
The player's team often visits unfriendly areas during short expeditions – over time, journeys from one town to another become the crew's routine. The player can act in accordance with their moral principles, but if they decide to get extra money by conducting a robbery or doing something even "less legal", they have to remember that law enforcers will be after them. Melee weapons, futuristic arms, and combat skills of one's teammembers are quite diverse, so winning a fight requires good tactical thinking.Ĭompleting assignments and defeating enemies earns the player experience points allowing them to develop the particular characters.

The player deals with their enemies during turn-based fighting sequences featuring arcade elements, so combat is similar to the systems present in South Park: The Stick of Truth. Sooner or later, someone appears though, who prefers to take care of matters the hard way. What underlies this part of the game, are negotiations that can influence the amount of payment or change the attitude of a teammember towards the protagonist. Speaking with a bartender at a local tavern gets the player a portion of fresh information and a bottle of a strong drink redundant parts of equipment, as well as different findings, can be sold to a shopkeeper one can also talk to a henchman looking for work or to a major-league employer that is willing to pay for the protagonist's services. Conversations with plenty of more and less important characters inhabiting the game world constitute one of the key elements of the experience. Griftlands allows the player to choose a character and lead them through a bumpy road to success.


The protagonist is a skilled speaker however, and in the world of Griftlands, everything undergoes negotiations. From now on, they will have to make their living by fighting, trading, recruiting comrades, and travelling from one location to another in search of an abundant life. This is where the player-controlled character lands – they get off the ship having nothing more than what they are wearing.
