Desert Ashes
Nine Tales Digital · 2014 · Strategy, Indie, Turn-Based
PC
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About Desert Ashes
Desert Ashes is a turn based strategy game with online multiplayer and single player campaigns which also boasts an innovative menu system allowing players to enjoy multiple games at once.
The Day-Night system adds a dynamic twist to turn based battles including weather conditions that can affect the battlefield map, for example, all bodies of water have the ability to freeze over night!
On top of this, Desert Ashes offers its players special unlockable perks to customize their armies with, for example, The Fort Toughness Perk that adds 20% DEF to all allied units at a structure, and the Vampire Perk that gives players to convert 20% attack damage to HP between 10pm and 5am!
Experience also exciting single player campaigns that allows the player to experience playing as both the winged crusade and the landians.
The Day-Night system adds a dynamic twist to turn based battles including weather conditions that can affect the battlefield map, for example, all bodies of water have the ability to freeze over night! On top of this, Desert Ashes offers its players special unlockable perks to customize their armies with, for example, The Fort Toughness Perk that adds 20% DEF to all allied units at a structure, and the Vampire Perk that gives players to convert 20% attack damage to HP between 10pm and 5am!Experience also exciting single player campaigns that allows the player to experience playing as both the winged crusade and the landians.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is a rough example of what a turn based strategy game would look like if Wal Mart had developed it. Clunky, childish, simplistic, and terribly broken. I couldn't really find anything redeeming about it. :-(19 found this helpful
[h1] That's basically IT. The ashes. [/h1]4 found this helpful
Desert Ashes is a turn-based strategy title developed and published by Nine Tales Digital that sets out to reinterpret classic grid-based warfare through a strange, creature-driven fantasy lens. Released as an indie project with modest production values, the game immediately signals that its priorities lie more in systems and ideas than in spectacle. Instead of modern military units or traditional fantasy armies, Desert Ashes populates its battlefields with odd, often unsettling creatures, giving the game a distinctive identity that separates it from more conventional strategy offerings. This unusual presentation can be intriguing at first glance, though it also establishes expectations that the game’s mechanics must carry much of the experience. At its core, Desert Ashes follows a familiar strategic framework. Battles unfold on tiled maps where players take turns moving units, attacking enemies, capturing bases, and managing territory. Each unit type has clear strengths, weaknesses, movement limits, and attack patterns, encouraging careful positioning and forward planning. The structure is easy to understand for anyone familiar with classic turn-based strategy games, and the fund…1 found this helpful
So bad
Fun but buggy strategy game with shallow mechanics, poor UI and weak story
This product is a lite version of its predecessor "Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes", which of course results in less delicate body of work to offer buyers. Emotionally, it heavily unhinges me whenever such a promiseful concept is brought low and distributed in a insultingly ungraceful manner. Do yourself justice by shunning this miserable excuse of modernization.
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