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Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles update arrives on consoles

Transformative patch available on all platforms

Marco Wutz

Tomas Sala / Wired Productions

If you’re on the lookout for a unique strategy game playable on your PC as well as consoles, then Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles and its latest update, Bulwark: Evolution, are worth a look. After a giant ocean has submerged much of the world in its depths, people are fighting to survive on the small patches of earth and rock still seeing the sunlight. 

You are the leader of one such group in this game, tasked with managing the expansion of your city, discovering and delivering vital resources, and protecting the crucial supply routes from not just monsters like giant grabs, but also pirates and other civilizations.

Bulwark features a unique management and building system that lets you construct majestic cities and fortifications above the waves, though you need to ensure that enough supplies are delivered to support these mighty structures. For this, you must expand to other islands, build harbors, hire ships, and build a network of supply and trade routes – as well as protect it.

You can do so by hiring captains and having them patrol the waters, or by escorting ships with your personal fleet of airborne vessels, which is also used for exploration and war. This is not only happening from the traditional bird’s eye view: You actually control your airship from the third-person perspective, steering it into battle personally.

Though its systems are all relatively simplistic by themselves, which makes them easy to use with a controller, together they weave an engaging strategic gameplay and building experience.

Plus, the latest update offers very distinct ways to play, such as a cozy sandbox mode and one in which you start off at war with every other faction on the map, making it a far more challenging experience.

Published by Wired Productions and developed by Tomas Sala (the sole man behind the game), Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles is now available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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