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Paradox Announces new games for 2023
STOCKHOLM — March 6, in the year of
our Lord 2023 — Paradox Interactive, a developer and
publisher of games for all audiences, today made nine
announcements over the course of the Paradox Announcement Show,
including three new full games, three expansions for titles in
the Paradox catalog, and three announcements from the Paradox
Arc publishing initiative. All nine titles that were revealed in
the show are slated for release in 2023, making this year one of
Paradox’s most ambitious to date. The show concluded with the
announcement of Cities: Skylines II, a sequel to Paradox
Interactive’s best-selling city-building game from Colossal
Order.
The three full games revealed during the Announcement Show
included:
The Lamplighters League, an original game created by
Seattle-based Harebrained Schemes, featuring globetrotting pulp
adventure and strategic turn-based combat set in an alternate,
stylish 1930s
Life By You, a new game from Paradox Tectonic, with details to
be shared in an upcoming announcement show on March 20, 2023
Cities: Skylines II, from Finland-based developer Colossal
Order, a direct sequel to Paradox’s iconic, award-winning
city-building game from 2015
Paradox Arc, the publishing initiative started in 2022 to
elevate new deep, endless, replayable games from smaller
developers, announced two new games:
Mechabellum, a sci-fi auto-battler game where players compete
with ever-growing armies of mechs, robots, and heavy weapons
Knights of Pen & Paper 3, a sequel to Paradox’s pop-culture
infused turn-based RPG series
In addition, Paradox Arc revealed Across the Obelisk: The Wolf
Wars, the first expansion to the deckbuilding RPG released with
Paradox Arc last year, featuring a new zone, character, and
more.
Three titles in the Paradox library revealed new expansions
coming in 2023:
Crusader Kings III: Tours and Tournaments will add new actions
and adventures for characters, with new ways to gain prestige at
home and abroad
Europa Universalis IV: Domination expands and improves content
for some of the game’s most popular and powerful nations
Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth offers a chance to truly
reshape and regrow the devastated earth through terraforming and
more
In Crusader Kings III: Tours and Tournaments, the map comes
alive with new possibilities as your realm becomes the host of
great celebrations and great tournaments. Pilgrimages to holy
religious sites are joined by more secular travel, including
grand tours of the realm where your ruler can get a first-hand
account of what is happening in their lands.
Tours and Tournaments is full of things your character can do to
increase their prestige or their abilities. Not everything is
safe, but with great risk comes the potential for great renown
as your character hunts large game, travels to far off lands or
engages in mock combat.
Features of Crusader Kings III: Tours and Tournaments include:
Grand Tournaments: Host a grand demonstration of feats of arms,
attracting nearby nobles and wandering knights. Choose the
events, set the destination and use the tournament to improve
your social standing or military prowess.
Grand Tours: Take a trip through your realm to take stock of
your vassals, gifting them with your benevolence or extorting
them for higher taxes.
Grand Weddings: Save your gold for an elaborate ceremony that
centers the real meaning of marriage - politics. Honor your
in-laws, cater to your vassals and demonstrate your power.
Travel System: Plan your route to these great activities,
choosing safety through civilized lands or risking everything
for a more direct route through dark forests or dangerous
mountains. Ease your way with a large entourage that marks your
importance or travel light so you can get down to business.
Knightly Accolades: Honor your best knights with special titles
and accolades that will give bonuses to them and the armies they
lead.
New Armor Designs: New historical armor designs from across the
centuries, integrated with the new Tournament and Accolade
systems.
New Western Clothing: New art for clothing designs will show how
fashions changed and evolved in Western Europe from the time of
the Carolignians to the closing of the medieval era.
Tours and Tournaments will be released this spring, alongside a
major free update available for all Crusader Kings III players.
This update will include the new Activity menu with updated
interactions for pilgrimages, feasts and hunts, as well as more
intricate management of regency relations. Major changes to
vassal relations and domain management are also included in this
update.
The story of the early modern world is largely the story of
imperial growth and colliding ambitions. England, France and
Spain battle for power in a New World to fuel hegemony in the
Old World. The established Ottomans are confronted by a new
rising power in Russia. In Asia, the old Chinese and Japanese
empires fight centuries of inertia in search of centralized
authority. Now, in Europa Universalis IV: Domination, you can
rediscover the histories of these great powers with updated
historical detail.
Domination is a new expansion pack for Paradox Interactive’s
classic grand strategy game about the rise and fall of empires
from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolutions. In Domination,
many of the most popular and powerful nations are getting
updated mission trees and other historical details, in an add-on
with true global reach and multiple new alternate histories.
Europa Universalis IV: Domination includes new national mission
trees and features for:
The Ottoman Empire: A revised conquest tree with new rewards for
pushing Ottoman dominance, including expansion through the new
Eyalet system, and new internal changes, such as the new
Janissary estate and the ‘Ottoman Power Struggle’.
China: Different mission trees for the Han Ming and invader
empires like the Qing. Choose between expansion and Inward
Perfection, and counter the power of the Eunuchs to build a more
stable empire.
Japan: Unite Japan as you deal with the power of the Shogun and
the independent Daimyos. Choose to open the country to foreign
influence or keep it isolated, while deciding upon different
paths of expansion and reform.
Russia: Free your country of the Tatar Yoke, and transform it
into a Great Empire. Choose the path of Peter’s reforms to
modernize the state, so your mission tree as well as your
mechanics will change and develop as the game progresses. Use
the power of Cossacks and Streltsy to expand your Empire to East
and West.
Spain: Expanded mission trees for Castile and Aragon, with
different paths to form Spain, a new mechanic available for the
new ‘Hispanic Monarchy’ government, and decisions about the Army
and Navy to get the mighty Tercios and Spanish Armada.
France: Fight the end of the Hundred Years War, centralize
France into an absolute monarchy while dealing with the Wars of
Religion, expand into Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, and lead
the Revolution through an expanded mission tree.
Great Britain: Separate paths for either a British Empire or an
Angevin Britain, as well as a deeper internal gameplay, with
unique features for the English Parliament and changes to the
English Civil War disaster.
Minor nations: Mission changes, new government mechanics and
expanded flavor for Prussia, Portugal and Korea.
Domination also includes new art and music alongside a rich menu
of new historical detail, adding more flavorful estates,
reforms, special units and events to the leading powers.
Europa Universalis IV: Domination will be accompanied by a major
update to the game, free for all Europa Universalis IV players.
Paradox Interactive and Iceflake Studios today announced
Rebirth, the third expansion for their survival colony builder,
Surviving the Aftermath. Rebirth introduces terraforming, giving
players the power to modify and revitalize the environment for
their colonists. An infectious threat has also appeared, so use
your knowledge, tools, and specialized buildings to protect the
world you have just restored. Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth
launches on March 16 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC at a
suggested retail price of 14.99 USD / 12.79 GBP / 14.99 EUR.
Building upon years of knowledge, skills, and leadership,
humankind is ready to move forward and reclaim Earth after the
apocalyptic event. Standing between the colonists and prosperity
is the Blight, a fungal infestation brought about by radioactive
contamination. Find a cure for Blight by collecting samples,
utilizing advanced facilities, and modifying your surroundings
with terraforming. As your environment returns to a greener and
more vibrant state, suppress this infectious, ecological danger
and look toward a brighter future.
"Rebirth represents a turning point of humanity's survival
experience. It is an end to mere survival and the beginning of a
new chapter. It is time to start rebuilding civilization and
heal the world,” said Lasse Liljedahl, Game Director for
Surviving the Aftermath. "The Blight mechanic presents the
greatest challenge the colonists have faced so far, but it is
also a key to turn the tide and repair the damage the
environment has suffered after the apocalypse. These new
features such as terraforming give players more control of their
surroundings, but also expand the core gameplay to new
meaningful directions."
Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth Key Features:
Blight: from threat to resource
After decades of exposure to radioactive pollution, a new
infestation called Blight has emerged. Mutated fungi have
started to infect the animals, causing them to become aggressive
and dangerous. This infection has spread through the wasteland
and is threatening to take over. You will need to find a cure
for the Blight to defend against it. Gather Blight samples,
study them in a new research building and make discoveries to
unlock new buildings, resources, and upgrades.
From a wasteland to green pastures
Let’s turn this barren land into fertile soil! With the
Terraformer, you will be able to welcome new life: the more you
terraform, the more your map will turn green and lush with
vegetation and animals. Be aware of the blighted areas that you
will terraform, here, blight monsters will spawn and attack your
survivors.
New buildings and upgrades
“Rebirth” adds three new buildings, three building upgrades,
plus an all-new multi-stage Blight lab with its Research tree. A
Purification post will allow you to remove small pollution
deposits and it can be upgraded to an Extermination post to
clear blighted nests, hives, and lairs. The Basic Terraformer
turns the land into terraformed soil and it can be upgraded to
Advanced Terraformer. The Environmental Station becomes the
Hazmat station: with it, survivors can clear the blight cores
and stop the creatures' attacks. While not a new building, the
Guard Posts have received significant improvements and will now
be more critical than ever when defending your colony.
Paradox Arc is proud to present Mechabellum, a massive mech
autobattler from independent developer Game River. In
Mechabellum, players will power up and place massive armies of
unique mechs in PvP auto-battles against another player or the
AI. Massive battles unfold with tremendously explosive
firepower, and victory will go to the player who remembers to
always think one mech ahead.
Create and Command your Army: From the nimble Wasp light
aircraft to the massive Vulcan, learn the strengths and
weaknesses of a large number of unique mechs. Customize them and
their abilities before you go to war to maximize their
destructive power.
Counter for Victory: Anticipate your enemy and strategically
place your mechs on the battlefield. Counter your opponent’s
moves by choosing the perfect unit combination as the battle
unfolds.
Turn the Tide with Special Abilities: Turn a losing battle into
a winning one by calling down the perfectly placed airstrike, or
spread chaos by calling in a horde of crawler bots in the midst
of your enemy’s army.
Massive Battles: Watch shrapnel, incendiary bombs and huge
lasers cut through the air as battles between massive armies of
mechs unfold in front of your eyes.
Mechabellum will launch in Steam Early Access on May 11, 2023.
For more information and to wishlist the game, please visit the
Steam store page.
Paradox Interactive today announced the first full expansion
ever to launch for a Paradox Arc title, revealing Across the
Obelisk: The Wolf Wars coming to Steam on March 30, 2023.
Expanding upon the story and world of Across the Obelisk from
Madrid-based developers Dreamsite Games, The Wolf Wars will add
a new hero to the roster alongside the game’s familiar faces -
when they were younger and didn’t yet know what the cards held
for them.
Features will include:
Live the Tale of the Wolf Wars: Play through a completely new
independent zone depicting Senenthia from the past. Travel back
ten years and live the tale of the legendary Wolf Wars.
Experience events and fight together with the team of heroes
that participated in the war. Choose different paths in order to
reach the final goal of the war.
New Character and Pet: When you have completed the Wolf Wars
story, none other than Yogger will be unlocked as a new playable
character! You will also be able to unlock the new pet, the wolf
cub Wolfy!
New Hero Skins: While playing the story of the Wolf Wars you
will encounter several heroes in their younger days. Completing
their events will unlock new skins for them. A total of five new
skins and events are included.
Paradox Arc today also made the dicey decision to bring back
Knights of Pen & Paper, a retro-styled, pop-culture-infused,
humor-driven, turn-based RPG adventure series. With more bizarre
character creation combinations, new village building mechanics,
a new skill system, and probably new jokes, the series is more
“everything” than ever before. Knights of Pen & Paper 3, from
Knights of Pen & Paper 2 developers Kyy Games, is releasing for
PC tomorrow, March 7, 2023.
Features will include:
Superior Character Creation: Knights of Pen & Paper 3 provides
an upgraded character creation system. With diverse class- and
party build options you can truly create the pixelated heroes of
your dreams.
Prestige Classes: Unlock new prestige classes that combine the
skills of two basic classes, and also add their own unique
skills into the mix. While running out of ideas the new class
skills will be weirder and, um, more special.
New Skill System: With a brand new skill system, even low level
skills are useful! The new system now scales the skill effects
based on character stats. All skills are unlocked automatically.
Village Building: Spend resources obtained throughout your
adventures upgrading village buildings to unlock new fantastical
content!
Enhanced Graphics: Saving throws and clubbing trolls have never
looked better!
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