We mostly see the adventuring part of Gord in the new 16-minute gameplay video, in which Stan Just, a former Witcher 3 producer who's now CEO of Gord developer Covenant, walks us through a basic quest.
The generic-feeling quest is a bit of
Dark And Darker Gold a letdown, but perhaps the interesting part of Gord is not the monsters but the people. They can be gathered into parties, arranged in tactical formation, and clicked out into the wilds beyond the town to find treasure and fight monsters.
Your subjects have strengths ("fighting flair," "furiosity") and weaknesses ("exploring incapability," "boiling blood"), as well as varying experience in tasks such as mining, fighting, and food preparation. Keeping your townsfolk both alive and at least somewhat rational could be tricky.
Aside from bodily damage and death, your subjects can experience psychological damage as a result of all the dark fantasy violence they have to put up with, especially when a relative is involved in whatever gooey beast encounter caused the trauma.
The pausable realtime combat, on the other hand, is "very straightforward," Just says. Characters attack automatically, and always use the best of their two attacks for the situation. Your main job, it looks like, is to determine the best way to position your subjects, although you do have direct control over spellcasting.
There are 18 spells in Gord, and they come in utility, support, and offensive flavors. Support spells include "Focus," "Haste," "Rejuvenate," while Offensive spells include "Sap," "Entangle," "Infest," and
Dark And Darker Gold Coins other insect and disease-themed incantations—it's familiar-looking fantasy RPG stuff.
We mostly see the adventuring part of Gord in the new 16-minute gameplay video, in which Stan Just, a former Witcher 3 producer who's now CEO of Gord developer Covenant, walks us through a basic quest.
