Greymarsh

Overview

Greymarsh is a text-based adventure game combining RPG-style battle and inventory management with a branching story. Atmosphere and dialog are important aspects. You will get intimately acquainted with the bustling city of Greymarsh, featuring abandoned ruins, arenas where you can fight for money, and streets where shady characters are waiting to trick you.

Is This Game For You?

Greymarsh is a good fit if you:

• Like to read, as opposed to just skimming the text
• Prefer dark, mature and gritty fantasy rather than a funhouse of goblins, elves, knights and trolls
• Put large emphasis on story, coherent world building and atmosphere
• View stat optimization and inventory tinkering as a necessary evil you could do without

You should probably skip this game if you:

• Value replayability and "finding all the endings"
• Like your game world to be expansive and sprawling
• Have an attention span not suited to long swaths of text

Gameplay

The main game loop is exceedingly simple and purposely so: you read what happens, then choose from a small number of actions to progress the story. Most locations can be revisited and fast travel is available through a map.