Grand Strategy Great Houses of Calderia - Crusader Kings-like set in a fictional world

[LESS T_T]

https://calderiagames.com/

Developed by Finnish studio Resistance Games (made tactics Company of Crime) and published by Franco-Swedish publisher Firesquid Games, a sister company of Lightbulb Crew (made Othercide).

Great Houses of Calderia is a modern and accessible grand strategy game where you’ll have to lead your family through multiple generations, building its legacy of power in Calderia, a fantastic land full of legends and myths.

You are not controlling a leader alone, you have also to manage the members of your family like the rulers of yore!

• Manage your house leaders and their unruly families through their own stories and wishes.
  
• Appoint and manage your family members to key tasks against their will or not.
  
• Take into consideration traits and personality of each character to get the best from them.
  
• Characters’ personalities and traits change over time and events that have occurred to them.

Take the critical decisions during battles and major diplomatic events such as marriages, jousts, etc. to gain every advantage over your rivals to become the Greatest House of Calderia!

• Manage battles through the Real-time tactical resources management system.
  
• Allocate resources in diplomacy and intrigue as well as social events.
  
• Spend an equal amount of time managing diplomatic challenges and wars.

Discover the fantastic land of Calderia, its legends and myths, shape it with your actions and generates endless stories

• Define the traditions, values and goals of your family. You have unlimited possibilities.
  
• Experience the personal stories of your extended family and their descendants and see your reputation grow.
  
• Change the world mythos and give new name to the places where your family has left their mark (battle/event…).

 

[Burning Bridges]

"Crusader Kings-like"

 

[Malakal]

"Crusader Kings-like"

Hey, you may be new to video games! Or advertising! So let me explain that using a popular title as a reference is a common tactic! No need to thank me!

 

[Aemar]

Developed by Finnish studio Resistance Games

Storyteller

 

[Storyteller]

Storyteller

I felt a strange summoning sensation. Here again, every now and then, with a new game.

 

[cyborgboy95]

It's ScreenshotSaturday pals! Here is the Work In Progress of the companions in Great Houses of Calderia

 

[Storyteller]

Just came by to tell you, that a demo of Great Houses of Calderia is available for the duration of Steam Next Fest:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812910/Great_Houses_of_Calderia/

 

[Axioms]

But not for prestigious Windows 7, best Windows, users.

 

[Storyteller]

Alas, Win7 is not supported. Not even by Microsoft anymore

 

[Axioms]

I'm not aware of a single other NextFest game demo that doesn't run on Windows 7.

 

[Storyteller]

Sorry for the inconvenience, the decision is not made out of spite. There are many reasons why Great Houses of Calderia is not for Win7.
Firstly, every additional platform and OS needs to have their own tests when releasing major updates. That translates into longer update cycles as well as more man hours. Resistance Games is quite a small company. Thus supporting an OS, that is used by ~13% of current Windows users is not viable. (of which most are old server & office computers, and only a miniscule fraction of the rest would be interested in playing our game).

The next issue comes from Microsoft dropping its support. Even though the OS would be stable, the hardware technology keeps developing. Slowly but steadily the hardware manufacturers will stop providing new drivers for their chips. This creates an issue, where we might want to use a certain shader or rescaling technology or whatever, that simply can not be done anymore on the abandoned OS. This would mean splitting of the code base to exclude those features from the Win7 version.

Great houses of Calderia is made with UE4, but as the game is released, we might want to bring it to UE5. When we're using a middleware engine like Unreal, we're also at the mercy of Epic in matters of what platforms are supported. Unless we make our own code additions to continue supporting Win7.
There are many other reasons as well.

I am sorry that you can't play the game, I truly am, but we have to draw the line somewhere. This time it was between Win8 and Win10

 

[XenomorphII]

I honestly cannot really tell anything about the game due to the short length of the demo.

 

[Monstrous Bat]

Demo seemed vaguely interesting but I had to quit after a few minutes because my computer fan was spinning like crazy and I was afraid my PC would explode if I kept playing

 

[Axioms]

Demo seemed vaguely interesting but I had to quit after a few minutes because my computer fan was spinning like crazy and I was afraid my PC would explode if I kept playing

Weirdly the same issue with several other strategy game demos free in the recent NextFest. Notably they were all Unity games.

 

[Axioms]

This game is now out. But it seems like it is just a fancy eurogame(boardgame) but on PC. Bland worker placement mechanics and all.