Kingmakers is heading into Early Access on October 8, 2025, the developer confirmed in its release trailer. The sandbox strategy shooter from Redemption Road will be playable solo or in full drop-in/drop-out co-op, letting you bring modern hardware to a 15th-century uprising and watch history get rewritten in glorious, ballistic detail.
Kingmakers throws a modern soldier back into the Welsh Rebellion led by Owain Glyndŵr, and the result is exactly what it sounds like: motorcycles, rifles, tanks, and airstrikes vs knights on horseback. The project already has a live-action movie adaptation in the works with Story Kitchen attached to produce.
Trailers and footage
The announcement trailer from February 2024 shows a time-travel sequence that drops the protagonist into medieval England, where snipers, grenade launchers, and AK-47s tear through waves of knights. The “Wreak Havoc” trailer, shown at the May 2024 tinyBuild Connect event, ups the spectacle with dirt bikes, a tank, and more large-scale chaos. The OTK Winter Games Expo trailer echoes the announcement but also offers glimpses of the game’s army-control UI and creative construction, such as building a stone staircase to scale a wall.
Gameplay and weapons
Kingmakers markets itself as a strategic sandbox shooter, so expect to juggle direct combat and higher-level orders for your platoon. The setting is the Welsh Rebellion, and the game blends base-building and army commands with first-person shooting. Vehicles confirmed so far include motorcycles, convertibles, tanks, helicopters, and planes. Weapons range from rifles and shotguns to grenade launchers, combat crossbows, and sniper rifles.
An August 19 dev blog on Steam explains weapon upgrades and a weapon penetration rating system, and teases flamethrowers and drones as items in development. The blog also says the motorcycle and convertible will be available in early access, while the tank will arrive later. Upgrades can turn early-game weapons into truly dangerous tools, according to the developers.
The developer blog dives into penetration mechanics, upgrade paths, and planned items.
Story premise
The timeline is wrong in the game’s present, meaning England’s historical victories left the world weaker and vulnerable to otherworldly forces. You play a lone American mercenary who travels back to help the Welsh and change the course of history, with everything on the line.
Early access confirmation brings a solid date to the people who have been watching this one for months, and it matters to anyone who likes the idea of modern firepower politely rewriting medieval history. Sound off in the comments with what loadout you would bring to 1400s Wales, and follow us on X and Bluesky.
