Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting.
Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.
Features
Survival RPG with fo...
Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting.
Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.
Features
Survival RPG with focus on combat and open-world exploration in a dark fantasy setting
Turn-based, tactically rich combat on large maps, with multiple environmental factors and a carefully crafted class/skill system
Procedurally generated survival campaign
Extract character upgrades directly from your fallen enemies
All graphical assets are hand drawn, from characters, monsters and objects, to the world map and battlefields
Dynamic battles
Ram your enemies onto spikes or over high cliffs! Shield your allies and counterattack your enemies when they strike. Use your archers for ranged support while performing melee attacks. Or execute one of many possible combo attacks!
Ram your enemies into environmental hazards
Off you go!
Characters
Extract skills and traits from fallen enemies and apply them to your units! These custom abilities can totally change a character's role in combat. Extracted abilities include pushing the enemy on a critical hit, retaliating when being hit, avoiding a lethal strike, and performing a lifestealing counterattack against your foe!
Your characters also learn new skills when executing specific actions in battles. Pay attention and be rewarded!
Story
The game world is a place of toil, suffering and darkness. There are no elves, dwarfs, dragons or other classical fantasy creatures. There are some light magical elements, but no overwhelmingly powerful sorcerers either.
Many centuries past, Giants roamed the world, living peacefully alongside humans until the war between the two species left the Giants extinct. Some years ago, a cabal of scientists discovered a process to extract the Life Essence of the ancient Giants from their bones.
This mystical fluid promised to cure many different diseases, mend grievous wounds, and perhaps even halt the aging process. Unfortunately, instead of improving the health of the subject, very often the serum would have the opposite effect, inflicting a mutation or lethal disease. Until the exact nature of this wondrous medicine can be determined, experiments on unwilling subjects continue.
The story begins when the main character, Urtuk, escapes from the Sanatorium, a facility where these experiments are carried out on abducted commoners. Urtuk suffered a severe mutation from his exposure to the Life Essence, and with every passing day his health worsens. Now he wanders the world in search of a cure. Unless he can find a way to counter his evolving mutation, Urtuk must eventually die.
I have been looking for a good TB RPG to get stuck into but my search turned up mostly light-weight stuff that failed in one way or another.
Then I found this GEM of a game. It's different, it's engaging, and the mechanics are a turn based fans wet dream.
They took the turn based adventure and gave it a unique coat of paint and perfectly balanced it. Then they stripped away all the junk and just left the precious parts.
This game you have to buy and try.
I used to play Battle Brothers and found this game to be a nice addition. Graphic design leans more towards Darkest Dungeon. It offers a unique and interesting turn based system, making use of "mutators" and a combo system that can buff your characters apart from a xp based level up system.
