Black Legend Is A Turn-Based Strategy Game Set In The 17th Century, Demo Out Now
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Belgium-based developers Warcave announced that their turn-based strategy game called Black Legend now has a playable demo available to all players in it’s Steam page. This is the same playable demo that was available at this year’s Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition.
Here’s the gameplay trailer released back in October to get an idea of what they are trying to build.
It looks like it has the potential to satisfy those that spent hours on games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and based on the game’s features in a press release, that seems to be the aim.
Black Legend Features
Strategy-Focused Gameplay: Approach each combat with a tactical focus, where unit placement, ability combos, and well-chosen attacks are key to survival. Black Legend focuses on old school strategy vibes, but without the 95% percent chance misses.
Explosive Combos: Mix up your ranged and melee combat by using alchemy for a wide array of explosive effects. Combine stacks of four different alchemic attacks to injure, poison, and debilitate your foes, but be warned, they will do the same to you.
Extensive Character Customization: Build your mercenary band with a wide array of classes, each with unique abilities. Improve each of your mercenaries with new weapons, armor, and trinkets, and create your own ability sets by equipping cross-class abilities.
Choose Your Difficulty: For those who wish to see the story, the path can be gentle. For those who wish for difficulty, even the slightest mistake will be greatly punished.
Historic Enemies: Black Legend fills the city of Grant with creatures from Belgian, Dutch, and German folklore like nekkers, Halewijn, Witte Wieven and Old Red Eyes.
An Engaging Story: Dive into the narrative through environmental storytelling, colorful NPCs, and rich set pieces.
An Entire City to Explore: Free-exploration lets you investigate the many alleys and streets in the city of Grant. Different districts host a wide variety of architecture and environments — you never know where you’ll discover a hidden path, a treasure trove of new items, hidden quest, or recruitable character.
Together with the announcement of the public demo, Warcave also released a developer diary that explains further how the game will be played.
Black Legend is set for a Q1 2021 launch for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
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