Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
Prime Games · 2018 · Adventure, Indie, Casual, RPG, Choose Your Own Adventure
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About Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
From the creator of Dust and Salt comes the next tale from its world – The Battle for Murk – an interactive narrative set in a low-powered, gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Collect evidence and uncover the truth in time to save your hometown from falling into the enemy’s hands.
The city of Murk is under siege by a cruel barbaric leader. On his night patrol, Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch stumbles upon a treacherous conspiracy that seeks to open the city gates for the usurper. Mandrake and his patrol partner have until dawn to uncover the truth and prevent the conspirators’ plan.
Explore temple dungeons, rowdy taverns, shady allies, and more. Obtain information from suspects or catch their lies by using your wits. Uncover the truth in a plot full of deception.
The game consists of a story text and a city map. On the map you can choose to travel to different locations while the story text builds around the constant choices you have to make. Enjoy the vivid writings of the author Sycamore Bright.
The city of Murk is under siege by a cruel barbaric leader. On his night patrol, Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch stumbles upon a treacherous conspiracy that seeks to open the city gates for the usurper. Mandrake and his patrol partner have until dawn to uncover the truth and prevent the conspirators’ plan.
Explore temple dungeons, rowdy taverns, shady allies, and more. Obtain information from suspects or catch their lies by using your wits. Uncover the truth in a plot full of deception.
The game consists of a story text and a city map. On the map you can choose to travel to different locations while the story text builds around the constant choices you have to make. Enjoy the vivid writings of the author Sycamore Bright.
Features:
- A short game (about 1.5 hours) focused on a story.
Although the plot is related to Dust and Salt, this can be played as a stand-alone game.
For fans of Sorcery!, Fighting Fantasy and Choose Your Own Adventure.
Story is king. Rich, non-linear story, reminiscent of D&D. Decisions matter. Your actions define and shape the world you experience. Memorable personalities. Engage with other characters and potential suspects in the city of Murk in well-written interactive dialogues. Art that brings the story to life. Zoom-in on the world map to enjoy the detailed artwork.
Immersive soundtrack. Featuring the gorgeous Nordic music by acclaimed artist Mike Olsen, a.k.a. Danheim.
Story Flavor:
The first sunrays were crawling hesitantly on the serrated city walls. The dark shroud of night was slowly withdrawing. The catapults had been shooting all night. Murk had managed to ward off two assaults from Wayward’s troops – one at the main gate and one by water, near Icewind Quay. Only when the morning light scattered the darkness did we see the price we had paid to survive that night: new cracks and holes in the thick city wall, a destroyed defensive tower, more homes reduced to rubble, and new fires throughout the city. At least a few dozen dead bodies laid scattered in the ashes, debris, and dust.
At nightfall, Wayward’s war drums began their rumble once again. The catapults were still silent, but they would undoubtedly start singing their deathly song soon. For nine days, Wayward’s hordes had sieged Murk, and every night the city walls groaned under the volleys of stones and fire hurled at them.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
"The Dungeons of Despair really lived up to their name - I had never seen a more disheartening place." Another well-written and entertaining interactive novel from the creators of Dust and Salt; this time minus the tactical turn-based battles that were decent enough in that first game, but hardly the best thing about it. This is a much shorter outing in any case - about half the length of the first, and accordingly half the cost - so even those who loved the aforementioned battles shouldn't miss them TOO much. Anyone who enjoys a good text-based adventure, with a smattering of visuals to add spice, should be satisfied. The agency is quite varied, enabling multiple playthroughs: I myself managed to fail the first couple of times but emerged, erm, sort of "triumphant" on the third attempt (and in any case only managed to attain TWO Achievements out of a possible thirteen in the hour-plus I've put in thus far). There's also some spiffy stats for the roleplayers out there, and a small inventory...but the "RPG" elements are light at best. Again: it's all more than adequate, given that a single playthrough of the game should take you an hour, tops (especially given the time limit…14 found this helpful
No improvements and as cliche story as it can get
Decent add-on.
In reference to my review for the previous Dust and Salt title, I was only able to play through 11 minutes of this sequel/expansion/whatever you may call it. I couldn't be bored to death for any longer.
It's a fun spin off from the main game. Unfortunately if you've played the main game you already know how the game is going to play out. But the writing is fairly decent and you will have to explore a few paths before you get the proper ending and the 'To be continued' banner. It doesn't add anything really new to the formula, or add much to the world, but in short, if you like the main game then get this. If you haven't played the first game - get and play it first and then see.
I had a great time with this sequel of Dust and Salt. It's more like a different view of the conflict and can be played separately from the first part. We lack the actual battles here (HMM style), but instead we collect items and data. If you are a gamebook fan, The Battle for Murk is a must!
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