Euler Wars

Euler Wars is marketed as being a space sim/flight sim... I guess it kinda qualifies. It does have a ripoff of Deep Space 9 in it, so we can hope CBS sues. Apart from that, this is an unusual specimen in the murky, shallow end of the Steam store, with an unusual premise. Your spaceship, which you can customise by plugging in various guns/shields/utilities etc is of the form of a geometric polyhedrons (you may be more familiar seeing these kinds of things in the form of Dungeons and Dragons dice and so on, like who hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3 by now?). You plug modules onto each face of the polyhedron. So yeah, this is trying to be a maths game. This is not making mathematics better, it's just making gaming worse. There are a couple of nice features here and the game is sincerely, if badly made, it's not an asset flip or a construction kit hack job. There's also some nice depth in the way you can choose to play the game, but nobody bothered. Why not? There's two areas where this derails fast and hard. First up, the visuals are laughably terrible. You do get customisable resolution, at least. The game features lazy minimalist/untextured low-polygon "retro" assets and v…

I am a big fan of polyhedra, not something with a big fan base but i'm very passionate about it so when I went searching on steam for games relating to polyhedra I was pleasantly surprised to find anything at all. That being said I don't find myself enjoying the game all that much. I can't tell if the controls, are just from this sort of genre (which I am rather unfamiliar with), more akin with older games, or if they're just difficult. Same with the difficulty in general, I can't tell if it's hard because this is something i'm new to, just not balanced correctly, or from the aforementioned controls. I did like the mechanics and unlock system but wasn't able to make use of them due to the difficulty of the game meaning I only got to unlocking the first few. I would love to see more done with the concept of polyhedra in games especially with how many different categories of polyhedra there are. I can see why this game used the Platonic and Archimedean solids but imagine if it added the Catalan solids, the uniform star polyhedra, or the Johnson solids. There's a lot that could be done in the area with video games and it's exciting to see in practice here. It's also a little surprisin…