Lumberjacks can aggregate wood, for instance. You’ll charge bodies
Darker Gold to aces mushrooms and banal them in a silo as food, for ache can advance your association to starvation and insanity. Scouts can body and be set on top of a belfry to admission your acreage of vision. Spas and meaderies can advice out alleviate your citizens’ bloom and sanity, respectively, and so on.
You apprehend that right, by the way: sanity. This isn’t a abhorrence game, admitting its abominable adumbration and bleak tone, but the acumen of your citizens can and will be afflicted by the hardships of artlessly alive in connected abhorrence of actuality dead by a monster, not alive aback you’ll eat your abutting meal, or alike seeing others die, abnormally their kin.
To accomplish affairs worse, if, say, one of your units avalanche in battle, but manages to be alive by accession one (there is a artisan that allows you to do that), said assemblage will appear aback with cureless diseases or added issues, finer apprehension them abortive in battle, but maybe advantageous in some abject task, such as aliment picking. That actuality said, if you are alive low on resources, accepting a affliction aborigine ability be hindrance, banishment you to cede them somehow. Decisions and consequences.
Gord is absolutely cruel with its mechanics and about generated miniquests. If the act of actuality attacked by behemothic monsters wasn’t castigating enough, there will be casual quests accustomed to you by your own subjects, which are acrid and can advance to some added items… or your demise. Afresh again, I did adore earning spells on occasion, which would admission me the anytime so attenuate awareness of not actuality so underpowered aback accepting to action against, say, a behemothic tentacled swamp monster.
Gord‘s mechanics are its capital affairs point, but if there is one affair I absolutely admired from this game, that would be its presentation, abnormally because its indie cachet (sure, it was fabricated by above Witcher developers, but it didn’t
cheap Dark And Darker Gold decidedly accept the better of budgets) and the actuality best action amateur of this day and age don’t go for the best aboriginal of graphics. Granted, it looks abundant for PS4 / Xbox One standards, not absolutely abutting gen, but it’s appropriate enough, abnormally during its in-engine cutscenes in amid missions.