Palindrome announces a new partnership to expand the Legend of the Five Rings universe in a video game
Amidst Asmodee’s new tabletop games and RPG books set in the Legend of the Five Rings universe, Palindrome Interactive will bring the famous gaming IP to the video game genre for the first time.
Palindrome Interactive, an Amplifier Game Invest studio, and Asmodee, have today unveiled their partnership to develop a roguelite autobattler video game set in the Legend of the Five Rings universe.
This announcement is part of Asmodee’s wider strategy to expand the beloved franchise to new grounds.
ABOUT THE GAME
In this new single player experience where the player will, as the Crab Clan, create expeditions of samurai willing to travel deep into the Shadowlands to investigate new adversaries threatening the Emerald Empire.
As an Auto-battler it will be key to be prepared for anything that the Shadowlands throws at you making it vital to construct a party of both fresh recruits and powerful heroes. Even the most experienced samurai have to learn to adapt and while traveling in the Shadowlands, and with you as their commander have to gather experience and abilities to hone your party’s skills and change their combat behaviour to suit your commanding style.
The Shadowlands is ever changing and extremely dangerous, even the most seasoned within the Crab Clan need multiple expeditions to reach their goal. The roguelite aspect will make you return to the Wall, rethink, upgrade, recruit new heroes and prepare for the next journey that might lead you to success or glorious defeat.
Strategy and planning will be at the forefront of this game, emphasizing macro over micro to enable approachable yet deep dive into the exciting, mysterious and unexplored Shadowlands.
We are honored and excited to work on this fantastic franchise with our friends at Asmodee. With years of experience working with strategy and tactical games, we are confident that we will be able to contribute with a great addition to the already fantastic lineup of products within the franchise.
Palindrome is a studio that’s deeply passionate about strategy games and playing tabletop games is an innate part of our weekly activities, making a partnership with Asmodee the perfect fit for our team.
We look forward to sharing more of what we are working on in the future!
- Tobias Forsling
Studio Manager at Palindrome Interactive
The Legend of the Five Rings lore is so deep that I cannot wait to see what Palindrome will bring to the table to make this game a great experience.
This partnership is a testament to Embracer’s transmedia strategy to get sister companies working together and bring tabletop franchises to your video game consoles.
- Brian Mulcahy
Head of Franchise development at Asmodee
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Find out more about Legend of the Five Rings:
https://www.legendofthefiverings.com/
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ABOUT PALINDROME INTERACTIVE:
Palindrome Interactive is a strategy game development company based in Skövde, Sweden. The studio consists of close to 20 passionate developers that all share a love of strategy games. The goal is to become a world leader within the strategy games genre and to create some of the most enjoyable tactical and strategic game experiences possible.
The studio released its first title “Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars” together with strategy game publisher Kalypso in September 2020.
Palindrome Interactive was fully acquired by Amplifier Game Invest & Embracer Group in August 2020.
ABOUT ASMODEE ENTERTAINMENT:
Asmodee Entertainment is the outbound licensing and book publishing platform of Asmodee, the global games publisher and distributor. Its mission is to extend Asmodee’s intellectual properties into TV/film, novels and comics, location-based entertainment, and consumer products, working closely with Asmodee Boardgames and Asmodee Interactive. Through best-in-class partnerships across the full spectrum of opportunities, Asmodee Entertainment will create truly global intellectual properties and brands. For more information visit asmodee-entertainment.biz. Asmodee is an entertainment leader specialized in board games, committed to bringing people together through great games and amazing stories.
ABOUT ASMODEE:
Thanks to its global and passionate workforce of over 2,500 people, players around the world enjoy one of the largest board game IP catalogs with CATAN, Ticket to Ride, Dobble/Spot it!, Exploding Kittens and 365 more across a variety of digital and physical platforms.
Headquartered in France (Guyancourt), Asmodee operates across Europe, North America, South America and Asia.
Asmodee is a part of the Embracer Group AB, which is publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker EMBRAC B. (EMBRAC B).
For more information: https://corporate.asmodee.com/
ABOUT AMPLIFIER GAME INVEST:
Amplifier Game Invest, based in Stockholm, Sweden, invests internationally in the most talented companies and people in the gaming industry. The goal is, through the addition of expertise and experience in game development, to strengthen the companies and create more successful games in the long term. Amplifier Game Invest currently has active operations in companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Austria and the US. Amplifier Game Invest is a wholly owned subsidiary of Embracer Group AB.