I cognize a batch of radical who would accidental a expansive strategy crippled acceptable anywhere would beryllium hell, but those radical don’t cognize what they’re missing retired on.

Solium Infernum was announced overnight, and it’s the adjacent crippled from League of Geeks, the squad down the long-running and precise bully Armello. Its authoritative statement reads:

Prepare yourself for Solium Infernum, the expansive strategy crippled of politics, intrigue and betrayal, acceptable successful the eventual arena of Hell.

As a almighty fallen Archfiend, sinister overlords of the Infernal Kingdom of Hell, you are a contender for the Infernal Throne - the Great Dark Majesty is missing and the feverish Conclave demands a replacement declared. Command dread legions, enlist champion praetors, formed sinister rituals, and outplay your rivals to go Hell’s caller Dark Majesty.

A “Grand Strategy Game” is thing similar Crusader Kings, a rubric wherever the subordinate is asked to bash each kinds of antithetic worldly astatine the caput of a faction, from managing the system to moving armies to dealing with governmental intrigue. So ideate that, lone present you’re vying to go the caller Great Dark Majesty.

Now for the truly amusive part: this isn’t an all-new game! It is alternatively an effort to bash justness to 1 of the astir interesting, if besides under-appreciated strategy games of the past 15 years. Designer Vic Davis, aka Cryptic Comet, released Solium Infernum successful 2009 (its tract is inactive live, and you tin adjacent download a demo for it), and it looked similar this:

Armello’s take, meanwhile, looks similar this:

If you’re noticing similarities betwixt the supra screenshot and Armello, that’s nary coincidence. League of Geeks brag Trent Kusters told GI.biz that “[Solium Infernum] was a immense inspiration for Armello. So it’s a existent honour. We’ve known Vic [Davis] for years. And erstwhile we were [thinking] ‘What are we gonna bash for our adjacent game’, Ty Carey – my co-founder – was conscionable like, ‘let’s bash this, let’s speech to him.’”

Davis—who seemingly nary longer designs games and present sells donuts, which sounds amazing—ended up letting League of Geeks “acquire” the IP and successful doing truthful “passed connected the torch” to the Australian studio, who volition beryllium hoping that Infernum’s halfway acquisition (which led to this superb bid from Rock Paper Shotgun backmost successful the day) tin find a wider, much appreciative assemblage aft it has been reworked and fixed a caller overgarment of paint.

The crippled is owed connected Steam sometime successful 2023, and you tin spot its cinematic trailer below: