Announced a year and a half ago, Gord finally offers us a gameplay video, and the ambiance is certainly charming. OK, it depends on how you define that word, but the first draft of the game studio Covenant with a certain attraction!
Studio CEO Stan Just worked as a producer on The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt, and it shows. As a reminder, Gord offers us to manage a village and its inhabitants in a campaign very strongly inspired by the folklore slavewith a delicious touch of Devil II for the atmosphere. Gameplay level, everything seems to be there: fights with the unknown, management of the villagers, harvesting of resources and, of course, layout of the buildings.
You can watch the gameplay video below:
Although it is a management game, l’aspect RPG seems particularly developed! Each villager will have strengths and weaknesses, but also craft specialties ; fights and events will influence their state, so you will have to carefully determine how to use them. The Mental Health will be decisive, since the world of Gord is full of horrors that can affect the psychology of its inhabitants.
The fights, while relatively basic, seem to place a lot of emphasis on stats and spells/skills. We thus find the great classics of RPGs (healing, damage over time, bonus to allies, etc.) which will be used according to each situation. This aspect of the game will therefore allow vary the monotony management of a city, and presents another facet of the genre.
No specific release date, Gord is planned for courant 2023, and will include a campaign with specific maps; for sandbox games, several parameters will adjust this dark world to the taste of the user. We regret, however, that the construction / city management aspect has not been explored more, but it is probably something that Covenant will present in a next video !