Asher Vollmer, the creator of super-addictive mobile game Threes, has confirmed that his latest game is heading to PS4. Close Castles is to a real-time strategy for PlayStation 4, although Vollmer says it won't be a traditional genre offering, but a tower defence game played out on a 7x7 grid.
Up to four players can place castles, vantage points, archers, roads and other such items on the grid. Vollmer doesn't want the game to be a "miserable pain engine designed to give players the worst possible experience."
"I made Threes because I love small, minimalist games," he revealed. "Close Castles is no different. The games are incredibly quick: they average around three minutes each on the fastest game speed. The game is built for local multiplayer, so there's no hidden information. This means that the game feels a lot more like a fighting game at higher levels.
"It becomes about reading your opponent and turning the tiny cracks in their strategy into a crumbling pile of failure/rubble. This game is all about destroying buildings, so there's a lot of rubble in it."
The announcement was made on the PS Blog, where Vollmer says the game is coming "to consoles" in 2015, but whether that means Xbox platforms as well as PlayStation 4 (and even PS3/Vita) remains to be seen. Threes, his popular mobile game, was confirmed as heading to Xbox One earlier this year at E3.