"We're obsessed": After quietly dropping the best trailer of 2024, bizarre-o strategy game shows off incredible destruction tech – "If you drive a car full speed into a medieval tavern, well..."
Dec. 11, 2024Time-traveling medieval warfare with destruction physics like this? Yes please
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Kingmakers debuted to the world with anabsolutely wild reveal trailerthat seems to have cemented the game’s destiny as an inescapable viral hit. It’s an action-strategy game where you play as a time-traveling commander who can bring all sorts of modern weapons back to the medieval world, and the devs have just upped the ante by showing off some genuinely incredible looking destruction tech.
“With Kingmakers, we’re obsessed with making everything interactable,” creative director Ian Fisch says onTwitter, sharing a clip of a car crashing headlong into a wooden building. “If you drive a car full speed into a medieval tavern, well….” To be honest, I think an actual car would be a little worse for wear after careening headlong into a bunch of oak longs, but damn if the way that building crumbles doesn’t look incredibly satisfying.
Once upon a time, fully destructible environments felt like they’d be the final frontier of video game technology, but these days it’s mostly indie games with wild concepts like Kingmakers that are keeping the dream of destruction alive. Here’s hoping Kingmakers turns out well, because if it’s half as fun as it looks we could be in for something special.
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