Gord will include a campaign with "hand-crafted" maps that Dark And Darker Gold tell a story, as well as a custom scenario mode, where the world's size and resource richness are customizable.

The new video doesn't spend much time on the town building aspect of Gord, and I'm somewhat more interested in that than the adventuring—maybe it'll be the subject of the next commentary video. I think Saber Interactive's Evil Dead: The Game caught us all by surprise.

Back when Gord was announced, the studio also said that it has another project in the works, but we haven't heard more about it. (It's called "Project Perun," according to the studio's website.) Army of Darkness comes to Evil Dead: The Game as a free update

In fact, we even said so in our review, noting that B-movie franchises tend to be grist for quick, lazy cash-grabs. But it turned out to be really good: "The game is absolutely exhilarating—one of the true left-field sleepers of 2022," we declared, slapping an outstanding 85% score on it.

It was a nice surprise for sure, and now here's another: Today's rollout of the free update that will send players to Castle Kandar, the setting for the cult classic zombie flick Army of Darkness.

Army of Darkness—the movie, that cheap Dark And Darker Gold is—is a lot of fun, although it didn't grab me in quite the same way as the first two Evil Dead flicks. It moved away from the "buckets-of-blood" approach that epitomized those films, and instead more overtly embraced the inherent goofiness of the whole thing.