Oakenfold
Rutger van Dijk · 2022 · Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Roguelike, Time Manipulation, Turn-Based Strategy
PC
Mostly Positive71% · 24 📈 Making a comeback 79%
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About Oakenfold
Clever turn-based roguelike
Oakenfold is a clever time-reversible strategy game. Outsmart the Biocides wrecking our planet in this roguelike adventure. Manipulate them, shove them, drown them, crush them, have them attack each other... No matter how you do it, keep your precious cargo safe at all times! It's your last chance to escape our inhospitable planet.
Key Features
Oakenfold takes a twist on the classic turn-based strategy flow, similar to games such as "Into the Breach", the enemy attacks are pre-indicated and you have a set amount of actions to solve the puzzle. In Oakenfold, you don't have to think out the complete solution in advance. You can start trying your solution, and if it doesn't work you can simply reverse time with your magical TimeScrubber™.
- TimeScrubber™: a freely usable undo/redo system. try out all the potential solutions to find the best one!
- Procedurally generated: each play-through will feature different paths, missions, upgrades, and items
- Permadeath: Adding weight to every decision that you take.
- Highscores: to satisfy those who like a bit of friendly competition
- Weekly Escape: a weekly updated playthrough where all players will be offered the same challenges and choices
- Steam Achievements: 36 collectible achievements with varying difficulties
TimeScrubber™
You're in the middle of a difficult attack and you see multiple solutions. Wouldn't it be great if you could try out each one? You can! Oakenfold is forgiving. You can reverse time with your trusty old TimeScrubber™, finding the optimal solution for every situation.
Customizable abilities
Combine the Conductive upgrade with extra Damage. Or try to go for the Crate Slipping build. Maybe extra Range is what you need? There are many upgrades to try different synergistic combinations with!
The story
Asha is one of the last humans left on Earth. A young woman on the brink of its extinction, she is the final hope for humanity in a world that treats her like a virus. Asha grows up living in defense. With her father by her side, they survive the apocalypse by trekking through the wastelands of the Himalayan region.
Her father teaches her everything he knows about how to survive in this new world. Hunting, scavenging, and fighting her way through each day, all with a kind heart and steely determination. Ever the mentor, her father injects a final hope for humanity in his daughter: his life’s work, the last human settlement, the biodome called Oakenfold. It will launch into the stars with the last remnants of humanity aboard, ready to start anew.
Asha, now a young woman, is alone. While they embarked on one of their many journeys to the power plant, her father, and the rest of their collection team, perished in a biocide attack, where he protected Asha from getting stabbed by shielding her with his own body. Though the death of her father is painful, Asha must continue the mission the two of them had set out to complete: to retrieve the last of the fuel-packed crates to power up Oakenfold’s systems.
Asha's mindsets
You'll be able to play the game with varying mindsets of Asha, each giving her unique starting abilities.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It's okay, but it's not £17 okay. You can't just release an inferior clone of another game and price it 50% higher than the game you're cloning. Yes, Oakenfold introduces some original and fun mechanics to the formula, but they're not enough to justify that. Many of the enemies, items, and level modifiers have been taken straight outta Into the Breach without much of a change, way beyond the point of simple inspiration. And the store page doesn't even find it necessary to mention Into the Breach anywhere. The amount of content doesn't even come close: I beat all three characters on hard difficulty in just 10 hours, and I don't see any reason to keep playing, other than to hunt for achievements. Which are, admittedly, pretty fun, though the descriptions of some of them don't match what you actually have to do to get them. There's also an ugly unpatched exploit: undoing during the enemy phase of the last wave and then redoing allows you to continue the battle forever. This lets you use the upgrade stations that are meant to be under construction (multiple times), plus gets you infinite score from infinite time banking.8 found this helpful
very bad copy of "Into the Breach"1 found this helpful
There's "taking inspiration" from another game and then there's "blatantly copying" from another game. From what little I tried, this is a case of the later when it comes to [b]Into the Breach[/b]. The first three enemies you encounter are IDENTICAL, not similar, IDENTICAL copies of the first enemies you encounter in Into the Breach. I do not support such blatant thievery and will be applying for a refund. Shameful!1 found this helpful
This is it. This is the game I've been searching for. After playing Into the breach for an ungodly amount of time I begged the gaming gods for Into the breach 2 or something like it. And they delivered.1 found this helpful
This one seemed fun at first, and it's a nice idea on paper, but there are too many issues which hold it back from being a fulfilling strategic experience. For one thing, your party size of 1 is simply way too limiting. For another, you'll often be thrown into battles where damage is unavoidable, no matter what moves you take. In other words: if you get unlucky too many times, you'll get a game over. What's the fun in that? It's overall too punishing and unforgiving. I get that roguelites are supposed to be challenging, but there's a difference between "challenging" and "downright unfair." Oakenfold unfortunately leans too much towards the latter. When I clear an area, it doesn't feel like I really did anything special; instead, it feels like I just got lucky. This is not how a good strategy game is supposed to feel.1 found this helpful
Fun puzzle game with nice backdrops. Lots of randomness so can feel a bit "unfair" at times but I am fine with that.
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