Dragonkin: The Banished - Lord Pack

My first instinct when I saw 'Lord Pack' was to wonder whether this was actual content or a costume box. It's the latter, and that context matters a lot before you decide to add it to your cart. The Lord Pack is a cosmetic DLC bundled inside the Blood Scale Edition of Dragonkin: The Banished. What you get: one elemental dragon-themed helmet and torso piece for each of the four playable characters (eight armor pieces total), a Draconic Dominions visual theme for the city hub of Montescail, and four color variants for the Divine Familiar, the baby dragon companion you level up alongside your hero. There is no new zone, no new class, no new boss. If cosmetics don't move you, this pack has nothing to offer. To understand whether the Lord Pack is worth picking up, you need to know what game it's dressing up. Dragonkin: The Banished is an isometric ARPG developed by Eko Software, the studio behind Warhammer: Chaosbane, and it sits firmly in Diablo territory. You choose from four classes - Knight, Barbarian, Oracle, and Tracker - each with distinct playstyles ranging from up-close crushing to ranged trap-and-knife work. Combat is fast-paced, real-time, and genuinely satisfying in the way skills send enemies flying across the screen. The thing that sets it apart from its genre stablemates is the Ancestral Grid: rather than unlocking skills along a fixed tree, you acquire skill fragments as loot and arrange them spatially on a grid, where positioning and adjacency change how abilities interact and synergize. It rewards tinkering, free respecs are available at any time, and the system has real depth once it clicks. The base game, however, comes with caveats that reviewers and the mixed Steam score agree on. The story is convoluted and loaded with names and places that never quite land, and the voice acting ranges from serviceable to rough depending on the scene. Level design leans toward big environments with stretched-out objectives and limited enemy variety per zone, which can kill momentum. The Montescail city hub, while a novel differentiator, functions more as a menu-driven upgrade screen than a genuine city-building system - incremental stat bonuses that feel disconnected from the moment-to-moment action. GPU demands have also drawn complaints from players, so check your rig against the requirements before committing. Post-launch updates have improved the game steadily, and cross-platform multiplayer is confirmed in development, which should strengthen the up-to-four-player co-op side meaningfully. Back to the Lord Pack itself. The elemental armor designs are thematically on-point for the setting - each piece references a specific Dragon Lord, which is a neat bit of world-acknowledgment for players invested enough in the lore to care. The Draconic Dominions city theme is a pure visual change and nothing more. For players who have logged serious hours, wear every cosmetic variation down to nothing, and want their characters or city to look distinct, this pack delivers exactly what it promises. For anyone still undecided on the base game, or for players who skip cosmetics on principle, it is genuinely skippable content. The Lord Pack is an honest cosmetic add-on for a game that earns its fans through gameplay, not aesthetics - judge it on that narrow terms and you will not be surprised.

Alex · Scout Team

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