Let's Try SKALD: Against the Black Priory Demo | Retro Dark Fantasy Lovecraftian RPG Goodness!
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Jump into this Retro Inspired Lovecraftian Dark Fantasy Crpg with the free demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/SKALD_Against_the_Black_Priory/
"‘SKALD: Against the Black Priory’ is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Choice matters as you explore an engaging branching story mixed with crunchy tactical, turn-based combat and character customization."
"You drag yourself from the black tides, across the corpses of drowned men, and onto the unwelcoming, craggy shoreline. Gulls cry overhead and the stink of seaweed fills your nose. By some miracle you have made it to Idra. It will take all your skill to survive and unravel the eldritch mysteries of the Black Priory. Pray your sanity holds."
"‘Skald: Against the Black Priory’ is an old-school roleplaying game that combines modern design and a fully realised narrative with authentic 8-bit looks and charms.
Delve into a dark fantasy world, full of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian, cosmic horror. Explore an engaging, branching story mixed with rich exploration and crunchy, tactical, turn-based combat that will seem familiar yet innovative to RPG fans, old and new.
Do you have what it takes to lead a company of broken heroes from the tainted shores of Idra to the gates of the Black Priory - and beyond?"
"Retro-styled tactical party-based RPG:
Gather your party of characters in a time of courageous needs, or heroic recklessness, and engage in challenging, turn- and grid-based combat. Cleave, blast or stealth your way through engagements and combats – play it your way. Skald enhances the beloved formula with engaging modern RPG features like auto-resolve, journals and quest logs, modern inventory systems and more!"
"Grim-Dark choice matter fantasy:
Set in an unforgiving world with lovecraftian horrors, your decisions will take you through a rich, branching narrative - or lead you and your party to dire consequences. Uncover the grand schemes of the Gallian Empire, live a life of a mercenary or explore the vast expanse of Freymark and the Outer Isles. Experience a richly illustrated world of authentic pixel art using thousands of hand-drawn tiles and images with a palette inspired by the legendary Commodore 64 computer – Optional CRT filter for that authentic old-school experience."
"Deep character and party creation:
Build your main character and recruit the party you need from among a series of diverse characters, each with their own skill-set, agenda and personality. Choose from a dozen classes and backgrounds as well as heaps of feats, spells and equipment as you take on unimaginable challenges and horrors from your party level 1 to 20."
"The developers describe the content like this:
The SKALD universe is dark and gritty and deals with subject matter that may be of violent, sexual or offensive nature."
I am a huge CRPG fan and I was really happy when I found the demo of Skald Against the Black Priory. Unfortunately, I was very young when these games came out so I was only able to watch my father playing these games and listening to his stories about the good old C64 and ZX Spectrum times.
But the OSR and the Retro wave is back and it could not be better!
So let's embark on a journey of lurking shadows, shifting tides and dark fantasy goodness. Here is the first gameplay vide of Skald Against the Black Pirory Demo. The full game will be released in Q2 2024.
00:00-01:06 What is Skald?
01:07-08:01 Character Creation
08:02-35:37 Prologue
35:38-40:53 2 weeks earlier...
40:54-42:36 Hello Lyra
42:37-48:02 To the Kitchen and the Cellar
48:03-50:58 Here's your Brandy mate
50:59-51:56 Lyra joined the party!
51:57-54:23 Skald is just EPIC
To be continued
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