King's Bounty: Dark Side Download PC

King's Bounty: Dark Side is a 2014 strategy video game developed for Microsoft Windows by 1C-Softclub and published by 1C Company. The game was released on August 14, 2014. It is a standalone installment in the King's Bounty series.

Gameplay

King's Bounty: Dark Side maintains many of the same game conventions used in previous installments. The game is a strategy based with RPG elements. Unlike previous games, the protagonists in the game belong to orcish, vampire, and demon races which are the antagonistic races in other installments. The game lets the player play as one of the characters from the three protagonists, the orc Bagyr, who is a warrior, the vampire Daert, who is a mage, and the demoness Neoline, who belongs to the paladin class. Players have access to an overworld map they can click on to move around. Sometimes they will stumble onto buried treasures, other times the loot will be out in the open. Players can find huts or villages where they can buy and sell items or units. The players can receive quests from various NPCs in the world and upon their completion they are rewarded either experience, loot or both. Also on these maps are enemy creatures. Most of the time when they see the character, they start to chase them down and if they come into contact with your character, a battle ensues. The character does not participate directly in the combat. Instead you have units of differing types that you can deploy. Almost all of them have their own strengths and weaknesses, special abilities and ranges of movement. Some characters rely on ranged attacks, others attempt to deal direct damage, some units have supportive capabilities and all of them are viable parts of the combat strategy for example imps can use fireballs and melee attacks. When a unit runs out of troops the unit is destroyed. If all the units are destroyed the game is lost. The more troops the character has, the higher the hit points and damage output of their army is. Players can use a magic spell or scrolls to cast magic on the field of battle. These can be attack or buffing spells. Each of the three characters also has an exclusive companion that uses the rage they build up in combat. There are oftentimes objects on the battlefield such as traps or treasure chests. Experience points from battles go towards leveling up, which increases core abilities like the attack-powering rage and the magic-powering mana. You also earn and collect might, mind, and magic runes that are used to purchase various arcane talents on extensive skill trees. As in earlier games in the series, the story plays out over a number of islands that you gradually explore and conquer for your faction.

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