How to play Hamburger Hill

Hamburger Hill is a single-player military FPS. The store page splits play into a campaign you plan and a Quick Play battle you set up. The official listing advertises “64-player” battles while describing a single-player game. This is not evidence of a 64-person online lobby; the exact player-plus-AI composition has not been independently established. On 2026-10-27 the developer said the current work is single-player and that multiplayer is a later goal.

I read the 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, and 0.7.0 devlogs next to the store description, and checked the public trailer description. These are all Wesware official single-source documents, checked 2026-10-29. I did not launch the build. Where a key is missing from those sources, the gap stays empty. A community guide written against 0.5.0 is labeled as that, because 0.7.0 already moved the interface.

Campaign: plan, equip, fight

The store page describes the campaign as planning, equipping soldiers, and fighting each battle: take ground, hold it against a counterattack, and keep people alive. From 0.4.0 the squad is 12 soldiers who persist between battles, with one assault per turn and automatic replacements. Version 0.3.0 added a click to inspect a soldier’s kit and a right-click to send them back.

Insertion methods named in the devlogs include helicopter insertion (0.2.0) and night assault boats (0.3.0). Extraction in 0.4.0 is a flare that calls the helicopter, then a defense while the aircrew is on the ground. Version 0.7.0 says that helicopter extraction mission was improved. Newspapers, village events, and campaign support show up from 0.4.0 and 0.5.0. None of those posts publish a morale formula. The devlogs do not document where every morale indicator is shown.

Quick Play

Quick Play is one battle with terrain, weather, and an opponent you choose. The store page says battles can involve up to three factions and what it calls 64 players. Version 0.2.0 rebuilt the setup as preset cards plus more battle settings. The same page calls the game single-player. The exact unit cap and how the advertised 64 counts the human player and AI have not been independently verified. The official Procedural Generation tag does not specify which terrain or campaign elements are generated, and does not mean every map is fully random.

Roles the devlogs name

• Rifleman and machine gunner carry the ordinary fight. The store page’s U.S. examples are the M16 and the belt-fed M60.
• Medic: official clips describe picking up a wounded squadmate under smoke. 0.5.0 simplified the medic.
• Radio operator: from 0.5.0, binoculars call illumination, artillery, or napalm, with incoming-strike markers. 0.7.0 says those controls are clearer.
• Engineer: 0.5.0 says one kit covers blowing an outpost and repairing a bridge. A player still found the bridge unclear.
• Flamethrower: the M83 Torch arrived as a U.S. soldier type in 0.4.0.

Inputs that are actually published

There is no official control card. Do not treat a generic WASD chart as Wesware’s. The 0.6.0 devlog does say the mouse wheel cycles weapons, launchers, melee, and binoculars. A community post about 0.5.0 mentioned the F key for orders and the 3 key for an underbarrel launcher. That post is one player’s notes against an older build. Version 0.2.0 added a voiced drill instructor for weapons training and squad combat, so the build itself is supposed to teach the first fight.

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