How do you like your city builder flavoured? Modern day? sci-fi? Roman? Publisher Toplitz Productions will be publishing a new city builder by indie development team Play2Chill called Aztecs: The Last Sun.
As the name implies, Aztecs: The Last Sun is a city builder themed around the Mesoamerican culture circa 13th-16th century. You will be building the city-state of Tenochtitlan as you balance out the economic, military and religious needs of the people. So you’ll be plopping buildings, building armies and making human sacrifices to the gods in this city builder.
The gameplay reveal trailer has you building on top of lakes, grid-based paths and buildings, the ability to control output and jobs available on a resource building, production chains, a tech tree, building upgrades, random event pop-ups that will also pop new objectives, expeditions to explore outside the city map, and more.
In short, there’s a lot of checkboxes being ticked for those expecting features of a modern city builder.
“With the classic city builder celebrating a triumphant comeback, we couldn’t be happier to co-operate with Play2Chill on Aztecs,” said Stefan Berger, Head of Business Development and Sales Toplitz Productions. “They stay true to the gameplay roots of the genre, but inject modern accessibility without sacrificing depth and challenge.”
The game has been actively in development since at least 2023 when the first Steam Next Fest demo was made available, and two years later it now has been signed to a publisher.
Aztecs: The Last Sun will be coming to PC (Steam) though no release window has been announced yet. There is a demo available.