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“Companions” is a fantasy-themed RPG taking place in the immersive world of “Altland” where your party of four heroes set out to fight the evil god Detexx and his minions. Altland is a fantasy world where the old races of Dwarfs and Elves live in harmony with the younger races of Humans and Minotaur’s. At your disposal in your party you have a Minotaur, a Dwarf, an Elf Maiden and a Human Mage, and every character has different and unique skills and abilities. For example, the Dwarf is best utilized in building structures such as scythe towers or spike pits, while the Minotaur character is better suited for hand-to-hand combat.
“Companions” begins after 300 years of peace between the races. The dark god Detexx and his evil minions are hard at work trying to cause an all-out war in the otherwise peaceful lands of Altland. Your companions begin their adventure in the catacombs of Mentzel and will quickly become acquainted with the evil doings of the high-priest of Detexx, who solved riddles that unveiled the secrets needed to unleash the “Hordes of Nether” into the world. Pursued by the undead and cultists your party of four have to learn to trust each other in order to survive, and you will need strategy, stamina, strength and clever use of each character to fight off the constant attacks of the undead and demons. Are you brave and strong enough to restore peace to the lands of Altland once more?
10+ hour Campaign mode (with one party combination!)
Unique and intriguing story
4 races, each with 3 classes
40+ skills to learn
100+ items to collect & 30+ unique
41 Achievements
3 maps featuring leader-boards
Tactical Pause (20 or 60 seconds)
Philosophical pest zombies
Massive oversized dragon
3 difficulty settings
GameCenter Support
OpenFeint Integration
Available in English & German
- Fantastic game.
- Very, very great mechanical ideas going on in this game.
- Plays very quickly.
- One of my favorite games I've played so far this year. Really, really good.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — and some um area majority on the board.
- Dice Placement — but like dice placement, uh more along those lines
- Engine Building — with some engine-building elements
- hidden bidding — some uh kind of hidden bidding, uh not really bidding, but like dice placement
- Simultaneous Play — A lot of simultaneous play
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a series that we do where we talk about the different games that we reviewed over the course of the week and other videos.
- It's going to be Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era, came
- Thiefdom, a game where you're running around as thieves on the board. A lot of cool features in this game, but at the end of the day it's just a little too long.
- Uh I did Coral Castle, a drafting game which I found to be very enjoyable. Very simple. I don't The components could be improved, but I like how the game plays.
- What a fantastic game. I'm really enjoying this one. The money pieces could be improved, but just placing out kind of an area control game, but if you don't win, your stuff stays on for the next turn. An engine-building area control game I thought really cool.
- Regret as a game design tool. Oh cool. I use a game design tool every day. Near misses in games that you have to play repeatedly have actually been shown to motivate continued play. They generate a negative emotion, regret, along with a positive one, motivation.