Hooded Horse announces it will be publishing Gilded Destiny, saying Aquila Interactive's strategy sim is coming this year to Steam. Details on how this will affect the project are shared in this post. This is a grand strategy game set during the Victorian era, and a new Announcement Trailer celebrates the news with static images "animated" in the style of Ken Burns. Here's word:

Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare.

Experience our world as it was from the Nineteenth to the early Twentieth Century, hand-crafted from over a million hexes that reflect real-world biomes and terrain types. This is not a flat map; it is a globe where countries are shown true to scale, tactical positioning shapes your every move, and global strategy takes on an entirely new meaning.