The RPG Crawler has reviewed the tactical RPG Sword Legacy: Omen:

Indie Game Friday - Sword Legacy: Omen

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The turn-based-tactics RPG Sword Legacy: Omen has won the "Best Game" award at the Lisboa Games Week:

Sword Legacy: Omen wins "Best Game" award at Lisboa Games Week!

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We're incredibly excited to share that Sword Legacy: Omen won the award for "Best Game" at Lisboa Games Week this past weekend. With more than 240 participating games and 50 finalists, competition was incredibly tough, but Sword Legacy: Omen made away with the coveted award!

Sword Legacy: Omen has been released with a 20% launch discount.

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Welcome to Broken Britannia

"Before Arthur's Golden Age, our realm was lost, shattered and decadent; kingdoms torn apart by blind selfishness. A broken Britannia, void of hope."

The lord of Mercia has been assassinated, your love kidnapped and home is no more. As Uther, the disgraced Knight Commander, you must lead your misfit band of companions throughout quests riddled with trials. Forge uneasy alliances to acquire the mythical Excalibur sword and defeat the sinister power-obsessed duke of Wessex.

Prove your worth as a tactician by exploring all five realms and dangerous locations, such as a frozen fortress hiding a dark secret, an ancient abbey turned into a hideous torture chamber and the mystical island of Avalon. Survive ambushes and rescue those in need by making use of each hero's abilities to solve puzzles and vanquish your foes. It is up to you define the fate of Britannia... But at what cost?

Combat in Sword Legacy: Omen is always a challenge. As a strategist, you will need to plan your course of action with four heroes at a time. However, be ready to adapt and improvise because results always change based on the chosen abilities and chances of landing an attack.

KEY FEATURES

• Tactical Combat: Learn the importance of strategic positioning and unleash powerful skill combos with your party.
• Free Exploration: When not in combat, investigate the environment, find documents, collect treasures, solve riddles, and uncover secrets.
• Party Customization: Adapt heroes to your play style, manage your team and progress by unlocking over 70 unique passive or active skills.
• Hordes of Enemies and Unique Bosses: Fight a variety of vicious mobs and face powerful monsters in grueling battles, such as crowds of plague-ridden victims, twisted knights and a flesh-hungry dragon.
• Stress System: Use all your might to become victorious, but deplete your willpower and witness your heroes falling prey to panic.
• Interactive Environment: Study your surroundings and perform clever deadly moves by blowing up explosive barrels and pushing enemies off edges.
• Old-School Art Style With a Dark Twist: Relive the beautiful aesthetic of classic animations fused with grim visuals inspired by graphic novels.
• A Different Take on a Classic Myth: Experience the Arthurian legends as never before, as famous characters and locations are revamped in a mature storyline of vengeance, honor, conspiracy and alchemy.

SplatterCatGaming checked out the Strategy RPG Sword Legacy: Omen. The game is a brutal re-imagining of the King Arthur mythos:

Sword Legacy Omen Gameplay Impressions - Arthurian Xcom Strategy

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Sword Legacy Omen gameplay with Splat! Let's Play Sword Legacy Omen and check out a new strategy game where you'll take Uther Pendragon and an assorted cast through a tactical adventure!

Sword Legacy: Omen will be releasing August 13th on Steam.

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Welcome to Broken Britannia

"Before Arthur's Golden Age, our realm was lost, shattered and decadent; kingdoms torn apart by blind selfishness. A broken Britannia, void of hope."

The lord of Mercia has been assassinated, your love kidnapped and home is no more. As Uther, the disgraced Knight Commander, you must lead your misfit band of companions throughout quests riddled with trials. Forge uneasy alliances to acquire the mythical Excalibur sword and defeat the sinister power-obsessed duke of Wessex.

Prove your worth as a tactician by exploring all five realms and dangerous locations, such as a frozen fortress hiding a dark secret, an ancient abbey turned into a hideous torture chamber and the mystical island of Avalon. Survive ambushes and rescue those in need by making use of each hero's abilities to solve puzzles and vanquish your foes. It is up to you define the fate of Britannia... But at what cost?

Combat in Sword Legacy: Omen is always a challenge. As a strategist, you will need to plan your course of action with four heroes at a time. However, be ready to adapt and improvise because results always change based on the chosen abilities and chances of landing an attack.

KEY FEATURES

• Tactical Combat:Learn the importance of strategic positioning and unleash powerful skill combos with your party.
• Free Exploration:When not in combat, investigate the environment, find documents, collect treasures, solve riddles, and uncover secrets.
• Party Customization:Adapt heroes to your play style, manage your team and progress by unlocking over 70 unique passive or active skills.
• Hordes of Enemies and Unique Bosses:Fight a variety of vicious mobs and face powerful monsters in grueling battles, such as crowds of plague-ridden victims, twisted knights and a flesh-hungry dragon.
• Stress System:Use all your might to become victorious, but deplete your willpower and witness your heroes falling prey to panic.
• Interactive Environment:Study your surroundings and perform clever deadly moves by blowing up explosive barrels and pushing enemies off edges.
• Old-School Art Style With a Dark Twist:Relive the beautiful aesthetic of classic animations fused with grim visuals inspired by graphic novels.
• A Different Take on a Classic Myth:Experience the Arthurian legends as never before, as famous characters and locations are revamped in a mature storyline of vengeance, honor, conspiracy and alchemy

The tactical RPG Sword Legacy: Omen will be released in Q1 2018 - here's a sneak peak:

Sword Legacy: Omen - The World of Broken Britannia

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Sword Legacy: Omen has a trailer showing tactical battles.

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Use your willpower and take advantage of the environment to master the battlefield in Sword Legacy: Omen's tactical RPG battles! Official site: https://www.team17.com/games/sword-le... Like Sword Legacy: Omen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swordlegacy/ Follow Sword Legacy: Omen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/swordlegacy

@VentureBeat Sword Legacy: Omen is a tactical turn based RPG which explores the time of King Arthur.

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Building a world and IP

Sword Legacy unfolds over 11 main levels, each with mission objectives and a focus on the environment. Players can customize each of the four characters on their team, shuffling through 10 skills that you unlock for each. They can also decide who will lead the team as they explore and pick up loot, which can have an effect on battle order if they're ambushed. Some skills and characters are better suited for manipulating the environment - such as flammable barrels, which can be detonated or moved around - and the player's party can gain an advantage if it attacks from higher ground.

Scattered throughout the levels are documents that contain snippets of world lore, something that's optional for those who are interested in learning more about the "candlepunk" world. Candlepunk, Pine says, is something he discovered in his research that's akin to steampunk only set in medieval times instead of the Victorian era.

"We thought it was a good fit for our medieval world, especially the alchemical undertone we have. We have lots of potions in the game, and the potions always have side effects," said Pine. "The player can try a potion that will increase their health, but it also might reduce their attack stat, or increase defense but reduce attack, or whatever."

Sorcery is less common in Sword Legacy, where alchemy and blood magic take precedence. It abides by the grim atmosphere, where willpower is something that players can exploit for extra moves or super-powered attacks, but can also result in stress and loss of control and affects both heroes and foes alike.

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