Winter Chronicle begins with Corun, a young Lornknight placed in command of the small fortified town of Tulza in the southern province of the Lorn Empire. Explore a desolate, harsh world of snow and ice where clashes with rival factions are commonplace in the quest for dominance. Bases will need to be built and upgraded, and resources such as food and gold will be integral to the Lornsword economy as players build their armies and military strength. 

Featuring a drop-in and drop-out cooperative mode that allows the player to team up with an ally for intense melee and ranged based combat against enemy factions, Lornsword Winter Chronicle is setting its sights on action RPG and action strategy fans with an experience that includes resource management, base building and upgrading, exploration and combat in a dynamic battlefield.

Presented in a three-dimensional top down perspective, players will be judged by the decisions they make as a general on the battlefield, directly commanding soldiers and units, building their settlement, capturing mines, farms and searching for artifacts in detailed environments, that begins within a land of snow and ice.

Lornsword Winter Chronicle is now available for PC via Steam Early Access for $18.99 / £18.99 / €18.99 with a 10% discount for launch week.

The Lornsword Early Access adventure begins with the prologue and first chapter, to be completed by two more chapters when the game launches later this year.

“Early Access is a great opportunity for us to gather player feedback and incorporate that into the final version of the game, including the forthcoming console versions”, said Renaud Charpentier, Game Director at Tower Five. “Player insights into different aspects of the game from cooperative gameplay to the control system and unit types will allow us to deliver a truly unique action strategy game.”

The brainchild of a talented team of ex-Creative Assembly developers, Lornsword Winter Chronicle builds on the foundation of classic real time strategy gameplay with an engaging narrative and detailed graphics, but with a more direct and action based control system. Players will need to make some hard and fast choices about sustaining and growing their armies. Players will need to think on their feet in fast paced battles and decide if they should take the fight to the enemy as commander of an army alone or enlist the help of an ally through co-op play in the unfolding real-time tactical control of battles.

As any good tactician knows, an army marches on its stomach; resources to feed, equip and finance an army can be expanded through exploring the vast landscape and capturing farms and gold mines. A delicate balance is essential to time spent on exploration, resource management and combat. 

The game aims to put a big emphasis on the player experience with a focus on the control system which Tower Five feels is the primary coalition between the game and the player. Tower Five aims to fully integrate a seamless control system by way of a controller with all the intuitive classical actions of an RTS without the need for a mouse.

Supported by a rousing orchestral score by Hungarian composer Thomas-Adam Habuda, whose previous work includes promotional music tracks for 20th Century Fox’s 'Alita: Battle Angel' and more recently Marvel’s 'Avengers: Endgame'.

Lornsword Winter Chronicle is in development for PC, PS4 and Xbox One scheduled for late 2019.