Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Official website Steam Store page: Gord on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Gord is a single-player, adventure-strategy game featuring developing societies, eerie forbidden lands, and remarkable mythical creatures. Complete quests and manage a populace whose personal stories and well-being impact the fate of the settlement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 I'm not into adventure-strategy games but that did look pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Wow that topic title is certainly a combination of words. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 30 minutes ago, Reputator said: Wow that topic title is certainly a combination of words. It's certainly quite the description! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 So...Dark Cloud with a lot less anime and a ton more Slavic demons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Slavic so that means OP won't buy? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mercury33 Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Booo put it on consoles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 3, 2022 Author Share Posted September 3, 2022 Gord is a fascinating knot of complex survival systems and Slavic lore WWW.POLYGON.COM Survival game from ex-Witcher and 11 bit studios devs seems impressively layered Quote Three warriors return from an expedition that left with twice as many. They bathe to tend to their wounds, they drink mead to calm their nerves, and they return to their families to rest until morning. Physically and mentally rejuvenated, they congregate at the temple in the center of the gord, where they are joined by two new archers and a scout. They look toward the perpetual darkness that plagues the land around them, and together they venture into the unknown — once more unto the breach. Gord, which was originally pitched as a horror-strategy game, but later revised to be an adventure-strategy title with survival and horror elements, is the systemically dense and highly intelligent debut project from Polish studio Covenant. The team includes veterans from many high-profile local outfits like CD Projekt Red, 11 bit studios, Flying Wild Hog, and elsewhere. It shows; given what I saw at Gamescom 2022, there is definitely sufficient elbow room for Gord to not just make an entrance in the scene, but to barrel through competitors and cement itself as something truly great. The events of Gord transpire in a world that is afflicted by eternal darkness. Your task is to lead the Tribe of Dawn south, uniting the lands you encounter on behalf of a shady monarch. In doing so, you will learn about your companions’ strengths, weaknesses, and personalities as you construct your own gord and build a society within it, which will grow as you improve its amenities, fortify its battlements, and support its inhabitants as they begin to have families of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 14, 2023 Author Share Posted June 14, 2023 This dark horror city builder is like being a mayor in The Witcher | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM In Gord's wonderfully grim, Slavic style, sacrificing your children to an ancient swamp horror is par for the course. Quote Gord sets out its stall pretty quickly. Within a few minutes, I'm building my first settlement, starting with the walls—to keep the dark things out. Within ten I'm fussing about which jobs I want to give each of my settlers, and already antsy for more wood and reeds to construct new buildings. Within half an hour, I'm sacrificing one of the colony's children to an ancient swamp horror. Combining elements of city builder, real-time strategy, survival, RPG, and horror, Gord is most easily understood as a game about what it would be like to try and keep a town full of villagers alive in the middle of one of those horrible, monster-infested forests from The Witcher. Beset on all sides by vicious beasts and deformed creatures, risking life and limb just to gather some mushrooms or a bundle of reeds, your small gang of townsfolk look to you to protect not just their lives, but their sanity. Inspired by Slavic folklore, Gord's world is thick with atmosphere—all of it bleak and horrific. As I set up my first town (or "gord"—the game is named for a specific kind of medieval Slavic fort), I'm nervous even just sending villagers to chop down trees. Whenever they're outside the safety of the walls, it feels like they could fall into danger at any moment. Grim cutscenes setting up a story about a cruel imperial bureaucrat forcing the cautious locals into peril further adds to the sense of hopelessness, especially when bizarre creatures of myth—including a demonic dragon with an entourage of wailing ghosts—make their presence known. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 14, 2023 Author Share Posted June 14, 2023 On 2/17/2022 at 6:50 PM, Mercury33 said: Booo put it on consoles It's coming to the consoles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: It's coming to the consoles I have no memory of this game or posting that 😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 16, 2023 Author Share Posted August 16, 2023 Game Information Game Title: Gord Platforms: PC (Aug 17, 2023) Xbox Series X/S (Aug 17, 2023) PlayStation 5 (Aug 17, 2023) Xbox One (Aug 17, 2023) PlayStation 4 (Aug 17, 2023) Developer: Covenant.devPublisher: Team 17 Review Aggregator:OpenCritic - 66 average - 50% recommended Critic Reviews COGconnected - Mark Steighner - 82 / 100 Gord is a richer and more complex game than it first appears. There are interesting layers of moral ambiguity and mental health to consider. Gord is a dark Slavic folk tale in survival/RTS-game disguise. Its mechanics and systems add up to an engaging gameplay experience. For a modest entry price, Gord provides a lot of entertainment, an engaging story and plenty of replay value via customizable scenarios. God is a Geek - Mick Fraser - 8 / 10 As a dark, story-driven settlement sim, Gord offers a moderate amount of replayability and a pretty compelling central narrative. PlayStation Universe - John-Paul Jones - 8 / 10 Gord is an impressive marriage of base building, adventuring and storytelling across a ruined world fraught with horrors from Slavic folklore. Though it's more than a little rough around the edges, such issues aren't enough to considerably tarnish the uniqueness of what developer Covenant.net has wrought here. TechRaptor - William Worrall - 8 / 10 Gord won't be for everyone, but its dark tone and high difficulty are worth working through for the top-notch world-building on display here. WayTooManyGames - Leonardo Faria - 7.5 / 10 It is quite punitive with its harsh sanity setbacks, tough enemies and slow-paced gameplay. Nevertheless, it covers a particular niche, and after waiting for it for what felt like an eternity, I’m pleased to see that the folks at Covenant.dev have successfully managed to come up with one of the most interesting strategy games in recent memory, even if it’s not one of the more entertaining ones. SVG - Kimmi Haueter - 7 / 10 "Gord" is fast-paced with a bit of a learning curve that might deter a few players, but it's well-worth the challenge for the ones that stick it out. TheSixthAxis - Adrian Burrows - 7 / 10 Personally, I found the 'grim' nature of Gord just too nasty, the developers often shocking for the sake of it, rather than doing so to support the story or gameplay. Still, there's a lot to admire about Covenant's creation, with the game offering a compelling and tense survival RTS experience. Only really worth picking up on PC, mind. GRYOnline.pl - Zbigniew Woźnicki - Polish - 6.5 / 10 Gord is an alright game. But that’s it. Nothing more. I had more fun playing this than, say, the new Settlers, but there’s so much unused potential here that a hypothetical sequel could be infinitely more interesting. Wccftech - Chris Wray - 6.5 / 10 Gord is an interesting and, at times, good, albeit flawed, survival city-builder mixed with action RPG and strategy elements. The atmosphere is excellently done, but this is countered by the sanity mechanics taking too much from the rest of the game. Almost every positive has a negative. The character development mechanics bring a fundamentally broken inventory system. The excellent monster development introduces a few that are just outright broken. The (sometimes) interesting campaign brings a near-opaque element of worldbuilding, requiring much side-reading as names are unceremoniously thrown at you. All in all, Gord isn't a bad game, and while I can have a decent time of it, there are too many flaws to recommend it universally; hardcore strategy fans may apply. GamesRadar+ - Adam Barnes - 3 / 5 "It's all very grotty, and that's meant fully as a compliment." AltChar - Semir Omerovic - 55 / 100 I really wanted to like Gord but sadly, despite an interesting concept and ideas, the execution comes off frustratingly disappointing and shallow. GameGrin - Martin Heath - 5.5 / 10 Gord succeeds in painting a dark and gritty picture of a group of people surviving against the odds in a dangerous environment. The Horrors are fantastic, but small niggles and big frustrations dampen the enjoyment somewhat. PC Gamer - Rick Lane - 48 / 100 Beyond the shock value of its demonic horrors, this survivalist city-builder has little to recommend it. IGN - Jon Bolding - 4 / 10 Gord is, in its most outstanding moments, a mediocre colony sim/RTS/RPG hybrid. The rest is just boring. Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Sin Vega - Unscored A detailed and moody setting wasted on a dull and repetitive RTS/management hybrid with the strengths of neither genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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