free downloads Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Her predecessor murdered, Grace must use her newfound ability to uncover the culprit through singing - plus a lot of flirting - and appease the Chorus of lead Idols (the top gods, led by the matriarchal Athena - Felicia Day). Yes, Grace is a Muse and is swept up into a modern day Greek tragedy of gods and melodrama. Manage cookie settings Here's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical's trailer to show you it in action. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

This isn't just people bursting into song, its Grace (and the player) manipulating others through song diegetically. After sudden events, she has the power of a Muse thrust upon her, giving her the ability to evoke music from others. Our protagonist is Grace, a young woman struggling to find her place in the world like every other twentysomething with a brain. The game itself gives a narrative reason for this. The question I kept coming back to was: why is everyone singing? What does music actually add to the narrative? Perhaps these two forms of media are antithetical.

Clearly I am quite excited.įor me, however, Stray Gods fails to live up to that lofty potential. I'm a fan of both of those things! Video games and musicals both as a form of storytelling, but now interactive, personalisable, immersive. It features most of the main cast of The Last of Us, including Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey and Merle Dandridge, as well as Erika Ishii, Rahul Kohli, and musical theatre star Anthony Rapp.Īnd it promises to please fans of both video games and musicals. Availability: Out 10 August on PC ( Steam), Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5Īnd what a cast! What a production team! Stray Gods is written by David Gaider (Dragon Age) with music from Austin Wintory (Journey).How exciting! How intriguing! So many games have mixed genres with rhythm, now it's the turn to put narrative to melody: a musical as a video game. A fascinating but flawed experimental musical game that fails to live up to some heavenly potential.Ī roleplaying musical.

Free downloads Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical