The Covenant.dev, founded by The Witcher 3’s art producer Stan Just, has signed with Team 17 for gord, a dark fantasy strategy game that will be their first game.

Inspired by Slavic myths, Gord will take on the role of the king’s surrogate, following the monarch’s order to conquer wilderness lands, focusing on the construction of settlements such as Rimworld and Frostpunk and the lives of the inhabitants of that settlement. In the gord world, where we are stuck in the middle of the wilderness, we will have to do the construction work within a certain area, and outside this area will be the area where our characters experience their main adventures. As we develop and strengthen our campus, we will also have to babysit our people, and we will be responsible not only for their physical well-being, but also for their mental wellbeing.

One of the situations that strengthens drama in Gord is the “Burden” system. Thanks to the “Burden” system, a character’s successor spirit will be able to suffer permanent blows, for example, if a relative loses badly or is injured in a secluded corner of the forest, he will experience the trauma of it. We’ll be able to restore the character’s mental stability, but the traumas on burden list will be the realities of life they need to live together.

Covenant.dev a team of 24 developers, including former employees from CD Projekt RED, 11-bit Studios and Flying Wild Hog.

You can add the game to your Steam wish list if you wish.