Tails of War

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4/10 TBS in the style of Wargroove and Advanced Tactics TLDR: seems to be a learning project of some students. While the online multiplayer must have been hell to implement, the game doesn't even get to that stage and fails in basic things: clumsy controls and ugly looks. I hope somebody learned something making this. There is a lot of work gone into the game but it's all half-baked, rough and uneven. For an actual release, one needs to playtest things and try to get artistic unity even if there are many people involved. Good: - free - cute idea to have cats as characters, some UI elements have nice imaginative pieces that are cat-themed - overall, Wargroove-like combat system: you capture bases to produce about a dozen unit types that move on a grid So-so: - there are voice-overs when you select or give orders to units but they are recorded unprofessionally. The quality of the sound is low, and it's annoying. Also, the voices just aren't varied enough. In the 1st tutorial mission, I was hearing the same 2 phrases over and over when selecting the leader character Bad: - clunky controls. I'm not sure if it's a bug but I had to often click twice on characters to select them. No w…

[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] This is a simple turn based tactical strategy game with no players, because it was designed for furries, and apparently could be a student project instead of being a fully, properly developed game. The idea is that you do turn based tactical battles with a handful of units on a square grid. You can improve your chances of winning by capturing artifacts, but let's face it, nobody plays this because it's junk. It's a dead PvP game, and it's time for us to have a post-mortem to see some of the reasons this failed. [i]Almost every PvP exclusive game on Steam fails.[/i] Only a tiny proportion of them "go viral". This game failed for many of the same reasons those others fail. The chief of which is the developer thinking that their game will "go viral" without actually creating any reason for it do so. There's fierce competition in the PvP game arena... and I'm not referring to players fighting other players. There's thousands of PvP-only games but only a tiny handful of them are su…

It's not an awful game, but it seems a bit broken. If I want to pause during my turn to look up specifics on a character when I have a timer on during single player, the timer will keep going and even end my turn early. If there is no timer, the AI will not even move the character and it will stay stuck on "enemy turn". I haven't even been able to finish a tutorial game because it will randomly stay stuck on "enemy turn" as well. I do enjoy the cute characters and the premise of the game, but a successful game only happens after at least 2 "broken" plays where I will have to exit out the match.

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