Banana Kingdom Enters Steam Early Access With Retro Strategy
Banana Kingdom enters Early Access as a solo developer's homage to classic strategy games, with a map editor and community sharing at the center of a pitch for a game players cannot exhaust.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Midori Games launched Banana Kingdom, a retro-style turn-based strategy simulation, in Early Access on Steam on August 31. The developer cites SD Gundam Gachapon Senshi 3 Eiyu Senki and Famicom Wars as influences. Players produce units at forts, capture bases, and eliminate enemies across up to five factions. The Early Access version plans over 1,000 maps, and a map editor lets players build and share custom stages. The game sells for 530 yen.
Banana Kingdom's unit roster leans on classic strategy archetypes: knights for raw combat, hunters and mages for ranged attacks, orca and manta soldiers that cross water, and airships that airlift other units. Each commander carries a unique skill that fills a gauge and can swing a battle. Victory conditions go beyond wiping out the enemy or seizing their headquarters, with a custom "golden banana occupation" rule available in the editor.
The editor is the centerpiece of the pitch. The developer says one player logged 20 hours on the 25 demo maps alone, and the Early Access build plans more than 1,000 maps. Created stages can be shared with the community. The game launched at 530 yen, though a planned launch discount was not reflected at release.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.