Our goal is to empower and support developers in doing what they love. Starting in 2020 with a single title, Hooded Horse’s portfolio has grown to 17 games and counting. is a publisher of strategy, simulation, and role-playing games based in Dallas, Texas with people and partners across the world. You can find Hooded Horse’s entire portfolio here, and our press kits can be found here. We believe this partnership will allow us to concentrate on finishing the game, while ensuring our marketing and community management is handled by people who genuinely understand what we’re making.” “Their enthusiasm and depth of knowledge of strategy games is plain. “The whole team here at Goldhawk Interactive is very keen to work with Hooded Horse,” says Xenonauts 2 Project Lead Chris England. While there will be plenty of tense, tactical ground engagements with the aliens, you must also manage and monitor the global picture, building up your bases, forces, and scientific understanding of this mysterious enemy. You control a multi-national military organisation tasked with defending Earth from alien invasion, and the sequel brings better graphics, an expanded research tree, as well as new aliens and a more in-depth Geoscape. The second entry was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2018, and has been going from strength to strength as it targets a release into Steam Early Access in early 2023. Xenonauts 2 is the sequel to the 2014’s Xenonauts, a turn-based strategy game inspired by the original X-COM. The technical framework we’re building, the simulation we’re running, and the other specific design elements are really something I can’t wait to show off.” “Heart of the Machine is a constellation of ideas that I’ve had rattling around in my brain since at least 2015. “In today’s market, Hooded Horse is the first and only publisher I’ve seen that is remotely a fit, and I’ve been deeply impressed by them every step of the way so far.” “I’ve been an indie developer for 13 years now, and in all that time I’ve been approached by a lot of publishers,” says Arcen founder Chris McElligott Park. Heart of the Machine is due to release in early 2023, and we have a press kit available here. Benevolent machine god or tyrannical AI, the choice is up to you. You are the machine, you have the power, and, honestly, it doesn’t matter if the humans live or die. What you do from here is up to you – there are plenty of resources to exploit, alliances to be made, and squishy humans to manipulate towards whatever goal you desire. Heart of the Machine is a city-building strategy game in reverse – instead of beginning in empty land ready for moulding, you are instead the world’s first sentient AI, booting up in a fully-developed city that doesn’t know you exist yet. Here are some details about our new partnerships: This brings our portfolio to 17 titles, with 12 of these (including the two above) being signed in 2022 alone as Hooded Horse’s plan for world domination picks up pace. Xenonauts 2, the popular X-COM successor from Goldhawk Interactive and Heart of the Machine, a new strategy/city-builder title from Arcen Games (The Last Federation, AI War 2), are now part of the Hooded Horse family. Hooded Horse’s portfolio grows to 17 as two veteran strategy designers join the family with their latest titles.ĭALLAS – 15th September 2022 – Hooded Horse is excited to announce that it has signed two more titles to its rapidly growing portfolio of unique strategy, RPG, and simulation games. Xenonauts 2 and Heart of the Machine join the Hooded Horse family
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