Enlarge / Artist’s rendering of players that aren’t interested in game streaming reacting to news that Orcs Must Die 3 is a Stadia exclusive. (credit: Robot Entertainment)

Excited to get back to the silly tower-defense action of Orcs Must Die with the series’ next upcoming sequel? You’d better be ready to do so via a streaming high-speed Internet connection. That’s because Google and Robot Entertainment announced today that Orcs Must Die 3 will be a Google Stadia exclusive when the game launches in spring of 2020.

In a Stadia Connect announcement today, Robot Entertainment CEO Patrick Hudson said Google invited his team to check out Stadia back in January of 2018, well before the service’s public announcement earlier this year. “Right away it was a fantastic experience,” he said. “I immediately saw it as the next transformative platform coming to the industry.”

Design Director Jerome Jones was also on hand in the video to stress how, thanks to Stadia’s centralized servers, the game will feature massive armies with 500 monsters clustered together in a tight space. Orcs Must Die 3 players won’t be “subject to the power of their machine… everyone gets that same massive power,” Jones said.