“We wanted to do something that hasn’t been done before.” The setting is very appealing,” Algreen said. The traditional sandbox mode is accompanied by a skirmish setting where players can focus entirely on combat strategy against the game’s AI.īut mostly, running around commanding dark armies and plunging the land into eternal, gothy night is the lure here “Everyone at the studio is a fan of the gothic vibe we’ve got going here. Players will take command of one of three factions in a story-driven single-player campaign estimated at around 20 hours of game time. A basic example Algreen gave is recruiting new units in an area where a player has no agents, physically. The card-playing layer he described isn’t a deck-building game, per se, but more like a perk system - basically, your dark lords have access to certain spells (and better or more effective ones as they rank up) that allow them to do things a more conventional strategy title wouldn’t. “We thought that was a nice twist to the genre it allowed us a big of flexibility.”Ī set of nine images here show the setting as well as the standard gameplay elements note the tray of perk cards at the bottom of the screen.Īlgreen promises Immortal Realms isn’t simply kitting out a familiar nation-building exercise in a puffy shirt and a cloak with a chain and pointy collar. “It’s turn-based combat blended with empire management, with a fairly unique concept of a card game,” Algreen said from Kalypso’s E3 booth. “The concept of the dark vampire world, it’s not something that’s really represented in this genre,” said Johan Algreen, the studio’s chief executive. Now Kalypso is cloaking its efforts in the gothic and occult themes of vampires, with Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars, from new studio Palindrome Interactive of Sweden. Their themes have been all over the map - railroad tycoons, banana republic dictators, evil dungeon lords, World War II commanders, ninjas and prohibition-era gangsters have all gotten closeups. Kalypso Media’s genre, broadly speaking, is strategy and management games. A copy was provided for preview purposes.Though sometimes confused in the necessity of making an easy, elevator pitch for a game, there’s still a big difference between a game’s genre and its themes. It is currently in Game Preview and will be released in Spring 2020, for $49.99. Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars will be published by Kalypso Media and has been developed by Palindrome Interactive on Xbox One. My favorite quote from the trailer: “Tell me, what is the point of victory, when all you can celebrate is the end of the world?” I’ve played a lot of strategy games and this one seems special. While it takes a bit to get the hang of how everything works, once you figure it out, you’ll really start to enjoy the battles. I love the gothic theme and the music is to die for (no pun intended). It’s a very promising strategy game with a unique atmosphere of vampires at war. There are tons of options that make every battle all up to you. When fighting, you must decide your attacks and it’s a true turn-based strategy battle. They are used for all kinds of things to help you become a supreme army. Beyond just fighting and creating an army, you have a multitude of options for upgrading and equipping gear. You’ll have plenty of choices which all matter when it comes down to defeating your rivals. There are towns and other points of interest to gather resources on your journey towards dominance and chaos. Similar to tabletop boardgames, you move your units around spaces within a map. It is a type of vampire from Romanian folklore. The one you might not be able to recognize is from Moroi. Nosfernus are ancient vampires which you might assume comes from the classic silent horror movie “Nosferatu”. You may notice that adding a vowel to the word reveals it to be the common vampires we all know and hate to love. Each clan is unique and will offer distinctive powers, various gameplay mechanics, and their own lords and units. Play as the Dracul, Nosfernus, or Moroia. There are three total clans that you can choose from. In the world of Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars, doom is inevitable, and the only real outcome of the war is which group of vampires will be the death of it. These resources help the clans become stronger. String instruments set the tone of tragedy. As you would expect, the setting is dark and gloomy lit by the moon that casts eerie shadows along the countryside. Set in the vampire world called Nemire, opposing vampire clans battle for dominance.
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