Barbarians and lanky warriors wage battle on a hand-drawn hex map, over a dying world where the once great Giants have gone extinct and a mutating pestilence sweeps the land. This is the world of Urtuk:The Desolation, an upcoming turn-based strategy RPG.

You play as the titular Urtuk, an escapee from the infamous Sanatorium on a quest to find a cure for an affliction that's slowly killing him. As you travel across the world map, other characters can be recruited into your party, from the crossbow-wielding Hunter to the hooded Warmonk, among others. Along their journey, Urtuk and his companions will also collide with various events and encounters, and your interventions and outcome of battle can influence them, such as defeating a bandit camp that terrorizing an area.
Combat looks reminiscent of Battle Brothers, with a large focus on positioning and different stacking effects due to where your units are in relation to foes. Height advantages, flanking, and manipulating enemy position with shield bashes and other attacks can be just as crucial as damage dealt, while environmental objects like rocks, spikes, muds all cause different status effects that can be used against enemies to overcome overwhelming odds.

Urtuk:The Desolation is still early in development, and doesn't have a release timeframe yet. You can find more details and an overview of mechanics and the game's world, on its site and Twitter page.

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