Tyranny — an RPG where Evil already won, and you serve it
Most role-playing games ask you to save the world. Tyranny flips that premise on its head: by the time you take control, the dark lord Kyros has already conquered almost the entire known world. The last free region, the Tiers, fell in the final campaign, and your job isn't to overthrow the tyranny but to enforce its «order» across the subjugated lands. You are a Fatebinder, a roaming judge and executioner in the service of Kyros, and every verdict you pass carries the weight of law.
This isometric party-based RPG was made by Obsidian Entertainment, the studio known for deeply reactive role-playing worlds. It was published by Paradox Interactive and released on November 10, 2016. We sell Tyranny as a Steam gift: you choose the edition, and our bot delivers the game straight to your account.
What makes Tyranny special
Its signature feature is the «Conquest» prologue. Before the game proper even begins, you play through a text-driven chronicle of Kyros's war for the Tiers and make strategic decisions: which cities to burn, who to spare, and whose side to take in the conflict between the Overlord's two armies — the disciplined Disfavored and the bloodthirsty Scarlet Chorus. These choices aren't cosmetic: by the moment you first set foot in the world as a Fatebinder, it has already been shaped by your past, and NPCs remember what you did.
- Morality with no black and white. You serve evil, yet within that system there are factions, ambitions and betrayals — and you decide who deserves your loyalty.
- Reputation instead of a karma bar. Your standing with factions and companions runs on two axes — fear and loyalty, wrath and favor — and both matter.
- Sigil-based spellcraft. You build spells from rune expressions, crafting your own combinations of effects.
- Reactivity. The ending and the fate of each region depend heavily on how you dispensed «justice» along the way.
Standard or Deluxe — which edition to pick
There are two options in the catalog, and both contain the full game — the difference is purely digital extras:
- Standard Edition — the complete base Tyranny. Everything you need to play the Fatebinder's story from the prologue to the finale.
- Deluxe Edition — the same game plus a bonus pack: four heraldic war banners (the coats of arms of the Disfavored, the Scarlet Chorus, Tunon the Adjudicator and Kyros himself), an extended 43-track Deluxe soundtrack (over two hours of music) and a collection of original artwork from the world of Terratus.
If you're here for the story and gameplay, Standard is enough. If you want the music and art materials bundled in, go for Deluxe. The choice of edition has no effect on the main campaign.
How the gift delivery works
Tyranny arrives as a Steam Gift through our bot. You provide your friend invite link and your Steam account region, place the order, and the bot handles the rest: it adds itself to your friends, sends the gift (usually within a couple of minutes) and removes itself once delivery is done. You don't need to accept the friend request manually. Steam Guard is not required for this.
There are two conditions Steam enforces before it lets you accept the gift: your account region must match the gift region, and the game must not already be in your library. So pick the variant for your region and send it to an account that doesn't own Tyranny yet.
Hardware and platform fit
Tyranny is a GPU-light isometric RPG that runs comfortably even on modest setups and plays well on the Steam Deck. It ships with native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux/SteamOS, so a single purchase works across every platform on your Steam account.
If you love RPGs like this
Tyranny is a close relative of the classic isometric RPGs from Obsidian and its genre peers. If the grim setting and reactive dialogue land for you, also check out Pillars of Eternity and its sequel Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire from the same studio, and for a party RPG with deep, branching choice take a look at Divinity: Original Sin 2.
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