Ironclad Games surprised with the sci-fi 4x strategy games, Sins of a Solar Empire back in 2008. Now the developer heads to the realm of fantasy with a new free-to-play multiplayer real-time strategy game called Sins of a Dark Age announced on Tuesday.
Sins of a Dark Age pits teams of players against one another with one taking on the role of commander and the rest taking on the role of heroes. It will require teamwork to take on enemies controlled by other human players or the AI in short, fast-paced multiplayer and custom matches.
The game will let players form clans and let players earn rewards for themselves and their clansman as they progress through Sins of a Dark Age. Players can also record and share replays with each other.
Choose the Hero role and you will face the enemy on the front lines as the most inspiring and powerful member of a mighty army. Your success in battle will be well rewarded with experience, unique abilities, and game changing items that will make you an ever greater symbol of power on the battlefield and a critical rallying point for your commander’s army.
Choose the Commander role to devise the master plan for your empire: you’ll oversee your grand army in an epic battle against your most voracious enemies. As Commander, you’re responsible for building your base, directing your peons and positioning your defenses. It’s up to you to properly train your units and use them to support your team’s Heroes in calculated assaults on enemy positions and to capture key resources. The Commander role allows players to call upon larger-than-life ‘Realm Powers’ to turn the tide of battle.
“Sins of a Dark Age is something totally unique in the strategy genre,” said Blair Fraser, co-founder and producer at Ironclad. “Like Sins of a Solar Empire, which blended 4x with real-time strategy, we’ve taken our favorite elements of traditional RTS and action RTS and added our own twists and turns that result in a completely new and unrivalled strategy experience.”
With the success of the MOBA genre through games like League of Legends and Dota, it will be interesting to see how a more RTS take on the free-to-play multiplayer arena turns out.
You can sign up at the game's website to reserve your game name and have a shot at the Sins of a Dark Age beta which starts this summer.
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