Gragyriss, Captor of Princesses is a short life simulation web browser game by Snow Road Games, in which you play as a red dragon. You start as an egg, and after hatching it, you feed it grass, sheep, and wolves to raise it and strengthen it so it can raid settlements and capture princesses.
The game can be played on Newgrounds
, Armor Games, or Kongregate.
Tropes present in Gragyriss, Captor of Princesses include:
- Anti-Hoarding: Francesca's appropriately named "Hoarder" perk is an inversion where you get stronger if you hoard enough gold.
- Arrange Mode: The game has a separate mode with endless waves of attackers, for which you have to grow and fend off for as long as you can before your enemies overwhelm you. There's also a princess exclusive to this mode.
- A Winner Is You: After beating the final boss, the game ends with a screen of the dragon resting with the princesses it has captured, rather peacefully.
- Big Eater: Your dragon will eat a lot of plants, sheep, and wolves to get bigger and stronger. Justified since eating sheep restores health, eating plants increases max HP, and eating wolves increases their attack stat.
- Breath Weapon: You can breath fire upon your enemies to deal a good burst of damage, with a cooldown.
- Dragon Hoard: As you raid settlements and defeat enemies, your hoard of riches will fill up.
- Dragons Prefer Princesses: As the title indicates. When you win enough battles within specific regions (the Forest Kingdom, the Trade Empire, and the Dark Realm), you get to take their princess for yourself, who get their own room within your dragon lair. Oddly enough, their portraits are lacking in any signs of distress, as if they may even enjoy staying under the dragon's captivity (given the dragon-themed furniture in their rooms), and they can even aid you in battles against what are presumably their own people. It's not exactly clear whether this would qualify as A Match Made in Stockholm, however, though the ending shows the princesses hanging out with your dragon in a friendly manner.
- Dragons Versus Knights: You fight plenty of knights in your attacks on other regions, including one as the Final Boss.
- Gameplay Automation: Eventually, with enough upgrades, sheep, fruit, and wolves will eventually be upgraded to a point where they will be fed to the dragon automatically, which leads to continuous stat growth, enabling you to eventually overwhelm any enemy by stats alone given you wait long enough.
- Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: As expected for your dragon, who becomes much bigger in their final adult stage compared to their hatchling stage.
- Heroic Fantasy: The setting features knights, undead skeletons, demons, mages, treants, and plenty of magic, as well as a Western dragon. However, you take the role of the mentioned dragon.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Eating sheep lets you restore health instantly.
- Long-Range Fighter: The archer enemies and the Dark Realm mage boss, which require usage of your fire breath to damage.
- Our Elves Are Different: Elvine, the green-skinned princess of the Forest Kingdom that you capture.
- Our Genies Are Different: Jennie, the endless-wave mode exclusive princess whose skills revolve around the mode's battles more than the others, with Etherwinds damaging all enemies (and yourself, averting Friendly Fireproof) and Time Spiral which uses the seconds hasted toward the next wave to delay the subsequent wave.
- Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Elvine and Amber, who have active skills that can do well in battles with enemies attacking your dragon. Elvine's Razor Leaves skill can pelter all enemies with leaves, and Amber's Terror skill can scare away all regular enemies, though Amber leans towards Hot as Hell in terms of looks, complete with Underboobs.
- Protagonist Title: Gragyriss is the dragon, who is also the captor of princesses in this game.
- Punched Across the Room: A funny form of Gameplay Automation where your pile of sheep can be eventually protected by a goat that can launch predatory wolves into the air, right into Gragyriss' mouth to become food.
- Raising Sim: Your dragon starts as an egg, and goes through a hatchling stage, a juvenile stage, and finally an adult stage, gaining more stats in the process.
- Savage Wolves: Wolves continually hunt sheep and reproduce, and your dragon can eat these to gain more strength.
- Smashed Eggs Hatching: The dragon egg you start with requires dropping several sheep onto it to crack it and let the dragon hatch.
- Villain Protagonist: As the dragon, you raid the other civilizations and settlements without any provocation from them, and kidnap their princesses.
- When Trees Attack: The Forest Kingdom has a giant treant as a champion you have to defeat to capture the kindgom's princess, capable of automatically Regenerating Health.
