Heads Will Roll
1917 Studios · 2021 · RPG, Adventure, Choices Matter, Strategy RPG, Multiple Endings
PC
Mostly Positive78% · 165
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About Heads Will Roll
Heads Will Roll lets the player to take a role of an ordinary medieval soldier who finds himself in the middle of the legendary Hundred Years War between the kings of England and France. You start your way as a simple footman, whose sole ambition is to survive, but with proper skill and cunning or through blood and preservation, you might soon see yourself becoming one of the most famous knights of your time.
This game is a unique type of RPG with survival mechanics and turn-based combat that requires player to make careful decision both inside and outside the fight. The sophisticated combat system utilizes many different parameters including characters’ stats and attributes, familiarity and proficiency with certain weapons, weapon length, fatigue level, various traumas and injuries, as well as hundreds of different items and consumables.
Loot it all
The game offers more than 150 different lootable items varying from all kinds of medieval weaponry and armor to trinkets with unique effects, several types of poisons, medical supplies and many crafting items.
Face the consequences
All of the actions that your character takes will have in-game consequences. The NPCs will change their opinions of you depending on how you treat them and how you behave both inside and outside of battle. This in turn will enable or disable various future interactions with them and sometimes trigger special events.
Crafting system
Make good use of any loot or supplies that you got your hands on. A lot of them can be combined in order to craft medical and utility items, as well as many types of crossbow ammunition.
Big replayability
Heads Will Roll utilizes many random generation elements that will turn two separate playthroughs into two completely unique experiences. Start with different items and stats, face different enemies, make different choices and live through different events each time you play.
Huge arsenal
The game has dozens of weapons ranging from swords, axes, maces and spears to throwing knives and crossbows. All of them have varying movesets that rely on and make use of different stats & skills (strength, agility etc.), while also having distinct features and countering each other in some way.
All’s fair in love and war
Fight not only for wealth and honor but also for the hearts of several stunning beauties with unique personalities, views on life and tastes in men. Conquering some of them might prove to be just as tricky as surviving the war.
Join our Discord!
https://discord.gg/6y2NjEpXWv
This game is a unique type of RPG with survival mechanics and turn-based combat that requires player to make careful decision both inside and outside the fight. The sophisticated combat system utilizes many different parameters including characters’ stats and attributes, familiarity and proficiency with certain weapons, weapon length, fatigue level, various traumas and injuries, as well as hundreds of different items and consumables.
Loot it all
The game offers more than 150 different lootable items varying from all kinds of medieval weaponry and armor to trinkets with unique effects, several types of poisons, medical supplies and many crafting items.
Face the consequences
All of the actions that your character takes will have in-game consequences. The NPCs will change their opinions of you depending on how you treat them and how you behave both inside and outside of battle. This in turn will enable or disable various future interactions with them and sometimes trigger special events.
Crafting system
Make good use of any loot or supplies that you got your hands on. A lot of them can be combined in order to craft medical and utility items, as well as many types of crossbow ammunition.
Big replayability
Heads Will Roll utilizes many random generation elements that will turn two separate playthroughs into two completely unique experiences. Start with different items and stats, face different enemies, make different choices and live through different events each time you play.
Huge arsenal
The game has dozens of weapons ranging from swords, axes, maces and spears to throwing knives and crossbows. All of them have varying movesets that rely on and make use of different stats & skills (strength, agility etc.), while also having distinct features and countering each other in some way.
All’s fair in love and war
Fight not only for wealth and honor but also for the hearts of several stunning beauties with unique personalities, views on life and tastes in men. Conquering some of them might prove to be just as tricky as surviving the war.
Join our Discord!
https://discord.gg/6y2NjEpXWv
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's engaging story and note that combat becomes enjoyable once you learn its mechanics, though the slow start and steep learning curve are significant hurdles. Common complaints center on excessive randomness in combat that makes skill feel irrelevant, tedious gameplay requiring frequent save-scumming, cluttered UI, excessive and poorly-written dialogue that undermines the serious tone, and difficulty spikes in later battles that frustrate progression.
[h1] 5/10 [/h1] Had this game for a long time in my library and decided to give it a try. At first its fun for about two hours, then you slowly realize everything is basically random, total randomness, hitting, getting hit everything. I had 20 STR and good weapon proficiency and still couldnt kill basic enemies quickly. You are pretty much forced to save scum a lot, even when you feel like you’re playing perfectly. The game is very tedious, and not much skill is involved with combat system. The UI is clancky. The only thing that really caught my interest was the story at the beginning.27 found this helpful
Buy Reforged, this is a demo.12 found this helpful
I'm going to address this directly to the developer in hopes that he/she reads it. I like the game enough to recommend to other players, but there are some critiques here: 1. For such a verbose story and dialog, there are way too many typos. 2. The jokey, flirty dialog between love interests is juvenile and hard to accept. 3. Overall, the serious nature of the game is undermined by the silliness. I'm not impressed with the wit of the characters and would prefer the game pick a path and reduce the inane amount of text I have to read, which I basically just skip at this point. 4. The battles are fun in the beginning, but (unless I'm doing this wrong) I am getting some serious angst as I approach these later battles. I have many sub-points here: i. The feinting in the later battles is obnoxious and amounts to making the battles longer. I basically nest in Balanced stance at this point to try to move things along, and maybe the battles aren't as long as they feel but they feel sooooo long. And it's not interesting, it's like a few rounds of recovering stamina while they feint you back down. ii. They aren't even smart about the feinting. The AI will have a perfect opportunity to…2 found this helpful
Quite a lot of fun if you can stick with a slow start to learn the tricks. Best to do multiple saves of the game if you want to pick up where you left off before getting killed.
worth it
The game is fine Come in if you like text games
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