Not too long ago, we reported on news that SSI industry veterans were forming a new company set to recreate the strategic RPGs their former development house was so famous for. It was the moment that every 80’s PC gamer had been waiting to here, yet there was very little revealed in their initial posting.

That changed recently, with their website now showing art for a new game called “Seven Dragon Saga”

I’m probably not going out on a limb here by saying it’ll be similar to their old SSI titles (Isn’t it weird to so flippantly admit that when it was a dead genre for two decades?), but TSI Games did throw up a little blurb about the game to fill in the blanks:

Seven Dragon Saga allows the player to create and customize a full party of adventurers and maneuver them in detailed, turn-based tactical combat. You won’t find any rat-hunting farmers here- characters begin with a suite of talents. Rather, the characters are ‘Touched by the winds of chaos’, and destined for great successes or spectacular demises.

Explore a rich world, uncover lost treasures, deal with challenging social and political situations. The player’s choices alter the world in meaningful ways, both physically and socially. Sent by the Empire of the Seven Dragons to the minor Kingdom of Afelon, the party must uncover who is driving the land to civil war and whether that conspiracy might pose a threat to the Empire at large. What mysteries lie in the surrounding, monster-infested peaks? Who is worthy of trust and who only of death?

TSI picked a good time to get back into the industry, seeing as how turn-based oldschool computer RPGs are the new hotness. Hopefully this trend doesn’t die out anytime soon.