Pendragon

Pendragon is a turn-based strategy game set in AD 673, after Camelot has fallen. Sir Mordred has broken the fellowship of the Round Table, and King Arthur faces his final battle. You lead a character and a changing band of allies across Dark Ages Britain, making choices that shape both the story and the kingdom’s fate.

Story and choices

Every move drives the narrative, and story twists create new gameplay opportunities. Choose who leads the adventure; that character’s personality shapes the story. Morgana le Fay is treacherous, Queen Guinevere is haunted by her mistakes, Sir Lancelot is French, and Sir Gawaine is usually drunk.

Your decisions determine whether Arthur faces Mordred alone or with his friends at his side. Along the way, the story explores the relationships among the knights: whether Lancelot reunites with Guinevere, whether she spurns or embraces him, and whether Sir Kay forgives Gawaine for siding with Mordred. You can also uncover what happened to Merlyn and Excalibur, who lies buried in Mordred’s graveyard, and who the archer in the woods is. Love, suspicion, revenge, sacrifice and murder all feature, and even your leader can die.

Travel and battle

You journey across a randomized game board, facing wild creatures, brutal rogues and Mordred’s dark knights. The board changes with each playthrough. Turn-based battles use simple but strategic combat in which positioning matters, losses are inevitable, and every step permanently shapes the narrative.

The story unfolds on the battlefield through your decisions and those of your enemies. You choose whether to advance or retreat, circle around enemies or meet them head-on, and decide who to put in harm’s way when a sacrifice is needed. Characters speak as you move them around the board, and their actions and relationships carry into later encounters.

Your company

You assemble a ragtag band of knights, heroes and peasants. Their dispositions and abilities grow and change as the story progresses; some will reach Camlann and King Arthur, while others will fall. The game’s narrative technology is powered by the ink engine.