Description

FORGED OF BLOOD is a riveting Fantasy Turn-based Tactical RPG where the fate of a world hangs on your every decision. Engage in challenging tactical combat as you find your place in a morally grey fantasy world and decide whether the ends will ultimately justify your actions. The game throws players into a world being torn apart by racial tensions and sinister forces. Across the vast continent of Attiras, players live the rise to power of the second son of a murdered king. From refugee to hero, players must navigate both strategic and tactical gameplay layers to forge the empire anew, or watch it run awash in blood.

Tactical Combat:

Forged of Blood pits players against fantastic creatures and brutal enemies on a tactical layer designed to encourage player flexibility and creativity in battle. Here, positioning, build efficiency, and tactics can mean the razor thin line between victory and defeat.

Strategic Management:

Outside of combat, players are charged with retaking the world of Attiras. On the strategic map, players move their combat parties around the continent to complete quests and claim territories.

Features

• Tactical Fantasy: Take to the field with sword and shield or cast powerful spells in deep turn-based tactical combat against monsters and men.
• Classless Warfare: With 10 weapon categories and a vast magic system, Forged of Blood lets you build your characters any way you want – without being constrained by the typical tank/DPS/healer roles.
• Science in Magic: Explore the freedom and mysteries of one of the most complex and unique magic systems ever attempted in video games.
• Kingdom at War: Command up to three parties of heroic characters on the strategic layer in your fight to reclaim the empire you lost.
• Meaningful Choice: Your choices matter. From character building to your choices in the game narrative, your decisions will reverberate across the Strategic and Tactical layers of the game.
• Your ends; your means: In a world of grays and unique perspectives, it is up to you to decide what is “right” and “wrong” for the future of Attiras. Forged of Blood uses a Tri-axis Personality Plot system in lieu of the traditional Good vs. Evil scale common in most RPG settings.

Images

Press Kit Materials

For additional images and hi-res branding materials please access our Google Drive link here.

Forged of Blood Game Deck

For more detailed information about our game please check out our Game Deck.

About Critical Forge

Critical Forge was a young studio with an old soul, making the kind of games we grew up playing. We were a small independent team based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and our fantasy tactical RPG, Forged of Blood, launched on Steam in August 2019. The studio has since closed. Thank you to everyone who played and supported the game.

Production History

The first studio team was formed in February 2016 comprising of three game designers and three programmers, with the goal of creating prototype base for the game. Our resident artist joined us in March to help bring our world to life and set the visual style for the game. By the start of May, the studio had expanded to full capacity with the addition of two modelers and an animator. Upon completion of a prototype in late June 2016, the team went into full production of the game in July.

Along the way, we showed the game at PAX East, Tokyo Game Show, Gameprime, and Popcon Jakarta. In the spring of 2017 we ran a Kickstarter campaign. It did not reach its goal, but production continued. The beta opened to testers in June 2019, and Forged of Blood launched on Steam on August 1, 2019, three years, five months, and seventeen days after the studio started.

Production Timeline:

• Pre-production: February 2016 – July 2016
• Production: July 2016 – August 2019
• Kickstarter campaign: spring 2017
• Beta: June 2019
• Release on Steam: August 1, 2019