Riposte: Frontline

GAME BRIEF

What's the game?

Riposte: Frontline plays like an older Call of Duty: pick a class, deploy, and race the other team to 75 kills in ten minutes. Solo puts you in a 6 v 6 team deathmatch against bots, or a free-for-all against seven of them, or domination with three points to hold. There are nine maps, from Khamsin, a sun-baked village, to Tephra, a research station under an erupting volcano, and French Dream, a housing estate where every house looks the same. The four preset classes are Assault, Cleaner, Sniper and Breacher, and the class workshop builds your own: weapons, attachments, camos, two pieces of equipment (frag, flashbang, smoke or throwing knife) and three killstreaks, from a UAV, an airstrike, a helicopter and a satellite to an EMP, a kamikaze drone you fly into the enemy and, at 13 kills, a mech that drops from the sky for you to climb into. Killcams, slides, weapon sounds from real recordings and ten outfits (six to unlock) round it out. The maker, BenDBS, builds every map, weapon and soldier in code on three.js, with no imported 3D models, and has shipped more than 130 updates since the first version on September 28, 2026.

BEFORE YOU PLAY

What to expect

Free, no download and no ads; the game's terms promise no advertising and no sale of data. Solo needs no account. Online matches, public or a private lobby with friends, take up to 8 players topped up with bots and need a free account: a username and password, no email, for players 15 and over. About 20 MB loads before the first match. The game was called Claude of Duty: Ghost Protocol until October 10, 2026; it is a different game from Claude of Duty: Vibe Slops II, the Black Ops II port, and uses no Call of Duty files. Its source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license, except the name, logo, music, soldier animations and some sounds. It has touch controls and asks phones to install it to the home screen; it also takes a controller and installs on Steam Deck.

Controls: WASD move, mouse to look, left click fire, right click aim down sights, Shift sprint, Space jump, C crouch (slide while sprinting), Left Ctrl slide, R reload, 1 and 2 or Q or the wheel switch weapons, G grenade (hold to cook), F knife, E pick up a weapon or board the mech, 4 5 6 killstreaks, Tab scores.