Summary
"In Griftlands, everything is negotiable: money, loyalty—even morality. Choose your character and make your fortune. Griftlands is the next game by Klei."
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Griftlands Reviews & Ratings
Griftlands’ middling, insubstantial story and dull dialogues draw attention away from the game’s undeniable strengths: excellent negotiation mechanics and a pretty good combat system.
Hey, you there, still hanging around? Stop whatever you’re doing and download Griftlands on your console: you’ll thank us later! Joining the genre’s big names like Hadès or Slay the Spire, Klei Entertainment’s new masterpiece is only missing a French translation to earn its credentials among French-speaking gamers. Combining a colossal amount of content, a magnificent artistic direction and an addictive gameplay, Griftlands shows all its cards and wins the pot.
Griftlands is the new champion in the deck-building roguelike games arena, thanks to its original gameplay mechanics and deep/entertaining narrative nature.
Griftlands is an ambitious package. Not only does it combine two different compelling deck building systems into one game, but it’s attempt at relationship building feels like a small-scale version of what I loved about Mass Effect. Best of all, it pulls it off. Griftlands leverages the strengths of card-based roguelikes, delivering a different experience with each adventure, providing various deck archetypes for each playable character, and every in-game day brings new objectives to keep the experience fresh. The Griftlands may be an unforgiving, harsh place to live, but it’s a world I’d like to keep visiting.
A good deck builder needs good variety. This is where Griftlands falls short, core gameplay is simply unsatisfying long term and gets staleA good deck builder needs good variety. This is where Griftlands falls short, core gameplay is simply unsatisfying long term and gets stale too quickly. Slay the Spire or Monster Train are much more engaging in this element. The main thing Griftlands does get right is the story elements. The heists are and jobs are rather engaging and there is some variety that makes you want to do at least one more run. But once I had the perfect genocide and pacifist runs, I lost all interest in rerunning the game.
Release Date | June 15, 2020 |
Publisher | Skymap Games, Klei Entertainment |
Total Rating | 84% |
Content Rated | T (Teen) |
Game Modes | Single player |
Player Perspectives | Bird view / Isometric, Side view |
Genres | Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie, Card & Board Game |
Themes | Fantasy, Science fiction |
Platforms | Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S |