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Runt of the Litter Demo

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Raise a baby gryphon and use it to achieve your mighty goals in this text-based role-playing game. #Role-playing game  #Adventure game  #Text-based adventure  #Role-play  #Adventure  #Text-based  

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There are many mythical creatures that are popular enough to be recognized by almost everyone at this point, such as dragons, elves, or trolls. Some of the other recognizable creatures are gryphons, since they appear in a variety of tales, including popular fantasy books like Harry Potter or many others. However, they are rarely the focus of the story, given the fact that they are pretty difficult to explain to begin with.

Runt of the Litter is a text-based role-playing game in which you have to take the role of a gryphon owner and raise the creature from a baby all the way to its prime years. The goal is to use the gryphon as a tool to save a troubled empire and even fight off dragons, although the story is a lot more convoluted than that before the events reach critical mass.

To begin with, you need to know that the game world is ruled by an empire called the Empire of Vaengrea. Some of the most powerful people in this empire are the gryphon keepers, because the beasts are exceptionally good at keeping enemies at bay, even the mighty dragons. However, one of the baby gryphons is sent away by its mother to die, except that the main character enters the story and saves the baby from death by making it a pet.

As it’s always the case with the games in this particular subgenre, choice is the most important element, because everything you say or do affects the story and changes the outcome of every scene. Whether you prefer to train the gryphon as ruthless or kind, or whether you want to save the empire or doom it, it’s all left up to you, which is obviously great when it comes to replay value.

Lastly, the story as a whole is fairly long and complex, not to mention original in certain regards. There are not many unheard of concepts to talk about, but at least the setting is not a shameless copy of something else, even if it does lack depth every now and again. This is also because there’s nothing but text to keep you engaged, which doesn’t work as well if the writing isn’t good enough.

In the end, the most exciting thing about Runt of the Litter is that you can change the course of the plot at any time along the way, even if there are a limited number of endings. However, it feels like your character truly has a choice whenever something exciting happens.

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Windows
  file size:
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Runt of the Litter Demo - Almost every scene features some kind of choice.Runt of the Litter Demo - The decisions you make affect the story as a whole.Runt of the Litter Demo - Not all choices are about life and death, on the other hand.Runt of the Litter Demo - screenshot #4Runt of the Litter Demo - screenshot #5Runt of the Litter Demo - screenshot #6Runt of the Litter Demo - screenshot #7
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