Is there a "game over?"

[Redguard]

So ... I know you can just delete your save and restart anytime. I'm just wondering whether there are game over conditions ever. Like, is it possible to beat this game after being absolutely decimated? All gold lost, entire party lost ... is there a point of no return?

[Cruduxy Pegg]

Only if you play on stygian\blood moon.

[Jesterofgames7712]

No there is no point of no return Even if your Entier roster gets wiped there are always new Heros coming in from the stage coach that you can use to get small amounts of gold working your self back up to where you were before you got slammed jammed
so you just gotta be patient

There is a game over on the hardest mode but ... Yeah that's the hardest mode

[Sir Francis]

in low to medium difficulty? No, you can always recover and doing so is always better than starting a fresh save.
If you play on Stygian/bloodmoon however it will show you a game over screen after around 100 weeks time or 13/16 deaths, meaning there is a time AND a death limit.

[CloudSeeker]

After you finished the game you also gets a game over if you take to long.

[Skinny Pete]

It depends on what you consider a "game over." There are certainly seriously suboptimal situations where you might just prefer to start over.

[Redguard]

Originally posted by Skinny Pete:

It depends on what you consider a "game over." There are certainly seriously suboptimal situations where you might just prefer to start over.

I consider a "game over" when you are forced to lose all progress and start from the beginning. It's a bit discouraging when you send a team of stone cold killers and they get murdered, but it just seems odd that you can still build your way back up.

I suppose I'm asking if there's any detriment to losing or taking a long time to complete the game. It seems there is none - you'll just beat the game eventually, even if it takes forever. When thinking "roguelike" I think "lose all progress." I suppose that's what "Stygian" mode is for.

So ... would you mind enlightening me on the suboptimal situations? So long as it you don't spoil anything storywise (I imagine that the longer you take, the more detrimental events happen to your town).

[Solitus]

That is because your character is the Hamlet, not the heroes. So long as the Hamlet stands; fresh meat from the road can always be recruited to grow the Hamlets power. It has waited for so long already, what is a few more weeks for your weak human flesh to grow to the task?

[yamidamian]

Originally posted by Solitus:

That is because your character is the Hamlet, not the heroes. So long as the Hamlet stands; fresh meat from the road can always be recruited to grow the Hamlets power. It has waited for so long already, what is a few more weeks for your weak human flesh to grow to the task?

Exactly. No matter how depleted your resciurces are presently, there’s always an ability to recover. Empty your coffers and get everyone killed, there will still be a fresh group to send in to refill your coffers at the stagecoach.

[🎃MaximusBlastalot🎃]

No its a core issue outside hard/stygian/ng+(befor stygian) whatever its called now.

Arguably not a game on easy/meduim.