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Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles cover

2024 · Tomas Sala · City-building · Indie

Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles

A new city-building game set in the oceanic world of The Great Ursee, by BAFTA-nominated developer Tomas Sala. Design, develop and defend your Bulwark, manage resources and make choices to create unique fortress settlements in a world reeling from a cataclysmic war.

Released
26 March 2024
Platforms
PlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
Genres
City-buildingIndiePost-apocalypticReal-time strategySimulationStrategy
Developers
Tomas Sala
Publishers
Wired Productions
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
FantasyScience fictionSandboxOpen world4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Country
Netherlands
Age ratings
CLASS_IND 10PEGI 7GRAC ALLESRB E10+ACB PGUSK 12
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
17hmain story18hcompletionist

About

Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles is a 2024 city-building game developed by Tomas Sala and published by Wired Productions. It takes place in the same fictional setting as The Falconeer.

Players say

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Unlike The Falconeer, which was an aerial combat game, Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles is a city-building game, though it takes place in the same fictional setting. Players must first gather resources necessary to build city, including wood, stone, and iron. Resources are effectively infinite while being mined, though they have limited distances they can be transported. Once players have established pathways and buildings necessary to extract resources, houses grow automatically.

Players can build walls and towers automatically, and these will increase the settlement's military strength, which can be used for defense or to conquer other settlements. Refugees can apply to enter the settlement, and players will occasionally receive offers for unique buildings. While the city grows, players can use an airship to explore the open world.

Development

Wired Productions released it as Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, and Windows on March 26, 2024. In September 2024, it was retitled to Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles. This accompanies updates that add more content, including a sandbox mode and a conquest mode that disables diplomacy. A third Falconeer game is planned.

Reception

On Metacritic, Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles received mixed reviews for Windows and positive reviews for PlayStation 5. Rock Paper Shotgun said that it has a solid base, but they found the lack of goals or instructions to make it feel aimless and exhausting, though they said the combat helped alleviate this somewhat. Eurogamer compared it to Townscaper, a relaxing city-building game. Though they said they would appreciate more structure, they said it would rob the game of some of what makes it unique. PCGamesN called it "beautiful to look at" but criticized what they felt was a lack of depth in its combat and economics.

Awards

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows26 March 2024Worldwide
Xbox One26 March 2024Worldwide
Xbox Series X/S26 March 2024Worldwide
PlayStation 426 March 2024Worldwide
PlayStation 526 March 2024Worldwide

Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update

PlatformTitle IDRegionLatest update
PlayStation 4CUSA44073Europe01.12
CUSA44072North America01.12

Editions and related releases

Included in
Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles Origins BundleBulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles - Mad Lector BundleBulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles - Mongres Trader Bundle

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