Developer/publisher - League Of Geeks
Format - PC
Origin - Australia
Release - 2023
Lucifer has disappeared from Hell, leaving behind an empty throne and an entire underworld’s worth of archfiends eager to fill it. The throne being strictly a singleseater, and demons hardly being known for their trustworthiness, the result is inevitable: all the scheming, betrayal and dark rituals we’ve come to expect from a political party leadership contest. It’s this jostling that powers Solium Infernum – both the forthcoming strategy game from Armello developer League Of Geeks and the 2009 iteration on which it is based.
Trent Kusters, co-founder and director of the Australian studio behind this significantly expanded reimagining, refers to its predecessor as “a diamond in the dark”. A delicious blend of Civilization and boardgame design, Solium Infernum was almost entirely the work of one man, Vic Davis. Davis wandered into videogames in his 40s, bringing a knowledge of Macromedia Director (“a program that was designed to make DVD menus,” Kusters points out) that he leveraged into a handful of cult hits, and then all but disappeared himself.
This story is from the Christmas 2022 edition of Edge UK.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the Christmas 2022 edition of Edge UK.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
HENRY HALFHEAD
Where's your head at?
CROTEAM
How a gaggle of football fans became the self-appointed national dev team of Croatia
TEMPEST RISING
Heading to the future for a very '90s war
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Anyone who's engaged with Sid Meier's strategy series during its 34-year existence knows that the most exhilarating turns in a game are the initial ones. Sure, the mid-game can be an absorbing juggling act, requiring you to manage diplomatic crises and placate the citizens of a sprawling empire, while choreographing your battalions' advance into enemy territory.
HEAVY HITTER
Doom looks to the past for its biggest and weightiest iteration yet
Darkest Dungeon II
Having marvelled at Red Hook's leftfield approach to sequel-making in E385's review, Darkest Dungeon II's Kingdoms DLC was always going to pique our interest.
ASSASSIN'S CREED: SHADOWS
Ubisoft's signature series finds itself at a crossroads. After Valhalla concluded Assassin's Creed's trilogy-length RPG pivot back in 2020, it was three years - which felt like an eternity for this once-annual series - before Mirage arrived, with its promise of a return to the concept's stealthgame roots, and no pretence to the scale of its immediate predecessors.
THE MAKING 0F... ARCO
How a ramshackle gang of indie developers formed over three continents to produce an epic reverse western
DEATH HOWL
A gloomy deckbuilding odyssey and an accidental Soulslike
Sludge Life
Peer through the haze to discover a game that makes you ask some surprisingly sharp questions
