Fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world in this new rogue-like deck-building game – Griftlands. Griftlands offers a new variety of deck-building genres where you can either fight or negotiate. Negotiating in this game isn’t a joke, you can either fight or negotiate with different characters. Almost everything is negotiable: money, loyalty, and even morality. Choose your characters and make a great fortune in the Griftlands!

• Heroes are the playable characters in Griftlands. There are three heroes total planned for release. Each Hero has their own unique story, map, quests, play-style, and decks. Choose from Sal Fallon, Rook, and Smith.
• Grafts – Grafts are items that can be collected by the player that have a range of positive effects. Each Hero is able to install a limited amount of grafts. Grafts come in two varieties, Battle Grafts and Negotiation Grafts, and each comes in four different grades of rarity: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Boss, and Unique.
• Cards – Cards are the central focus of gameplay in Griftlands. Players start with a pre-built deck of 10 cards and build a deck of randomly offered cards that are rewarded through quests, purchased from merchants, or received from random events. Available cards can be customized by enabling/disabling Card Sets in the options before starting a run.
• Battles – Battles are the core gameplay of Griftlands aside from Negotiation. Battles are fought by spending Action Points on cards to use attacks, inflict statuses, and prepare other actions such as gaining defense.
• Negotiation – Negotiation is one of the two main gameplay aspects of Griftlands, along with Combat. Negotiations are used to intimidate, bribe, haggle, and attempt shakedowns. Most quests have an option that allows you to negotiate to either avoid combat entirely or give the Hero a powerful advantage in an upcoming fight.

Reviews

I like the world and the writing, and I especially like how it can click its heels and conjure up a story – as long as you don’t get bogged down in overlong battles. It’s certainly worth keeping an eye on, and if any of this sounds interesting then an early access visit might well be worth your while. Just do your best to forget about how you could be playing Slay The Spire or Monster Train instead. [Early Access Review]

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