About This Game Steal and raise a baby war gryphon! Will you fight dragons together to save the empire, or defy the empire and lead your people to freedom?Runt of the Litter is a 150,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Kelly Sandoval, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.The gryphon keepers hold all the power in the Empire of Vaengrea. They make the laws, patrol the borders, and only give gryphon eggs to their chosen heirs. As a poor stable hand, a "thrall," you know you'll never have a chance to prove yourself.But then, you find the egg. Small, neglected, nudged out of the nest by a disapproving mother. But you can feel warmth growing inside.Now your gryphon is in terrible danger, both from the other gryphon keepers and from a deadly plague that's wiping out the Empire's gryphons. Can you keep your gryphon safe? Where will you hide your new hatchling? Are you skilled enough to hunt its food or clever enough to steal it? Which of the gryphon keepers can you trust? How will you shape the young gryphon's mind?Wyrm riders invade from the north on their fire-breathing dragons, the natural enemy of the gryphons. Will you and your gryphon fight in the war, seizing your place among the elite? Or will you defy the empire and lead your fellow thralls to revolution?Can you keep a runt gryphon safe with the whole world against you? The life of your gryphon, and the fate of an empire, is in your hands. Play as any gender and as gay, straight, or asexual Choose from a variety of unusual gryphon breeds Raise your gryphon with a gentle hand or demand obedience Find romance among your fellow thralls or steal the heart of a gryphon keeper Rise to the rank of gryphon keeper or lead your fellow thralls to freedom Battle fire-breathing wyrms to protect your empire Find a cure for the devastating gryphon plague a09c17d780 Title: Runt of the LitterGenre: Adventure, Indie, RPGDeveloper:Choice of GamesPublisher:Choice of GamesRelease Date: 23 Feb, 2017 Runt Of The Litter Download For Pc runt of the litter wiki. runt of the litter quotes. runt of the litter doberman. runt of the litter in afrikaans. runt of the litter jelentése. runt of the litter ne demek. no runt of the litter. runt of the litter dogs personality. runt of litter newborn. runt of the letter e. runt of the litter apk mod. can you breed the runt of the litter. runt of the litter dogs for sale. runt of the litter chihuahua. runt of the litter border collie. runt of the litter urban. runt of the litter sam crescent epub. runt of the litter cocker spaniel. runt of the litter puppy personality. runt of the litter kitten names. runt of the litter steam. runt of the litter personality cat. runt of the litter game. runt of the litter vizsla. runt of the litter puppies for sale. do runts of the litter live longer. runt of the litter liver. runt of the litter download. runt of the litter ferret. runt of the litter choice of games. runt of the litter jack russell. runt of the litter what does that mean. runt of the litter cat names. runt of the litter goldendoodle. runt of the litter here. do dogs kill the runt of the litter. runt of the litter sbenny. runt of the litter characteristics. runt of the litter cats. runt of the litter puppy. runt of the litter miniature schnauzer. runt of the litter define. chicken little runt of the litter quotes. runt of the litter good or bad. runt of the litter apk. runt of the litter meaning. runt of the litter choice of games walkthrough. runt of the litter bunny. runt of the litter svenska. runt of the litter origin. runt of the litter yorkie. runt of the litter igg. runt of litter not growing. runt of the litter mean. runt of the litter rat. runt of the litter in cats. are runts of the litter unhealthy. can you save the runt of the litter. runt of the litter worth. runt of the litter feeding. runt of the litter labrador retriever. runt of the litter play. runt of the litter game free. runt of the litter images. runt of the litter husky. runt of the litter boxer puppy. necessary roughness runt of the litter. runt of the litter boston terrier. runt of the litter paid apk. runt of the litter thesaurus. runt of the litter from chicken little. runt of the litter facts. the runt of the litter apk. runt of the litter humans. runt of the litter traits. runt of the litter unlocked apk. runt of the litter chicken little. runt of the litter achievements. runt of the litter great dane. read runt of the litter online free. runt of the litter or. runt of the litter horse. runt of the litter beagle. runt of the litter rottweiler. runt of the litter kitten health problems. runt of the litter dog. do you want the runt of the litter. runt of the litter movie. runt of the litter explained Not bad. Very short compared to other Choice of Games' stories.Feels like it ends half way through rather than a proper ending.Good enough for the current sale price of 3 USDs but 4 might be pushing it.Honestly I expect more exspansive stories from the people that make the actual engine and used to give much better stories.There's simply other Choice of Games to start with than this one.. I feel the need to preface this review with the fact that I own most of the COG/HOG games, and have played them multiple times in most cases. So I am well versed in Runt's peers. I must say, that despite this game having an intriguing world and interesting characters, I wasn't able to really feel immersed. Your "Friends" are mostly expounded upon by the short introductions your character gives them and maybe 1-2 conversations you have with them 1 on 1 and only when you choose to sacrifice the conversations with the others. The options for romance are sparse but not wholly unsatisfactory. However I can't say I actually knew any of my friends/love interests/rivals. Where most games would cultivate a sense of character Runt of the Litter goes for a broader story. More like being actually read a fairy tale then actually playing and living one. My friends seemed to be either one note or just there. Same with the Council, you have the ♥♥♥♥♥, the Reasonable one who everyone calls weak, and the unfeeling swing vote. Your rival is that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone knew in highschool. Just mean for no real reason, even when you help him he's an♥♥♥♥♥ Now with all I've said I know you'd think me to give this game a poor recommendation. However, I will say that this is a solid C+. The world is interesting, I did love my Griffon and did all I could in order to protect them. I was very close to actually caring about my friends. But... none of it felt like it had weight. I never found myself anxious in a fight, never doubted what choice I made, and never really got to breath in this story. I feel there's a great game here, just itching to be written.All in all, I can recomend this game to people who are cool playing it once or twice, and being satisfied that you've seen it all. I hope maybe one day there can be something more to this. I've never seen a COG/HOG game with a DLC story but I think this game could use one.. Well written and engaging, but very short. I would have liked more chances to interact with the other characters and learn about the world, and couldn't help wishing that I could have played out the events covered in the epilogue.. These are never worth the price but they always entertain, except sometimes.. I've always had mixed feelings about the Choice of Games collection. A lot of them are pretty iffy, and this one is especially. I did 2 paths and then decided to stop since it got increasingly tedius. It just feels like nothing really happens and nothing really matters. The characters feel hollow, the stats feel pointless and I couldn't care less about my Gryphon, either. All in all this is one of the weaker games they're offering.At the very least I'll say it's not as obnoxiously in your face with it's political beliefs and agendas as most of these games can be.. I love Choice of Games, but this one really fell flat for me in comparison to several others that I've played and loved. This, I feel, is due to three major reasons: failure to invest the player in the setting and characters, failure to pay off the plot, and slapdash gendering.I'll start with the good stuff. The main group of friends your character meets are distinct in personality and memorable. Their group dynamics are believable, and it's nice to know your character was the one who brought them all together. Your gryphon is going to be adorable, and you're going to want to play with it all the time even if you're supposed to be training it, which is what happened with me. :PNow for the rest.The ending to the plot was deeply unsatisfying, as if the author cut off the draft in the middle. There was little to no sense of closure, and some of that seems to be due to overall weak writing and a failure to establish strong motivations for the protagonist. It's hard to declare that a goal has been accomplished or forever lost if the goal was hazy in the first place. The game starts out promising in terms of world building, but quickly loses steam past establishing the class struggles between thralls and fledglings/riders, and that the theme was wyrms vs gryphons. The whole game could have benefitted from much more showing and less telling, and higher stakes. I was left feeling quitte uninvested and uninformed in the trials an tribulations of th kingdom, despite supposedly being a patriotic character.Lastly, the gendering. This will be the longest portion, as it is the biggest, but most necessary, thing to fix in order to improve the experience. The following is going to sound quite harsh, but I feel it will be valuable feedback to the author should he/she/ze/they etc wish to advocate for non-binary genders through writing. While I applaud the attempt at inclusivity by using non-binary gender pronouns, it was overall poorly handled in terms of both story and code logic. Firstly, the author makes the mistake of slapping in the ze/zir pronouns without establishing anything about the role of gender in this setting, nor describing the characters to which they are referring. This is a failure on three different levels. Level one, alienating a large portion of the audience. A vast majority of readers will not understand this social justice jargon (yes, JARGON), which means the author has chosen wording that will imediately catapault many readers right out of immersion. The modern world, at the time of this review, doesn't even understand where non-binary people fit into society in a non-fictional setting. What made the author think the story could get away with not spending time exploring this? Writing using terms that your target audience can reasonably be expected not to be familiar with isn't a death sentence, however, but when doing so, a writer has the responsibility to establish the terms within the context of the world. This leads us to level two: the author misses the chance to both worldbuild and character build. Is the non-binary gender commonplace or rare? Is it widely acknowledged and accepted? Or persecuted? Or an exotic oddity? The author spends zero time inviting the reader to understand these terms. The first character with non-binary pronouns that I ran into was a random minor character. There was little description of said character's appearance, mannerisms, or how they were treated that played into this gender identity. My player character then never ran into this person again, though ze was suddenly referred to as he later on. Why the change? A coding error? Did the other character misgender? Was it an accident or on purpose? None of this is explained or explored.And this ties to level three: because of the previous levels, it misses its mark with regard to representation and inclusivity. All of the previous levels culminates in a bevy of missed opportunities to build empathy for non-binary people, to build full-bodied and human characters. It fails to represent the people behind the pronoun, and to invite the reader to understand why these pronouns exist.So, overall, I don't recommend buying this game. Other games puublished by Choice do much better with regard to strong protagonist motivations, sense of closure and choice impact, and non-binary representation. The Heroes trilogy, in particular, does well in establishing a major genderqueer character and grounding queerness in the fictional setting. This game could have been much improved if the author could have sat down, and followed the many gaps in the setting and followed them to their logical conclusion, then circled back to explore the impact on the characters in the setting, and showed these effects happening around the main character.. Before you read on, I want to warn you that this revieuw is quite rambly.When I got an email from chioce of games notifying me that there was a new game, I immidiatly bought it.I always love these games and this one was definitely not an exeption.I even thing this one was one of the better ones I've played.First of, I think the society you find yourself in in this game is very interesing. From the start you have a clear picture of what is going on. The society is comepletely centered around the gryphons. This gives every action surrounding them feel important.Your own gryphon is very adorable and greatly written. It felt like it was a real creature.I also loved all the characters in the game. The realtionships you form with them feel natural and not forced at all. They all have their own opnions that they stand by and will defend. They all have very unique names, but they all have a certain feel to them making the society even more believable. What I found very interesting is that some characters were neither male nor female and had ze\/zir pronouns. I had never seen them used before and had to warm up to them a little. They felt ali\u00ebn and not very appropriate to the fantasy setting. After palying for a while this went away though. It actually says a lot about this society, that these kinds of things are accepted by all. It made me want to learn even more about it.The choises in the game all seem to make a difference. I found this game a lot more difficult than other choice of games games I've played. I watched the stat changes closesly, and many times the chages that happened were unforseen by me. They weren't bad though! When I thought about them afterwards I could see why that stat changed.I loved basically everything about this game. I would definitely reccomend to anyone who like these kinds of choice based games.. Cute story to read with average lenght. Short, but not too short. It is well written and thought and it fullfill its thematics really well all the while giving a large amount of choices possible with a lot of narrative changes and interactions. The stats systems seems a bit clumsy to me and sometimes it doesn't seems clear as to why a choice impact that stats but in my opinion it's not completely illogical and random, just a little awkward. The interactions between those stats and the story are awkard as well. Even then the story adapts really well to what you do and it makes up for that bit of blurriness once you start to grasp how things go, it can take numerous trys though. The characters are interesting but never really developped, they do have personnalities of their own though. Overall it's a well rounded choice novel and you can feel the author cared about the thematic just by seeing how many species of gryphins you can choose from and that each one impacts the narration.. These are never worth the price but they always entertain, except sometimes.. I guess I'm going to write a review about this game.First off, the marketing arrowed me in the heart like a professional Robin Hood. They posted a link and blurb on IFDB.tads.org: "Steal and raise a baby war gryphon!"That was all I needed to read. I couldn't hit "BUY" fast enough. I was that Fry meme, incarnate. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.But unlike CoG's "SLAMMED!", which sucked me into the story to the point where I *lived through it, mannnn!* (and you should really buy SLAMMED! immediately), I just couldn't get my head into this game (and I really wanted to, see para. 2). I had a really hard time keeping track of who was who and what everybody's different griffin looked like (which is, I think, kind of important when visualizing the story). tl;dr The writing just didn't generate strong enough mental pictures for me and I couldn't stay engaged.Then I died before (I think) any real adventure started. So I hung it up, meaning to try another day and...I just haven't.So it is with heavy heart I say that I can't recommend this game even though you get to raise a baby griffin. But ifever I give it another try and it turns out better for me, I will update this review.
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Updated: Mar 26, 2020
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