First Light
Land with the Royal Signals section, recover a radio battery, restore the ridge relay and signal your extraction. Give squad orders and complete the route at your own pace.
SOLO · INFANTRY & COMMUNICATIONS
SOUTH ATLANTIC / 1982
Every role.
One operation.
Come ashore with your Signals section. Take to the air, defend the landing ship or fight for the ridge.
Choose your downloadIndependent development build · Mac & Windows
FIRST LIGHT Actual game capture
CHOOSE YOUR MISSION
From the beach
to the battlespace.
Two ways to play. First Light is a personal communications mission; Combined Operations connects air cover, naval support and ground objectives.
Combined Operations
Choose British or Argentine forces. Escort or stop the landing ship, capture or defend the relay, and hold through the counterattack. AI crews fill the other vehicles.
SOLO OR PRIVATE MULTIPLAYER · 15 MINUTES
Original vehicle models and arcade handling. These are fictional missions on a Falklands-inspired landscape. The combined naval encounter is not a historical reconstruction.
YOUR CREW. YOUR MATCH.
Bring a friend.
AI fills the ranks.
Up to eight players can share a private match across Mac and Windows. Play on the same network or a trusted VPN. One player hosts and keeps the game running.
No Steam account or website registration is needed for this version. Public matchmaking is not included.
- Open Combined OperationsFrom the game’s opening screen, choose “Air / Sea / Land”. Select your side and vehicle.
- Host a matchChoose a session key of at least eight characters. Share it with your crew, along with your IPv4 address and port (19820 by default).
- Join and deployYour friends enter those details and choose “Join match”. The host controls the shared world. Leaving the host ends the session.
READY TO DEPLOY
The Falklands War Game
Download the development build for your computer. Extract the ZIP before launching.
macOS
Apple silicon (M1 or later)
Extract the archive and move the app into Applications. This independent build is not Apple-notarised.
Windows
64-bit Windows
Extract the complete folder and run Falklands First Light.exe. Keep the accompanying data files together.
Development release. Vehicle art and flight handling are simplified. This is not affiliated with War Thunder, Gaijin, Steam or the armed forces.
FIELD GUIDE
Get your bearings.
Combined Operations controls
W / S Speed · A / D Steer · Q / E Descend / climb
Tab Select target · Space Fire · M Map view · V Sound
F1 Aircraft · F2 Ship · F3 Ground vehicle · Esc Menu
Aircraft must face the target before firing. Weapons have limited range and hills block shots. Ground vehicles capture the relay; enemy ground vehicles contest it. Destroyed vehicles return after 12 seconds. Solo pauses in the menu; online matches continue. After a British victory, choose “Continue ashore — First Light” to join the Signals mission.
First Light controls
W / S Move · A / D Turn · Mouse to look · Shift Sprint · Ctrl Crouch · Z Crawl
Hold E to interact. 1–5 issue squad orders. B replays the briefing. Follow the objective prompts to complete the mission.
Historical context and archive audio
The setting draws on the 1982 campaign, but neither mission is a documentary reconstruction. Start with the National Army Museum’s campaign overview and the RAF Museum’s Harrier account.
First Light includes a Patrick Watts archive replay dated 2nd of April 1982, credited in the game to Jonathan Marks / Media Network Vintage Vault. The in-game archive-source button opens the recording’s source. Terrain material: “Rocky Terrain” by Amal Kumar / Poly Haven (CC0).