I was having a hard time understanding the information it was trying to convey, and I initially struggled with even issuing commands. Othercide has a magnificent presentation-great soundtrack, and good voice acting. Its black, white and red color scheme is used throughout, and creates extremely striking visuals. The first thing you probably noticed about Othercide is its art style. Othercide has some great production value, but itвЂ™s not perfect. Some roguelikes give you a constant feeling of forward progression, but I always felt like I was taking a step back in Othercide, even when using the Remembrances-which are essentially modifiers for each run, or Recollection. YouвЂ™ll run into a lot of the same encounters through each of the runs. While other rogue-type games use randomization to curb the feeling of constant grind, Othercide is extremely same-y. The rogue-lite nature of Othercide is interesting, but it isnвЂ™t utilized in the best way. In fact, most strategies that worked for me revolved around using the reaction system-where a Daughter will react to a move that an enemy makes, like preventing damage, or attacking a foe that comes within range. I hated the fact that it didnвЂ™t seem that there was room for experimentation, or crazy ideas in strategy. OthercideвЂ™s difficult and thin margin for error took away some of the fun for me. There are several bosses to face in Othercide, each with their own unique set of moves and abilities. Their abilities, for the most part, resemble those of the Daughters. Of course, theyвЂ™re all stylized and horrific, with equally horror-themed backgrounds. Enemy types in Othercide are interesting. There are lots of things in Othercide that want to harm your Daughters-horrific things. Daughters grow in abilities as they gain experience and hit new levels, and itвЂ™s particularly rough to see a high level Daughter sit unused until you have to sacrifice her to heal a lower-level daughter. You canвЂ™t heal your daughters between matches without sacrificing another daughter of equal of higher level, either, making attrition amongst your most powerful warriors a creeping concern. With little margin for error, and its rogue-lite nature, every mistake piles up quickly. While I am usually adept at turn-based strategy, I struggled with Othercide. In fact, synergy seems required to progress, even in the earliest levels. Othercide offers some room for deep strategy and synergy. The Daughters have different abilities as well-and there are three different classes to start: the defensive Shieldbearer, the melee Blademaster and the ranged Soulslinger. You can control three to four daughters in battle at a time, usually against a horde of aforementioned nightmare creatures with different abilities. ItвЂ™s easy to learn, but mastering the DaughtersвЂ™ abilities to attain the synergy required to progress might take some time. This allows you to go into fights with the best knowledge you can have against your foes, because the margin for error in Othercide is razor thin. The Codex is also great from a strategic standpoint, because it gives information on the creatures you encounter-and the tactics they employ. The story is interesting, and the lore is told mostly in tidbits that you can explore through the gameвЂ™s Codex.

The Suffering is your main foe and it is comprised of an army of horrific nightmare creatures, manifested by The Child. In Othercide you control an army of Daughters-echoes of the worldвЂ™s greatest warriors, birthed by the powerful Mother, who is on a crusade to stop the Suffering and end its grasp on humanity. I always love a good post-apocalypse romp, and adding a horror wrapping in is doubly exciting. Othercide utilizes a somewhat unique turn-order system called the dynamic timeline system that encourages a certain amount of restraint when using abilities-along with the ability to push enemies further back on the timeline. In it, you control a small squad of characters with different abilities. Othercide is a turn-based tactics game with some rogue-lite elements set in a horror-themed post apocalypse. Othercide hits the mark on all of the above.

ThatвЂ™s not a problem, really, especially since each is making its own mark on the genre, whether through great mechanics, art style or setting. Turn-based tactics games have been turning up a lot lately.

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