Hi, my name is ColdBeer and this time I’ve made you a short list about upcoming strategy games
similar to Age of Empires. Let’s start with Frozenheim
This is a Norse city builder game with nice management mechanics and multiple progression
trees where you maintain and expand your settlement. As you launch exploration parties
on foot and by boats you will not only discover resources you can exploit but also draw the
attention of the enemies who seek to destroy you. This is a really bloody RTS game where you have
a chance to chop your enemies like butter or hide like a coward behind huge wooden walls and
towers filled with archers so you could fill attacking enemies with your stingy arrows.
Or if you lack arrows you can safely swear at them and call the attackers and their mamas fat.
To prove yourself an Earl worthy of songs and sagas, you will build and
expand a Viking village from nothing to a rich, unconquerable settlement. Or very conquerable
and puny and you will have to load a game and play again but this time without stupid decisions.
Here you can forage, hunt, fish, grow your food, and keep your clan safe as the seasons pass.
Also seek the blessings of ancient shrines and build temples to win the favor of Asgard and all
the Ass... gardians. Becastled
Although the game is in early access right now and you can buy and play it on Steam, the full
version of a game will be released only someday in the year 2023. So what is Becastled? I played the
game for a few hours and I was really impressed by the graphics, mechanics and the lightness of the
game in general. And I do not mean the storage space it takes, which is also ridiculous for a
modern game - 1 Gigabyte of free space that’s all it takes to squeeze Becastled to your harddrive.
But by saying light I mean that it is easy to understand and easy to play.
This is a game that doesn’t contain any additional stuff that distracts you from the gameplay itself.
Many developers forget the main thing of gaming - keep it simple, keep it fun.
Take it from vodka makers for example - original flavour always sells best. Imagine if your vodka
would also be a mayonnaise at the same time. You don’t want that. Or maybe you do, maybe
you even eat steak with ketchup or drink vodka with coca cola. Blasphemy Blasphemy Blasphemy!
Nowadays you often install the game and there is a ton of stuff
thrown to your face at once and you have to play an hour of tutorial to understand at least
something. But not in Becastled. This is a simple, nice and beautiful title, keep an eye on it.
Farthest Frontier There is no video material of this game,
only a few screenshots are available, so I would usually ignore such titles in my top videos,
but this time it is different, because I accidentally saw who the developer
of Farthest Frontier is. And that is Crate Entertainment well known for its hit game Grim
Dawn. Oh yeah, I have your attention now, do I? So here you will protect and guide your people as
you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials,
hunt, fish and farm to make the best potato salad with the best doctor’s sausage available!
Or merely sustain your advancing town. Produce craft items for villagers to trade, consume, equip
and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements of outside threats.
These guard towers are here for a reason. I will keep an eye on this game and when there will be a
trailer or more news, you will be the first to know. Although you would need to subscribe to
my channel for that. You get various benefits for doing that as well - you’ll start to know
everything about your favourite games, you will stop getting bald and your hair will grow back.
Or not. No promises, just hope. Manor Lords
This is a real time strategy game which aims to provide a gridless,
organic city-building experience with full freedom of placement and rotation.
Game’s building mechanic is based on the growth of real medieval towns and villages, where major
trade routes and landscape often influenced how the settlement was shaped and developed.
While the game is not set in a particular century, every building is inspired by
historical references from mainly the Middle Ages of Europe. Yeah, we had a pretty awesome
architecture back then. Also we burned witches and thought that the Sun was rotating around
the Earth. An entire continent of dimwits. In Manor Lords fields must be plowed,
iron bloomed and the sheep herded on the open pastures governed by the Lord of the Manor.
I guess it’s you. So, you will have to manage all that well-being and prosperity wisely otherwise
your people will be doomed and will die horribly as they do in every other game you touch.
Game also aims to portray battles that feel real, with large scale unit formations,
morale, flanking, fatigue, weather and equipment. In example your villagers can form a militia, like
in Age of Empires or Warcraft 3, an inexperienced crowd of dum-dums that can fend away some crippled
wolf or a wandering pedofile away from town. That’s it, thank you for watching. Bye.