Lower than every week after rolling out of its two-year early entry interval into full launch, Songs of Conquest has now surpassed 500,000 copies bought—and extra importantly, developer Lavapotion has unveiled large plans for the longer term, together with 4 DLC releases and a “main enlargement” deliberate for summer season 2025.
The enlargement, known as Bleak East, will add two new factions to Songs of Conquest—the Vanir and the Roots—and “a big singleplayer marketing campaign that may inform the story of how they got here to be and the way they’ll have an effect on the bigger world of Aerbor.”
“The Bleak East lies to the North-East of Patrium, and is the house of descendants from each Arleon and Barya,” lead recreation designer Carl Toftfelt wrote on Steam. “Hardy settlers who now stay their lives freed from their former masters on the coast of the Bleak East. However they don’t seem to be alone, and we will barely wait to share their Track with you.”
Sadly, they—and also you—must wait a full 12 months for Bleak East to reach, and that is the place the 4 DLC releases come into play.
“We need to preserve telling the story of Songs of Conquest at a better tempo than solely faction expansions would enable,” Toftfelt defined. “So we’re introducing one thing we name Tales of Conquest within the type of DLC, releasing roughly each quarter. These Tales will transfer the story of Songs of Conquest ahead, in addition to broaden our Gameplay, by story missions following every one of many current factions.”
The primary Tales of Conquest DLC, known as Rise Everlasting, will give attention to the Barony of Loth undead faction: An undead scholar named Kastus Maal will search vengeance towards Arleon baroness who killed him on the Battle of Gray Tor, “and along with his steerage the Risen will probably be extra highly effective than ever earlier than.” Rise Everlasting is deliberate for launch this fall, and also will embody new artifacts, set bonuses, and “normal enhancements to the Risen of Loth” faction, most of which will probably be added to the bottom recreation at no cost, making them out there to all Gamers, even when they do not buy the DLC.
After that may come Essence Woke up, specializing in the Arleon, which is anticipated to be out “round December,” after which two extra, based mostly on the Barya and Rana factions, that are slated for someday within the second half of 2025.
That schedule is imprecise, and even so far as it goes nothing is carved in stone—Toftfelt warned that “issues will all the time change, and timelines can shift ahead and again”—however Lavapotion clearly has large plans for the longer term: “We simply wished to let immediately that we plan to assist Songs of Conquest for years to return.”
