Gord

Gord's fatal flaw is its attempt to be both a traditional RTS and a settlement builder at once; this attempt at merging the two genres results in both being very shallow. On the RTS side, you have 3 units (technically 4), none of which are really designed to counter anything but instead to be generally useful, thus the only strategy is to combine melee and ranged units, unit composition is incredibly simple. On the settlement builder side, you have 3 needs to meet, all of which are easy enough that they never conflict thus a derth of meaningful decisions to be made. Sanity takes care of itself if you build an upgraded meadery, which workers will visit automatically, and attach a scout to your warband so they're never in darkness. Food and gold (why do we care about gold?) are also easy to obtain passively. There's also a fair amount of micromanagement, but only because your units have a habit of wandering into monster lairs unprompted. The story is at it's best when it's unintentionally funny. For example when Boghdan, the tribe's elder, laments his alliance with Colanthia, despite the Colantians having nothing to do with the crisis they were in; the villains being a completely unrelated faction and the sole Colanthian of any note literally just getting fed up and walking away (What was his plan?) halfway through the game. That was not a joke.Aside from that the first half of the game is just bad decisions (How were we going to extract gold from a place that doesn't even have consistent geography?) to justify the tutorials and the second focuses on arguments between the game's good and evil sorcesses (Lynx and Raven), in which Raven makes actual good points and Lynx responds with cheap platitudes about "balance" and "nature". For example, Raven describes an incident where Lynx allowed a rabbit to graze at their family's crops (thus compromising their survival) and Raven did Lynx's job by killing it and feeding it to her family.

The story is good and the atmosphere is dark and miserable, as it should be. However, the gameplay is somehow not fun. Rather, it's a chore. You cannot manage your units seamlessly, there are too many tabs to navigate. Unnecessary amounts of micromanagement further delay you from the only fun part of the game - map exploration. At the end, it is a very bland mix of rudimentary colony building and rpg, but it could have been so much better...

a real gem that is interesting with col mechaniques and interesting storytelling and lore, keeps you own your toes to take care of all your subjects, and really put their better skills to work and be carefull at their weakness, specially the sanity and food, being very versatile you need all of theme and good teamwork to win ^_^ was an very welcome suprise hope this game and more games like this get more love in the future

Gord is an amazing game, it has an engaging story, great setting, very good voice acting and a superb soundtrack. I've seen some negative reviews because it seems to be a misunderstood game, it's been mostly compared to Rimworld and the fact that Gord lacks some of the features found there but I belive it's been an unfair comparison since Gord never set itself up as a Rimworld clone, it's its own thing and I think it blends the RTS, survival, colony management and RPG elements very well.

The story is great, the missions are challenging, even for experienced RTS players. This means it is a very good game. Everything is great but the interface: people got themselves stuck running in the Balia, you cannot set auto-refill at meadery, unit behaviour is pretty lame. I recommend for playing.