Shadows of Forbidden Gods - Procedural Evil God Cult Strategy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Shadows of Forbidden Gods gameplay with Splat! Let's Play Shadows of Forbidden Gods and check out a game where you'll establish a cult to end the world and bring everyone under your dark reign.
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Lines like "Aw no, dude. What's the Chosen One doing over here? That's suuuuucks" make me really want a tv show or something about an evil overlord who acts exactly like Splatty.
Adventure Time
An awesome and deep true strategy game! One time I had a very successful Orc Warlord with powerful Horde. They constantly harassed neighboring kingdom until humans mobilized and ganged up on them. Great battles were fought near orc fortresses, and my Warlord personally dispatched of 8 heroes, until he was defeated and orcs were dispersed. Then my Warlock Necromancer arrived and raised massive undead armies from the fallen orc and human warriors. After that this human kingdom was utterly destroyed with just a couple of settlements left. In the mean time in the North the biggest kingdom finally embraced the Darkness and turned into a Dark Empire, while the Chosen One was distracted with the Orc and then the Necromancer.
Sounds like something straight out of Warcraft 3 campaign, lol.
Yeah, this kind of story building that this game could provide is amazing. It would be cool if Necromancer would resurrect Orc Warlord too, would make a story even more warcraft-y (especially counting that first Death Knight there was orc too, if I remember correctly)
The awareness occurring in the first few turns is from the Chosen One persuading people.
Holy Orders with the wrong tenet can get quite nasty at that, too.
I think the awareness stems from the fact that chosen ones usually receive their info from trusted sources (such as prophetic visions after good drag of a crack pipe) and not from gossiping of nobles and news of the town criers.
In other words, their awareness is supernatural because they, just like your supplicant, are an agent for greater force and those forces can see you even when you haven't done much yet.
@@quint3ssent1a
Hero: “smokes crack”
Hero: I CAN SEE ALL THAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD AND THE EVILS THAT TAINT IT.
Occasionally a hero with odd traits starting off might neglect to spread awareness right away and give your agents an extra head start. Or you can try to intervene early for the same effect.
@@kenjethao7774 don't forget painting a huge sign "THE END IS NIGH" and starting proselytising on streets about all the evil in the world. That's how heroes usually do it.
Love this game, its so good to see the concept of the original "That Which Sleeps" game (which ended up being a scam) brought to fruition in such a comprehensive and inspired way.
I was lucky enough to be there on ground zero when BobbyTwoHands decided "F it, Ill do it myself."
@@Thyrork Based Spite Revenge Story.
The art style of "That Which Sleeps" was awesome. I don't believe the game was 100% a scam from the beginning, rather I think the developer bit off more than they could chew and fled. There was enough of a game shown off in devlogs to know there was something there, but everything interacted with everything else in such a complicated way I doubt he had the ability to make the AI work for a full play through. It's too bad he couldn't at least release the assets.
@@JWar- There were indeed some great ideas and game mechanics in TWS, many of which made it into Shadows of Forbidden gods and were even improved on. I'd agree that it probably didn't start off as a scam but sadly that's exactly the way it ended up, with the dev casually lying through his teeth every step of the way.
I don't think That Which Sleeps was a scam, because that implies malicious intent. I just feel it ended up being a project that exceeded the dev's capabilities and there were problems in the core logic of the game he was unable to solve, and that resulted in him being unable to make it work.
But yes, this game feels very much like what That Which Sleeps was going to be, if perhaps slightly more modest presentation-wise.
This is an amazing game, I bought this after your last video and I come back to it from time to time
And Ophanim plays on good vs evil, as you spread darkness more flock to your banner where they get brainwashed in the name of Light, as a small correction. And his 7 cost ability is massive fun
Same here, Splat is how I base my game purchases when it comes to indie games.
Just want to say to everyone this is a pretty cool game and I highly recommend it if the idea of being an evil god and destroying the world appeals to you at all.
It plays a lot like one of those Crusader Kings games but is a lot more simple and less intimidating. Each god you choose varies up the gameplay a lot, and you can tweak it so if a certain mechanic frustrates you you can just remove it (like those wards that make an area uncorruptable). There's also modding that just adds even more value to this game.
I really admire the dev for his ambition considering this is basically a one man show. Hope Splat's vid on him gives him more success.
I was looking for this game for damn weeks now and could not find it because I had no memory of its name. Thank you, man, I can *finally* play it.
so to recap:
> equip agent with adorable monkey
> befriend enemy heros
> die foolishly
> enemy heros proceed to wreak havoc to avenge your monkey and fool.
jesus christ this game has amazing organic storytelling.
The courtier almost always start being married, so you can have it doing shit all over the place and a hero will defend you from "slander", if you die, they go mad with grieve and attack😂 it's great
The adorable monkey isnt that strong. The thing that makes heroes vendetta are blood ties, which tricksters, nobles and warlocks have with other humans depending on their starting settlement. (Tricksters can also be Elves)
I find Attack Monkey to be the strongest trait for trickster, it lets you hit and run (which is already strong as a tactic) and bootstrap your early game economy/trinket pool. And later on you get to hemmorage dangerous heroes gold supply as the attack monkey can steal up 50 gold a combat, whereas the pickpocket monkey has a cooldown.
Dangerous heroes dont come out of nowhere, follow the money
@@followingtheroe1952 Would the attack monkey not be lost upon your first withdrawl?
@@rutger5000 no he has a unique trait, thats what makes him so awesome
This truly is a boohoo dead wife moment. ⚫️
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The funny thing is, I know people with this accent, and it made me chuckle nearly to tears listening to this part. Either Splat knows peeps with this accent as well, or is very lucky with the consistency he has in applying it for the bit. Love it.
Splat you can’t end it there!!!
I need to see Surgez become the grand orc emperor and the fish people established
I was just thinking about this game yesterday but couldn't remember the name of it.
Crazy timing.
The fact you sang that queen song.... dude.. I sing that to myself while I'm driving around delivering a lot and I sit there thinking I'm probably the only person who knows that now! but man... epic soundtrack to an epic movie (Highlander) :D queen are awesome man :)
I bought this game from your last video review of it... It's amazing with unique gameplay and the dev only keeps working on it. Can't wait to see where it goes!
Also thanks for the good rec!
Starting a zombie apocalypse is one of the most fun stuff you can do in this game.
Extra long splat video? Fucking love it
There can be only one Splattercatlander!
The hero is always the first one to be aware and others are aware because they believe the hero. Nothing complicated here.
To me, the overwhelming feeling is more from the intense amount of text everywhere. And the fact that sometimes it feels just sorta thrown down in a rather clunky way. Especially in the screens where you choose your god at the beginning.
Lots of games have highly-polished user interfaces on top of crude and poorly-designed gameplay. This is just the opposite of that.
...though to be fair, I agree that the UI definitely makes "immersion" a struggle. Hopefully it's just a placeholder, and a proper UI design will be the _last_ thing before coming out of Early Access, after the gameplay itself is finalized.
The initial talk about the god and the heros gives me a strong Wheel of Time vibe. I will check it out! Cheers.
I knew you'd come back to this one. Either because of content updates or you finally weren't stuck as she who will feast
"Something about brain suckge and eating souls just does it for me"
SplatterCatGaming 2023
I bought the game. I won with every god so far. I'm gonna play some more with specific themes/win conditions in mind.
I've noticed (from my own experience and other's) is that the game is closer to Sandbox than Strategy by a little, which really helps enrich the organic storytelling that stems from such a unique concept and perspective for a Strategy game. I can't wait to try another run.
I just wish there was some actual meta-progression tho. unlock things, level up between games, etc.
Oh no the chosen one suuuucks. Dude I feel your pain I just started playing this and it's a riot watching you connive.
Very intriguing. The map UI could really be simplified using common tricks seen in other strategy games.
Its nice to see this game up on here.
Hey Splattercat, I just wanted to let you know that I watched you cover Dredge about 6 months ago so I tried out the beta. I bought the game the day after it came out thanks to you. Great game!
I just jumped off a guide reading about this game, and now this video popped up! Very nice!
For those interested in the game I'd recommend not going with the strategy here.
In general, especially with this god, you want people to not notice you. When people catch on to what's going on, you're essentially sunk.
I commonly summon the Courtier on turn 1. I do this for two reasons: the Courtier is good at infiltration and the longer your agents are alive, the stronger they'll get, because they'll have longer to level up.
I take the perk with the Courtier to reduce security wherever he is. That's very useful.
You want to spread shadow as you infiltrate. Every turn a location with high Shadow will 'leak' some Shadow in to all adjacent locations. So, you want to first infiltrate locations adjacent to your start. That will let Shadow flow flow more easily in to them.
Whenever you successfully infiltrate, Lay Low until your profile bottoms out. You don't want your agents to get killed this early on and you don't want to cause a ruckus that will cause humanity to gang up against you. Don't build any Wells of Shadow now, either. They're too high profile.
Once that is done, you should find all the holy sites and witch covens on the map. Once you infiltrate a witch coven you can always Lay Low there and the witches will help you spread Shadow. Infiltrating a Holy Site will give you some unique options, as well as the ability to summon the Baroness (who kicks all the butt) later.
Next, find out what the largest religion is. Find out where it is based. There will be a large city with a cathedral wherever the religion is based. That is your target. If you can fully enshadow that city you can bend the religion to your will and all its members will fall to Shadow slowly.
I would recommend having the Courtier may his way there and start infiltrating the locations around the religion's head location. As you get more agent slows, I commonly summon another Supplicant and then a Hierophant to all help with infiltrating and then converting/enshadowing locations.
The more Holy Sites you desecrate with Shadow, the more influence you will gain over the world's religions.
Your second goal is to enshadow the capital city of the most powerful nation. The religion of that nation should be a religion you've gained control of by enshadowing its center. That will take you about midgame and your god should be getting close to being summoned.
Then, it's time to get a little rowdy, but you'll be in a good position. Shadow should be spreading rapidly everywhere as your religions do the enshadowing work for you. As they become enshadowed, you can infiltrate more nations more easily. Wells of Shadow can start going up. Summon the Baroness at a desecrated holy site and have her start wrecking house. If you have a nation fully enshadowed and infiltrated you can summon the Monarch and form a dark kingdom, which will 100% cause humanity to react. If you laid the groundwork, you'll be able to roll over them.
What I like of this game are the different strategies you can use. For instance, I love using the courtier coupled with the warlock or soneone with blood magic. Easy -3 to security of locations (or more if you have heroes in the same spot with the cursed bloodline). And the hierophant can also be used with gospel of envy to disrupt any chance for a kingdom to join the alliance (or start a civil war if you use it on non-capitals). Also, enshadowing a few capitals is a good way to get the chosen one busy to cleanse them instead of doing ANYTHING else (plus they are vulnerable to being attacked by other casters!). Another thing I like to do when I want to change religions behaviours, gain experience with no menace or profile gained or a mix of the two is to influence them. Sooner or later I might try to see if I can get one of my minions be a prophet of a religion and see if it's worth it.
Also, building orcs is a little expensive, but they can be a great disruptive force in the late game when the alliance starts acting. Couple them with a dark empire and nobody will be a match.
These are the ones I like to use, I am sure there are more. And I surely need to get the hang of the trickster, seems an interesting agent but I can't grasp how to use it properly in practice (currently best I have found is devastate perisphery with it while having heroes gaining menace, and only that).
@@bardbard196 I personally think that going with the harvester for max trolling early game is still one of my favorite “strategies” to go for
this is great it gave me flashbacks to playing that old god sim Dominions 3
The early access is important to stress. Not because it's incomplete, or buggy, the game is definitely playable and very enjoyable, but because there are regular updates and important mechanics changes fast.
@SplatterClatter - out of interest, how many of the games you show us do you continue playing for some duration after? Like, how many do you go back to? Your library must be *ridiculous!* 😂❤
We want more!
Super interesting and well made
Dang. I wish you did a full playthrough of this. I was invested. It's a shame the game is as small as it is. It deserves to have a lot more.
Way above my pay grade but I always enjoy a Splat video where he's into the game he's playing.
Thanks for the entertainment Splat, bye guys...
This game is fucking amazing! Everyone should check it out and support Bobby. Such an impressive game from one dude.
@@TrueRandomization no, just the one he’s currently working on. He made some attempts in the past, secrets behind the throne or something, but this is his opus and the price has stayed at $20 for like 2 years now.
This is one of my favorite games
I'm just waiting for a fish god man
That UI and map look... well they could certainly look better.
i loved the original vid so much, i implemented it into my d&d-based novel WIP where the forbidden gods do ultimately win. it's the longest NaNo i've ever accomplished
Oh this looks very familiar. I remember there being an old strategy game where you play evil gods, this one seems to be based off that with a bit better graphics.
Same developer who previously developed "Shadows Behind the Throne" and "Shadows Behind the Throne 2". "Shadows of Forbidden Gods" is the direct successor to both their aforementioned titles and is much more polished and refined.
That Queen reference made my night 😂
Damn I wanted to see how this ended!
This reminds me of waiting for the raven
Great game! I got it after your first video awhile ago. Keep em coming!
Nice, it's kind of a mix between eldritch horror, pandemic. I love it! very unique!
True fact, the creator made 2 other versions of this game they never finished. One of those was on kickstarter
Nice design, this icons from Poneti store?
Mammon is a reference to demonology, like a direct reference. Mammon is the demonology associated with greed, and in this game hes associated with wealth
I do wonder, has Splat has played any of the Dominions series of games?
I'd love to see you continue this one.
be nice if you could create markers or pins.
for example when he was looking at heroes for gold. and only 1 had gold.
be nice if a pin or something could be put on them so you could keep better track of them.
I was looking into buying this just yesterday. also another game you looked at almost a year ago was The Last Spell, and it just came out of early access, so maybe it would be cool if you looked at it again.
I think you should have put a level into Warlord Surgez' command skill. It seemed that a lot of his tasks were using command for progress, and all the tasks require multiples of 5.
Do you think my gaming budget is endless!!? Ease up on the gems Splatty!
Thx for the video!
5:24 What's the number? my last supplier of Deep Ones went under due to covid, been looking for a new one.
Can totally relate this to the church and Christianity
Hearing the orc mechanics makes me just think they play high stakes capture the flag.
early awareness of you is explained. the old prophets fortold your coming and their scriptures are somewhere on that planet. some even have dreams of a great darkness coming and so on.
I love that game but can only take smaller doses of it.
"the game looks complicated"
classic dwarf fortress gamers: 🤣
I hope they add a Vecna type necromancer god to the game.
Well now I want to see how the rest of this was going to play out
Always happy to see this game get more eyes on it after the absoute crime that was "That Which Sleeps" turning out to be only worth the paper it was written on.
wow nearly a hr long? okay this is a buy for sure
This looks like such a fun game, but the UI seems like it is patched together from different asset packs and the clashing fonts are really distracting. Still gonna buy it though - there aren't enough of these kind of games imo :)
UI Gorn.
The Dwarf Fortress / SS13 fiend in me is ecstatic.
Man this game has a really good idea, i just wish it had a better UI.
i would expect most of the ressources are used for content and mechanics but i would really appreciate if they would do a UI pass. It's a big clusterfuck rn, most of the stuff looks very similar visibility wise. There needs to be some type of different highlighting for relevant vs less relevant info and maybe buttons to toggle roads, units, cities. I know it looks like old timey 4x games like this but I really think it would go a long way for the general appeal of the game if they could find a clean way to organize map information. My best guess rn is that (a) city representation and unit representation are both hand drawn art, which vie for visibility (i would try to find a way to resolve this conflict) and (b) the roads take too much attention from the eye. Maybe the cities could be flattened into the background of the map instead of highlighted iwth a strong border and the units shown above vs the other way round, maybe with a toggle (highlight city, units behind vs highlight units, city behind).
Will there be a chance to play a good god or the hero fighting the dark ones? With the whole new mechanic?
This looks really fun does anybody know of other games like that?
Another bump saying this game is fantastic but being to lazy to elaborate.
I elaborate: You can engage in the strategy and gameplay on its own but the storybuilding is hilarious and organic. Though i think this got patched out, I had a game where the Chosen One was in love with their bodyguard who I kept slowly corrupting, damaging or otherwise annoying. So, the chosen one ended up spending a lot of their time caring for their friend and building vendettas and angrily chasing people around instead of building the alliance of man. Fun story.
Is there anyway we could play your specific games seed?
This looks insanely complicated.
I still have no idea how to play this game.
Finally the Rothschild simulator we've all been waiting for!
I like this game but I’m garbo at it. So fun
my only concern is is the 500 turn limit (i know it's plenty of turns but still) cuz i like the whole idea of this game, but i absolutely hate time limits like this. is there an option to turn it off so i can just chill and do stuff at my own pace? (outside of the ai factions doing stuff to fight me)
Yes, you can turn off the time limit.
@@Aetherod Full game only or the setting is in the demo too?
Cordyceps must be a he... coz he's a fungi. Sorry 😂 couldn't help myself
This is the second part
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You just missed elves. By almost exactly a week.
It's a great game albeit very slow.
👍
It looks like an actually good version of Terra Invicta.
It is exactly a better version of Terra Invicta tbh.
So the whole game....is a map
You wanna how to get the game less intimidating to look? Take off the lines and menus, in the first view
looks cool but goddamn is the world map ugly, i hope it grows on me like battle brothers did cuz im buying it anyways lol
So you're telling me this is genestealers: the age of sigmar game?
wtf is a gynyric
She who will feast = female Thulsa of Doom? :) This game needs to remove the 500 end game, and just leave it open with maybe minor scaling here and there after 500 turns.
Have you played the game? It would be very difficult to hit turn 500 without either winning or losing. Once humanity is fully aware of the threat, things move very quickly.
You may disable the turn limit if you so wish
@@kevinrobinson5654 it's just what i prefer in a game, leaving them open on the end. I understand the programing behind it, that it requires more resources and virtual item code space. I'm someone that came from open online games back to single player mode just recently. My starting single player games were > "Ark" "Stellaris" "Kenshi" "Starsector". I've dabbled in Dwarf fortress, and now this for a few hours. My transition from open World games went into open world single player games. So as you can see my game set mind is still of a open world game with no limits. So it's not a bad thing to ask to allow a endless end with maybe scaling if one's game play has been based on such rules in the past. My open game mind set has prevent me from trying games that have a set beginning to ending progress. What i liked about this game is it makes you think on every step. "forgive me ~ it has a time limit lol"
@@yersiniapestis5237 ah thank you, i was just curious. like i said to the other guy i just started playing this game so the settings and rules are brand new to me. I've been so used to playing open online games for over 14years. I just started to come back and play semi old single player games. But my single player games i started playing are still open ended, so i kind of not wavered from my online playing at heart lol. "Ark and others that are just open ended. I'm only a few hours into this game so, that was my only question on open ended for it. thanks for the info :)
I checked it out a while ago, wasn't all that impressive.
You chose a heck of a lot of unhealthy advertisement options my friend... Really sad but you aren't the only TH-cam doing what you do
Looks like a boring, complicated, dense, daunting board game. I like the idea of it, not the execution. Intellectually interesting, but doesn't seem fun.
What was that? Can't you at least play until the victory? Jesus Christ, SplatterCat, why do you always do it like this? Half-done, no quarter-done 🤦♂️
Don't think this one is for me. I don't like games where I spend 95% of the time staring at a map.
I loved these games 20-30 years ago but now that we have new systems I have a hard time going back to these
almost ever RPG game has a map or a drawn map of your movements :) I even remember the old SSI D&D games and their medium to large map on the right side of the screen.
@Gamer_Time Dwarf Fortress recently had a steam release, and it's spritework is much more readable for most players. It's also got a ton of performance boosts.
@@amergingiles DF is awesome. So excited for the new adventure mode.
@@GameTimeWhy I love both games, but I find SoFG much easier to learn and understand quickly than dwarf fortress.
The art is great but the UI is god awful. Weird.
Understandably, it's a budget indie title. The game is actively developed by one person who also so happen to have another full-time job in addition to developing the game.
i clicked 25 times in time line cause want to see battle with demons and succubus but all time i see loading screen with map and Hexagon with names. terrible game ;))))
I got a refund on this one.
Looks much better than it plays.
Huge disappointment.