The Settlers: New Allies

Can it really be 13 years since the last Settlers game was released? The once regular strategic stalwart of Ubisoft’s release schedules has been missing for so long! Something not helped by 2014’s previously attempted revival, a disastrous mess of pay-to-win and DRM that saw an abruptly ended beta, two years of silence, and then a release with a new name and the word “Settlers” scrubbed from it entirely.

This seemingly more successful revision has still followed what will likely soon be known as The Ubisoft Trajectory. It was originally due in 2019, delayed to 2020, then postponed indefinitely with pre-order payments returned. Come last January, it reappeared from the aether, still being developed by its lifelong German team, Ubisoft Bluebyte.

It was then scheduled to release in March last year, under the title of just “The Settlers,” but of course was given a year-long delay after a poor closed beta. Now with a distinguishing tagline, New Allies looks to reboot the settlement-building franchise, that was combining farming and feuding when your grandparents were in short shorts. And it’s finally, actually, maybe really coming out next month.

Release Date: February 17, 2023