Okay, good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, John Boling.

Joining to me tonight is PC Games in Senior News Writer Ian Boudreau. Ian, how are you today?

I'm doing good, John. Glad to be here.

I think we are both pretty excited and also trepidacious to discuss today's game, which is Conquest of Elysium Five.

And longtime listeners of three moves ahead may remember a few years back we did Dominions

Five, which is this other game from Illwinter, which is this sort of small indie duo of

Swedish guys who make weird games about mythology and also

pop culture at the same time and their strategy games and they just kind of take a ton of

things and mash them all together.

Ian, what would you, can you give us a description?

What do you think Dominions 5 is?

What do we do in this game?

Sorry. Conquest of Elysium 5. Yeah.

And you got to forgive my confusion because both of these games use identical sets of pixel art assets.

I was just going to say, yeah, they do look incredibly similar because there's a lot of the same art assets in them.

But they're wildly different.

They are different, even if they bear some passing similarities.

But in conquest of Elysium, it's kind of a...

So imagine the campaign layer in your standard total war game where you're building armies and moving

them around a map and combine that with a rogue like a classic rogue like and you've

sort of got the the gist I think of what conquest of Elysium is and this goes back I guess to this was their first like conquest of Elysium is. And this goes back, I guess, this was their first, like, Conquest of Elysium was the first

game that Illwinter worked on.

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