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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 514: Airborne Kingdom

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Fraser and Jon are joined by PC Gamer's Rachel Watts to discuss high-flying city builder Airborne Kingdom. Can this unorthodox spin on the classic genre keep our interest aloft?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Fraser Brown, sitting in for Rob Zakney while he tries to figure out why his PC is exploding.

0:10.0

Best luck, Rob.

0:11.2

Absolutely anything could happen.

0:12.6

The last time I hosted, we delved into Animal Crossing, and today's game actually shares a few similarities with that island getaway.

0:21.8

Joining me is our pal freelance writer John Bolding.

0:25.5

Howdy, howdy.

0:27.2

And making her three moves ahead debut, my PC Gamer Bud, staff writer Rachel Watts.

0:34.1

Hi.

0:35.0

I think part of my desk has just fallen off there. So that's in a skitches. Yeah, I did hear it. I don't know what that was. I can't of my desk is just falling off there.

0:37.9

So that's in a skitches. Yeah, I did hit. I don't know what that was. I can't see what it is. Is it because your desk is on balance? Perhaps one side is. This is, this brings us to the very thing we're talking about today. John, you should be hosting. Fantastic. I doubt it. We are talking about Airborne Kingdom, which is a

0:56.9

city builder where you can lean too much and people fall off, which is quite scary. It's a flying

1:04.6

city builder that has some of the, I guess, kind of basics of your regular city, or all of the basics of your typical city builder,

1:13.9

as well as a kind of like Frost Punk survival city builder, city management bent.

1:22.0

But it's got a very chill vibe.

1:24.1

It's not like death is always nipping at your heels.

1:29.4

There's a weird kind of physics simulation at the heart of it as well. Rachel, you mentioned on a PC gamer article the other

1:37.9

week, the kind of the similarities between this and Frostpunk.

1:49.1

So why don't you tell us a little bit about what they have in common and like the vibe?

1:55.0

Yeah, sure, because, yeah, I just, I'm a massive fan of Frostpunk personally. Like, I've ever since 11 bit even, like, put out that they were making a city builder with such an amazing idea.

2:02.9

I was like, I'm in there. I want to play it all. And it's kind of the same with Airborne

2:06.7

Kingdom. I think just the screenshots, the gifts on Twitter just totally captured my imagination.

2:13.1

I mean, that's how I first saw it, like just through those really majestic screenshots that

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