I'm Currently working with a very cool developer on their latest project; WARTILE, a Viking RTS game with a sprinkling of turn based flavor to it.
What stands out the most about this game is the absolutely gorgeous visuals of the playable maps, or battleboards as they are known. These battleboards are created digitally to replicate the resin diorama boards you would typically play with real figurines on.
Each battleboard your characters move and fight on provides a different combat experience and environment, the battleboards have a tile based system that you'd find on most strategy turn based games but this has a real time combat element to the gameplay.
The cool-down aspect between moves for the turn based flavor actually works pretty well, at first glance you'd be set for a full on turn based strategy game but I love the fact these guys have found a way to make both real time and turn based game-play work in unison. The design is a bold move but one that works once you get into the swing of it.
Customizing figurines from the spoils of war, spending your loot from raiding churches and caves provides players with a means to level up with a variety of cool looking weapons and armor.
Battleboards are presented in gorgeous detail complete with coastlines and the water looks like a cross between clear poured resin and something you'd find in a billionaires model collection. The Viking figurines are animated and once selected you'll need to choose your fighters carefully and equip them with the weapons and armor you have collected along the way.
Wartile is a game not bound by historical accuracy or fact, the developers are keen to explore a broader, wider scope of content which could feature Knights, Kings and Lords. Onwards from there Wartile could add other historical characters such as Templar Kings, Persian Warriors and Roman Soldiers
Michael Rud Jakobsen, Creative Director of Playwood Project says "On the history we decided a while ago to not be bound by history facts or events, but more inspired by mythology and legends allowing only or fantasy to set the boundaries of the story."
Wartile is available on Steam Early Access which means that more content, fixes and updates are due, if you want something a bit different and particularly gorgeous to look at while you're playing you'd be hard pressed to find another game like this, especially one that Kotaku called "too pretty to bleed over."
There's a small update going into the game shortly with a very cool 'stealth mission' battleboard.
Wartile is available on Steam
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