Tempest Rising is a real-time strategy video game developed by Slipgate Ironworks and published by 3D Realms. Set in an alternate-universe 1997, years after the Cuban Missile Crisis escalates into a nuclear World War 3. In the wake of the devastation, a mysterious but beneficial electrical plant begins spreading across the globe. Both warring parties seek to understand and control the mysterious but beneficial Tempest vines that grow unchecked across the war-torn planet Earth. Other dangers wait in the shadows, as the origin of the Tempest is revealed.

• Tempest Rising