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Essays 24 December 2019, 12:30

Where the Hell Is Warcraft 3 Reforged? Video Games That Vanished in 2019

Many charming gems have been released in 2019. However, several interesting video games like Iron Harvest or Diablo Immortal, have been postponed to 2020. Let's take a look at this bunch of unreleased titles.

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The Settlers

  1. Genre: economic RTS
  2. Studio: Blue Byte GMBH
  3. Release date: 2020
  4. Platforms: PC

Very few of the strategy series were spoiled like The Settlers (although I think Command and Conquer takes the cake here... yes, we do remember). Something that originally launched as a difficult, but pleasant economic strategy with a great unique gameplay model has suddenly twisted into a game with pseudo-realistic visual style and simplified gameplay at the same time. Somewhere along the way, the whole franchise almost lost its glory due to the free-to-play version full of microtransactions, which changed the overall game mechanics into a typical RTS, but now the whole series gets back on the track.

The new edition of The Settlers is practically a reboot of the series that fortunately respects the original. Most probably, it will provide us with a decent story (as far as strategy standards are concerned), about the settlers who have to colonize a new territory after a disaster has destroyed their homeland.

First of all, the more fairy-tale graphics design is coming back. It is different from the original visuals of first installments loved by the players, but in some way it still refers to the colorful artistic style. What's more, Blue Byte wants to make the gameplay a bit more challenging and force players to complete various tasks before they provide stability and security for their settlement. We will have to balance the military and economic aspects. Also, we will have to take care of the morale of our settlers – everything may fall apart without the proper amount of trust and satisfaction.

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SIMILAR MINOR TITLES – ALSO MISSING

In addition to the long-awaited video games, there are also a few minor titles, which are worth mentioning.

Cuphead: Delicious Last Course

One of the best-rated independent games of recent years – Cuphead, was going to receive an expansion set in 2019. A typical fully-fledged add-on that expands the game. With a new character, new levels, brand new bosses and skills. Fortunately, fans will finally get it, but they have to wait a bit longer – it should be released in 2020.

Hubert Sosnowski

Hubert Sosnowski

He joined GRYOnline.pl in 2017, as an author of texts about games and movies. He's currently the head of the film department and the Filmomaniak.pl website. Learned how to write articles while working for the Dzika Banda portal. His texts were published on kawerna.pl, film.onet.pl, zwierciadlo.pl, and in the Polish Playboy. Has published stories in the monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror magazine, as well as in the first volume of the Antologii Wolsung. Lives for "middle cinema" and meaty entertainment, but he won't despise any experiment or Fast and Furious. In games, looks for a good story. Loves Baldur's Gate 2, but when he sees Unreal Tournament, Doom, or a good race game, the inner child wakes up. In love with sheds and thrash metal. Since 2012, has been playing and creating live action role-playing, both within the framework of the Bialystok Larp Club Zywia, and commercial ventures in the style of Witcher School.

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