Warlord: Awaji Sets September 10 Release With New Main Trailer
The September 10 launch date and detailed main trailer confirm Darkmatter Games is moving the historical samurai sim from teaser stage to a concrete release, with the Nanboku-cho setting standing out from the usual Sengoku-era games.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Game Spark.
Darkmatter Games released the main trailer for its open-world samurai simulation Warlord: Awaji and set a September 10 launch date. The game is set on a one-third scale recreation of Awaji Island during the 14th-century Nanboku-cho period, with historians consulted for authentic armor, weapons, and architecture.
The main trailer for Warlord: Awaji shows more detailed natural depictions of Awaji Island than the earlier alpha footage, along with building construction, first-person melee combat, and large-scale real-time battles where the player leads troops to attack enemy bases. The game casts the player as a samurai general ordered to find a treasure stolen from the emperor, managing soldier recruitment, training, camp construction, and domestic administration while attacking hostile forces on the island.
Darkmatter Games says historians cooperated in development, and the armor, weapons, architectural styles, and battle conditions of the 14th-century Nanboku-cho period are faithfully recreated. The game follows the previous work Warlord: Britannica in using a figure-like character art style. A demo is available on Steam, and the game supports full Japanese voice acting.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.