Late last year, Ubisoft surprised RTS city-building fanatics when it announced The Settlers would be returning in 2023.
The new title The Settlers: New Allies is out today on other platforms, and as part of this, Ubisoft has now confirmed the Switch release date - with the game now locked in for 23rd March 2023. Pre-orders will go live on 15th March 2023. Here's a bit about it, direct from the PR:
"Developed by Ubisoft Düsseldorf, The Settlers®: New Allies is a modern take on the long-established The Settlers’ franchise, combining elaborate infrastructure and economic gameplay with tactical real-time battles. Starting with a small group of Settlers, players must explore their surroundings, build up their settlements and optimize resource production to recruit new settlers and an army able to protect their land. Researching economic and military upgrades is critical to create a strong army and overcome rivals."
Players can also expect a story-driven campaign, a multiplayer player mode (PvE, PvP), and a "hardcore mode" to seriously test their skill.
Would you be interested in revisiting The Settlers, or just playing a new RTS on Switch? Comment below.
Comments (35)
This one gives me huge Age of Empire vibes. If it has the same gameplay, its day 1 for me.
Close friends with Ubisoft. Strategy game? Yess I think so. Ubisoft makes still good games.
I guess that footage is from PS/Xbox?
Okay well it's not Anno, so not exactly what I've always been hoping for but it's the other franchise by the same developer 😄. A proper (hopefully) complex resource management rts game on Switch is what I always wanted! Let's hope they didn't mainstream this entry as badly as they did with the last Settlers game.
Curious about the controls
I always struggle with games like this unless I'm using M/K. Hopefully they add some sort of touchscreen controls (doubt it though considering hardly any games use the touchscreen and the only time I use it is scrolling through the eshop)
@JeanPaul
The Settlers is a very huge thing in Germany, it's derived from the board game "Settlers of Catan" which is very popular. If you are interested, there should be a lot of footage of what makes Settlers interesting as there have been a lot of iterations of that series on PC. Not sure if it ever made the jump onto consoles before.
@NinjaNicky There have been a ton of attempts to move strategy over to consoles, some more, some less successful. The more complex and PC-like the interfece gets, the smaller the chances its gonna work, so its gonna have to do with that one aspect. One of the first interesting game to delve into this was Sacrifice from Shiny, which was basically a 3D actiongame but let you strategically control your units. Pikmin brought this onto a whole new level, Halo Wars was supposed to be pretty decent and is notoriously known for investing a ton of resources in making the best strategy experience possible on consoles. But of course there have been a lot of failures. I believe Command & Conquer on consoles never really took off in any way.
Gotta love these "launch trailers" that don't show gameplay!
@valcoholic
The settlers are not related with Settlers of Catan. The computer game was released in 1993 on Amiga, the board game was two years later in 1995
I kinda wish they would port Settlers III, it's probably the best one of the series. But then again, we're gonna have to see how they handle the interface
I can't believe it! I've been a huge Settlers fan, specifically Settlers III, for years! Play it sometimes on the mac which is buggy as hell, but still fun. One of my favourite games of all time. I'll be getting this day 1
It LOOKS great at least. And it also seems to shy away from a to me tried and dried up style of games to try something else.
@vanYth
Ohr really?! weird, I (obviously) was so sure; at least I know there is a computergame version of the boardgame that used to work with these hexagon shaped tiles, so I guess I mixed stuff up;
thanks for clarifying!
Can we just have the original rayman on switch please Ubisoft
Not played Settlers since 3 on the Amiga. Will keep a close eye on this one
Just hoping it runs well.
I played every Settlers game (Yes, I am from Germany^^), and sadly this one started out as "going back to the roots" and ended in being.... something. I am courious about the reviews, but I have no hope that this game will be any good. All previews I have read were very bad and the fact that Ubisoft did not give away Review Codes until shortly before the launch of the game (today) seem to point in a bad direction...
@valcoholic
You are wrong, the original Settlers Game had nothing to do with the board game, in fact the board game came out 2 years AFTER the first Settlers game.
And gameplaywise the two - the video game and the board game - have nothing in comparison. Just to clear that up.
Is this reboot still a game of the more of the laid back strategic variety, rather than a minute tactical thing?
In case of the latter, I might be worried about the Switch handling lots of characters in a new Ubi game at a decent framerate. ^^
Hope it has a physical release without a day one patch rendering the cart worthless. This looks great though.
@valcoholic There's a Settlers game on the DS. But it's pretty buggy and full of stuttering and sound bugs. Was a very weak effort. I hope this new one is well done.
Oh wow, can't wait to give this a look but maybe after the normal Ubisoft 2 month 50% reduction sale, their sales model really undermines a day one purchase for me.
I think I still have the original Amiga 500 floppy disks for settlers.... Making me want to go get them out now.
Ha! I used to play Settlers 3 a tonne when I was a kid.
I'm pretty sure I remember it getting pretty complicated as you needed several steps to get certain resources.
Looking forward to how this comes out on Switch.
That is really cool!!!
Love these games, and will buy it for sure on day one for the switch.
Curious why they are releasing this one week after Anno 1800 (even though that game can only be played on PS5/Series X/S). Doesn't seem like the smartest thing to do if the audience is almost the same.
I’d like similar to StarCraft series. This is potential for these RTS! Remember StarCraft 64? I don’t if it’ll be on the N64 on Switch.
Is this not released March 23rd on all consoles? It's only the PC version released today.
I loved the original on the amiga, so will check this out with the expectation of it being less good than its 30 year old predecessor.
Been following development of this title. It has moved far, far the origins of the series. It is now more of an action oriented RTS than the original focus on supply chain strategy. Going to wait on PC reviews before I make any kind of determination. But, I think most long time fans really wanted something closer to 4 than the recent direction. Too much focus on fast clicking.
This games is almost like a old game I liked aka The Settlers / Serf City: Life is Feudal game on Amiga some time back and it was fun. If this plays like that one this will be a welcome update to the game.
@spacely_sprockets Yeah… “love” 😡
@Baler I’d be down for a RayMan collection on switch for $30
Oh no, it's not looking promising already. I'll wait to hear what reviews are saying, but PC players not happy. From what I'm hearing I don't think I will be either
Was just searching for this game today and am glad this is coming out for switch. Personally I loved Heritage of Kings (Settlers V) on the PC. Will wait to see game play and better review before I get this though. Not sure why they would announce a game for a system without showing actual game play. I don't need to watch a cartoon to tell me about a game.
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