Vagrus - The Riven Realms: Prologue is available on GOG.com. You can see it here
You can also get Vagrus - The Riven Realms Season Pass here.
Vagrus is an award-winning roleplaying game with a narrative focus, open-world exploration, and strong elements of strategy. The player takes the role...
Vagrus - The Riven Realms: Prologue is available on GOG.com. You can see it here
You can also get Vagrus - The Riven Realms Season Pass here.
Vagrus is an award-winning roleplaying game with a narrative focus, open-world exploration, and strong elements of strategy. The player takes the role of a vagrus - a caravan leader who strives to survive in a strange and dangerous dark fantasy world by leading a traveling company on all kinds of ventures.
A vast realm is yours to explore, filled with unique locations, strange factions, and a colorful cast of characters. In order to punish the Empire for its sins, the Elder Gods unleashed their power a thousand years ago that ended up devastating the realms. The continent is now a wasteland, riddled with arcane anomalies, swarming with twisted monsters, and haunted by roaming undead even after long centuries of rebuilding.
A large selection of stories make up the game’s narrative in the form of events and quests. The choices you make in these often affect your companions and the world around you. Pick your background from trader, mercenary, or explorer; work for factions, follow rumors and trading opportunities; acquire wealth, gain fame, and discover hidden knowledge.
Engage in turn-based, tactical combat that involves your companions and a large variety of enemies, both humanoid and monstrous. Use a wide range of character skills as well as your own leadership-related abilities to succeed. Positioning and support skills are of paramount importance in these challenging engagements.
Journeys have to be planned and prepared for carefully, lest they end in disaster. Manage your supplies, morale, and your crew’s vigor effectively to survive. Haul cargo and valuables across the wasteland or take it from others. Your crew of workers, fighters, scouts, and slaves have to be managed well to optimize their effectiveness.
A wide variety of companions can work for you in versatile caravan roles, such as scoutmaster, guard captain, treasure hunter, or beast handler. Each companion comes with unique combat skills, background stories, and personal quest lines that can upgrade them further when you complete them.
Ally yourself with mighty factions that shape the Riven Realms with their influence on commerce, brutal wars, and constant scheming. From prosperous Trading Houses to criminal syndicates and religious organizations, these groups offer powerful rewards and boons to those loyal to their cause. But take heed - befriending a faction will more than likely antagonize others.
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At the Heart of Ruin DLC
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For the gamer that likes to dive deep into the lore of another world, taking the time to look around, read, absorb, think -- this game is amazing. Has everything: RPG character development, trading, survival elements, turn-based combat, establishment of reputation with guilds and religious factions, immersive storylines. In a world that blends the fantasy and post-apocalyptic genres. Highly recommended!
"Get Sunless Sea/Skies formula and crank lore, word count, trading, exploration and companion complexity to 11."
Above would be still an inaccurate definition for Vagrus. This is by no means an easy game and that is why the game developers provided a demo.
First and foremost you play as a Vagrus which can be a mercenary, a shrewd trader or an explorer...and a real successful Vagrus will be all of them. There are several questlines for factions, companions and some of them are independent contractors which may lead to quite unexpected outcomes. The world itself resembles the old Dark Sun games but with somewhat of Roman Empire and post-apocalyptic twist.
Of course trading is the bread and butter for a Vagrus and the economy of the game is important to your survival. At first figuring out the proper routes can be intimidating but to ease that you can start building capital via doing delivery jobs for established factions. If you feel up to it, you can fight at arenas of large settlements and if you get beefy enough you can undertake dangerous quests that require a small army. If you are bored with the usual gameplay, you can always follow through detailed companion and faction quests that will take you all around the playable area.
Note that also there is lots of reading involved in the game because the game has its roots on a homebrew tabletop game which developers played for decades. So it is painstakingly detailed in descriptions at times and to be honest apparently a labor of love.
This game is a true oasis hidden in the depths of gameworld desert.
i felt vagrus was worth a review. as a gamer growing up in d&d ; i fell in love with baldurs gate. yea diablo was fun. but what about planescape torment? remember when fallout was a top view isometric...yea man before the graphics confused a good game. i only really play turn based.
this is so rich. so much to learn and read. i wish disciples could spin a tail like this..........
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why am i playing? ... where do i want to go? who cares if i just avoid fights? why do i want resources?
why do i keep reaching a far town; only to say nah! to much resources . then load a save from a while ago.
i often buy games come shoulder /fall season. and end up not finishing come spring. (divine , POI , pathfinder.) but i finish just as many. so im ok leaving at a fun point . but where was the fun?
if you have bought a good book lately; buy this game. if its on sale buy this game. its rich , i just can't find a good reason to keep playing after 2 months and 40 + hours.
One of the best things about the game is its balance. If your party size reaches a certain point you get Moral penalty etc.
Quite atmospheric music and art. Nice battle system. Detailed enough, but no annoying micromanagement.
The game is tough, but for its an advantage. A harsh world that is!
Though it's not one for your typical casual. Unless they are looking to broaden their horizons and immerse themselves into something a bit deeper. The game is text heavy but there are a lot of interesting systems going on, such as the trade, resource and risk management. And i am enjoying the combat (which is tactical) and exploration. It can be frustratingly difficult at times though the easier difficulty level mitigates this a bit. I was tempted to score it higher, but i reserve top rating for my favourite genre of RPGs, which are isometric (Baldurs Gate, Pillars of Eternity etc). But nontheless, i consider Vagrus to be among the best of it's sub genre. Which is the narrative focused, resource management focused adventures (this includes titles like Kingdom of Dragon Pass and Sunless Sea).
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