The campaign guides you through the story with NPC dialogues and very pretty cutscenes between missions.

Each faction has slightly different lore (even if they play almost the same).

Along the way, the Elari meet foes and friends alike, including the two other factions: the Maru and the Jorn. They land on a cluster of islands where they’ll have to try to rebuild their settlements and train an army to take their country back. The Elari is a group of people who fled their home country after a violent coup led to civil war and chaos. During this mode, you follow the three different factions of the game and learn more about them. While some wouldn’t expect a lot of plot from a city builder, The Settlers: New Allies actually has a narrative-heavy campaign to play through. Sadly, what we got is a pretty standard real-time strategy city-building game that doesn’t manage to draw in many people.

But now the game is finally here, and it’s also the first in the franchise that will release as a multi-platform title even if it’s currently only out on PC. First announced under the simple title of The Settlers in 2019, the game was postponed many times and received negative feedback during beta testing which led Ubisoft to continue working on it even longer. The Settlers: New Allies had an uneven road to travel from conception to release.

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