‘House of the Dragon’ has been running for a couple of seasons now, and while it has not hit the same level as ‘Game of Thrones’ did at its peak, the show has still pulled in almost 50 award nominations between the Emmys and the Globes, which is nothing to ignore. The timeline is set roughly 200 years before Daenerys and the original show, and it covers the Targaryen civil war, where two sides of the same family went to war with each other and their dragons over who would rule.
On April 7, Warner Bros. Games and HBO put out an announcement for ‘Game of Thrones: Dragonfire,’ which is a new mobile strategy game coming to iOS and Android at no cost. The name says ‘Game of Thrones,’ but the actual game pulls most of its setting and characters from ‘House of the Dragon’ and the Targaryen war era of Westeros.
Players Build A Stronghold And Raise Their Own Dragons As A Valyrian Descendant In Westeros
‘Game of Thrones: Dragonfire’ runs on a tile-based system where players put together a stronghold and gather what is around them to build up their army and defenses. You play as someone from a Valyrian bloodline, and your job is to hatch dragons and build them up, and the game throws in people from ‘House of the Dragon’ along with brand new characters that do not appear in the show.
There is also a multiplayer alliance system where players team up with real people, and Warner Bros. is calling the whole thing a social strategy experience built around dragon combat and fighting over territory in the Seven Kingdoms.
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Warner Bros. Games Boston is handling the development, and the studio has been around in one form or another since 1994. It used to go by Turbine Inc back when it was putting out Asheron’s Call and running the D&D Online and Lord of the Rings Online MMOs, and then Warner Bros. folded it into the WB Games label in 2018.
This is not their first time doing a ‘Game of Thrones’ game on mobile, either, because ‘Game of Thrones: Conquest’ came from the same studio and was also a strategy game in the same world. Dragonfire is the follow-up, but it shifts everything over to the ‘House of the Dragon’ period.
‘Game Of Thrones: Dragonfire’ Has No Launch Date Yet But Pre-Registration Is Open With Milestone Rewards
There is no date for when ‘Game of Thrones: Dragonfire’ actually drops, but you can sign up early on the App Store, Google Play, or through the official site. Doing that puts you on the list for updates about the game and when it launches, and it also gets you free stuff in-game, with the rewards getting better the more people who register before it goes live.
Anyone who signs up right now gets 100 Gold straight away. Once the count hits 1 million, everyone who registered gets six Banner Maker Sigils, and at the 2 million mark, the reward bumps up to 1000 Runic Fragments.
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If 5 million people pre-register, there are two new avatars, and the big one is at 10 million, where everyone who signed up gets a Dawnseeker dragon. The whole thing is set up to get people sharing it around and pushing their friends to register, but a free dragon at the 10 million mark is at least worth knowing about if you are planning on playing it.
