F1 Manager 2023 Review

Gord takes place in a grim fantasy world. You know this because the game goes out of its way to tell you all the time, whist being as dark and unpleasant as possible from the very beginning. Barely ten minutes into the game and the player must sacrifice a child to some big evil grotesque demon thing. The attempt to force the player to make a difficult decision is immediately undermined by the fact that the child in question joined your retinue a matter of minutes ago, robbing the scenario of any emotional impact. Instead, the player is just left with an unpleasant taste in their mouth as the child is gorily gobbled up by said demon. It’s absolutely unnecessary. In fact, the attempts to shock the player fall flat throughout the game and only serve to undermine what is otherwise a solid real-time strategy survival title.

You know all of those miserable towns you find in fantasy RPGs like The Witcher and Diablo, usually in a swamp where the locals live in a precarious balance with whatever monstrosity demands they feed it children? How do they even survive out there? That’s the idea behind Gord: A blend of roleplaying, real-time strategy, and colony simulation that should lead to making tough choices in areas like careful building, precarious combat, and tense emergent story. Instead, each of the three aspects is implemented in such a barebones way that not one of them is deeper than a quagmire or remotely entertaining. The result is about as engaging as living in a swampy, miserable town you're desperate to leave, and when you finally do and your parents ask why you never visit you tell them it's because not only is their town not fun, it has bad inventory management to boot.

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