Dead in Vinland strikes me as The Banner Saga meets Darkest Dungeon. For a begin, everybody seems completely depressing. It’s a survival/administration recreation with RPG parts the place you play as a viking household, exiled and shipwrecked on an island. Is that island a peaceable place of bountiful splendour? Given the variety of issues it’s important to handle with a view to preserve your exiles from both dying or spiralling right into a psychological well being disaster, I’d say not. There are folks out to kill you, too.
It’ll be out in early 2018, and there’s a trailer under that reveals off all the things from camp administration to RPG type decisions to fight.
It’s all flip primarily based, and a core a part of the sport revolves round managing the well being, each bodily and psychological, of your survivors. There are mouths to feed, storms to climate and camp upgrades to construct – however every character can solely be assigned one exercise every flip. Don’t neglect that is an RPG too, so that you’ll have to consider their numerous expertise and whatnot. It’s not all cooking and building, both – there’s tactical flip primarily based fight that appears significantly Darkest Dungeon-ey.
There’s so much happening, but when the sport can tie all of these parts collectively in a satisfying manner then this may very well be one shipwreck I’ll fortunately soar on board.
While that each one sounds attention-grabbing sufficient, however I’m particularly intrigued as to how Dead in Vinland ties into its predecessor, Dead in Bermuda. Dead in Vinland swaps out Bermuda’s modern-day aircraft crash for a viking shipwreck, however devs CCCP counsel on Steam that each video games happen in the identical world:
“From the start, we wanted to build a world where all the games in the series would fit. If you played DiB, you may have noticed… Strange… Things. With no real explanations. More explanations will come in DiV, which is not a direct sequel but shares the same base gameplay and backstory.”
It jogs my memory of how Amplitude‘s Endless Legend and Endless Space are set in the identical world however aeons aside. This is extra refined than that, and is likely to be all of the extra attention-grabbing due to it.
Dead in Vinland will launch early in 2018 on Steam. Hit the game’s site for extra data.
