We hope you’ve missed your days in the gloomy, harsh, and dangerous realm of Rodovia, dear Kings, as today its gates swing wide open once again. The release of our game’s Demo marks another significant milestone in the development of our project, and we’re thrilled to share it with you today, coinciding with the launch of the Steam Real-Time Strategy Fest.
With the great enthusiasm and hope in our hearts, we invite you to join us in this epic adventure, and try to seize control over your loyal subjects and independent heroes ✊ Dedicated Demo Steam Page »
The Crown of Greed Demo is now live 💥
Those of you who took part in our Playtest are certainly wondering what new things await you this time, however we will come back to this topic a little bit later. Let us start by welcoming the new players, who haven’t played Crown of Greed before and don’t really know what they can expect. Here are some tips to help you understand the rules you’ll have to follow:
▶️ Economy
Upon entering the world of Rodovia, you’ll face the task of building your first foothold, which will provide your subjects with shelter and grant you priceless gold from taxes 🪙 Each building you have built, such as a Forge, Market, Inn and others will generate gold collected by the Tax Collector. Unless your Collector is torn to shreds by wolves, giant spiders, devils or other dangerous creatures, your treasury will be full.
▶️ Spendings
You can use the money earned from taxes, running trading posts and destroying enemy nests to expand your city and defend it with a system of defense towers. You can also build Hero habitats where you can recruit the bold adventurers and upgrade their abilities.
▶️ Heroes
Nothing speaks to the courage and conscience of heroes like shiny coins. You can’t control them directly, but you can pay them to encourage them to perform various types of contracts, such as reconnaissance, defense of a selected area, or attack. With successful contracts, your heroes will gain experience and develop their skills.
▶️ Enemies
Your city is regularly attacked by various creatures. To prevent this, you must develop appropriate defense systems and deploy your heroes to destroy enemy-generating habitats. Be cautious, though, as enraged foes may launch large, coordinated attacks on your borders.
▶️ Player’s actions
You, as a powerful Ruler, can also take part in battle using the spell system. You can also manage the power of a coin. It’s up to you how much gold you offer your heroes for completing a given mission. Can you find the balance and make them obey you?
Differences between the Playest version and Demo
If you have already had the opportunity to play Crown of Geed, this section will certainly interest you the most. Let’s dive into the changes and novelties we have crafted for you in the Demo version, shall we?
Novelties:
– New buildings: Arena and Library
– New flag status panel (showing Heroes’ interactions with your contracts proposals)
– The campaign map
– Improved player action panel
– New panel allowing you to manage the costs of contracts
– New characters’ status icons
– New skills VFX and effects
Fixes and balance changes:
– Addition of numerous new tooltips and tooltips improvements
– The player’s spells Cure and Stone Shield have been changed to be area-based instead of single-targeted
– Heroes are now more willing to take on missions
– Heroes now spend a little more time wandering outside the city
– Reduced the number of maximum heroes of one type that player can recruit from 3 to 2
– Additional balance of skills and stats for almost every unit in the game
– Player buildings health points increased
– Changes to the narration and map events
– Reduced the amount of gold generated in buildings
– Changed prices of some technologies
– Increased range of vision for units and buildings
– Reduced speed of construction and repair of buildings by workers
– Additional optimization of given systems and materials
– Fixed or added new SFX to characters and their abilities
– The camera can be zoomed-out further than before
– Fixed bug causing the characters to get stuck