GRIFTLANDS USES A JRPG-STYLE BATTLE SYSTEM, BUT ISN’T STRICTLY TURN-BASED NEED TO KNOW
RELEASE 2018
DEVELOPER Klei Entertainment
PUBLISHER In-house
LINK www.griftlands.com
FIRST LOOK
Griftlands offers your basic RPG standards: Loot, crafting, and combat. But, as with all of Klei’s games, there’s a twist. It’s a roleplaying game about grifting—about talking your way out of (and sometimes into) sticky situations, and pursuing potentially lucrative opportunities. Also, it’s set in a land. Hence the name.
I see an example of this when Smith, one of three characters you can play as, takes the low road after he stumbles upon a dispute between some bandits and merchants. Siding with the bandits, he battles the merchants, taking their coin, but ultimately decides to spare their lives. The merchants don’t like being robbed, but they…