Serpent in the Staglands (PC) GOG.com Key - GLOBAL
A true role-playing adventure.
A campaign within the world of Vol, a fully realized setting inspired by the late bronze age in a Transylvanian landscape, with unique politics, races, and gods steeped in history. Featuring a chosen party of five, you role-play Necholai, a minor god of a celestial body who descends to the Staglands for a moonlit festival only to find the way home blocked and immortality slipping away. Seeking answers and aid, you take on a mortal body and the guise of a traveling Spicer. This isn't a story of good and evil, saving the world or being a hero, it's about intrigue and your adventure of survival in a harsh land.
While the game rolls the dice for you, you'll traverse the Staglands on a path narrated by your own wits and choices. A tabletop-inspired experience with adventure-game-like navigation, Serpent in the Staglands offers no auto-populating map markers, checklist quest grinding and rigid story exposition.
Examine hand-drawn maps in your inventory for secret locations, and diagrams of foreign languages, note encounters of interest in your in-game journal, and figure out on your own how best to smuggle Spices. Roleplay, investigate, and pray to the RNG god when combat begins.
Features:
- Party-based, real-time with pause combat focused on macro tactical decisions and creative party skill combinations.
- Classless role-playing system: create builds via any combination of the over 100 magic, combat and aptitude skills available to make or find up to 5 unique characters.
- Non-linear storyline to explore as your adventure allows.
- No level scaling or story-blocked map barriers impede your adventure.
- Dynamic item use, including an incantation book, hand-drawn maps, and a herbology kit for brewing potions.
- Combat is designed for minimal pause spamming and without cooldowns, instead of focusing on pre-buffing, positioning, and auto-triggering skills.
- An unmarked map filled with wilderness, cities, towers, temples, dungeons and caverns to explore.
- Write your own journal notes for quests, puzzles and leads as you investigate. The game won't hold your hand or tell you what to do.
- Huge variety of enemies and challenges, including monsters, rogue mages and mutilated outlaws, which all can have the same spells and skills you do.