Fantasy city-builder with huge battles Songs of Syx gets a major upgrade with a focus on war

Rated Overwhelmingly Positive from users on Steam, war is the focus of a major upgrade that just arrived for fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx.

What actually is it? Taking inspiration from the likes of Rome: Total War, Caesar, and RimWorld with the solo developer aiming to create the most ambitious city state sim ever. You start off with nothing and build up from a tiny village into a huge sprawling city and eventually a whole empire.

Version 70 is quite the game-changing upgrade for the battles in the game with the introduction of spearmen and cavalry, and the AI has been improved to be a fair bit smarter too so a little more planning is going to be needed. The scale of this one is seriously impressive!

They also have a brand new trailer to accompany the release:

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And additionally the developer update video to go over it:

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The main update highlights condensed:

• New quick battle mode.
• New unit cards, tooltips and QoL for divisions.
• Division flags.
• Improved AI tactics, and division maneuvering.
• Remade combat mechanics and stats (New battle engine).
• Cavalry (livestock equip). Increases mass, offence skill, decreases defense skill.
• Spears. Increases formation defence (defence gained in the front of on guard divisions).
• Visuals for all battle equips.
• 10 new soundtracks.
• Advisor.
• Resettle option (start over but keep level + resources).
• Labs and libraries have non-recource options, enabled by default.
• Limits on techs in tech tree.
• All titles can be unlocked per race for more effect.
• More efficient janitors.
• Hunters effective for a bit longer, but diminishing returns per employee.
• Autumn tree colors more prominent.
• Lifebringer achievement fixed.
• Fixed stalled invasions.
• Fixed buggy caravans.
• Region delivery of farmed goods fix.