Simulate it properly
If a system can be modelled rather than faked, we model it. It costs more to build and it is the entire reason the game is worth playing.
The studio
A studio built around one stubborn idea.
Raging Storm Studios Ltd was founded in January 2026 in the United Kingdom. The idea it was founded on: strategy games are at their best when the systems underneath them are real — when the supply line is a supply line and not a number going up, and when a fleet moving into position is genuinely moving into position.
Depth you can read
Complex underneath, legible on screen. A player should be able to look at a losing engagement and understand exactly which decision lost it.
Feedback over assumptions
Development updates go to the Discord first, and what comes back changes the game. A design document will never tell you the moment something stopped being fun.
Who's behind it
Matt Cavanagh
Founder · Developer
I'm a cloud engineer turned game developer, with more than ten years in the programming space behind me — most of it spent building systems that had to keep running whether or not anyone was watching.
The games I keep going back to are the ones that are simple on the surface and deep underneath. Factorio and Satisfactory both look like they're about laying a belt down; a hundred hours later you're untangling a logistics problem you built for yourself. That's the shape I want a space RTS to have.
Novalast is the one I kept wanting to play and couldn't find. The tactical weight of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, the scale and strategic zoom of Supreme Commander, and supply lines that bite the way Conquest: Frontier Wars made them bite — with none of it quietly faked underneath.
It's built in Unity 6. Development updates go to the Discord first, and the feedback that comes back changes the game.
Also into
- Space games
- Yorkshire tea
- Cats
- PC gaming
- Hardware
- Network architecture
- Coke Zero
- Various nerdisms
So far
A short history.
- January 2026
Studio founded
Raging Storm Studios Ltd is incorporated in the United Kingdom.
- 2026
Novalast enters development
Built in Unity 6 — sector generation, physics-based combat and the logistics simulation come together as the core of the game.
- 2026
Steam page goes live
Novalast opens for wishlists, and the Discord becomes the place development gets talked about.
- Next
Release date to be announced
It's ready when the simulation holds up. Wishlist on Steam and you'll hear the moment there's a date.