Разработчик: inkle Ltd
Описание
"Edge-of-your-seat moves are core to Pendragon. Your pieces are characters that talk as you shift them around the board, and through quick decisive sacrifices and killer moves they grow and begin to form relationships with one another. A pawn’s sacrifice or Queen’s prowess will be remembered after the battle, and carried on into the next encounter." - NME
"Pendragon is a strategy game where conversations are as tense as battles, and there's not always a difference..." - Kotaku
Pendragon is a turn-based strategy game, where every move you make drives the narrative, and every story twist opens new gameplay opportunities.
Will you advance and show your mettle, or cautiously retreat? Will you slip round enemies, or encounter them head-on? And when sacrifices are required, who will you put in harm's way?
From the creators of the multi-award-winning 80 DAYS and Heaven’s Vault.
Rally the Knights of the Round Table. Some will make it to Camlann and King Arthur. Others will fall. But every turn will change history.
Will Sir Lancelot be reunited with Queen Guinevere? Will she spurn him, or embrace him? Will Sir Kay ever forgive Sir Gawaine for siding with Sir Mordred? Can Morgana le Fay be trusted? Where is Merlyn? Who lies buried in Mordred’s graveyard? Who is the archer in the woods? What has become of Excalibur?
Secrets will be uncovered. Hearts will be broken. People will die. But maybe, just maybe, King Arthur can be saved...
- Journey across Dark Ages Britain to face wild creatures, brutal rogues, and Sir Mordred’s dark knights. A randomized game board ensures every playthrough is new.
- Fight turn-based battles with simple yet deeply strategic combat where position is everything, losses are inevitable, and every step permanently shapes the narrative.
- Experience story and gameplay as one: Pendragon’s story plays out on the field of battle itself, driven by your decisions - and those of your enemies.
- Choose a character to lead the adventure. Their personality will shape the story: Morgana le Fay is treacherous; Queen Guinevere is haunted by her mistakes; Sir Lancelot is French; Sir Gawaine is usually drunk...
- Assemble a ragtag band of knights, heroes, and peasants whose dispositions and abilities grow and change with the story.
- Live the legend: there will be love, suspicion, revenge, sacrifice and murder — and no one is safe, not even your leader.
- Determine the fate of the kingdom: your actions determine whether Arthur faces Mordred alone or with his friends by his side.
Powered by the ink engine, the narrative technology behind Heaven’s Vault, Sorcery!, 80 Days, NeoCab, Sable, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine and many more, Pendragon is a digital storytelling board game of elegance, emotion, and infinite possibility.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 or later
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 550/equivalent or higher
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Mac
- OS: High Sierra or later
- Processor: 2.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
Отзывы пользователей
A strong meh--not an unpleasant experience, but neither the tactics nor the writing were compelling enough to keep me engaged.
liked it
I have always liked Inkle games for their story telling ( Socery and 80 days) and I expected a well told turn based story with this game, and if this is what you are expecting your going to be disapointed.
I can't put my finger on what is off about this game, but if I was to try to identify what the most serious flaw is, it would be the story feels undeveloped, the fighting parts feel confusing with visual clues missing ( e.g some characters can attack diagonal and some can't, which ones can and can't are pure guess work) and the ending is just so dissapointing.
It looks nice but feel more of an empty experience, did i dislike it , not really but did I like it , no not really , this game could of been much more but in the end it's just so average and unfinished.
Alright, so, if you like emergent narrative you're going to have a good time.
If you like game mechanics, you are going to have a BAD TIME.
Pendragon is very, very simple. Not simple but deep. Just simple. You move one square at a time, and you are able to spend an action to change directions between cardinal and diagonal. If an enemy is next to you and you can move into them, you kill them. And if there is an enemy next to them that can move into you, you die.
Abilities do things like letting you move an additional square sometimes, and that's about it. They're almost all bad. You just have to twiddle back and forth waiting for the cpu to make a mistake. This runs out your real hp gauge, the morale bar, and if you get the wrong random encounters you're SOL.
On the flipside, almost every encounter has some kind of narrative to it, and you can intuitively send it in different directions by making different movements based on cues in the narrative. That's cool. And there's a lot of stuff you can solve through dialog, and the writing throughout is sparse but uncommonly good.
There isn't a TON of story variety, which makes sense because of how intricate and bug free everything is, but there's a bunch of unlockable characters and they all have different and interesting tragic flavors.
I think if you look at Pendragon as sort of like the tactics version of a walking sim, you'll be in the right mindset for it. If you want roguelike arthurian tactics with a decent game length and solid mechanical depth, this is 10000% not that, and you will have an awful and frustrating time if you play it in that mindstate like I did.
Ultimately, I think Pendragon is cool even if it drove me up a tree. The emergent narrative would probably be stronger in a single player experience (like Banner Saga), but I don't think the roguelike elements are *wrong*, or the core design is broken or anything. It could stand to be a little clearer that it's a story experience for story people only, and that if you have ever so much as enjoyed a mechanic you will hate it, but within that niche it's really solid and the art, writing, and moody horn music do make it a lovely experience.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | inkle Ltd |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 23.12.2024 |
| Metacritic | 74 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 67% положительных (91) |