“Unleashing Chaos: The Game That Lets You Wreck Medieval Taverns with Speeding Cars!”

Kingmakers made its global debut with a truly outrageous label trailer, which seemingly cemented the game’s status as an unavoidable viral sensation. It’s an action-strategy game where you assume the role of a time-traveling leader capable of transporting various contemporary weapons back to the medieval era. The developers have indeed raised the stakes by showcasing some exceptionally stunning destruction technology.

“With Kingmakers, our passion lies in crafting everything to be interactive,” clever director Ian Fisch states on Twitter, sharing a video of a vehicle colliding forcefully with a wooden structure. “If you accelerate a car straight into a medieval tavern, well….” To be honest, I think an actual car might be somewhat worse for wear after crashing directly into a pile of oak logs, but goodness, the way that building collapses looks immensely satisfying.

This video comes from a trailer released last week, confirming that Kingmakers is set to enter early access in the first quarter of 2025. The full trailer, which you can view below, also showcases a wide array of different examples of the destruction technology. We see a grenade launcher taking down a fortress arch, eliminating a group of enemy soldiers, an RPG creating a breach in a fortified wall, and ground destruction designed to create a better vantage point on the foes below.

Once, fully destructible environments seemed like they’d be the ultimate frontier in gaming technology, but today it’s primarily indie games with bold concepts like Kingmakers that are keeping the aspiration for destruction alive. Here’s hoping Kingmakers delivers well because if it’s even half as entertaining as it appears, we could be in for something extraordinary.

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