Unheard Screams - King Leopold II's Rule Over The Congo

This is basically a text-based RPG that tells a revisionist history of colonial Congo, in which the Congolese rise up and overthrow the King of Belgium. (Picture [i] Inglorious Basterds [/i] in text form, stripped of verbal pizzazz, and with Leopold II taking the place of the fuhrer). I'll concede upfront that it's not a particularly good [i] game. [/i] The basic mechanic involves clicking on various villages, recruiting any of the locals that feel like joining your army, and then attacking whichever colonial official is labelled "Very Easy" at that moment. (The game calculates this automatically, depending on how many soldiers and weapons you've got with you at the time). The battles themselves require a bit of quick-thinking resource management, as various options pop up while the two sides trade attacks. Increase your defense, or call in reinforcements? Make yourself invulnerable for four rounds, or take a chunk out of your enemy's stamina stats? This is pretty much the only part of the game that requires any degree of skill, and the lack of clear instructions meant that it took me an hour or so until I realized that I was even supposed to be making some of these choices at all…

While it's 'gameplay' is questionable, I certainly found it worth my time and money for the writing, which gave insights on a piece of history hitherto completely unknown to me.

Usually, I really like this type of game: text-based stories or adventures with some interactions (and usually a cheap and fair price). But, I'm sorry, the final product fail to impress: the base for the story is very interesting (and I didn't know that, so I cheked it), but the game itself fails to deliver any real emotion and the more "gaming" part of the game is too simple to amuse anyone. On the other hand, the game is priced really good, and I think you can "spare" 2€ for a game like this. So, this is the classic problem with Steam review: this is a 6/10 game, and I don't feel to do not recommed it, but also I have to notice how it fails to be... a game! And, at the same time, the story is to thin to "grab" you. So... 6/10 (also for the fair price).

Tags: Tycoon&Simulator&Sim&City Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: One half dry reading seemingly ripped off some history textbook, other half is text based guerilla simulator with superficial ressource management. Review: Audiovisually this looks like unity engine. Just some text boxes and some backgrounds. I could not be arsed with the setting. They mention first thing its not based on real events. The game itself is simple, you get 12 hotspots, each containing three bosses. Sometimes 1 Vendor. and around 8 NPCS. So you speak to a NPC that will say to go kill boss of Zone 11. You do that come back get reward. Sometimes it is easier to just kill anyone who is weaker than you and see the grateful npcs later. You get random + to your damage per second, your health and money, which you can use to get more health and damage per second. Every fight is a little bit of a slog as the armies just chip at each other turn by turn. The game also features some kind of special ability system by spending a limited number of hero points but I did not try that, I am sure if I had I would had probably beaten the game as I got quite far. Once you have your army, your…

Depressing as heck

2.5/10 Interesting topic and good that it's steeped in history, and good that dev is trying to expose a topic not covered usually. Unfortunately gameplay sucks soo bad nobody wants to stick around. The whole thing is text based. All you do is click on villages, and a setence pops up. You go to a vendor and click to hire people and click to buy guns. Then you click on an area in captivity and then click attack. The combat isn't explained and doesn't make a lot of sense, or how to get money or do anything. I attacked a guy, lost my stuff and my money. But in reality game is soo boring and uninteresting to play I didn't really care. If you like reading go open a book, if you like only clicking on words go to any random website. Save yourself the money.