Valley Knights
Long Road Games · 2022 · Tactical RPG, Turn-Based Tactics, Choices Matter, RPG, Perma Death
PC
2 user reviews50% · 2
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About Valley Knights
✦ AI summary
Lead tactical turn-based battles through an eternal night in a roguelike world where every decision permanently shapes your heroes and unlocks new abilities. Master deep melee combat mechanics like flanking and morale while adapting your strategy with discovered skills and equipment across multiple playthroughs.
The sun has stopped rising after a mysterious explosion at the top of an ancient tower. You must gather your wits and survive eternal night in a world driven mad by apocalypse. Every moment counts and every decision comes with consequences in the unforgiving forests of the Vlenfir Valley. Grow, learn, adapt and equip your treasures; but be careful, something worse than death is coming for you.
Plan your moves and lead your heroes to victory with superior tactics.
Engage your foe with a tactics system focused on deep melee interactions like flanking, opportunity attacks, engagement, and competence.
Use morale to terrify foes and bolster allies when their conviction wanes.
Survive encounters with deadly bosses intent on ending your journey.
No one lives forever so make every choice count.
Permanently unlock classes, recipes, and more through encounters and treasure rewards.
Every playthrough features new heroes, along with new enemies to defeat, encounters to discover, and treasure to find
Earn experience and customize your hero's skills and talents. Add to their repertoir by discovering skill books and manuals throughout the world.
Use what you find or keep it to craft or sell. Every item has value.
The choices you make can change the outcome of every encounter, along with randomized results to make every playthrough different.
Key Features
Turn-based Tactics
Plan your moves and lead your heroes to victory with superior tactics.
Engage your foe with a tactics system focused on deep melee interactions like flanking, opportunity attacks, engagement, and competence.
Use morale to terrify foes and bolster allies when their conviction wanes.
Survive encounters with deadly bosses intent on ending your journey.
Roguelike Progression
No one lives forever so make every choice count.
Permanently unlock classes, recipes, and more through encounters and treasure rewards.
Every playthrough features new heroes, along with new enemies to defeat, encounters to discover, and treasure to find
Role-Playing
Earn experience and customize your hero's skills and talents. Add to their repertoir by discovering skill books and manuals throughout the world.
Use what you find or keep it to craft or sell. Every item has value.
The choices you make can change the outcome of every encounter, along with randomized results to make every playthrough different.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀12 found this helpful
Game isnt done yet but has a lot of potential, WHAT IT NEEDS: more items, more quest, more classes, bigger maps and more bosses. Maybe ultimate or "super ability" during combat sometimes? Better terrain tactics on the battle grid? More vision and a larger playfield on the battle grid? Randomly generated traps or random events on the battle grid? | What it doesn;t need: your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ opinion, game is not done yet.7 found this helpful
Not bad for a one man developed game2 found this helpful
"Valley Knights" is a very poor quality and objectively failed attempt to make an RPG with turn based tactical combat on a hex grid. The focus is on dark gritty RPG stuff, but the technical delivery is of such poor quality that gamers found themselves less engaged with understanding the game and more engaged in wondering why such a poor quality product could get published on Steam at all. Spoiler: Steam Direct only costs $100. The graphics aren't great. That's understandably be turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must …2 found this helpful
[h1]Before I played Valley Knights, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]2 found this helpful
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