Discover. Develop. Deceive. Dominate.
Dragon Lords is a retro, 2D, hex-based fantasy stack-building strategy game. How will you win?
Will you favor the brute force of large, powerful stacks?
Do you prefer a highly refined army style which uses maximum leverage to decimate clumsy enemies?
Is your approach based on emphasizing city development to punish your opponent in the long game?
Perhaps you prioritize building your prestige in order to hire more heroes so you can search more ancient ruins, discover legendary items, and dominate your opponent.
Or do you want to deflect and parry your opponent’s strategies as your highly focused espionage play style culminates in your spies assassinating their units, killing their city governors, and burning down their cities without a single army of yours involved?
The choice is yours.
Key Game Features of Dragon Lords:
A deep, stack-based combat system on a massive, hex map
More than 50 unique deities, each empowering your empire through their distinct bonuses
More than 75 unique factions to choose from when starting the game, each with their own unique advantages and related play-style
16 completely unique hero types, each capable of selecting skills, collecting over 200 powerful items through ruin exploration, and gaining experience and power from level 1 through 25. Hire as many as you choose (and your Empire’s treasury can afford).
Develop the means to produce over 275 unique armies, each with distinct strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities
100+ unique city governors to hire, giving cities personalized buffs and advantages…for a price.
50+ city buildings to build, each with meaningful strategic utility and costs
A detailed spy system with over 20 espionage abilities—and multiple countermeasures
Wield global magic via the Scroll System to turn the tide at critical moments.
Creative Strategy:
Dragon Lords is about generating your own strategy.
Not because you read an online guide somewhere. Or because you watched a youtube video showing a minmax build. But because you want to explore and create. To pioneer. To manifest your own strategic approach to the game.
So we give you options.
Lots of options:
In Dragon Lords, players shape their empire through a set of core choices that define their strategy, strengths, and style of play. This process begins before the game starts, when players make key choices about their strategy.
These before-turn-one choices for each game include:
Doctrine — What’s your general approach to strategy
Deity – Who you worship defines your empire’s bonuses
Faction - Your choice of faction, chosen from more than 75 options, will have a large impact on your strategy.
Intelligence Directive – Define how you interact with the game’s espionage systems
Governance Style – Choose how your cities operate and resist enemy influence
Economic Policy – Shape your approach to the complex and meaningful economic system
Scroll System – Dozens of scrolls allow you wield spells with empire wide significance.
Heroes - There are 16 unique hero classes. Although you can recruit more heroes throughout each game, you only start with one. Who will you select?
Spies - A in-depth espionage and counter-espionage
And that’s all before Turn One!
What is a Stack-Building Game?
In Dragon Lords, “stack-building” means organizing your armies into strategic groups of units called stacks.
Each stack can contain up to eight units, including heroes. When two opposing stacks battle, the individual units of the stack enter combat while receiving abilities, bonuses, and synergies of all units within each stack.
As you can imagine, synergy, positioning, and stack composition determine victory. Some stacks specialize in brute force, others in stealth, healing, or ambush.
Oh yeah, you know how we reviewed that stacks are limited to eight units…
That’s true…unless you have units whose special ability increases your stack size. And that’s just the beginning.
There are more than 275 units with more than 100 special abilities in Dragon Lords.
And we haven’t even begun describing the most important units: Heroes.
Or ruin searching and item acquisition. Or city development. Or hiring powerful Governors to aid you. Or spy mechanics. Or potions. Or scrolls.
But I bet you can already feel it: The urge to join us.
Come build your stacks!
Intentionality Gaming, LLC
Saint Paul, Minnesota