The Grand Lord
Andrew Tebbe · 2020 · Choose Your Own Adventure, Comedy, Indie, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings
PC
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About The Grand Lord
The Grand Lord is a branching dialogue driven adventure created by two first-time developers in Unreal Engine.
The game's starting incident is two-fold; your father is retiring as the Grand Lord of the land and your semi-evil brother is coming to take the throne. You have to visit the three factions of your kingdom: the peasants, swamp people, and aristocrats. You can either convince them to join your rule, or, if you do not like them, decide to not have relations with them.
At the core of the game is diplomacy and the question "what would you do if you were thrust into a leadership position?" That question is significant since the player has a large amount of agency in determining the direction of the story. For example, you could decide that you do not like how any of the factions operate and tell them that you don't want anything to do with them!
All of this culminates in a final strategy battle at the end of the game. Here your faction loyalties are put to the test as you control your forces and battle back the enemy army. There are several variations of this battle depending on your loyalties, so it allows for high replayability as you can experiment with different combinations of faction loyalty.
This is a dialogue driven adventure, and the majority of the player's time is spent interacting with the story. This is done through many different branching dialogue trees and choices presented to the player. Selecting these choices affects several hidden variables such as fear, honor, gold, and faction respect. The value of these plays an import role in dialogues and on the outcome of the story
There are many opportunities to choose different branching paths to go down. Every choice made has an impact, either directly or indirectly, on the story. In addition to the main branching story system, there are some fun adventure mechanics in the travel levels, and there is a large strategy component in the end as you defend the capital from your brother's siege. The strategy is done through dialogue where you choose how to position your army for the coming attack.
A single play through can range from 1-3 hours depending on how fast you read and go through the story. For most people, it will likely be in the 2 hour range. In addition, there are at least 4 unique endings with many different variations of each so a player will likely find themselves playing through at least 3-4 times, if not more! That being said, a single play through is best experienced in one sitting.
Enjoy your journey through a heightened world full of ridiculous characters and absurd moments in this light-hearted, medieval, adventure.
STORY
The game's starting incident is two-fold; your father is retiring as the Grand Lord of the land and your semi-evil brother is coming to take the throne. You have to visit the three factions of your kingdom: the peasants, swamp people, and aristocrats. You can either convince them to join your rule, or, if you do not like them, decide to not have relations with them.
At the core of the game is diplomacy and the question "what would you do if you were thrust into a leadership position?" That question is significant since the player has a large amount of agency in determining the direction of the story. For example, you could decide that you do not like how any of the factions operate and tell them that you don't want anything to do with them!
All of this culminates in a final strategy battle at the end of the game. Here your faction loyalties are put to the test as you control your forces and battle back the enemy army. There are several variations of this battle depending on your loyalties, so it allows for high replayability as you can experiment with different combinations of faction loyalty.
GAMEPLAY
This is a dialogue driven adventure, and the majority of the player's time is spent interacting with the story. This is done through many different branching dialogue trees and choices presented to the player. Selecting these choices affects several hidden variables such as fear, honor, gold, and faction respect. The value of these plays an import role in dialogues and on the outcome of the story
There are many opportunities to choose different branching paths to go down. Every choice made has an impact, either directly or indirectly, on the story. In addition to the main branching story system, there are some fun adventure mechanics in the travel levels, and there is a large strategy component in the end as you defend the capital from your brother's siege. The strategy is done through dialogue where you choose how to position your army for the coming attack.
A single play through can range from 1-3 hours depending on how fast you read and go through the story. For most people, it will likely be in the 2 hour range. In addition, there are at least 4 unique endings with many different variations of each so a player will likely find themselves playing through at least 3-4 times, if not more! That being said, a single play through is best experienced in one sitting.
Enjoy your journey through a heightened world full of ridiculous characters and absurd moments in this light-hearted, medieval, adventure.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It was a very charming game that was enjoyable to play. I would have liked for there to be more combat like the final fight but was still fine. I liked the comedy in the dialogue ,but wish the choices had a more concise meaning as to weather it is negative or a positive response, like in older Fallout games seeing the whole sentence you speak. other than that there were no game braking glitches that i experienced it was smooth i would recommend this game if you would like a short pick your adventure game.3 found this helpful
the game was filled with funny and details that i haven't found in other games. the coversations with people were riddled with subtle humor and banter with characters. Awesome game!!!3 found this helpful
Really enjoyed the game. Very funny and makes me want to beat all the endings as it's very re-playable. Really glad i gave this game a shot, 100% worth giving it a shot3 found this helpful
I have tried the game only for two rounds yet I've already discovered some very surprising outcomes from different choices. The endings I've got is quite general thus I am really intrigued by the other possible ones for I've gone two opposite directions by being good and mean. The dialogues involved are quite interesting and the great colours are used as an indication for status. Recommend it!2 found this helpful
Kind of a visual novel + adventure + simulation. Interesting art style and gameplay concept. Played for fifteen minutes and my only complaint is that the dialogue felt sluggish.
Good game.
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