Black Legend is a new tactical RPG that takes the turn-based gameplay of XCOM and draws heavily from 17th century Dutch and Belgian history to give it a dark fantasy twist. Its developer, Warcave, puts a slightly lighter spin on their release, calling it an effort by "a bunch of Belgium-based developers to commemorate the Golden Age of a neighbouring country they seceded from in 1830".
It’s set in the fictional city of Grant, and the player must recruit a squadron of mercenaries to aid in the fight against a deadly, fanatical cult that’s taken over and cursed the urban sprawl. The game features 15 playable classes, allowing for quite a lot of variety when it comes to your squad composition, and plenty of scope for experimenting with different synergies as you progress through the game. You explore the city and pick up quests in real-time, before transitioning into a turn-based combat system for tactical battles.
Black Legend also features alchemy mechanics based on the theory of the ‘four humours’ that prevailed in medical science until the 1850s. Warcave wants to veer away from the classic magic-based combat systems that you see in other fantasy titles: “our design team looked more into the science of the time and stumbled across Humorism and its relation to alchemy,” says Menno van der Heijden, Black Legend's game director.
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