Tom Towers writes: "It’s three years (one and a half on PC) since Swords & Soldiers was released, so it’s perhaps a little strange that we’re only now seeing DLC for it. Perhaps it’s to take advantage of Awesomenauts’ recent release so that nothing extra need be spent on extra marketing or perhaps it’s simply endemic of the troubled development and release of the original game. Of course it all worked out for Swords & Soldiers in the end with the likes of IGN calling it one of best console real-time strategy games ever. A backhanded compliment to be sure, but one well deserved (the complimentary part, that is) because Swords & Soldiers was excellent. It was so well received on consoles because it was actually playable on consoles, but it was well received on PC too because it was actually good."
Switch is quickly becoming the go-to home for indie titles, but it's also receiving a fair amount of remasters of titles from yesteryear. The latest is Swords & Soldiers, an RTS/tower defence from a decade ago. It's not Swords & Soldiers's first foray into the world of Nintendo, with the original appearing on Wii U, back in 2014, followed by a sequel a year later thanks to Kickstarter. Now the original is getting a surprise release on Nintendo hybrid platform.
Today we are going to break out the poison darts and throwing axes for a bit of friendly skull-splitting with Swords & Soldiers for the Nintendo Switch a side-scrolling Real-time strategy game from Two Tribes’ and Ronimo Games. Let's see how this stacks up against the classic ideas of an RTS.
Two Tribes and Ronimo Games have announced that Swords & Soldiers is out now on Nintendo Switch and Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon on March 1, 2019.
