What if Games of Thrones’ ‘The Long Night’ episode never ended? What if you had to fight those annoying White Walkers all night, every night, until you die? This is the question survival RTS game Age of Darkness: Final Stand is asking, even though nobody asked it too because honestly just watching that episode was stressful enough.
“When starting development we were inspired by the Game of Thrones episode ‘The Long Night’,” explains James Berkelmans, one of the game's designers. “The whole idea being that when night came you had to hold your ground against a large horde of enemies, that's where the idea of our death nights started.”
Age of Darkness leans very heavily into the horror/dark fantasy themes that can often come with survival games. As guardian of the last city, your life is controlled by an intense day/night cycle where you must balance building up your settlement and exploring the wilderness around you to hunt for valuable resources during the day. As night descends, there’s a brief window of time where enemies are tougher, but the rewards get better, but when the ‘death night’ starts for real you’ll want to be behind your walls.
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