Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- PS3 · PC · X360
- Mode
- Single player · Multiplayer
- Age rating
- PEGI 16
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Overlord is an action role-playing video game set in an alternate world, where the player takes the role of a resurrected warrior known as "The Overlord" who has control over hordes of gremlin-like creatures known as "Minions". The player must defeat seven corrupt ruling heroes in order to reconquer the lands and establish his lordship over its inhabitants. The game features a corruption feature, similar to that of the Fable games, but allowing the player to "be evil... or really evil", where certain actions and choices affect different aspects of the story and gameplay. While the Overlord is controlled in a third person perspective, the way minions are controlled brings elements of real-time strategy and upgrades bring those of role-playing games. The game uses dark humour, and is a satirical parody of the traditional fantasy setting and plot
- Action
- Fantasy
- Science fiction
- Comedy
- aliens
- vampire
- magic
- spaceship
- farming
- war
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Players
- 78 / 100 · 156 players
- Critics
- 70 / 100 · 2 critics
- Developer
- Triumph Studios, 4J Studios
- Publisher
- Codemasters
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.









