Name: Tyranny
Brand: Steam
Price: 29.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Tyranny is listed at $29.99 on Steam.

Tyranny is at full price right now. We track it so you will see the moment a genuine discount lands.

The lowest we have tracked is $7.49, so this is not quite the floor.

Released about 9 years ago, it discounts regularly — patience is rewarded.

Genre: Adventure, RPG · Developer: Obsidian Entertainment · Release: Nov 10, 2016.

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About this game

Tyranny flips the usual RPG setup on its head: instead of playing the underdog who topples an evil empire, you’re already working for the guy who won. Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, casts you as a Fatebinder, essentially a judge and enforcer for the conqueror Kyros, dropped into occupied territory to decide how the new order actually gets run. It’s a smaller, stranger premise than most fantasy RPGs attempt, and that’s exactly what makes it worth a look.

How it plays

At the ground level, Tyranny is a classic isometric RPG with real-time-with-pause combat, so you’re pausing to issue orders, then letting the fight play out, then pausing again when things go sideways. What sets it apart is how much weight your decisions carry outside of combat. As a Fatebinder you’re not just picking dialogue options for flavor, you’re actually reshaping how the world looks and who’s aligned with you, since the game tracks your choices and lets them ripple into new areas, new allies, and new conflicts. You’ll build a party of companions who each have their own read on what you’re doing with your authority, and the game seems genuinely interested in whether you use that power to keep the peace, bend the system from within, or just grab more of it for yourself. It’s less about good versus evil and more about picking which flavor of control you’re comfortable with.

Who it’s for

This one’s aimed squarely at people who like their RPGs text-heavy and choice-driven, the kind of player who reads every codex entry and actually weighs the consequences before clicking a dialogue option. If you loved the reactivity of Pillars of Eternity or New Vegas and wished a game leaned even harder into “what happens after you make the call,” this scratches that itch. If you’re after big open-world exploration, flashy action combat, or a traditional hero’s journey, this isn’t it, the setting is more contained and the tone is colder and more political than a typical fantasy epic. Patience with reading and a taste for morally murky choices go a long way here.

Is it worth it?

For the RPG crowd it’s built for, Tyranny delivers a genuinely different premise executed by a studio with a strong track record in this exact genre, and that alone makes it stand out from the pile of good-versus-evil fantasy stories. It’s the kind of game that rewards a second playthrough since your early choices steer things so heavily, which stretches the value well past a single run. Games like this, narrative-heavy RPGs from a proven studio, tend to hold up fine years later since the writing and choices are the draw rather than graphics or trends, so it’s a solid pickup whenever it shows up discounted rather than something you need to grab at full price.