Thronefall is officially a console game now. Grizzly Games and Mythwright launched the minimalist kingdom-defense strategy hit on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S today, November 11, 2026, and the same day also brought the brand-new Craaghelm expansion to PC and consoles. If you have been waiting for a reason to finally try one of the most elegantly designed strategy games of the last few years, this is it: the full game is here, it is on Xbox Game Pass from day one, and there is a whole dwarven kingdom to conquer on top of it.
The console launch is not a stripped-down port arriving months behind the PC version. This is Thronefall with everything included, landing on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on the very same day the Craaghelm expansion goes live. For a game that has already sold more than two million copies on PC and Nintendo Switch, that is a confident arrival, and it puts one of the smartest pick-up-and-play strategy games around in front of a huge new audience just as the expansion gives veterans a reason to come back.
What Is Thronefall?
Thronefall is a strategy game built around a single, beautifully simple idea: build by day, fight by night. Each run starts with an empty hilltop and a hero on horseback. During the day you spend gold on walls, towers, barracks and houses, shaping a small kingdom out of a handful of buildings. When the sun goes down, waves of enemies march in from the edges of the map, and everything you built gets tested. Survive the night, earn more gold, and build again, bigger and tougher, until the final wave breaks against your walls or your kingdom falls.
What makes it work is how much depth Grizzly Games squeezes out of so few pieces. There are four heroes to command, each with their own weapon and playstyle, and five weapons to choose between. The buildings you place matter as much as the troops you recruit: archers on towers, melee units holding a chokepoint, and a well-placed wall can turn a hopeless night into a comfortable victory. Between runs, more than 40 perks and mutators let you bend the rules, and difficulty settings and endgame challenges give the game a long tail for players who want to push their kingdoms to the limit. It is a game that respects your time, too. A full run can be finished in a single sitting, which makes it a natural fit for a quick session on the couch, and local co-op means a second player can join the defense.
That simplicity is also why the game has found such a wide audience. Thronefall never asks you to memorize a tech tree or manage a spreadsheet economy. It asks you to make a few good decisions, quickly, and then live with them when the horns sound at dusk. It is strategy distilled to its most satisfying loop, and it is the kind of game that is very easy to start and very hard to put down.
The Craaghelm Expansion: Eight New Maps and a Dwarven Kingdom
Launching alongside the console versions today is Craaghelm, the first major expansion for Thronefall, priced at $9.99 / £8.99 / €9.99 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with a Nintendo Switch release coming soon. It adds eight new maps set in a dwarven kingdom under siege, and it is a substantial addition rather than a cosmetic one.
The new enemy is the Constructs, an army of living machines that marches on the dwarven holds. They bring their own units to the fight, including Axe Throwers, Airships and Automatons, and they demand a different kind of defense than the enemies players have faced so far. The expansion answers with new tools of its own: the Technician and the Siege Engineer, plus Dwarven Spirit Warriors, give players fresh ways to hold a line, and a new set of perks and mutators changes how runs play out. The eight maps are built around the dwarven theme, and they give both newcomers and veterans a new set of kingdoms to learn, master and eventually defend without losing a single wall.
For players who already own the game on PC, Craaghelm is available today as well, so the expansion is not a console-only bonus. It is a simultaneous launch across PC and the new console versions, which means everyone is discovering the dwarven kingdom at the same time.
Why the Console Launch Matters
Two million copies is a serious number for a game made by a tiny team, and it explains why the console launch feels like an event rather than a formality. Thronefall found its audience by being easy to understand and hard to master, and that formula travels well to a controller. Building with a gamepad, riding your hero around the walls as the sun sets, and watching a plan come together under pressure is exactly the kind of experience that works in short, intense sessions on the couch.
The timing helps, too. The game arrives on Xbox Game Pass on day one, which removes the last barrier for subscribers who are curious but not yet convinced. If you are already paying for Game Pass, Thronefall is simply there, waiting on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S alongside the PC version that players have been praising since its full release. And for PlayStation players, it is a fresh strategy option in a month that has already been busy: the PlayStation Plus November Game Catalog is adding Death Stranding 2 and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, while Thronefall offers something completely different, a compact, replayable strategy game you can finish in an evening and then immediately want to replay.
There is also a lesson in Thronefall for the wider industry. It is a game that launched in early access, listened to its players, and grew into a complete experience without losing what made it special. The Craaghelm expansion continues that approach: new maps, new enemies and new tools, all built on the same clean loop. No reinvention, no bloat, just more of what works, done well.
Where to Play Thronefall Today
Thronefall is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, Nintendo Switch, and iOS and Android, with the Craaghelm expansion available today on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S for $9.99 / £8.99 / €9.99, and coming soon to Nintendo Switch. Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play the base game on console from day one, and the expansion is a separate purchase on top of that.
If you are new to the game, start with the first maps and learn the rhythm of a run before you worry about the harder difficulties. If you are returning for Craaghelm, the dwarven kingdom is a good place to relearn your habits, because the Constructs punish the defenses that worked against everything else. Either way, the sun is going down, and your kingdom is waiting.
Source: Mythwright / Grizzly Games via Games Press
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