Chivalry: Medieval Warfare vs Griefhelm
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a thrilling first-person game where you actually get to assume to role of a chivalrous knight set in the medieval era. Although the game does have an offline mode where players can get familiarized with the controls and the gameplay, which admittedly is somewhat similar to that of a general FPS game, Chivalry is a multiplayer-focused game.The game provides players with exciting competitive online gameplay in which they can besiege castles, raid villages and engage in close-quarter melee combat. The action-based combat also allow you to block incoming blows and adjust your attacks to counter it. There is even an arsenal of up to 60 different melee weapons, a wide variety of siege weapons as well as a nice selection of castle-defending tools including boiling oil and traps.
If you've always longed for a game where you can fight like the knight of old, then you'll definitely want to buy Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. It may not be the only game of such sort on Steam, Playstation of Xbox, but it's possibly among the best ones.
Griefhelm
Griefhelm is a realistic 2D medieval sword-fighting game with a Slay the Spire-like progression and a pretty brutal difficulty level in the sense that if you let your opponent get in a couple of hits, you’re dead. Offering several game modes and perks, the game focuses a lot on timing your actions to best your opponent on the battlefield.Since timing is crucial in this game, you’d best be vigilant of the several combat cues your enemies may make a split second before the animation starts. If you do it precisely right, then you might just survive the attacks and even find a few openings of your own to strike. This game is definitely not the mindless hack-and-slash that many other games seem to offer. Every action you take in this game is deliberate and this makes every successful kill so much more satisfying.
Now, all of these fights are scattered across nodes in a progression map that’s somewhat similar to Slay the Spire. What this means is that you’ve got a choice as to which path you want to take and, in this game, you’ll usually have at least 2. Different paths offer different levels and types of challenges, and hence, different rewards so it’s important for you to decide which reward is most worthwhile for you.
To sum up, Griefhelm is truly in a class of its own. I’ve seen many players compare the game disfavorably against Nidhogg and that may be true, but for someone who has only played For Honor before, Griefhelm really brings swordplay to a different dimension… literally (Hint: 2D as opposed to 3D)!