The WhatsNext verdict
For Players drawn to character-driven fantasy, branching choices, and tactical sports-like duels: A party of exiles competes in ritualized matches while traveling through a strange wasteland, with relationships and choices woven into the journey. Tradeoff: The central matches play more like a deliberate, unusual team sport than a conventional action RPG.
What it does best
role-playing (rpg)
visual novel
fantasy
The setup
What you are walking into
A party-based RPG/visual novel/sports game hybrid wherein the player, dubbed the Reader for their literacy by the group of scavengers who discovers them, is sent in exile to a lawless wasteland called the Downside and has to lead their ever-growing party of misfits to locations wherein many similar parties compete in Rites in order to attain freedom and be absolved of their crimes.
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