The Hundred Year Kingdomis a pixel-art, turn-based civilization simulation developed by a single indie Japanese developer, Kaeru-san Games - While the game got delayed from its 2021 Q4 release, we finally have a release date now for Switch and Steam.
The Hundred Year Kingdomon Steam and Switch explained
The Hundred Year Kingdom(ç¾å¹´çå½) is an incredibly addictive and promising civilization game coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch.
Players have 100 years, 100 turns to build a civilization represented by a grid and reach specific objectives.
Each square of the grid can be filled by creating various types of agriculture, industry, infrastructures, houses, towns, and cities.
Players can also pick between different goddesses helping with the civilization-building. And they’re all cute 2D girls with an incredibly cool character design.
The Hundred Year Kingdomis actually the remake of a Freem game
Furthermore,The Hundred Year Kingdomis actually a remake of a game with the same name. Which was initially released on Freem. A Japanese site where indie developers can share their games. And every game is free. Hence the name Freem.
It’s quite hard to explain with words what makesThe Hundred Year Kingdomso interesting, so I recommendchecking out the demo on Steam.
Free doujin games platform Freem and iconic gameVahrenturgaexplained
Sadly, Freem is quite unknown outside Japan, even though one of its games,ã´ã¡ã¼ã¬ã³ãã¥ã¼ã¬ (Vahrenturga)had a huge impact on the Japanese doujin games/indie games scene.
Vahrenturgais a war simulation game with turn-based diplomacy phases and RTS battle phases. It’s one of the most popular games on Freem. And there are thousands ofVahrenturgamods made by fans. Going from staples likeTouhou, to recreating actual historical wars. It’s likely you even already played or saw a stream of aVahrenturgamod without even realizing it.
OneVahrenturgamod in particular,Lost Technology,is available in English on Steam. The Japanese version of the game is free on thedeveloper’s site, Studio 4D.
Together withFTL, Lost Technologyis by far the most addicting indie game of these last 10 years in my book. AndThe Hundred YearKingdom has a high chance of entering this pantheon.
The Hundred Year Kingdomrelease date on PC via Steam and Switch
This January 19, Kaeru-san Games announced on Twitter thatThe Hundred Year Kingdomwill be released on June 24, 2025, on Nintendo Switch and Steam for 1500 Yen. Chorus Worldwide Games and Waku Waku Games will publishThe Hundred Year Kingdomin English.
A release date announcement was first teased onDecember 31, 2021, and later onJanuary 14, 2022. Now we only have a few days to wait till we can playThe Hundred Year Kingdom. On Steam, an OST and an artbook also release on February 3 and there’s a 20% off bundle with the game too.
