![]() According to the developers, battles in Griftlands are designed to be “short and impactful”. Morale and personalities of NPCs will also play an important role in combat and how battles progress or are structured. Positioning of characters will be important, and characters can either be placed in the front row or the back row based on their strengths and weaknesses. Griftlands will also featured turn based strategy combat. Each of the written playable characters will have their own specific questlines unique to them, but these will also take place within the game’s systems with procedurally generated and dynamic NPCs. While NPCs in the game will be procedurally generated, the main characters party members will be fixed. As such, some characters might hold grudges against the player, and the world and the NPCs inhabiting it will react to the player and their choices and actions. ![]() Non playable characters remember actions that players take, and they and the game’s factions treat and respond to the player differently in accordance, based on said actions. Players are set in a simulated economy, and controlling a group of mercenaries, are free to make their fortune however they please. While the world and the factions within them are fixed and pre-designed, but the NPCs and their state are procedurally generated and driven by systems and how players interact with them. Griftlands features a dynamic world that will have procedurally generated Non playable characters. Players travel from town to town, and can use steal from NPCs, fight against them, charm them, negotiate with them, among other options that will be provided to players for interacting with the game. The game is billed as a “pirate mercenary sandbox”. Griftlands places a focus on player choice in terms of mechanics and systems, and everything in the game, including money, loyalty, and morality is described as negotiable. The developers have stated that the story is not a focus in Griftlands, and though there will be scripted questlines based on specific characters, the narrative will not be central to the experience, since a majority of the experience will revolve around players making choices to make more money in a simulated economy where their choices with the dynamic, and procedurally generated non player characters have permanent and systems-driven consequences. Players take control of a band of mercenaries. Griftlands takes place in a fictional science fiction fantasy setting. Griftlands uses a 2D hand-drawn art style for its visuals, and cartoon-style animations. Griftlands is only confirmed for release on PC, and versions for other computer operating systems, or for consoles such as PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch haven’t been announced. ![]() The game was announced with a planned release date of late 2018, but there has been no update from the developers regarding this. ![]() Griftlands was announced by Klei Entertainment in June 2017 at the PC Gaming Show at E3 2017. Griftlands is a fantasy/science fiction turn based RPG developed by Canadian indie studio Klei Entertainment, who have previously developed acclaimed and successful titles such as Don’t Starve, Mark of the Ninja, and Invisible, Inc. ![]()
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