Griftlands takes place in Haveria with three unique characters – Sal, Rook and Smith. Each has their own unique campaign, deck and abilities along with areas to explore. As a rogue-like deck-builder, players can engage in negotiations and attempt to convince/intimidate/charm their way through encounters. Alternatively, they can engage in combat and attempt to fight their way through situations.

With a number of different characters and encounters, numerous factions, and hundreds of cards, Griftlands offers a unique story experience on each playthrough. Will you play different factions against each other, acquire various pets and party members to muscle your way through, or a mix of the two? The choice is yours.

Griftlands has been available in Early Access for quite some time now, was available in alpha before that, so developer Klei Entertainment has had a lot of time to listen to feedback as it continues to develop the game. That strategy seems to have paid off, as Klei Entertainment has announced that the game will exit Early Access and officially launch on PC on Steam and the Epic Games Store on June 1st.

The game will also be coming to consoles, according to Klei, just three days later when it will release on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4 on June 4th. According to the developer, “Griftlands is a deck-building rogue-like where you fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect. Death comes quickly, but each play offers new situations and strategies to explore.”

Klei went on to thank the community for all its help during the game’s development, writing “We owe a huge debt of gratitude to everyone who played the game before launch and helped us polish, tune and fix bugs. There are way more card and story interactions in this game than our team could ever hope to wrap our heads around on our own – we really do rely on the community to show us what parts were working and which parts needed more work. Every time you hit F8 during the past two years, you’ve helped to make this game better. “

Early access for Klei Entertainment’s Griftlands is now available for Steam and Epic Games Store on PC. The deck-building roguelite RPG launched in alpha for the latter last year but this will be the first time that Steam players can get their hands on the game. Check out the cinematic announcement trailer below.

Set in the sci-fi world of Havaria, Griftlands is all about negotiating and fighting your way through various jobs. You’ll use cards to achieve this and collect more throughout multiple runs. Two playable characters, Sal and Rook, are available, each with their own unique environment and factions to deal with.

Griftlands takes cues from Slay the Spire but offers a nice RPG twist with NPCs that have their own motivations and views of you. It’s currently planned to be in early access for six months to a year, during which a third playable character, more cards, varied quest objectives and more will be added. Stay tuned for more details in the meantime.

Warcraft 3: Reforged

The classic RTS returns with heavily revamped visuals and cutscenes, new features and several balance changes. Warcraft 3: Reforged offers the base game along with The Frozen Throne, packing in tons of heroes and faction units, some redone campaign maps and numerous user-created games. While the jury is out on how some of the balancing will work, seeing Arthas’s betrayal in glorious 4K will be quite the experience. Warcraft 3: Reforged releases on January 28^th for PC.

Baldur’s Gate 3

In what’s essentially a dream pairing, Divinity: Original Sin developer Larian Studios will be working on the next Baldur’s Gate. Baldur’s Gate as a series is renowned for its RPG mechanics, character building and choices (not to mention elevating BioWare) so the fit couldn’t be any more perfect. Not a lot has been revealed about Baldur’s Gate 3 aside from a Lich infestation that must be halted but it’s Larian’s biggest game yet and may release by 2021 on Google Stadia and PC.

Klei Entertainment’s alpha for Griftlands is now available on the Epic Games Store. It can be purchased for $14.99 and features the first character Sal’s campaign from day 1 to 4. The alpha will be available on Epic Games’ storefront for the next year, after which it will come to Steam.

Griftlands initially started out as a role-playing game with an emergent narrative and immersive sim aspects. However, this didn’t work out so the developer rebooted it into a deck-building roguelite with three playable characters. Basically, you can choose to fight, steal or manipulate other NPCs using the cards in your deck. A deck for negotiating and a deck for battle can be built separately.

These cards will determine what kind of jobs can be taken, who allies with you and so on. The world is described as “harsh” with death being rather common. However, upon restarting, there will be new jobs to access, encounters and much more.

As per the developer’s roadmap that it revealed on Steam last month, the expected timeline for content updates as is follows:

• Alpha: The Sal campaign (days 1 through 4) is released
• Fall: Character 2 campaign (days 1 through ?) is released
• Early Access: Character 3 campaign (days 1 through ?) is released
• Launch: Full campaign for all characters released

Griftlands will fully launch in Fall 2020 for PC, but we’ll see what changes the development team makes in response to community feedback. Stay tuned for more details in the meantime.

Klei Entertainment’s Griftlands made an appearance at the PC Gaming Show, after essentially debuting in 2017 and disappearing. The excellent 2D art and sci-fi aesthetic still look as great as ever, but the development team has made some changes to the gameplay. Griftlands is now a card-battling RPG of sorts. Check it out below.

Along with 1v1 combat, there are battles involving parties as well. You’ll bring on mercenaries and pick up cards to perform different actions. Some of these cards will be used for conversational pieces as well – it’s possible to Threaten someone or Fast Talk them.

Interestingly, the alpha for Griftlands is coming very soon. It’s out on July 11th for the Epic Games Store, though it doesn’t seem like it will be removed from Steam. Perhaps the alpha will be exclusive to the former before its full launch? Stay tuned for more information, along with more announcements from the PC Gaming Show.

The Elder Scrolls 6

Bethesda has stated not once but twice that The Elder Scrolls 6 will not be at E3 2019. It was announced early to keep everyone in check, it’s probably out next generation, yada yada. And really, why would we start doubting the word of Todd now? Then again, Bethesda only recently arrived at an agreement concerning the Redfall trademark, which may or may not be the name of the next Elder Scrolls. So maybe we’ll see another teaser confirming the name.

Development

Griftlands was announced by Klei Entertainment in June 2017 at the PC Gaming Show at E3 2017. The game was announced with a planned release date of late 2018, but there has been no update from the developers regarding this. Griftlands is only confirmed for release on PC, and versions for other computer operating systems, or for consoles such as PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch haven’t been announced. Griftlands uses a 2D hand-drawn art style for its visuals, and cartoon-style animations.

Story

Griftlands takes place in a fictional science fiction fantasy setting. Players take control of a band of mercenaries. The developers have stated that the story is not a focus in Griftlands, and though there will be scripted questlines based on specific characters, the narrative will not be central to the experience, since a majority of the experience will revolve around players making choices to make more money in a simulated economy where their choices with the dynamic, and procedurally generated non player characters have permanent and systems-driven consequences.

Gameplay

Griftlands places a focus on player choice in terms of mechanics and systems, and everything in the game, including money, loyalty, and morality is described as negotiable. The game is billed as a “pirate mercenary sandbox”. Players travel from town to town, and can use steal from NPCs, fight against them, charm them, negotiate with them, among other options that will be provided to players for interacting with the game. Griftlands features a dynamic world that will have procedurally generated Non playable characters. While the world and the factions within them are fixed and pre-designed, but the NPCs and their state are procedurally generated and driven by systems and how players interact with them.

Players are set in a simulated economy, and controlling a group of mercenaries, are free to make their fortune however they please. Non playable characters remember actions that players take, and they and the game’s factions treat and respond to the player differently in accordance, based on said actions. As such, some characters might hold grudges against the player, and the world and the NPCs inhabiting it will react to the player and their choices and actions. While NPCs in the game will be procedurally generated, the main characters party members will be fixed. Each of the written playable characters will have their own specific questlines unique to them, but these will also take place within the game’s systems with procedurally generated and dynamic NPCs.

Griftlands will also featured turn based strategy combat. Positioning of characters will be important, and characters can either be placed in the front row or the back row based on their strengths and weaknesses. Morale and personalities of NPCs will also play an important role in combat and how battles progress or are structured. According to the developers, battles in Griftlands are designed to be “short and impactful”. The developers have also stated that many battles in the game will feature unique objectives and aims, and may not revolve around killing or wiping out your enemies, but instead around subduing them, meaning many fight will be fought not to the death, but until such time one of the sides surrenders based on certain conditions. Killing non playable characters in the game will also lead to mechanical repercussions, according to the developers.

Note: This wiki will be updated once we have more information about the game.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen is going to be amazing…when it’s finally done. Imagine a huge open universe to explore with large space ships (which you can captain), first person shooter levels with zero gravity, unique planets with their own culture and laws and of course, the freedom to do whatever. That’s not even taking the single-player component Squadron 42 into account which boasts hours of story and features high profile actors like Mark Hamill and Gillian Anderson.