Darkmatter Games Releases Warlord: Awaji On Steam
The release tests whether a first-person perspective can carry the large-scale strategy and base-building loop that Darkmatter Games is selling as its own genre.
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Darkmatter Games has released Warlord: Awaji on PC via Steam. The game casts the player as a samurai general under a secret imperial order to conquer Awaji Island and recover a treasure. It combines first-person combat with strategy, an open world, battles numbering in the hundreds, and base building. The studio describes the mix as immersive strategy. The game costs 2,980 yen, with a 10 percent discount to 2,682 yen until September 17.
Darkmatter Games built the game on the real island of Awaji and on documents, illustrations, and archaeological materials covering 14th-century Japan, with cooperation from specialists in samurai warfare. Players recruit and maintain samurai units, build camps and outposts, clear forests, and place guards and patrols. Residents track your actions and react aggressively to repeated attacks, and supply units and wandering groups move through the world. Battle outcomes carry into later developments, so the studio frames each engagement as a lasting choice.
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