The end is in sight for Diplomacy Is Not An Option, but the hit siege survival RTS has one big update to share before leaving Early Access this November. Today, players can unwind a little and fight battles on their own terms for once, thanks to the new Sandbox update, live now on Steam, GOG and Humble.
This update adds a new game mode: Sandbox, allowing players to pick their map type, enemies, starting resources and gameplay modifiers for a more casual and freeform strategy experience. Want to build the biggest fort you’ve ever seen and defend it against a numberless horde? Go wild, or mild, if that’s your vibe – farm, manage and build the most aesthetically pleasing hamlet you’ve ever seen, free of marauding monsters and rebelling peasants.
The Sandbox update also introduces a variety of new traps and technologies to further bolster your defences. Guard Towers are cheap and fragile, but provide archers an edge on the battlefield. Barrel-bomb and Slowing traps provide explosive or stalling options when you have to fall back, and several new upgrades for horsemen make your equine forces vastly more valuable.
You’ll need every advantage you can get, as the enemy AI has seen some improvements as well, exploiting gaps in your defences to strike at your peasants and town hall. It’s a big update, so check out the complete patch notes here.
The Sandbox update will be the last major wave of content coming to Diplomacy Is Not An Option before leaving Early Access this November. Door 407 are returning to the forges to work on the game’s ambitious story campaign. Get your strategies refined in Sandbox mode while you can; You’ll need every trick in the book to weather the siege coming later this year.
Diplomacy Is Not An Option is available in Early Access on Steam, GOG and Humble now for £19.99/$24.99/€20.99. The launch update (including a massive, branching story-driven campaign) is scheduled for release this November. Join their official Discord channel for up-to-the-minute updates on development.
Also coming in 2023 from Door 407: URBO, a casual city-building puzzle game, with a demo available now.
About Door 407
We are Door 407, named after the dorm room where the company founders—Andrey Belousov and Oleg Sakharov—first met. Before starting forming the studio, the duo worked on Ancient Planet, a Tower Defense game reportedly enjoyed by Gabe Newell
Our goal is to develop classic-style strategy games leveraging all the perks of modern technology. Door 407 now employs more than 30 specialists; game designers, artists, programmers, testers and a community manager.
We have two releases planned for 2023: Horde-survival RTS Diplomacy is Not an Option (with Joachim Ante as the development advisor), and the meditative puzzle game URBO.
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