Gilded Destiny: New strategy hopeful from Hooded Horse announced

A first cinematic trailer gives a foretaste of Gilded Destiny, a new strategy game from Aquila Interactive that combines building and tactics in a dark fantasy world. The publisher is Hooded Horse - known for titles such as Manor Lords and Against the Storm.

In the upcoming strategic building game Gilded Destiny, you build cities, construct factories in the industrial age and decide on political and ideological alignments. These have a direct impact on relationships with other factions and the further course of your story - diplomacy will also be an important building block in the game. You know the drill: Keeping others quiet at first, but then suddenly unleashing the entire military apparatus. Gilded Destiny will also be a complex military simulation.

Gilded Destiny draws inspiration from historical upheavals, among other things. As in the 19th century, which serves as a model, much revolves around change, which can be seen in the trailer, among other things.

Found cities, consolidate power, write history

On huge hex areas that have been painstakingly recreated by hand from real biomes, you build supply routes, connect railroad networks and react to religious, cultural and social trends. If you act wisely, you create stability. If you make mistakes, you risk unrest - or the fall of your own power structure. If you are in the middle of a war, diplomatic mistakes could mean the end.

The trailer does not yet show any game scenes, but the direction is clear: Gilded Destiny wants to be more than a typical tactical game. Construction, diplomacy, warfare, ideologies and far-reaching consequences of your own decisions should provide strategic depth and long-term motivation.

According to the publisher, Glided Destiny will be released in 2025.