japanese knee mortar)
Reconstruct broken sandbags and other defensive props
New Eastern Europe buildings coming to Stalingrad DLC
New vehicles and weapons for base game
Major reworks on many old vehicles and weapons
Multi-charge artillery system for modular artillery range and trajectory
New patch/insignia system for more accurate iconography on uniforms
Automatic cinematic camera system for nice shots and battle spectating
Infrared night vision technology for Panther and other sights
More map editor quality features to simplify prop placing, finding, and automatized behaviors.
Possibility to switch between scope and sights without removing scopes (where accurate)
Continuing adding and upgrading weapons, vehicles, sounds and animations
We are finally ready to announce the next DLC!
Our goal with this expansion is to bring new factions, many new weapons, and above all, a lineup of late-war vehicles to play on one of the bloodiest battles that Europe has ever seen!
It features two factions totally new to Easy Red: Hungary alongside Germany, and Romania alongside the Soviet Union (after switching sides in 1944).
It also potentially includes a wide variety of authentic unique weapons such as the Mannlicher rifles, Mauser VZ.24, Danuvia submachine guns, Steyr-Solothurn MG30, PPS-42/43 and much more.
You’ll also see powerful late-war vehicles like the late war Panther variants, Tiger II, Zrínyi II, late war T-34 and T34/85, IS-2 and more — including rare wartime technology such as infrared night vision on Panther tanks, one of the most advanced innovations of the era. Here's a WIP photo of the Panther rework currently underway, along with the night vision system!
The DLC will include key operations such as the Siege of Budapest, Operation Konrad, and Operation Spring Awakening, offering a mix of rural, urban, and suburban combat during the final months of the war in Europe.
Operation Spring Awakening is known as the last major offensive launched by the Third Reich during World War II, a final effort by German forces to halt the Soviet advance through Hungary.
More information to come in the coming weeks and months on our official discord server.
While Northern Tunisia and the "Run for Tunis" would mark the end of Axis forces in North Africa, Southern Tunisia and the Mareth Line would be a very important stepping stone on the way, being a heavily fortified position that Axis forces used to try and halt the Allied advance after their retreat from El Alamein.
Just northwest of the Mareth Line lay the Atlas mountains, holding Kasserine and Kasserine pass. It is here in which occurred the first major engagement between American and German ground forces in WWII, and one of the largest losses for western allied forces early in the war. The rugged mountains of Kasserine and the surrounding area will prove in stark contrast to the wide open dunes of Mareth. Expect large tank battles over huge spaces, with a mix of both allies and axis on the defense! Also likely to come with this will be the British Crusader tank. The release of Southern Tunisia should be a great cap-off to the North African theater we plan to represent in base-game Easy Red 2, and we hope you'll love it too!
The Southern Tunisia campaign is likely to release at the very beginning of 2026 if not the final weeks of 2025.
While the roadmap highlights our biggest goals, a huge part of our daily development is the constant improvement of existing content.
Throughout 2025 and 2026, we’ll continue upgrading weapons, vehicles, uniforms, gear and historical details across all factions.
Right now we're already working on a large batch of improvements—here’s a small preview:
A full range of new and reworked British vests and equipment, improving historical accuracy and visual detail.
A lineup of the new updated Soviet T-34, including new variants, models, textures, and functional improvements.
These upgrades will roll out steadily with our regular updates, just like you've seen over the past years. Our goal is to make every single piece of equipment in Easy Red 2 feel authentic, polished, and satisfying to use.
This roadmap only outlines the major features and changes coming in the next several months.
As always, we'll be working on smaller updates, bug fixes, and polishing regularly—just like we have for the past five years with monthly public updates. You can view our full history of changelogs here.
We owe our continued success to you, our dedicated community. Your feedback and suggestions have been invaluable, and your enthusiasm for Easy Red 2 motivates us to keep pushing the game forward. Thank you for spreading the word and being part of this journey.
We keep improving all features of the base game and as always we will be going on listening to suggestions from people inside the Steam Discussions, Reddit and the Discord server.
Stay tuned, and see you on the battlefield!
Marco and the Easy Red 2 Team