Playwood Project, creators of the strategy title Wartile, today announced the full 1.0 release of Successor on Steam (PC) on 24 October.
After a period in Early Access shaped by community feedback, Successor launches feature-complete: a dark miniature world where real-time combat with tactical pause meets rogue-lite progression, handcrafted diorama battle boards, and procedural kingdom-spanning campaigns. Choose a Lord, assemble a warband, explore regions, and dethrone faction rulers to claim their Crowns, unlocking meta-upgrades that expand your hero and item library and keep every run fresh.
“With 1.0 we’re delivering the board-game-brought-to-life fantasy we set out to build,” said Michael Rud Jakobsen, Creative Director at Playwood Project. “Roam lush diorama battlefields, build and tune your heroes, and dethrone brutal rulers in a fast, pause, plan, and act combat system where it’s always your turn.”
“Successor stands out with a fluid hybrid system that feels turn-based when planning and real-time in execution, sustaining constant pressure and rewarding timely reactions.”Game Highlights
- Six Complete Campaigns & Adventure Mode: Six handcrafted story campaigns, plus an Adventure Mode that lets you create custom runs versus ruling factions with procedural routes, escalating difficulty, and high-stakes rewards.
- Real-Time with Tactical Pause: Pause anytime to plan, queue commands, or use abilities that resolve immediately during the pause.
- Heroes & Lords: Field eight playable heroes, each offering a different combat role, upgrade route, and skill tree, with class synergies that reward creative builds. Pick between two Lords to set your overarching strategy and gain powerful kingdom perks.
- Diorama Battle Boards: Fight across eight handcrafted biomes, from grasslands and mountain passes to swamps, city streets, deep caves, and ruined towers, all with randomized terrain layouts where elevation, flanking, and chokepoints truly matter.
- Deep Meta-Progression: Complete challenges to earn permanent unlocks, gear, heroes, and region bonuses that expand your options in every subsequent run.
- Easy to Pick Up and Play: Built for short, satisfying loops where brief sessions in layered kingdoms still move you forward and matter to our overall progression.
NEW OR SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED SINCE EARLY ACCESS
- More regions, handcrafted boards, and enemy varieties to elevate mid- and late-game challenges.
- Additional hero options and balancing passes for richer party composition and playstyles.
- Major 1.0 Update-Available at Launch: A redesigned Adventure Mode for custom campaigns, the new Havengore faction and Regicide campaign, Ruler Crowns added to reward pools and now equippable by your Lord, and two new heroes, the Ice Giant (frontline bruiser with freeze/shatter combos) and the Sorceress (midline frost caster and team buffer)
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
Successor 1.0 launches on Steam for PC at $24.99 with a 35% launch discount for 12 days.
Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284730/Successor/
