Perfecting the finer points is entirely up to you and the time and the effort you are willing to put into it.Įverything in Griftland revolves around characters and the way you treat them. Learning and mastering those variants takes time, and the tutorials provide only the bare minimum of info, but enough to get you started.

There are common core rules for card combat and deck building in Griftlands, but the nuances are significant enough that we practically have six different variants of one complex deck-building game. Each approach is represented with its own card-battling mechanic, unique starting deck, and different card pool depending on a protagonist. In most cases, you can opt for either talking or fighting. The narrative and flow of the stories are presented in a fashion similar to JRPG-s, with the novel duality in dealing with conflict. Only Sal is available at the beginning, and each subsequent story is unlocked by playing the previous one. All three experiences are masterfully crafted, offering branching paths and many different outcomes regarding the NPCs you either befriend, antagonize or eliminate. Sal is a vagrant recently freed from the indentured servitude, eager to get even with the crime baroness who sent him there Mustashed Rook is a veteran soldier/spy infiltrating massive dig site to play both workers and barons controlling the business there Lastly, we have young Smith, drunkard and a fool who got left out from the will of his parents, pissing him off massively. Griftlands consists of three episodes, exploring the fates of three very different adventurers in the broken-down sci-fi world of Havaria.

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