Upcoming 4X and grand strategy game Feudums confirms single-player mode

It’s been a long time coming, but Civilization 7 finally feels real. However, we still have some time to wait for the next installment in Firaxis’ defining series, so you may be looking for another strategy game to fill the void. If so, you will need to log in to Feudumsa wonderful mix of 4X and grand strategy games. With the in-development build currently available as a free demo on Steam, developer Kalamona Studios confirms that a single-player mode “will be coming” as it continues to add features and functionality.

I’ve had my eye on Feudums for a while – the sweeping vistas and scenic design give a distinct feel to the familiar hex-grid layout used by many of the best 4X games. Influenced by 80s and 90s strategy classics such as Defender of the Crown and Lords of the Realm, as well as Crusader Kings, Kalamona describes Feudums as “part 4X turn-based strategy, part online social game, fully customizable and built entirely around its players, with a carefully designed, hand-drawn visual style, contextual music tracks and original melodies.

Feudums uses a turn-based system, with asynchronous gameplay allowing multiplayer matches to take place over long distances and giving everyone time to think. By synthesizing all aspects of medieval life, you build your civilization and its social network by creating alliances or vassals. Breaking agreements or declaring wars should not be done without good reasons and careful consideration, because the consequences can be brutal and long-lasting. You’ll also have to deal with seasonal changes, which affect everything from your growth and work capacity to your military capabilities.

In its current pre-alpha form, Feudums is focused on multiplayer matches. You can get in on it right now by downloading the demo, which Kalamona invites you to try joining the Discord to “help us refine the game and roadmap priorities as we move forward.” However, in a new developer update, the team is addressing a community vote aimed at assessing player interest in a single-player game mode. The results are clear.

“An overwhelming majority (85%) of you would also like to see single-player content and almost all (92%) would pay for it, with about a third even willing to pay upfront (such as through crowdfunding),” Kalamona writes. “So single player will happen. I already have plans and potential collaboration partners (some of which you may recognize from other strategy games), but I can’t promise any planning yet.”

In the meantime, however, the developer is focused on another important vote: determining the nature of the next milestone update for the ongoing demo build. This “ended with a rather unexpected bond between Warfare II and Vassalage,” it says. Instead of making players wait twice as long to pick up both, or making an “arbitrary, exclusive decision” about which one to prefer, it will “choose the features from both features that will be included in a milestone update of can fit normal length.”

Some of these features will be released in smaller portions as part of the regular update schedule, Kalamona notes, to ensure players don’t have to wait too long for new additions. “Some bits will already be included in the next regular update.” It also adds that players who haven’t checked in for a while will find “significant changes in both the economic and war situation,” so it encourages you to give it another try if you haven’t dipped your toes lately you put in.

Starting this weekend, the team also launched new games called ‘Pretender Wars’. These will task you with trying to beat the house representing the winner of the previous game in week-long matches, starting with the studio’s community manager. Achieve victory and you’ll earn a limited number of heraldic items. “You can win alone, or with someone in an alliance,” says Kalamona, “but remember that you are not competing against the pretender house alone.”

The Feudums in development demo is out now on Steam. If you’re curious to check it out and join in on the ongoing creation, you can download it for free now.

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