Tyranny: Bastard's Wound Preview

Tyranny: Bastard's Wound is an expansion to Tyranny. It is available once Act 1 of Tyranny has been completed. It adds a new area to the game consisting of a number of maps with an illegal settlement of refugees from the war and the Beastmen and a whole new quest line. It also adds companion quests for Verse, Barik and Lantry, with new quests and story lines.
The goal of the expansion is to add more story and exploration to the original game. It changes however nothing to the mechanics of the game itself. A new update with more voice overs and a new alternate ending is scheduled to release as a free update together with Bastard's Wounds.

Bastard's Wounds can be completed in 10-12 hours and like the rest of the game is intended to be replayed. It does not relate to the main story and just adds an extra story. However your standing with the two factions in Tyranny can be changed by the decisions you make in Bastard's Wounds.

Just after you end of act 1, you receive a letter from a sage who has written texts about the conquest of Kyros that can be seen as heresy. She acknowledges that and offers to turn herself in for justice, but in exchange she wants you to safekeep her texts and asks you to come see her in Bastard's Wound. As the Fatebinder it is up to you to decide what is legal and what not. Most of Bastard's Wound takes place in caves and buildings, with the companion quests taking you also outside of Bastard's Wound.

The hands-on session started after this introduction and as expected it plays just like Tyranny, with often more than one way to reach a solution, but also with all the things that made you like or dislike Tyranny before. I won't add any spoilers here about what I did or what you get to do. So I just wrap it up like this: if you liked Tyranny, you are going to like this expansion as it is more of Tyranny. If you didn't like Tyranny, even after the recent combat update, I don't think this expansion is going to change your opinion in any way.

Tyranny: Bastard's Wounds is scheduled for release on September 7th, 2017.