Heretic Operative
C Prompt Games · 2019 · RPG, Strategy, Board Game, Fantasy, Card Game
PC
Mostly Positive80% · 88
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About Heretic Operative
Magic is a sin. It corrupts everything it touches.
Those who use magic are branded as “Heretics” by the church, and heresy is punishable by death.
At the fringes of civilization, the mages of the Cultus Arcanum give themselves freely over to the Corruption – performing dark rituals to let loose untold nightmares upon the world.
It will take a powerful heretic to preserve the spark of magic against both the Church and the Cult.
You are that Heretic Operative.
Heretic Operative intertwines deep gameplay with a dynamic story to create an innovative and original experience: a unique fusion of strategy, RPG, and board game mechanics.
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Those who use magic are branded as “Heretics” by the church, and heresy is punishable by death.
At the fringes of civilization, the mages of the Cultus Arcanum give themselves freely over to the Corruption – performing dark rituals to let loose untold nightmares upon the world.
It will take a powerful heretic to preserve the spark of magic against both the Church and the Cult.
You are that Heretic Operative.
- Control a secret society dedicated to using magic for the benefit of the world, at a time when all mages are considered “heretics” to be hunted by the Templars.
- Master over 50 different spells to overcome challenges in and out of combat. But be wary of the Corruption that accompanies magic. The more powerful you become, the greater the risk of losing control.
- Fight enemy Cultists, zealous Templars, and ravenous monsters through a unique dice-based combat system. Employ mercenaries, devastating spells, and powerful artifacts to prevail.
- Explore the Northern Reach, where the frayed edges of the Empire are under constant threat. From vast museums in the city of Ione, to the farms in the countryside, to ruined temples of ancient gods, to camps of raiding Orcs, every location offers unique challenges.
- Make contact with other Heretic Operatives and recruit townsfolk to spread your Heretical influence and stop the diabolical Cultus Arcanum.
- Encounter more than 270 different adventure cards, full of challenging decisions that change the way your story unfolds. Will you risk your life and mission to save innocents from a burning building or live with the stain on your soul from abandoning them? Will you stand your ground against the Orcs for honor’s sake or be more prudent and flee? Do you bother to learn all of the verses in the Elven Song of Greeting or is now the time to take a stand against ridiculous Elven ceremony?
- More than 7 playable Operatives (and counting), 6 different story decks, and 4 enemy cults, means your story plays out differently each time. Use different strategies and wisely deploy your resources to defeat the most challenging combinations.
Heretic Operative intertwines deep gameplay with a dynamic story to create an innovative and original experience: a unique fusion of strategy, RPG, and board game mechanics.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Excellent game if you play it properly. Originally, at release, I played it the wrong way by rushing things which made it feel like each games was over way too quickly. Now that I revisited it years later, I realized that you're meant to play it slowly by taking out the cultists rather than trying to beat them to victory. This makes for a vastly different, and much more interesting game. If you rush, it feels like only a few things are worth actions and many seem pointless, but in the slow game the usefulness of certain actions changes completely. Still, only a few of the "stories" seem long enough to feel like a "proper" game to me. Most are over way too quickly even with my new playstyle and could use a few more phases. Really interesting spin on a fantasy setting, I especially like the "flesh abomination" story. The variety of mechanics, especially spells, keeps the game very fresh even when replaying the same story, and the different cults change the context of each game to a surprisingly high degree. Same goes for the main operatives. Still, each time I played the game intensively for a while, it amounted to some 9 hours per "season" before I felt I'm done for a while. …9 found this helpful
Wanted to play this game because i remember it was quite fun. When I tried to play it I got stuck in the map without being able to press anything.1 found this helpful
I recall playing this ages ago and the experience wasn't too good. +Some player choice -RNG felt the main issue -UX/UI - looks and feels amateurish -Aesthetics - looks amateurish = Neutralish review, although my experience was towards a disappointment as such.
Pretty fun SP boardgame. NB: Managing RNG is very important.
Very fun. It's not always clear what you should be doing, but I think learning how the game works is part of the game anyways. Beautiful art.
This game is an amateurish experimental simulationist boardgame, which means you should expect a bloated, unrefined gameloop where half the actions seem superfluous and a badly balanced game. We have all that alright,but that's par for the course and boardgame fans generally can have enough patience for this, unfortunately the game falls a little bit too short on every aspect. It is not particularly well written or illustrated. The idea of using a huge map where all the scenarios happens is nice, but it's a bit messy and the story itself is very generic (bad guys open evil portals, yawn). The locations are not particularly memorable, for example the magnificent 'Elven Library' offers such thrilling events as "you fall from a tree", or "nothing happens'", or "recruit a merchant for +2 influence", etc... Every town offers a choice of half a dozen actions, listed through some minuscule eye-straining icons that you have to hover the mouse over to read and realize most of them are uninteresting [+X ressource] actions. It's not really helping when the game only gives you two (2) action points per turn, that you share between all your units, and the clock works so spectacularly fast agai…
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