Awaken Realms has announced that its open-world RPG that is heavily inspired by Skyrim and Oblivion, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, will be fully released on May 23rd. To celebrate this announcement, the publisher has shared a new gameplay trailer that you can find below.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends. The game uses a first-person perspective, and is powered by the Unity Engine. In this open-world RPG, players can explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon hit Steam Early Access in March 2023. So, it took Questline almost two years in order to complete it.
From what I’ve read, the final version has 3 full acts, offering around 50-70 hours of content. It will also include a branching main quest with multiple different endings and TONS of side quests.
The Early Access version currently has Very Positive reviews on Steam. Not only that, but you can download a demo to play. This demo should give you an idea of what the team aims to deliver.
To run the game, PC gamers will at least need an Intel i5 8th gen or AMD equivalent CPU with 12GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060. With this PC setup, you’ll be able to game at 1080p/Low Settings with 30FPS.
For gaming at 1080p/Ultra with 60FPS, you’ll need an Intel i7 13th gen CPU with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super.
This looks like a fun Skyrim-like game. So, if you are a fan of both Oblivion and Skyrim, you should definitely keep an eye on it. The devs even poked fun at Oblivion at the end of the trailer. Remember the horse armor DLC?
Enjoy!
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i checked this game some more and people on youtube say its not a skyrim clone, it has choices and you can kill npcs and has hidden dungeons, one was underwater under a wooden dock. Also it is dark fantasy not queer fantasy like dragon age and it has genders not body types. They gave synthetic man a review copy, i guess that means they are based.
sounds interesting but what an awful title. Grail is good, Avalon is good, these things immediately bring up the desired association with the King Arthur legend. but hard to combine into one title and redundant any way. just one of them is enough to get the point across. Tainted is not a good word imo, associations with "Tainted Love" (not related to the scenario of the game) and "taint" (private parts). the worst part is just the length. what are you gonna call the DLC,
"Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon – Subtitle for the DLC"?
Nobody is going to remember all that or type it on a phone to tell a friend. It doesn't fit into every day conversation even in spoken language. you're making your product impossible to remember or recommend.
or do you shorten it to "Tainted Grail: Subtitle for the DLC" ? Now it looks like a sequel, plus I can't tell which order the games should be played in and have to look up their release dates before picking one.
There is no good answer, other than DON'T GIVE YOUR GAME A TITLE THAT'S 4 (6 with filler) WORDS LONG!!!
FALL OF AVALON
done
TAINTED GRAIL
if you prefer the taint
Looks exactly like oblivion remaster probably because runs on the same cow sh*t engine. Piss filter for the next decade, let's goooo modern audience.
It runs on Unity, not UE5
Looks the same and my point stands still
I call it… "Jump to Conclusions!"
You’re probably one of those people who recommend others to play a sh*t game before hating on it.
Why do you giveaway the fact that you’re a f4ggot this easy?
Ah, low intellect along with homophobia. Nice combination!
It's on Unity. Was Oblivion made on Unity?
They look the same low IQ n*gger
No, the new Remake is made in UE5
It's good from what time I spent with it in the beta, but launching so close to Oblivion Remastered and Expedition 33 is probably not the best idea.
I don't know if it's old age, but I'm reaching a point where I feel like I've seen everything.
I don't see anything particular in this trailer I haven't seen a thousand times already.
I mean, after playing every Elder Scrolls game, all Divinity games, SOME of the Dragon Age games, Enderal, the Gothic games + The Chronicles of Myrtara, Nehrim, the Risen games, Two Worlds II, and also countless Diablo-like ARPGs like Wolcen, Wigmund, Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, Kult – Heretic Kingdoms, Sacred 1-2, and then why not some immersive-like games like Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, the Thief games, and CRPGs like the Baldur's Gate + Icewind Dale games, Arcanum, all Spiderweb games, all Might & Magic games, and countless JRPGs since the early 90s, and countless smaller indie RPG games, etc, well…
It's difficult to feel excited about anything anymore. 😑
Locations, monsters, weapons, plots and lore, even dialogues, everything feels like deja-vu eventually.
It's like when you've watched too many anime and eventually you recognize some speech patterns and realize that mangaka always use the EXACT same dialogues, in every manga. Once you learn Japanese, you realize how insanely repetitive manga/anime are, really.
Also, I notice something else that doesn't help.
Ever since graphics started looking more or less realistic, games lost their unique aesthetics. All games look the same nowadays.
In the past, because of engine/hardware limitations, developers had to use lots of tricks, AND their imagination to make their games look good, resulting often in unique aesthetics.
But now, when I see that Tainted Grail game… My first thought is: "The 'vibe' I get is 100% like Oblivion Remastered."
When all games eventually have the same level of textures detail and the same type of lighting (thanks UE…), and especially if the graphics and lores are uninspired, well, all games feel the same.