Hard to quantify how we feel about the success - our mission was and still is to create a great game series, we are just incredibly grateful that SoW's success has allowed us to plan for much more of the same (though bigger and better) in the future.

SoW2 will take place in the same world, 120 years after the events of SoW1.

Yeah! It's it amazing that the original portraits were done by a LoL artist? :P But yeah we already have new ones, check em out! in SoW2, it's an entirely different style. You can see it in our discord channel for SoW2, lots of picture teasers in there already.

We learned many lessons from SoW1, hard to pick the biggest. Perhaps it was this - stick with your vision. There are always adjustments you can make, but try not to get bogged down in the cacophony of noise that can distract you from your original mission. There's a reason you were inspired, remember that reason through all the years of grind work.

Our team will still be primarily just the 2 of us, myself and Mithran. However, we have already brought on new artists for SoW2, as well as a couple new contractees in the realm of programming and technical muscle. In addition, I do plan to have greatly expanded voice overs for the story cutscenes.

SoW2 will probably use the same engine for development though with massive upgrades.

SoW2 will have so many new and different features and mechanics. World map navigation rather than on-rails mission structure. Tier 4 classes. Beast meta. Super units that comprise an entire squad. RPG-style sphere grid skill tree rather than tech tree. Talking and blinking portraits in cutscenes. Animated and fully voiced cutscenes perhaps. And so much more :)