Serpent in the Staglands

Details

Playtime Not Played
Last Activity Never
Added 24/01/2024 20:53:42
Modified 24/01/2024 21:07:57
Completion Status Not Played
Library Gog
Source GOG
Platform PC (Windows)
Release Date 28/05/2015
Community Score 50
Critic Score 80
User Score
Genre Adventure
Role-playing (RPG)
Developer
Publisher
Feature Single Player
Links Steam
Official
GOG
Twitch
Tag Adventure
Atmospheric
Classic
CRPG
Dark Fantasy
Exploration
Fantasy
Indie
Isometric
Kickstarter
Open World
Party-Based RPG
Pixel Graphics
Real-Time with Pause
RPG
Singleplayer
Tactical

Description

A campaign within the world of Vol, a fully realized setting inspired by the late bronze age in a Transylvanian landscape, with unique politics, races and gods steeped in history. Featuring a chosen party of five, you role-play Necholai, a minor god of a celestial body who descends to the Staglands for a moonlit festival only to find the way home blocked and immortality slipping away. Seeking answers and aid, you take on a mortal body and the guise of a traveling Spicer. This isn't a story of good and evil, saving the world or being a hero, it's about intrigue and your adventure of survival in a harsh land.

While the game rolls the dice for you, you'll traverse the Staglands on a path narrated by your own wits and choices. A tabletop inspired experience with adventure-game like navigation, Serpent in the Staglands offers no auto-populating map markers, checklist quest grinding and rigid story exposition.

Examine hand-drawn maps in your inventory for secret locations, diagrams of foreign languages, note encounters of interest in your in-game journal and figure out on your own how best to smuggle Spices. Roleplay, investigate, and pray to the RNG god when combat begins.