Tactishia

ONCE AGAIN CAW C—Huh. Well. That was... odd. Anywho- Tiny black and white people in ancient Greek rugby helmets do battle in an unusually-structured and -gentlemanly manner, while big explosions of color happen nearby as they look around. - reminds me of the good old days. In 'nam. It's also half the plot of every woke-af TV show on the air right now. But I won't hold that against this game. [i]Unless it asks nicely... [/i]

"Tactishia" is another attempt from an amateur developer to "fix" Chess by adding wacky different pieces and letting players choose their "loadout". This is, of course, a terrible idea, always fails badly (amateur developers have made dozens of attempts to "fix" Chess), and this particular entry is one of the worst of these many attempts. So this looks like an old 1990's Adobe Flash game that you might play in a web browser, and the problem there is obviously Steam wasn't intended to try compete with Chrome and Firefox. If it can be done in a web browser, it's not even close to a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That's a problem. The graphics here are particularly awful, minimalist Flash tier stuff that seems to have been done with MS-Paint, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" s…

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