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Description

Dead Crown is a hex strategy game of towns, armies and a war between the living and the risen dead, in a painted tabletop-miniature style.

The old king was buried with his crown, and that was the mistake. The crown was made to bind the realm to its ruler, living or dead, and something climbed out of the tomb wearing it. Now every grave in the land answers when it calls. You lead the Covenant, the last lords of the living, sworn to one another because nothing else holds: build your towns, raise your armies and hold the realm against a dead army that grows stronger as the war goes on.

The war is fought across a whole world, from the hot equator to the frozen poles, where the seasons and the weather change how armies fight, and the cold favours the dead.

Features

• A painted hex map of towns, roads, rivers and fields, with every unit a painted miniature on its plinth.
• Towns that lay out their streets once and grow into them, from hamlet to metropolis (coming in 0.3).
• A living world: a climate from equator to poles, seasons that come on week by week, and weather that changes tactics (coming in 0.3).
• Two sides that are balanced but never mirrored, each with three heroes who bend its strategy, tuned across thousands of simulated matches.
• Armies and battle lines, walls and sieges, three research trees, and great rites that can win the war without a final battle.
• Monsters in the wild: frost giants, ice wolves, ogres, raptors and drakes (coming in 0.3).
• A voiced guide who teaches a first-time player chapter by chapter.

Plans

A free demo on Steam with version 0.3; early access once both sides are playable, each with its campaign, and Conquest; at 1.0 a third people joins the war.