Hinterland: Orc Lords

by Got Game Entertainment

Product Features

• From a hardcore game, to a world without raiders this is a customizable gameworld that lets you decide the type of game that you want to play.
• Party based RPG action featuring a variety of characters, weapons and strategies. Will you lead the charge with a two-handed strike, or stand behind the herder with your bow?
• Town building which puts you in charge of how you will settle in your town. Will you arm them for defense, or give them tools for production?
• Character development that lets you do everything from commanding orc tribes as lord or shaman and becoming an undead warrior, to developing lowly farmers into great fighters.
• Random fantasy world featuring uniquely diverse locations with different resources, items, enemies and challenges for maximum replay value.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001LW033U
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 13, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,060 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Hinterland: Orc Lords is a single player adventure that challenges budget-minded PC gamers to 'loot, level and build.' Utilizing fast-paced RPG combat and strategic base building gameplay, players must tame the wildest territory of the realm by building a prosperous town and conquering all enemies that stand against them. In this quest you are in total control. Can you build a vibrant settlement, lead your people to prosperity, and tame the wild Hinterland? Classic party quest action. View larger. Crucial NPC interactions. View larger. Character leveling and item creation. View larger. Story and Gameplay In Hinterland: Orc Lords your goal is to lead a handful of peasants to establish a small haven in the wild backcountry of a fantasy kingdom. Bring a diverse cast of followers to your settlement on the edge of the world and then carefully select members of your village to put down their ploughs, leave their comfortable homes, and take whatever weapon they may have at hand to join you on expeditions of exploration and conquest in the surrounding lands. There you’ll encounter the characters and creatures of myth and folklore, and find much needed resources to expand your village whether it be iron to make weapons or a mystic tome to entice a great mage to join you. Should your forays meet with success, fame, fortune and prosperity await. But you must take care, for even the loss of a lowly farmer can spell disaster when harvest time comes. Key Features Party Based RPG Action - Variety of characters, weapons and strategies. Will you lead the charge with a two-handed strike, or stand behind the herder with your bow? Town Building - Choose who will settle in your town. Arm them for defense, or give them tools for production. Character Development - Command an orc tribe as lord or shaman, or lead a human village as human, dwarf or elf, or even an undead warrior. Develop lowly farmers into great fighters. Customize your character for adventure or village life. Random Fantasy World - New locations with different resources, items, enemies and challenges for maximum replay value. Orc war camps, dark elf raiding parties, goblin infested mines, ruined undead cities and more. Customizable Gameplay - From a hardcore game to a world without raiders, you decide the type of game that you want to play. System Requirements: Minimum Specifications: OS: Windows Vista/Window XP Processor: 1.8 GHz processor or higher RAM: 1 GB for Windows Vista/512 MB Windows XP Video: 64 MB DirectX 8.1 compatible card DVD-ROM: 4x DVD-ROM drive or faster Hard Drive Space: 350 MB free hard drive space Other: Keyboard or other input device

Product Description

Play as Hero or the Villain!Product InformationThe king has charged you with taming a wild territory of his realm by building a prosperous town and conquering all enemy sites in the region.  In your quest you will encounter the characters and creatures of myth and folklore and cunningly utilize resources to expand your village.  Build with fast paced RPG combat and strategic base building.  You must bring a diverse cast of followers to your settlement and then carefully select members of your village to join you on expeditions of exploration and conquest in the surrounding lands.  Make weapons from found iron or use a mystic tome to entice a great mage to join you.  Should your forays meet with success fame fortune and prosperity await.  But you must take care for even the loss of a lowly farmer can spell disaster at harvest time.Product FeaturesParty Based RPG ActionVariety of characters weapons and strategies. Will you lead the charge with a two-handed strike or stand behind the herder with your bow?Town BuildingChoose who will settle in your town. Arm them for defense or give them tools for production.Character DevelopmentCommand an orc tribe as lord or shaman or lead a human village as human dwarf or elf or even an undead warrior. Develop lowly farmers into great fighters. Customize your character for adventure or village life.Random Fantasy WorldNew locations with different resources items enemies and challenges for maximum replay value. Orc war camps dark elf raiding parties goblin infested mines ruined undead cities and more.Customizable GameplayFrom a hardcore game to a world without raiders you decide the type of game that you want to play. Windows RequirementsWindows XP Vista1.8 GHz or higher processor512 MB of RAM for Windows XP / 1 GB of RAM for Windows Vista350 MB free hard drive space64 MB DirectX 8.1 compatible Video CardKeyboard or other input deviceCD-ROM drive 

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome casual RPG with Town Building, June 10, 2009

By 

waterbowl - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hinterland: Orc Lords (CD-ROM)

This is one of the better "Gauntlet clones" that I've played recently. It combines simple action rpg elements with simple town building. It's meant to be played in 30 minutes or to over 4 hours, depending on play style and options used. I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I really like the graphics and art. The graphics remind me of Darkstone, the art reminds me a little bit of The Temple of Elemental Evil and even Icewind Dale. The music is standard fantasy, you've heard it all before in other games, but I like that kind of music, and this music is great. I won't be putting it on mute anytime soon!

Character customization is lacking. I enjoy customizing my character, but all that I get to choose here is a name, portrait, and class. There isn't that many portraits to choose from, just a few for each race, but there is a good variety of classes. There is also a good variety of models. Some are fatter than others, some have short hair and some have long hair, there are white people and black people. You just can't pick when creating your character(ex. a courtesan will always be skinny, a brawler will always be bigger. Can't make a skinny brawler. However, skin color is based on portrait used).

The city building part of the game is a lot of fun. From deciding which guys you want in your town, which buildings to upgrade, and where to place your buildings. Having to manage food, search the map for resources for the town, and defending the town against attackers. Some buildings even have more than one upgrade option. Starting out by yourself and building a town from nothing is part of the fun.

Combat is just the basic old style of action rpg. You raise your attack and defense as you fight, gain levels and raise stats and gain new skills, find new armor, weapons and items, left click the mouse to attack till the monsters fall down. Even though it's just like it was years ago, it's still fun here. They even made it easier for you, with auto equipping and using as few left clicks as possible. Having people in town auto-equip and the auto-sorting makes things so much easier. If I have someone in my town guarding it against attackers, I don't have to worry about making sure they equip newly made weapons and armor, they do it themselves, freeing me up to continue my adventure for loot and resources.

Something else that I like, is the ability to take your townspeople and have them fight with you. Take the priest out of his church and have him fight with you, healing you in battle. Or take the farmer from their field and slap some armor on them. You can have up to 3 npc's fight with you. I enjoy the challenge of creating an all female town. Because men and women will come to your town looking to build, I always have to kick the men out, waiting for more women to show up.

The interface is just perfect. Everything is made easy. Looting monsters and from chests takes a split second, selling is as easy as pressing shift and left clicking, there's auto-sorts and auto-equips, the menus are all easily accessed and any important information is just a single left click away. It truly makes an rpg and town building easy.

I would love a game like this with more depth. There are no dungeons to enter, you can only explore above ground. Entering dungeons, having more detailed quests, and having a more robust economy side would have made this game lots better. As a casual action rpg with town building in it, I don't see how it could get any better on the casual side.


A note about the DRM used. There isn't any. There's no cd key. The game cd doesn't need to be in the drive to play.



5 stars overall: The game plays smooth on my medium range computer. The game only crashed once in 10 hours of play. When I opened up the game after the crash, the game was saved right when it crashed. I don't have to worry about losing gameplay in case it crashes. That's a big plus!

5 stars for fun: After 10 hours I'm still enjoying playing it. It's so simple, yet so addictive.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you thank you thank you for making this game!, June 24, 2009

By 

Kavity Killer (denver, colorado United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hinterland: Orc Lords (CD-ROM)

The shelves of your local "Game Crazy" are overflowing with full on intensity first person shooters, hyper complex and addictive massively multiplayer online role playing games, and graphically overloaded games like fallout 3 and bioshock.

That's all well and good.

I happen to like games that fall into the category "putz-around games". Games like Majesty, Age of Wonders, and Dungeon Keeper. Not real intense, no jaw-dropping graphics, no epic quests. Not really sandbox, but not really hard core strategy either. Warlords 3 fits into this as well.

Call me old-school, but no one has scratched the itch in awhile. This game does it very very well. Its fun, its nerdy, its kick-back with the option to scale up the challenge if you so desire. Reminds me alot of Majesty, but different (obviously). Elegant, but not simplistic. Lots of replayability. Addictive like pringles. Its really fun to watch your little village grow and see who the next visitor to your town is. Will it be the fortune teller, or the town guard? Who knows!

So, on a scale of complexity with Bejeweled being a 1 and Master of Orion 3 being a 10, this is about a 3 or 4. In other words, perfect for what it is, and great for twenty clams.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun & glorious waste of time, July 11, 2009

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100xp (USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hinterland: Orc Lords (CD-ROM)

Majority of the reviews on gamesites are pretty accurate. Hinterland: Orc Lords is a highly addicitive and fun RTS (real time strategy) game for the PC. With low cpu requirements it seems ideal for any gamer laptop or desktop. Despite it's low production value i.e. no voice acting, low quality sound effects, and graphics, it holds it replay value amazing well for the mere fact it delievers what most gamers want.

To explore, fight, build, level, command, and conquer.

With all these aspect it's very comparble to Diablo 1, Age of Empires, and a touch of Majesty...all very addicitive, fun, and time consuming games.

Orc Lords for it's price is a great deal,[..]is a lot of game. Unfortunely for a 2009 title it feels and play a lot more like a title from about 15 years ago. Still, I continue to find myself playing and after finishing a campaign, playing again with a higher difficulty setting, different hero/heroine, and method of winning. You may find yourself just admiring your small town just because.

There's a lot of RPG's, RTS's, out there but with so many, sometimes you just need a break from the deeply involved storylines and this is the answer. It has just enough hack and slash, micro managing, and wit to keep you entertained until the game you've been waiting for comes out next quarter.

Hinterland: Orc Lords would be perfect if it had the graphics of diablo 2 or Baldur's Gate, the ability to import customizable character protraits, more than 2 camera views, and some better sound effects.

4 stars and definitely worth [...]