The Game
Peacemaker is an upcoming turn-based, 2.5-D historical strategy game for windows. Developed 2022-23 by Unsubtle Games, it combines kingdom-management elements (construct buildings, recruit units), character-building (recruit advisors and send them on missions), and real-world politicking (trade, war, and competition for resources). Unique among games of this genre, the goal is NOT world domination. Instead, players must balance competition for resources, territory, and strategic objectives against a global Lifestyle score (more on that later).
Build a better world
Gone are the days of the hopeless masses. From conscript armies to lasting droughts, from terrible omens to possessive cartels, every choice you make either improves your citizens' lives...or doesn't. Your Lifestyle score is the sum of all these impacts - in short, it represents the quality-of-life achieved by the average citizen in your kingdom.
Balance Factions
Factions represent the competing interests, and groups, within your kingdom. Each faction is led by a charismatic leader, and faction leaders have opinions - on everything. Be careful! If you lose the support of your factions, you will be deposed, your kingdom will descend into anarchy, and you will lose the game.
Respond to Events
Running a kingdom is more than building and farming. Events will pop up regularly, each demanding your personal attention - and a choice. Will you welcome the instigator from your neighboring kingdom, or will you arrest them? Do you distribute grain during a drought, or hold it in case the drought gets worse? Choose carefully - your choices affect both your lifestyle score and your factions' alignment.
Manage Relations
Resources are scarce. Your neighbors are human. Lofty goals don't change the facts on the ground, and if there's only one tin mine on the entire continent, and your jingoistic, arrogant competitor controls it...
But you have more to do than simply wage war. Advanced diplomacy options - contingent deals, infrastructure investment, and targeted embargos - give you the tools you need to guide your fellow kingdoms onto the best path for everyone...
Put It All Together...
Try this: your kingdom is beautiful, full of farms and shrines and universities. Your army is strong. Your scholars are wise. Your people rejoice in a lifestyle score of 12,671.
However, there is one place on the continent that is not beautiful. Sad, tiny, Bronze-Age-North-Korea is ruled by a narcissistic isolationist, and after sloughs of wars and forced conscription their lifestyle score is...-271. They're keeping you from winning. They're keeping you from dinner.
Do you invade? Can you bribe them? Will you risk your advisors, your farmers and merchants, on the ground in this golden paradise without permission?
Find out with Peacemaker.