Sorcerer King
Sorcerer King is a new direction for 4X game design, pitting the player against a single overwhelmingly powerful enemy instead of a set of evenly matched factions racing for abstract victory conditions. Think…
Sorcerer King is an indie developed by Stardock, released 16 July 2015 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sorcerer King is
Sorcerer King is an indie game developed by Stardock and released in 2015. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sorcerer King is a new direction for 4X game design, pitting the player against a single overwhelmingly powerful enemy instead of a set of evenly matched factions racing for abstract victory conditions. Think of the Sorcerer King as the evil mage who won the last traditional 4X game. He has already conquered the world. His enemies (including you) are scattered, their armies broken and cities torn down. His dark minions have free reign to terrorize the survivors everywhere except a few tiny outposts of civilization (like the one you start in) too insignificant to crush.
How it plays
Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Sorcerer King holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sorcerer King launched on 16 July 2015, within three weeks of Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright and Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright, Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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