SKALD: Against the Black Priory on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat

SKALD: Against the Black Priory is a strategy, singleplayer and minimalist game developed by High North Studios AS and published by Raw Fury.
Released on May 30th 2024 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 2,843 reviews of which 2,680 were positive and 163 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 8.99€ on Steam with a 40% discount.

The Steam community has classified SKALD: Against the Black Priory into these genres:

Strategy Singleplayer Minimalist Atmospheric Exploration Horror Turn-Based Strategy Story Rich Character Customization Choices Matter Class-Based RPG CRPG Party-Based RPG Dark Fantasy Lovecraftian Old School Adventure Fantasy Magic

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System requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel i5 or AMD equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Iris / AMD Vega or equivalent
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 500 MB available space

MacOS

OS: macOS 14
Processor: M1
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 500 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Excellent distillation of modern CRPG design into a DOS-colored dream. Cosmic horror themes, Lovecraftian almost explicitly. Deeply respectful of your time while also telling an excellent story, this is an extremely ECONOMICAL game. Sometimes this economy works to its detriment--I would have liked a little more crunch in the combat and character building, but this is nitpicking, and I am a sicko.

Feb. 2025

It's good to understand what this game is, first. SKALD is a story about struggling very hard against entities and cosmic movements you can hardly understand, much less hope to prevent. As a writer and a lover of Horror and Fantasy books, it is also perhaps the best written game I can remember playing. The person who wrote this really knew what they were doing. There isn't a single bad quest, side-quest or encounter (except maybe the random encounters -- but you can turn those off). It's also one of the only video-games I can name which actually capture a sense Cosmic Horror, instead of just the tentacled and mind-flayer cloaked aesthetic. I'd definitely recommend this one. It's an experience you won't find elsewhere. The pixel art is also gorgeous. It's not perfect, of course. I really would call it a "story you play" as much as a game. It's a campaign, basically. The game-play is good, and definitely nothing to sneeze at, but you can see through the cracks in its design. But I mostly say this because things are (for the most part) linear, with only a few side-quests, and no really big choices to make. Normally I wouldn't even bring this up (after all, I wouldn't critique a FPS campaign or a traditional Horror game for being too linear), but the way SKALD presents itself is a lot closer to more open-world, big-decisions-matter, many-factions, type games, when it really isn't that. This isn't a bad thing, but it is something to be aware of and understand going in. (Also worth noting my playtime was inflated by leaving the game open in the middle of a fight while eating dinner a couple times. The actual full playtime is probably more like 12-18 hours depending on how thorough you are.)

Sept. 2024

This is pure KINO. It takes you on a short whimsical journey full of pixelated gore, cosmic horrors, text-based gore, fish people armed with forbidden magic and an option to pet dogs. The pixelated barf-like aesthetic, the old-school music and competent writing brings back memories of games that used to be standard for this type of genre. Now they are as rare as games on PS5. 10/10, can recommend

July 2024

this is probably the only review i will ever leave on steam. i just finished my first playthrough about 70 seconds ago. i am absolutely blown away by the grotesque beauty of this game. countless times i would sit, staring at a pixelated screen in the middle of a dialogue, listening to the gorgeous score, for minutes at a time. i would refuse to choose a dialogue choice just so i could enjoy the art a bit longer. numerous games with vastly "better" graphics have failed to communicate such gut-wrenching terror with 10x the pixels, 60x the frames, etc. the best way i can think to compare this game is comparing an expressionistic portrait to a photorealistic portrait. both are paintings, both are beautiful, but the expressionist conveys such emotion, such intangible substance, that the photorealistic painter can not. idk, take my thoughts with a grain of salt. maybe i'm just a pretentious asshole trying to justify her love for retro pixel game. this game is incredible. well-written, horrifying, electrifying, and just fun. i cannot recommend it enough.

June 2024

If you're old enough to remember the Gold Box D&D games by SSI... If you're old enough to remember the Ultima games... If you're old enough to remember sitting in a darkened living room or basement rolling dice that you had to color in with a cheap crayon while delving through The Lost City or Keep on the Borderlands... ...then you're one of my people. And you'll love SKALD: Against the Black Priory. Buy this game.

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