Remember the small town shit from Diablo 2? campsite (opens in new tab), technically there are some tents and wagons with walls to keep the skeletons at bay. Imagine you’re the mayor of that dreadful place, rather than a hero on his way to fight demons. More or less, that’s Gord’s scenario.
Managing a dark fantasy town inspired by Slavic folklore is neither simple nor easy. Watching the new Gordo gameplay video embedded above, it’s as rewarding a job as running an Ice Age city in Frostpunk, gathering resources, city planning, managing citizens, RPG adventures and combat, and more. , needs a lot of work.
Gord’s adventurous side is mostly seen in the new 16-minute gameplay video. In this video, Stan Just, former producer of The Witcher 3 and now CEO of Gord developer Covenant, walks you through a basic quest. In the quagmire, he formed a party to kill “Foulspawn”.
Quests in general feel a bit disappointing, but perhaps the interesting part about Gord is the people, not the monsters. , “Boil the Blood”) and have varying experience in tasks such as mining, combat, and food preparation. Aside from physical injury and death, especially if relatives were involved in the traumatic encounter with the gooey beast, the subject could , can experience psychological damage as a result of all the dark fantasy violence they have to put up with. It can be difficult to keep your townspeople alive and at least somewhat reasonable.
Pausing real-time combat, on the other hand, is “very easy,” Just says. The character attacks automatically and always he uses the best of the two attacks depending on the situation. Your main job seems to be deciding how best to position your targets, but you have direct control over spellcasting.
Gords have 18 spells, and they come in utility, support, and offensive flavors. Support spells include ‘Focus’, ‘Haste’ and ‘Rejuvenate’ while offensive spells include ‘Sap’, ‘Entangle’, ‘Infest’ and other insect and disease themed spells . This is a familiar fantasy RPG.
Gord includes a campaign with “handcrafted” maps that tell a story, and a custom scenario mode that lets you customize the size and abundance of your world. The new video doesn’t spend much time on the city-building aspect of Gord. I’m more interested in it than adventure. It could be the subject of the next explainer video.
Covenant plans to release Gord next year. When Gord was announced, the studio also said another project was in the works, but we have yet to hear about it. studio website.)
