The game was announced for release in 2016 on Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux, and was published by Paradox Interactive.[72] The game was originally called Fury, whose concept was created in 2006, and is set in "a world that had been laid waste by a magical apocalypse". The concept later became Defiance, whose concept is similar to that of Tyranny. Defiance, along with ideas of Obsidian's other projects later became Stormlands.