Jody Macgregor at PCGamer highlighted the announcement for WarTales, a medieval open-world tactical RPG following a mercenary warband, developed by Shiro Games. Speaking with game director Nicolas Cannasse, learn more about the setting and gameplay:
It’s got a strategy layer that’s part survival, part management sim. Then there’s the turn-based battles, of course…”No wizards, or no goblins or trolls,” Cannasse says. “It’s not the classical fantasy universe you will have in many, many games. It’s really medieval.” This gritty setting contains its own version of medieval organizations and events, like the Church, and the Great Plague, but with a different spin. “For instance, in our universe the plague doesn’t actually kill people.” No, it just gives them a hunger for meat that, if unfulfilled, robs them of their minds and essentially turns them into zombies.
Macgregor also shares details from Canasse on how this isn’t a typical fantasy universe:
Though it’s taking inspiration from RPGs, don’t expect WarTales to have magic or elves. “No wizards, or no goblins or trolls,” Cannasse says. “It’s not the classical fantasy universe you will have in many, many games. It’s really medieval.” This gritty setting contains its own version of medieval organizations and events, like the Church, and the Great Plague, but with a different spin. “For instance, in our universe the plague doesn’t actually kill people.” No, it just gives them a hunger for meat that, if unfulfilled, robs them of their minds and essentially turns them into zombies.
WarTales ventures Steam Early Access later this year, and a demo is available from June 16 to June 22nd during Steam Next Fest.
Check out PC Gamer’s full article here. For more information on WarTales, please visit the game’s official website, and follow @Wartales_Game and @shirogames on Twitter.
