What the heck is a psychological role playing game? How historically accurate is it? And more importantly how does it actually play? Find out by playing this free 20 minute demo.
CREATE
Create the body and mind of your own hero. Will you be brave, vengeful or gifted but traumatized? Customize yo...
What the heck is a psychological role playing game? How historically accurate is it? And more importantly how does it actually play? Find out by playing this free 20 minute demo.
CREATE
Create the body and mind of your own hero. Will you be brave, vengeful or gifted but traumatized? Customize your appearance and traits that will determine your playstyle.
ROLE-PLAY
Enjoy the freedom of choice and interpretation to tell your own story. Track your progress through a nuanced story with no filler events, full of opportunities to use your wits to triumph.
FIGHT
Use psychological tactics in battles. Overcome fear, pain and anger to perform at your peak. Show skill, lethal determination or total control to unnerve your opponent.
STRATEGIZE
Resort to diplomacy in relationships to rise as a leader, gain allies and resolve conflicts peacefully. Compete with other story characters for respect, renown, wealth and followers.
DEVELOP
Expand your mind and overcome beliefs holding you back. Unlock motives, weakness and secrets of others. Will you use them to build or to destroy?
EXPLORE
Each of the three acts comes with real story branching. Playing as a male or female offers fresh surprises. Can you reach all 5 distinct endings and gain all 8 major achievements?
First, I love interactive novels, especially on a phone, when written well they really can transport you to interesting places. But I've never found them to be captivating on PC. Sacred Fire manages to add some visual interest, a really strong system (I'd love to use that kind of motivation system on a tabletop game), and great writing, you are really getting into the world within minutes. Can't wait for the full game :D
This is truly remarkable storytelling, I built a character that felt a little bit too close to home and some of the choices and things the character can overcome and draw strength from brought me to tears. This is a gem, played it on hard mode, i can't wait for the new chapters!
I should give this game 0 stars for portraying barbarians as the good guys. How dare you???!!!??? ;-P If Roman legions invade you, you should be thankful!
Jokes aside, the game is an interesting concept (more a graphical novel than an RPG, IMO) and well designed, both in terms of graphics and game mechanics, as far as I've seen in the demo. It's not really my cup of tea as a game, but I'd definitely recommend trying the really nice demo to see if it's right for you.
