The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming
The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones.
You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men. While in your base, you must recruit, train and develop a team of heroes in their quest to restore peace. Make smart decisions during the random events you will run into and battle countless different creatures ranging from mere goblins to huge abominable creatures like wyverns, golems, ogres and worse. On the tactical combat map, put the skills you have learned to the test to defeat powerful opponents.
Your chances in battle not only depend on your tactical decisions but also on your preparation. Assemble well-rounded teams and pick from dozens of different skills to creature unique synergies between your team members that work for you and your preferred playstyle.
- Rich turn-based combat with a wide range of interesting mechanics, including numerous conditions (bleeding, burning, weakened, blind, crippled, …), knockdowns, shouts, buffs, enchantments, and hexes.
- Interesting combat mechanics that allow flanking, tying up, disengaging, and smart combinations of skills.
- Numerous playable hero classes to pick from to add to your team with dozens of unique abilities to specialize in.
- Challenging encounters against close to 40 different creature types each with their own abilities. Ever since the Ancient Dragon returned, Orks, Giants, Undead and Mystic Creatures roam the realm of men causing death and destruction.
- Defeat intelligent monsters that collaborate, heal and buff their allies and have their own strategy on how to put your heroes to the grave.
- Use your gold wisely on the strategy layer to invest into skill development, equipment, consumables or additional heroes.
- Rest in town to recover from injuries that reduce your constitution or gain morale boosts by exceptional performance in battle.
- Classic RPG/roguelike features like permadeath, procedural dungeons, and random events result in high replayability.
Game Discussion
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In a world where shoes are a luxury, and ladies fight monsters in their lingerie, a desperate band of Night Watch wannabes battles to save the world...
Yeah so this is a tactical battle game a little like Wartales or Battle Brothers but nowhere near as polished. It ALMOST feels good enough to push on with, but I think I am finding the battles a bit too samey and repetitive. It nearly has that compulsive x factor but not quite.
There is also a Darkest Dungeon's style narrator but the script and delivery is nowhere near as good - in fact it is quite amateurish.
It is also a bit funny at times, presumably unintentionally, like with the shoes - my troops and enemies have been almost completely unshod so far. Shoes do exist, but you have to pay extra to get them as enhanced armor. Because tromping around a ruined dark ages warzone and fighting rampaging horrors is best done barefoot!
Music is inoffensive and has moments where it feels like it is about to become something special, but it never does.
And that is the game in a nutshell - almost hitting the x-factor of greater games, but not quite managing.
Now given its age - 2016! - and apparently tiny dev team, that is actually pretty impressive, to almost manage to capture that x-factor... But it is not enough for me to keep playing. I am very jaded though! I've been playing games since 1980 or so. It is hard to impress me and keep my attention.
So... because I think some folk could like this, and it clearly has a bit of spirit, I will recommend it with the above caveats. Maybe give it a go if it is dirt cheap and you have run out of other tactical war games to play, or crave a setting a little like the Night Watch.