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It’s no news to the most of us that it takes quite a while to develop a really good game. Even so, I got quite surprised when I found out that Golden Era Games has been working on their classic style turn-based fantasy RPG “Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar” for over 20 years now (that’s about 2/3’s of my life). Well, guess what? “Grimoire” got Greenlit on Steam Greenlight just recently, and it’s said that the game will be released to PC on the 7th of July this year.

“The ultimate classic style turn-based fantasy roleplaying game! After more than 20 years of development, the greatest roleplaying game of them all is fnally ready for release! Grimoire is an homage to the classic dungeon blobbers and is inspired by Wizardry, Might & Magic, Lands of Lore, Anvil of Dawn, DungeonMaster and the Eye of the Beholder games!” – Golden Era Games

In other words, if you like games such as ” Lands of Lore“, “Anvil of Dawn”, “Wizardry” and “DungeonMaster“. Then you probably don’t want to miss out on “Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar”. Especially not since the game is said to offer the following features on launch:

Features:

– 600 hours of play possible in a single game

– Lush Colorful 2D Hand Drawn Artwork

– Retro style MIDI music and 8 bit sound effects

– 244+ Maps in the game to explore!

– Turn-Based strategic combat

– Multiple Beginnings, Multiple Endings

– 144 context sensitive magic spells

– 14 races, 15 professions, 50 skills

– 64 intelligent NPCs with 8000+ Words in Vocabulary

– Full Sentence Communication with NPCs

– 240+ monsters each with special powers and defenses

– 1000+ items, Carry Containers, Global Party Inventory

– 30 conditions, from Confusion to Disease & Lycanthropy

– Automapping, Autowalking, Autohealing

– Global Map Atlas With Position Marker

– Quest Journal, Hint Prompting, Help Facility, Mini-Quests

– Complex LockPicking Interfaces for Doors & Chests

– Challenging Puzzles and Rich Interactive Dungeons

– Browsable Character Library for up to 100 characters

– Up to 12 Commented Postage Stamped Savegames

– Multi-themed GUI and customizable screen layouts

On a personal level, I find this to be of great interest. Because I grew up playing quite a lot of turn-based fantasy RPG games as a kid. So I truly hope that “Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar” will be worthy of my time and money once the game launches for PC in the near future (July 7th, so I’ve heard).

And with that said, what’s your take on “Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar” so far? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below!



Robin “V-Act” Ek

Editor in chief

The Gaming Ground

Twitter: @TheGamingGround

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