Campfire Cabal – the studio behind history-based tactical RPGs like Expeditions: Rome – has abruptly damaged its silence to announce that it has been engaged on a brand new venture. In a submit on its official web site, the studio talked about the final main replace it had launched for Expeditions: Rome again in November 2024, and the way issues have in any other case been quiet.
By way of its submit, Campfire Cabal has confirmed that it “was by no means shut down.” Whereas the studio did undergo some lay-offs since its final recreation launch, it has nonetheless stored work on its venture going because it began again in 2022. The studio has additionally confirmed that full manufacturing on the brand new title has been kicked off as of March 2025.
“When you comply with the insider information, you’re conscious that it’s been a tough couple of years within the recreation trade. Funding dried up, studios shut down, numerous builders misplaced their jobs, and video games had been cancelled left and proper,” wrote the studio. “We’re extraordinarily grateful that there have been folks throughout the group who fought to maintain us alive by means of the turmoil, and that we are able to now emerge on the opposite facet with renewed vigour.”
Additional in its submit, Campfire Cabal has confirmed that its new venture can also be a part of the Expeditions franchise, which implies that the studio will as soon as once more sort out real-world historic settings whereas additionally that includes in-depth, tactical RPG parts in development, storytelling in addition to its turn-based fight.
Nevertheless, the studio wrote that it wasn’t but able to reveal extra particulars concerning the recreation. It did say that the brand new Expeditions title will happen in a brand new time interval, in a distinct a part of the world from different video games within the sequence.
“We’re not but able to reveal extra particulars of this subsequent instalment, however we are able to affirm that identical to each Expeditions recreation, it’s set in a brand new interval of our historical past and in a brand new a part of the world for the sequence,” wrote the studio. “And identical to each Expeditions recreation, this one will likely be one other step up in high quality from its predecessor.”
The final main recreation within the franchise, Expeditions: Rome, takes place in historical Rome. Gamers tackle the position of a younger Legatus whose father, due to unknown machinations by a political opponent, is assassinated. All through the sport, gamers can meet new allies, tackle completely different enemies, and make some significant decisions not simply by means of dialog with different characters, but in addition by means of the choices made within the title’s brutal turn-based fight system.
Expeditions: Rome takes gamers to fairly a number of completely different gamers all around the world, from Rome to Gaul, Greece, and even North Africa. All of that is paired up with in-depth RPG programs that enable for gamers to experiment with completely different sorts of builds relying on their play fashion. The sport additionally includes a loot and crafting system that permits the participant to get ever stronger.
Different video games within the historic franchise embrace Expeditions: Viking and Expeditions: Conquistador, the settings for which might be self-explanatory.
