Detriments and bonuses are also added everytime a character either loves or hates you, really highlighting the personal repercussions your actions can have. Or say you have a friend nearby while debating, then they will give you an advantage in the negotiation by vouching for you - a really interesting system. Say you’ve made an enemy (you killed their best friend perhaps) and they’ve been badmouthing you - that might add an argument to the enemy that will cause more damage. These might range from causing more damage, to inserting other arguments in place of your own, creating a variety of detriments.īut here’s where things get smart: arguments can also be caused by your actions in the world. When you enter an argument with someone, you’ll have to play cards to attack their resolve (their health essentially) but arguments will spawn around it, all of which have their own effect. Though in truth, these conflicts can often be avoided entirely through negotiation. But so often in your violent encounters you’ll find the odds stacked against you, so to aid in this you can hire mercenaries, make friends, or occasionally find wild animals who will become your pets and aid you in combat. Combat is mostly as you’d expect, turn based actions, allowing you to play combat cards, wearing an enemy down to the point where they die or surrender. Griftlands is all about approach - there are two main methods of interacting with the world: combat and negotiation. Through striking deals and making more friends than enemies, you must find a way to survive 5 days, reaching your final encounter with Kashio, and with it, your revenge. You have one mission, and one mission only: get revenge. In the game you play as Sal, a grifter returning to her town after having been sold into debt slavery by a crime boss called Kashio. Griftlands follows in the footsteps of such games, retaining what makes the genre so popular, while also innovating and representing in its own ways. In recent years we’ve been spoilt for deck-builders - games like Slay the Spire have found huge popularity, while others like Thronebreaker and its precursor Gwent have explored new and interesting ways to use cards as an aspect of world-building. It’s a change which disappointed me at first, but that was until I actually played it.
#GRIFTLANDS ALPHA REVIEW SKIN#
That is, until it surfaced at E3, but no longer an open world RPG, it had shed its skin to become a deck-builder.
But unfortunately Klei are not always the best at updating their fans on games, or release dates, so though Griftlands was listed as having a release date late last year, it went under the radar for quite a long time. My interest was instantly peaked, firstly because of Klei’s seeming inability to make bad games, but also the amazing art style, which to me resembled a kind of sci-fi Banner Saga. Many of you might remember an interesting game which surfaced its head for the first time last year - Griftlands, an open world choice based RPG from developer Klei.
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