TinyBuildGames has announced that the action/strategy sandbox game with thousands of enemies on screen, Kingmakers, will hit Steam Early Access on October 8th. To celebrate this announcement, the publisher shared a new trailer that you can find below.
In Kingmakers, players will travel back 500 years, to medieval England, in order to change the course of a bloody war. The big feature of this game is that it can push thousands of enemies on screen. Not only that, but you can use modern weapons to kill your enemies. So, for instance, you can use an AK-47 to shoot knights. Or you can use grenades and rocket launchers to wreak havoc on the battlefield.
As the devs have noted, every soldier on the battlefield is controlled by a next-gen multi-threaded AI that controls their decision-making, pathfinding, and loyalty. This, combined with a unique procedural animation system, will allow Kingmakers to offer an unprecedented level of character and combat fidelity.
In Kingmakers, you can easily switch between two different ways of playing — fighting in the middle of the action or giving orders like a commander. This switch happens in real time, which means you don’t have to pause or stop the game to do it. It’s smooth and fast, so you can control the battle your way.
If you enjoy being in the action, you can grab your weapons and fight on the front lines. You can run, shoot, drive vehicles, and help your team by taking out enemies directly. But if you prefer to lead from above, you can zoom out and command your army like a general.
You can tell your soldiers where to go, whom to attack, or when to defend. The game gives you control over many types of fighters, like archers, swordsmen, spearmen, and cavalry. That means you can mix and match your army based on the situation. Need long-range attacks? Send in the archers. Want a strong charge? Call in the cavalry.
You can also build defenses, such as walls or barriers, to help protect your team. Planning your moves is a big part of the game, and you’ll need to think smart to win big battles. If you don’t want to control everything, the game’s smart AI can take over some parts for you. That way, you can focus on the parts of the game you enjoy most — either fighting or leading.
To put it simply, Kingmakers seems like a lot of fun. Yes, it’s not historically accurate. But you know what? This is a game. It’s not a documentary. And, if it’s as fun as the trailer implies, then I’m all in for it.
For what it’s worth, TinyBuildGames has not yet shared the game’s PC requirements. We do know that Kingmakers will be using Unreal Engine 5. However, there is no word on whether it will support Nanite or Lumen. In the trailer, I saw various pop-ins, so we can assume that the devs have not used Nanite.
Let’s at least hope that the game will support AMD FSR, NVIDIA DLSS, and Intel XeSS from the get-go. Let’s also hope that it won’t suffer from any major stutters.
Enjoy the trailer and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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