Towards the end of 2024, we reported on Crown of Greed and its attractive approach to the formula of RTS fantasy kingdom sims without direct control over heroes and NPCs. Now, Rockbee Team’s Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim is taking things a step further to land as close as possible to the Majesty series.
“We’re bringing back the RTS genre with indirect control,” the Steam page promises alongside a generous first batch of screenshots, gifs, and one teaser trailer. It’s about planning and building a kingdom while letting heroes do their own thing. The main surface-level difference versus other modern takes on the concept is the much more colorful art style, which should put it directly into many wishlists.
In case you were worried after reading that introduction, nostalgia doesn’t seem to be the only force driving the ambitious indie project forward. While all the systems and mechanics haven’t been shown and explained yet, the development team has already been teasing ‘evolutions’ of the genre like a “brand-new combat system” and “hero squads” that should make things fresh and not just comforting.
More importantly, Rockbee Team is promising a “co-development with players” by conducting regular playtests, feedback surveys, and engaging discussions through the official channels. In fact, you can sign up for a new limited playtest right now. We’ve been admitted right away into it after requesting access via Steam, but we’re not fully sure about how wide the net that the devs are currently casting is.
Development and planning for launch also appears to be far along, with the Steam page confirming features such as single-player, online PvP and co-op, LAN support, and full implementation of Steam achievements, cloud, and leaderboards. We haven’t been able to find information about potential Workshop/mod support, but it’s looking very robust regardless.
As a final note: Much (if not all) of the voice acting that’s currently in the game is AI-generated, but the devs have confirmed they’re placeholders as all the scripts haven’t been approved yet. {{VERDICT}} “
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