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Play OverviewPlay Overview

Griftlands (2020) is an adventure game where you use cards to fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world. You will die or fail often, but then use your knowledge and growing deck of cards to have a better chance of survival on your next round of the game.

As you play you make important decisions about the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect. Death comes quickly, but each play offers new situations and strategies to explore.

You play as an adventurer out for profit and revenge or an ageing spy working his own agenda. These two characters will be joined by other heroes as the game is updated in the coming months and years.

How you treat other characters you meet in the game matters deeply. Killing foes results in the wrath of their friends, but sparing them leaves a dangerous piece on the board. This creates not only a battle game but a complex web of allegiances and relationships that are different each time you play.

Along with your character's unique negotiation and combat decks, you gain powerful item cards from fallen foes or as rewards. Hire mercenaries, find pets, or impose upon your friends to accomplish your goals. The characters also have their own unique story arc and environment, with different factions and locations to explore and exploit.

It's a deck-building rogue-like game. This means, as we've described, that you collect and choose which cards to play and that you are supposed to die and try again. Learn from each attempted run through the various stories of the Griftlands. Encounter different combinations of enemies, quests, and events every time you play. Your fate is determined by your choices, and by fate.

Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Griftlands 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 6 months ago.
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Play StylePlay Style

This is a Role-Play and Sequencing game with Adventure, Collecting, Narrative, Simulation and Strategy elements. This is a single-player game.

DurationDuration

Play Time: This game will take between 8 hours and 10 hours to complete. Although it will take longer to explore every character and build the perfect deck.

Age RatingsAge Ratings

Content Rating

Rated PEGI 12 for Moderate Violence.

CostsCosts

Griftlands usually costs £11.99 to £16.74. 

Griftlands

XBox Store Xbox One £16.74
PlayStation Store PS4 £15.99
Steam StoreSALE PC £15.49 £7.74 until 21/03/2024
Switch Store Switch £11.99
Steam StoreSALE Mac £15.49 £7.74 until 21/03/2024
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.

DetailsGame Details

Release Date: 14/06/2020, updated in 2021

Price: 50% off

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Players: 1

Genres: Role-Play, Sequencing (Adventure, Collecting, Narrative, Simulation and Strategy)

Accessibility: 30 features

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made

Developer: Klei (@Klei)


Taming Gaming Book Written by parents for parents, the database complements the in-depth discussion about video game addiction, violence, spending and online safety in the Taming Gaming book. We are an editorially independent, free resource without adverts that is supported by partnerships.

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