Hey everyone,
The Plague: Kingdom Wars has just been released to Early Access. Thank you for joining us on the launch date, and supporting our small indie team.
We can't wait to share the PKW with you. We’re embarking on a long journey together as the game will be in Early Access for a while. We’re really excited to show you all the new content, new art and graphics, and new gameplay features that we plan to add.
Speaking with Developers
If you are new to our games, you might be surprised at our approach. We do things a little different from other indie studios, and spend a lot of time talking to our players. This is the best way to get feedback, figure out what we should be working on and also to support our player community.
Our entire development team will be on the in-game chat around the clock. We’ll also reply to every discord and forum post. We’re looking forward to speaking with many of you over the next few days and hearing your perspectives!
Daily Updates
We plan to work through the weekend and into next week with daily updates, to add new content. Please try to keep the game up to date, and if you encounter a bad bug, let us know about it. Please don’t judge us too harshly for the first couple of days - we will get any glitches fixed quickly. Though for the most part the game should be in pretty solid shape for this launch.
Undead Rising DLC
We are giving the Undead Rising DLC to everyone who purchases the game on launch. However, we are waiting for the page to get approved by Steam (there were some delays due to COVID-19 and the summer sale) and we need to finalize a few more things. So, while you can already select to play that version of the campaign in the menu, you won't encounter Zombies until the DLC officially goes live. We’ll keep you posted, it won't be that long.
Early Access Plans
The Plague: Kingdom Wars is a sequel to Medieval Kingdom Wars that was built on the foundation of the original game. With our current Early Access build, a greater part of the game has been remade from the ground up, and the gameplay has evolved in a new direction. A greatly expanded world map and new plague mechanics are just the beginning. There are hundreds of new lords to play as, and over 30 new nations to conquer and control.
However, since we wanted to focus on changing gameplay during production, some of the art and level assets remained from the original MKW. Our main priority during Early Access is to create brand new art assets and city levels, with unit and building variations by culture, and so much more.
The final goal is for each nation to play differently, and have four distinct cultural sets, with their own unit and buildings, spread across the greater Europe, including Western, Southern, Slavic and Muslim culture sets.
You can read more about this and our roadmap here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1300700/discussions/0/2570942124843493287/
Thank you for your continued support! We really think you’ll enjoy PKW and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts.