Like a bolt out of the blue, the venerable strategy series The Settlers debuts today on PlayStation with New Allies, despite having missed its previous March release date in order to "ensure the best possible experience for players". It seems like that particular provision has now been achieved, as The Settlers: New Allies is available right now in the early-bird time zones (Australia confirmed).
The Settlers: New Allies features real-time strategy gameplay in the vein of Age of Empires, although presumably much slower in pace, with a greater economic focus (although there is plenty of combat, too). At least, that was the case with the older games. As such, the series found a natural home on PC, and as more and more quality strategy games make their way to PS5 and PS4, it seems the time for the venerable franchises' console conversion is here.
What's your history with The Settlers? Will you be checking out New Allies? Arm your citizens when times get tough in the comments section below.
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Japan confirmed
Wow settlers. I remember playing the crap out of the first and second ones.
Ill wait for an sale as my backlog is huge, but colour me intrigued
More Amiga re-makes please…
Unless something has changed this released on pc early in the year to very mediocre reviews, so I wouldn't recommend on getting this before some prior investigation
@EngFin
What a shame, I'm always excited for games like this to hit console but it seems this game features city building and RTS warfare...and it fails at both. Hopefully they toss it onto ps extra or something so I can at least try it.
Played Settlers to death on the Amiga during the early 90s and adored it. It was my first ever strategy game. May have to check this out
I used to love Settlers back in the day, but I only liked building a little town and then got bored as soon as people started attacking me. I did the building a town bit like a 100 times.
If there's a similar game on the way from the actual guy who did the original Settlers, it might be a good idea to wait and compare the two.
I also played to death the Amiga original back in the day. I've had a bit of a look at this on the PS Store and for a £50 game, I'm sighing that there's in-game currency available to purchase.
Yes, all optional but it does make me think why this is necessary outside of the obvious 'whale scalping' scenario.
Back on the 'wait for a deep sale price assuming it's good' list for this one.
@feral1975 Oh I hope so. That would certainly be of interest!
@michaelf £50... good grief..I was interested ,but at that price, no thankyou very much
@tallythwack I know! And there's a more-expensive 'deluxe' edition too, with no specific PS5 version either. Just PS4.
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