Factions: Raids of the Divided
In the land of Alfarid there are four factions: Aganbad, Badalpani, Kelisgar, and Safistan. Each faction has its own leader and its own geographically and culturally unique territory. When a series of recent border raids threatens to end decades of peace among the factions, one of the realm’s peacekeepers comes to you to help him figure out what’s really going on. You’ll have a chance to investigate all four factions before you present your findings at a meeting of the faction leaders.
Waseeq Mohammad’s Factions: Raids of the Divided is completely free to play, and it isn’t the worst Hosted Games has to offer, but there’s nothing particularly good about it, either. There’s not enough worldbuilding to inspire interest in the factions themselves, nor enough character development to interest the reader in the investigators; there are a few questions shoehorned in about the PC’s tastes and background, but they never feel relevant to the story. A few riddles and brainteaser puzzles worked into the investigation do nothing to enhance the narrative. It might be a tolerable way to kill twenty minutes, but all in all, Factions is eminently forgettable.