The open-world RPG, where you build a city in the clouds and defend against enemies, arrives early 2025
December 5, 2024
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The Wandering Band :
December 4, 2024 – The Wandering Band is excited to announce that their highly anticipated aerial adventure Airborne Empire is releasing in Early Access on January 13, 2025.
Airborne Empire is a skyward city builder that uniquely blends role-playing, building, and open-world exploration from high in the clouds. Players manage scarce resources and travel through distant lands, all while constructing their flying city to become both a fortress and a home to many. But this won’t always be easy, as threats are imminent: players must make meaningful alliances and decisions to keep dangers like sky pirates at bay. Only the most daring leaders can reforge a harmonious world between the land and the skies.
Release Date Trailer: https://youtu.be/4gr6SS4JjNo
Recently nominated at SXSW Sydney 2024 for Best International Game, Airborne Empire brings the aerial city-building and colony management series to new heights. As you explore dynamic biomes, from arid desert lands to dense forestries, you encounter a vibrant cast of characters, citizens to recruit, and a slate of unlockable upgrades.
Airborne Empire is the follow-up to The Wandering Band’s BAFTA-nominated Airborne Kingdom. This new experience brings expanded world exploration, deeper role-playing mechanics, and colorful characters, and introduces combat.
Airborne Empire will arrive on PC and Mac via Steam Early Access on January 13, 2025. Visit airborneempire.com for more information, and follow The Wandering Band on X and Instagram for the latest updates.
About The Wandering Band
The Wandering Band is an indie games studio focused on creating unique, high-quality interactive experiences that challenge genre boundaries and explore new topics through game mechanics. It was founded by industry veterans Frederik Gareau, Zachary Mumbach, and Ben Wander in 2018. The founders have decades of combined AAA experience, with work spanning multiple hit franchises like Dead Space, Dragon Age, Battlefield, and Star Wars. In 2020, they released their first title Airborne Kingdom, which received a BAFTA nomination for "Best Debut Game."
About Stray Fawn Studio
Stray Fawn Studio is a ten-person indie game studio based in Zurich, Switzerland and the publisher of Airborne Empire. The company focuses on developing their own projects which are often situated in the simulation game genre. Procedural content generation and the simulation of living worlds form the core of the studio’s creations. Stray Fawn was founded by Micha Stettler, a space enthusiastic software engineer and Philomena Schwab, a biology loving game designer. In 2023 the studio expanded into indie game publishing and is now supporting other developers on their journey.
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