New Disciples Game in 2021! Liberation!

OMG! We’ve got another Disciples game on the way!!! I’m absolutely stunned as I thought this series was dead for sure!
I’ve always had a special love for the Disciples games as while their gameplay was similar to Heroes of Might & Magic they always had this gorgeous dark Gothic art style. The music was beautiful, the HoMM like maps fun to explore, and your units had to be really taken care of instead of being used as cannon fodder. Like most fans Disciples 2 (pictured left & right) is my favourite in the series!

Anyway this new fourth game in the series looks interesting! The trailer (which I’ll put at the bottom) is very fancy looking and the pictures below look like decent 3D, but I can’t see any interface or if there’s the cool Gothic artwork fans have come to love and expect. I’m also wondering if they’re dialing back the HoMM TBS strategy game (eg capture castles & resources) side of it and pushing more of a King’s Bounty RPG feel. Hard to tell in this early stage but I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on it!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287840/Disciples_Liberation/

EDIT: New gameplay trailer is out! I’ll stick it below the pictures!

Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars (HoMM like game)

I just saw this new dark Transylvanian vampire HoMM like game called Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars for PC, PS4, Xbox, & Switch in one of my recent PC Gamer mags. In their preview they talked about it’s closeness in gameplay to Heroes of Might & Magic and gothic art style to Disciples. I also notice it has a Eador & AoW-Planetfall like territory/province system, a research system (called legacy), and it looks like most of the game’s mechanics (empire, heroes, spells etc) revolve around an interesting card deck system and all the cards have these cool animations. Looks like there’s no gorgeous HoMM style city screen where you build buildings but in the main map view you can develop provinces with some interesting building upgrades.

I just checked and the game got released a couple of weeks ago on Steam & GoG. Metacritic score looks pretty good at 71%, steam score is not as good although most of the negative reviews point to bugs and AI issues that will hopefully be sorted in patches (Kalypso shouldn’t pull the plug on them as there’s console releases coming so they’ll wanna iron out all the bugs). No multiplayer which doesn’t bother me but I know it might bother others so thought I’d mention it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1024480/Immortal_Realms_Vampire_Wars/
https://www.gog.com/game/immortal_realms_vampire_wars

Here’s an old preview video of it.. I love that foggy night map shown around the 2min mark. I remember preview videos of HoMM5 had undead foggy dark night time maps that excited me but the final game just had the usual not so foggy day time or dusk undead maps. I can also see myself spending ages just gawking at all the card animations instead of playing the game haha.

HUGE SITE UPDATE (BACKDATED NEWS – 25/06/2012)

BACKDATED NEWS – 25/06/2012

HUGE SITE UPDATE FINISHED! As well as the changes mentioned on 15/5 I’ve also implemented browser window/tab icons in all sections & some rotating screenshot banners in Star Trek Doom 2 Mod, Star Wars Civ 2 Mod & Lord Of The Rings Pics sections. Have also catagorised my news items with the new icons.

Added many new games to my Babylon 5 Fan Games, Heroes of Might & Magic similar games, & Quest For Glory fan games lists (thank you to all who contacted me about them!)