The Settlers: New Allies Launches - Game Fogotten Even by Ubisoft
Today marks the release of the strategy game The Settlers: New Allies. We've been waiting five years for the project, and Ubisoft doesn't seem particularly interested in advertising it.
UPDATE: The Settlers: New Allies is now available!
As announced, the PC version of the game has debuted on the market. You can purchase it from Ubisoft Store and Epic Games Store.
In a few hours we will see the debut of The Settlers: New Allies, the latest installment in the popular strategy series by Blue Byte.
- The game will be released today only on PC. Console versions are planned for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, but we will have to wait until March 23 for them.
- The PC release will be available for purchase on Ubisoft Store and Epic Games Store.
- A Deluxe Edition is also available, which additionally offers a set of virtual items, a digital artbook, an album with selected tracks from the soundtrack, and a 3-day bonus for collecting fragments (an in-game resource).
- The game is also included in the Ubisoft Plus.
The long march of the eighth installment towards release
We have been waiting for a new installment of the series for a very long time - the previous one, i.e. The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom, was released in 2010. The next one was originally announced in 2018, and the release was planned for autumn 2019.
After that, however, the project suffered one delay after another. Eventually it completely went off the radar for a long time. When it emerged from development hell, it turned out that the vision of the authors had undergone major changes.
The game that the publisher forgot about
The upcoming release raises a lot of concerns for fans of the brand. Impressions from the early version made available a year ago were not good. On top of that, the game's publisher Ubisoft did not try very hard to advertise the game. For the past few months, the marketing of the project was completely abandoned. Only yesterday the devs published a new video in the form of a launch trailer.
The publisher's approach to The Settlers: New Allies is perfectly illustrated by the state of the game's official website, where the last message was published in March, last year.
We fear that such action by Ubisoft may be due to the poor quality of the game. The publisher may have decided that, after so many years of work, it is tired of pumping resources into a doomed project and decided to release it regardless of its condition. We hope otherwise, but things do not look good.
Finally, it is worth quoting the system requirements of the game's PC version.
The Settlers: New Allies - minimum requirements for PC
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 with 2 GB VRAM / AMD Radeon 550 with 2 GB VRAM.
- DirectX: 11
- RAM: 8 GB
- Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
The Settlers: New Allies - recommended requirements for PC
- Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 with 4 GB VRAM / AMD Radeon RX 470 with 4 GB VRAM.
- DirectX: 11
- RAM: 8 GB
- Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
