Developed by Ringlab and published by Star Drifters, Scorchlands will show players a new use for magic - city building, logistics and resource management. The bird folk of Giwi use enchanted technology to colonize the volcanic moon of Helia. The game’s latest trailer was presented during NRW Indie Expo on devcom. Scorchlands’ demo is soon available on Steam.
- Hex grid-based city-building – construct various buildings in your colonies. Each structure's productivity depends on neighboring resources and other constructions.
- Complex resource management – it’s not only about extracting materials. Scorchlands takes account of logistics – the movement of resources between colonies and combining them in robust processing chains. And yes, we move resources using LASERS!
- Terraforming for the greater good – use magic and technology to change the biomes on procedurally generated maps and exploit the new environment to gain its unique resources.
- Technology designed to give fun – there’s no fun in a sandbox if you don’t have the toys to play with. The technology system in Scorchlands is key for player progression and new discoveries open up more ways to play with the game world.
- Minimalistic combat system – when you get into a fight, positioning will be key. Destroy your enemies by surrounding them and placing your forces in optimal locations.
About Star Drifters:
Star Drifters is an independent game development studio based in Warsaw, Poland. The company was founded in 2014 by two industry veterans: Michal Sokolski and Krzysztof Jakubowski. During a career that spans nearly two decades, they’ve worked on numerous titles for all major gaming platforms and gained extensive direct experience in game development and management.
Starting from 2020, after Kuba Wojcik joined the team the second area of our activity is the selective incubation of independent games and teams behind them. The scope of support is individually tailored and covers areas from production, design, positioning through financing to the sale of the final product.
Star Drifters’ mission is to create engaging, challenging, and highly replayable games that will remain in players’ memory for a long time.
Studio is known for the development and publishing of a real-time 4X strategy game called Driftland: The Magic Revival, rogue-lite Danger Scavenger and top-down shooter with base-building elements Lumencraft.
About Ringlab:
Ringlab is an indie gamedev studio based in Łódź, Poland. It was initially started by Jakub Rogalski who also worked on all SUPERHOT titles. Since 2020 the studio focuses on the development of Scorchlands.
