Solium Infernum is a strategy game where you hardly make any decisions

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Solium Infernum is a name already familiar to many strategy game fans, especially those active in the community back in the earlier 2000s. League of Geeks has been hard at work on a reimagining of the older original Solium Infernum, If you aren’t familiar with the original, the game is set in Hell, and you play as a powerful fallen Archfiend. During Gamescom, we got to sit down with developers Trent Kuster and William Dyce for an exclusive interview about how the strategy system works in Solium Infernum.

When asked about what makes Solium Infernum unique, Dyce responded, “Every decision feels very impactful, because you have very few decisions to make,” declaring that, “there’s a lot of weight to everything.” Rather than bombarding players with hundreds of confusing, less significant decisions, Solium Infernum strives to provide you with a few, very impactful choices instead. The devs see this system as a “new model for a type of game that really should exist.”

Decision-making in Solium Infernum is “always an excruciating choice,” with “an intensity to the decision making that you just don’t find anywhere else.” With this kind of system, the devs hope for an experience that allows players with “busy lives” to “play a long game with friends on the other side of the world.” Dyce stated that he relishes “the challenge of trying to figure out how to make interesting decisions.”

With Solium Infernum, “it’s all about the strategic goal” rather than a grueling “labor machine,” a feeling that League of Geek devs are looking to “minimize as much as we can.” Instead of feeling laborious, the devs want decisions to feel “as interesting as possible.” They also acknowledge that this could turn certain players away, such as those