Pyre 2017

Is it still worth playing?

Supergiant Games' 2017 action role playing game with sports elements, in which you guide a party of exiles across an overworld in a high fantasy world. The story unfolds through on screen narrative passages, and you use a hyperlink style system to explore it further. You guide the exiles through Rites. In a Rite, three exiles face three opponents in a top down arena, and each team tries to destroy the other's pyre by launching a single glowing orb at it. You control one character at a time, the one holding the orb, which is passed among the three. Each exile has active skills and passive abilities that change how they play: one moves quickly but deals little damage to the pyre, while another is slow but deals the most. Each Rite is still a decision about who should hold the orb, as the exiles' strengths differ so much.