In Gord, we want to tell a story. One that encapsulates this fantastical world and takes players on a journey through powerful themes and experiences.
Be that an encounter with a horrifying beast, or dealing with a plague ripping its way through your populace, Gord lets you shape your own narrative, while guiding you through a rich one of its own.
The cinematics in Gord are designed to not only progress the main story, but outline important moments for your villagers and key story characters, delivering a sense of immersion into this foreboding world.
Prepare yourselves and your tribes, as you look the conquer the darkness beyond the gates.
DARK FANTASY STRATEGY GAME ‘GORD’ LOOMS FROM THE SHADOWS FOR A SUMMER LAUNCH ON STEAM
Enter a world of primordial beings, horrifying beasts, and powerful incantations later this year.
Team17 and Covenant.dev have today announced that dark fantasy, strategy adventure game Gord will launch on Steam this summer.
Created by a team that includes former Frostpunk and The Witcher 3 developers, Gord has players take command of the Tribe of the Dawn and embrace the ethical complexity of leadership as they shepherd their community and protect them from invaders and monstrous beasts. They will need to oversee their citizens’ hunger, disease, and trauma, nurture their faith and train them for battle, while also expanding their settlements – the titular 'gords' – and embarking on a variety of life-threatening quests.
Pray for a light in the darkness and check out a brand-new gameplay trailer:
Gord Key Features
Mature Dark Fantasy Adventure: Lead the people of the Tribe of the Dawn and venture deep into forbidden lands in a lore-rich, dark fantasy strategy campaign
Build to Survive, Conquer to Prevail: Grow your gord from humble settlement to formidable fortress while protecting your citizens from invading tribes, gruesome monsters, and mysterious powers that lurk within the surrounding woods
Unique Sanity System: Keep a close eye on your townsfolk as everything from illness to hunger and the death of kin can have devastating impact on their lives and well-being
Hand-Crafted Quests: Take on a wide variety of quests and random encounters that will lead you deep into the wilderness to hunt legendary creatures, uncover ancient secrets, and vanquish deadly scourges
Powerful Incantations: Unlock a variety of offensive and defensive spells to tip combat in your favour, each with custom animations and potentially gruesome results
Custom Scenarios mode with Procedurally Generated Levels: Take on an endless variety of challenges by creating your own scenarios. Customize your playthrough by picking a main objective, choosing your starting party, level size, number of resources, enemy types, raid intensities, and even the severity of the weather!
In the 5th and final development log of this series, we dive into the Mythology and Lore of Gord. While speaking to Stan and Anna Sokalska (Writer), we look at how the adventure genre was approached, how quests first began to take shape, and how the Chronicle was made.
In this video, we also discuss:
Campfire stories
Introduction to Anna Sokalska
The inspirations for the story of Gord
Who the Slavs are
You can find a link to all current and future Chronicle posts here
In this weeks Development Log, we focus on the villagers of your gord. Diving into the games genre, how the plan changed when elements were combined, and why it's important to care for your townsfolk.
In this video, Stan talks us through:
How strategy is combined with horror.
How the team got into the adventure strategy space.
Why villagers are unique.
The connection between players and their villagers.
In this instalment our of Developer Series, we explore the creation of your first Gord. We look at the buildings and resources you must manage, how many options are at your disposal and how managing your space can be an important skill to master.
Join Stan and Michal (Lead Designer), as they discuss the initial ideas behind city-building, and how a blend of two genres had to be considered when shaping this key pillar of the game.
In this weeks Dev Log we'll be diving into the art of Gord, and look at how the visual design team began work on our dark fantasy adventure-strategy.
Join Stan, and Tomek (Lead Concept Artist), as they discuss how they found the right visual style, how concepts are created and how Tomek often has to decipher Stan's drawings.
As we head deeper into the launch year of Gord, we thought it was time to delve into how the game came to be. It's inspirations, how it was designed and ultimately how Gord began to take shape.
Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be sharing a variety of developer diaries, recorded back when Covenant first began work on our dark fantasy city-builder. These will feature interviews with the development team, behind the scenes clips, and unreleased concepts and assets, all combining to give you a detailed look into how the game came to life.
Welcome, to Gord.
Key talking points:
An introduction to Stan Just, CEO and Game Director of Gord.
Join us on Discord to follow the discussion and most recent news!
Welcome to the DisGord!
Our server is dedicated to Gord, the upcoming single-player adventure-strategy game from Covenant.dev. Featuring developing societies, eerie forbidden lands, and remarkable mythical creatures inspired by Slavic Folklore!
Covenant.dev and Team17 have partnered up to bring Gord to PC.
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Gord is a single-player, dark fantasy strategy game inspired by Slavic folklore. In the world of Gord, you will lead the Tribe of Dawn as they strive to establish new settlements and explore eerie forbidden lands, which interacting with horrific creatures and deities.
You’ll need to complete quests to grow the tribe’s settlements (known as ‘gords’) and fortify these to protect from invaders while managing a populace whose personal stories, familial ties and mental well-being can have devastating impact on the survival of their communities.
Covenant.dev is a 24-person creative development house including alumni from prominent Polish developers CD Projekt RED (The Witcher 3), 11 bit studios (Frostpunk), and Flying Wild Hog (Shadow Warrior 2). Headed by Chief Executive Officer, Stan Just, former producer on The Witcher 3, Gord is the studio’s debut title and aims to deliver players a mature and unforgiving strategy experience.
Key Features:
Dark Fantasy Strategy: Lead the people of the Tribe of the Dawn and venture deep into forbidden lands in a lore-rich, dark fantasy, real-time strategy campaign Build and Survive: Grow your gord from humble settlement to formidable fortress while protecting your citizens from invading tribes, gruesome monsters, and mysterious powers that lurk within the surrounding woods Unique Sanity System: Keep a close eye on your townsfolk as everything from illness to hunger and the death of kin can have devastating impact on their lives and wellbeing Hand-crafted Quests: Take on a wide variety of quests and random encounters that will lead you deep into the wilderness to hunt legendary creatures, uncover ancient secrets, and vanquish deadly scourges Unleash Powerful Incantations: Unlock a variety of offensive and defensive spells to tip combat in your favour Custom Scenarios with Procedurally Generated Levels: Take on an endless variety of challenges by creating your own scenarios. Customize your playthrough by picking a main objective, choosing your starting party, level size, number of resources, enemy types, raid intensities, and even the severity of the weather!
We’ll have more news to share about Gord in the near future. In the meantime, be sure to add the game to your Steam wishlist!
