Tyranny
Obsidian Entertainment · 2016 · RPG, Choices Matter, Story Rich, CRPG, Isometric
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About Tyranny
As a powerful Fatebinder in a conquered world, you enforce—or subvert—an oppressive regime's rule through branching choices that fundamentally reshape the land and its factions. Obsidian's tactical RPG stands out by letting you play as an established authority figure navigating a morally complex world where the tyrant has already won, challenging traditional notions of heroism and letting your ambitions, alliances, and ideals determine the fate of nations.
From Obsidian Entertainment, the team behind Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas, and South Park: The Stick of Truth, Tyranny is a classic-styled RPG with a new and original story, shaped and molded by your actions. The very layout of the world will be altered by your decisions as you choose sides, make allies and enemies, and fight for your own vision of law and order in an immersive and reactive story.
Main Features:
Branching, unique stories in an original setting:
In a realm where the tyrant has already won, the player must decide how to reshape the world. Strengthen the pillars of a new regime, or search for more power at the top of the new order!Choices matter – make world-altering decisions with far-reaching consequence:
As a Fatebinder in the Overlord’s army you wield a vast amount of power in the occupied lands of the Tiers. Will you use that to inspire stability and loyalty, or will you try and offer a better way?Challenging, classic RPG combat:
Tactical real-time-with-pause combat with new party-driven mechanics and modern presentationA rich original setting:
Tyranny turns the archetypal RPG story on its head and allows players to explore a new take on good and evil. The player is not a random villager who rises to power, but an instrumental officer with considerable resources and authority. Use that power to enforce the new status quo, or try to make change from the inside!DLC & expansions
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
What an amazing game! Lacks enemy variety but largely makes up for it in dialogue, choices, companions, lore, etc. There's nothing I dislike about this game, truly a must-play for any CRPG enthusiast.1 found this helpful
i have played and beaten most other real time with pause crpg's including pillars of eternity made by the same people, and i just cant make this game make sense. you have 2 rivaling factions of the same army underneath a common ruler sharing a common goal. they are introduced to you as struggling to get along due to differing values and constant bickering. yet when you make the decision on which faction will lead the charge on your first objective, they suddenly become sworn enemies completely losing sight of the fact they will all die if they don't work together. this also causes conflicts with who your companions are even though none of them express a single concern about the choices you make that affect your reputation with each faction up until this point. abilities don't get any stronger as you progress through the skill tree, your characters hardly get stronger when they level up, and enemy abilities outclass yours by miles. combat requires more micromanagement than in any other crpg. you have to pause after each ability that is used and select another one for each character. and you get no breaks in this as the ai mode doesn't even use your abilities, just auto attacks. ever…
Amazing Character Creation but after this the game falls a bit flat. Combat is repetitive and slow, the game constantly throws huge walls of text at you. just an unsatisfying experience. Came into this with high hopes after Pillars but left sorely disappointed and never finished
Extremely underrated. In my opinion, a strictly better CRPG than Pillars. The setting is interesting and unique. The characters are interesting and unique. Each area has an interesting theme/hook because of the edicts, and the way everyone reacts to their situation feels believable and immersive. Great writing, and in my opinion a CRPG lives and dies on writing quality. My only gripe is with the way aggro works, which makes it very hard to keep squishy backliners alive (rip my boy lantry).
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A perfect game to try this genre and see if its for you or not because if not i think you’ll enjoy it nontheless. The story is carrying the whole thing but not in a bad way. It does what a story should do, keeps you interested and intrigued. The overall dialogues and questions asked are a masterclass how gameplay should be affected by the story and vice versa. I honestly think you cannot go wrong with this one.
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